Re: Investigating iexplore/activex issues

[Joel Holdsworth]

Hi Qian,

That's the easiest solution I've heard so far. Unfortunately I ran straight into
bug #25919 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25918). Maybe I can find a
work-about, unless you know the solution already?

Joel

On 27 July 2012 at 09:54 Qian Hong  wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Joel Holdsworth
>  wrote:
> > On 26 July 2012 at 23:40 Dan Kegel  wrote:
> > > I'm running into a similar problem,
> > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23058
> > > If you're using a different activex control,
> > > please file a new bug, with a way
> > > for others to reproduce the problem.
> >
> > Yes that does sound quite similar. I predict once page loading is fixed,
> > this will be the main mode of failure. I'm not sure how easy it will be to
> > find a public copy of the product, but I'll see if I can find one.
> > > Any chance you could add an HTML5 mode?
> > > http://praegnanz.de/html5video/
> > > shows a bunch of HTML5 video player components,
> > > and lists which ones have Flash fallback for old browsers.
> > > You could turn it on if you detect a Linux client,
> > > and otherwise use the old activex solution.
> >
> > Yes, I would love for that to happen, and I've heard that there are plans in
> > the pipeline. It's not so bad - there is a fallback on linux using a simple
> > video object which works smoothly. Though that doesn't help for the
> > annotations or the point-and-click ui for setting up the analytics, so to
> > setup the more clever features of the device I have to go back to windows.
> >
> > Joel
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> Would you like to try np-activex [1] ?
>
> np-activex is a npapi plugin for Chrome on Windows, at the same time,
> it is a ActiveX wrapper.
> With np-activex, users can load ActiveX control in Chrome for Win,
> without iexplore.
> Actually, with Wine's help, np-activex work on Linux as well, though
> you have to use Wine to run Chrome for Win on Linux.
>
> How ever, there are some bugs which will bring us to troubles:
>
> Bug 21232 - Chrome can't load any webpage unless --no-sandbox is used
> Bug 27248 - cannot unpack *.crx (extensions or themes) in Chrome
> unless --single-process is used
> Bug 27168 - chromium-based apps can't load https sites
>
> Unfortunately, to workaround all these bugs, we have to use special
> version of Chrome with special version of np-activex.
> I'm glad if this example is helpful for you:
> A guide to sign in China Merchants Bank (CMBChina) on Linux: Wine
> Chrome + ActiveX for Chrome + User Agent Switcher
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/non-ie-online-banking/EodETqFrcY0/ySq5...
>
> There might be other bugs related to Chrome/ActiveX, some of them are
> covered in this list:
> http://code.google.com/p/online-banking-with-wine/wiki/buglist
>
> Let me know if I can help you further, also please let me know if you
> have good news ;-)
> Good luck.
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/np-activex/
>
> --
> Regards,
> Qian Hong
> -
>
> Sent from Ubuntu
> http://www.ubuntu.com/

Investigating iexplore/activex issues

[Qian Hong]

Hi Joel,

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Joel Holdsworth
 wrote:
> Hi Qian,
>
> That's the easiest solution I've heard so far. Unfortunately I ran straight
> into bug #25919 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25918). Maybe I can
> find a work-about, unless you know the solution already?

What version of Chrome did you try?

As Comment 4, later version of Chrome Standalone Installer does not
affected by this bug.
However, latest version of Chrome will affected by Bug 27168.
I just check my Chrome, it is 16.0.912.63 m, I use it for more than
half year without major problem.

The sha1sum of the installer is:
73d5ec5c16951b9ad1582266a54ac799fa378b80
It was download at 2011-12-20

I think you could try a Chrome version later then 16.0.912.63 but
older than 17, or I can simply send my copy to you.