Fwd: Re: [Discuss] Crossover Office with Microsoft Publish '97

[Jesse Hammons]

Does anybody know the basic problem with Microsoft Publisher '97 not
working with wine?  I'm willing to debug it a bit, but I want to find
out how big of a project it is first.  Or maybe somebody else is
working on this already?

Publisher '97 loads files and seems to almost complete functionality on
my system.  Unfortunately I can't click on any UI elements and keyboard
events aren't processed.  Someone seems to have even gotton Publisher
2000 to work (there is a workaround posted in the application
database).  However this fix doesn't work on Publisher '97.  I would
like to patch this, especially if it is relatively straightforward to
do so.

What kind of logging can I turn on to find out what is happening to the
mouse/keyboard events, etc.

Thanks,
-Jesse

--- Jeremy White  wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Crossover Office with Microsoft Publish '97
> From: Jeremy White 
> To: [e-mail]
> Date: 09 Jan 2004 08:58:30 -0600
>
> Hi Jesse,
>
> This is a great question, and the answer is to a Wine hacker --
> we'd love to have your help!
>
> The full set of resources for hacking on Wine are at www.winehq.org;
> I know that's intimidating, but there are friendly folks
> on irc at #winehq.  If you show that you're willing to do
> the elbow grease (and are a bit patient), I think you'll find
> that folks will jump to help you.
>
> Finally, it's fairly straightforward to configure CrossOver to
> use Wine from CVS; look in the config file in the cxoffice/etc
> directory.
>
> Good hunting, and welcome!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 15:32, Jesse Hammons wrote:
> > I have downloaded and installed the Crossover Office trial version
>
> on
> > my debian GNU/linux system (sarge, kernel version 2.4.20).  I used
>
> the
> > Crossover setup program to install MS Publisher from the Office '97
>
> CD.
> > Setup installs MS publisher with no errors.  Publisher starts up,
>
> and
> > displays the initial dialog (where you can choose a template or
>
> open an
> > existing file).  After cancelling this initial dialog, publisher is
> > aware of the mouse location (it updates the rulers when you move
>
> the
> > mouse) but no mouse clicks or keyboard presses are processed. 
> > Something wrong with window modality?
> >
> > Is there anything I can tweak to try to get MS pub to work?  How
>
> about
> > a way to log the translation of X events to windows events, so I
>
> can
> > try to trace where they are going?
> >
> > PS This behavior in crossover is the same behavior as when I tried
>
> with
> > wine-030618.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Jesse
> >
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