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Hello all,
I originally posted this to c.e.ms-windows.wine, but I wanted to cross post it to the developers list in the hopes of attracting the proper attention. I appologise if it is inappropriate to offer money for solutions, in this list.
My wife is an author. For the past eight months, she's been happily working exclusively on Linux with OpenOffice. She just recently accepted a job doing some tech writing; the application she is to document is a Windows application, made (apparently) predominantly of VB. This application fails to run under a recent Wine.
I'm considering two options: (a) Buy a copy of Windows and VMWare, and (b) donate the money I'd spend to a Wine Guru or the Wine project instead, to get the application running. I'd MUCH rather give my money to the Wine project, but this is only an option if I can reasonably hope for a quick turn-around. I'm trying desperately from having to give money to Redmond and incidentally having to maintain a Windows install on her computer :-(
Windows would cost me $100, $150 with VMWare. I'll happily donate that to the Wine project, or a Wine developer. It isn't a lot, I know, but if anybody is willing to take this on, please let me know. If it looks like a simple fix, then fine. If it looks like a lot of work, then just let me know and I'll grab a copy of VMWare. I don't have the sourcecode for the application.
If you're interested in taking a look at this, email me at 'ser at germane dash software dot com', and I'll send you console dumps, Wine versions, etc. The basic error that the Windows dialog gives us is:
Runtime Error '429' ActiveX component can't create object
Thanks, sincerely.
Sean
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If you're interested in taking a look at this, email me at 'ser at germane dash software dot com', and I'll send you console dumps, Wine versions, etc. The basic error that the Windows dialog gives us is:
Runtime Error '429' ActiveX component can't create object
Sean, did anybody contact you? ActiveX error message does not promise anything good... If you can talk about this application in public than you can try to discuss your issues on the mailing list - much more people would have possibility to help you.
If you can, my questions follow: - what kind of an app is this - can we get free (trial/demo) copy of it? - Wine version. As I understand you use it without Windows, right?
This docu may help you: http://wine.codeweavers.com/fom-meta/cache/19.html
You can try to use different combinations of Windows dlls if you have access to any...
One more option for you - you can try commercial Wine distribution (Codeweavers or Transgaming) or ask somebody to try it for you. These distributions are generally more stable than main tree.
Andriy
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