Hello Wine developers,
The one program holding back linux adoption in my lab is the application Kaleidgraph. Kaleidagraph is a graphing application that is avaibable for Windows and Macintosh.
I've been trying to use Kaleidgraph with wine (wine-20021219) without a windows installation on the computer. The installation works pretty well: Kaleigraph is installed, only the installer does not exit cleanly but not until it asks about displaying the readme file.
Running Kaleidagraph does give quite a few problems. The problems seem to arise from bugs and not missing features in wine. One bug for example is, that almost all menu entries are listed twice ("File Edit Gallery ... Windows Edit Gallery ... Windows Help").
I'd like to help in making this program run by testing with the CVS version and submitting bugs. However, I think it would be easier if someone more experienced looks at the program first and irons out the biggest problems, because they are instantly obvious when you try to run the program with wine. There is a demo version of Kaleidagraph that can be downloaded for free from www.kaleidagraph.com.
Best regards, Jos
I'm downloading it now to take a look (until I get a response back on the menu bug I don't have much to do atm :), but I suggest you upload the trial exe to a website somewhere if you want people to have a look, I went through the registration routine but most others won't bother.
Running Kaleidagraph does give quite a few problems.
Unless all the issues are extremely obvious, you might want to list them. I have no idea how to work graphing apps for instance, so the testing I can do is extremely limited.
On Friday 10 January 2003 17:17, Mike Hearn wrote:
I'm downloading it now to take a look (until I get a response back on the menu bug I don't have much to do atm :), but I suggest you upload the trial exe to a website somewhere if you want people to have a look, I went through the registration routine but most others won't bother.
Here it is: http://137.224.129.22/KG35WINDEMO.EXE
Unless all the issues are extremely obvious, you might want to list them. I have no idea how to work graphing apps for instance, so the testing I can do is extremely limited.
There are quite a few things that cause the app to crash or draw windows in a funny way. Once the app is slighlty useable, I can list more bugs.
There are quite a few things that cause the app to crash or draw windows in a funny way. Once the app is slighlty useable, I can list more bugs.
Yeah, I just tried it. Clearly not happy at all. I'm getting lots of errors saying it didn't call BeginPaint in a WM_PAINT handler, which iirc is a bug in the app? I think you're always supposed to call BeginPaint when you receive a WM_PAINT message at some point (unless it's actually a bug in the wine controls library).
It doesn't run at all with the latest version of CrossOver, with the Dec 19th release it runs but with lots of nasty bugs. I don't see the menu duplication error though.
When I got that automated email from Synergy I replied telling them about Wine, maybe they'd be willing to help it run. Oh well, here's to dreaming :)
BTW I am very much a newbie Wine developer so I can probably give hints only.
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Mike Hearn