As usual, this year's version of TaxAct has the same defect (or programming screw-up) it's had for years now that prevents it from being usable under Wine. The app installs fine, and will start to run as if it was sufficiently compatible with Wine.
The problem with TA is that it *always* tries to first load a default data file (even if you give it a different filename as a command parameter), and the default filename is "2005 Tax Return File.ta5". It seems they are using a faulty or non-standard method of calling the default data file, as it will put up an error dialogue that it was unable to find it's default file, after which it exits.
The specific message, captured by running a +msgbox debug switch is: ================================== 1729146:0009:Call kernel32.lstrlenA(7e0a2ea0 "Unable to open "2005 Tax Return File.ta5".\n\nPlease verify that C:\Apps\TaxACT2005\2005 Tax Return File.ta5 exists on your hard drive, if it does not you will need to reinstall TaxACT.") ==================================
I have a full "WINEDEBUG=+relay,+msgbox" capture of the programme run till failure & exit, but it's 117M uncompressed (1.4M bz2 file). The app is also available as a free "standard" version (in fact, that's what I'm working with); the Deluxe version is merely an unlock code for the free download. https://www.taxact.com/s_taxact/free_taxact.asp?where=Register&product_i... 5STDW&ad=0&s=Y&sc=051200003
I had tried doing a WINEDLLOVERRIDE for shlwapi, ntdll & kernel32 (various combinations) as these seemed to be the major dlls being loaded. But no success there.
Please email me if you'd like more info from the debug file, or the file itself. Not being a developer, I don't frequent this list (just the wine-users list).
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James E. LaBarre