On a whim, I tried out RoughDraft 2.11 under wine-20031118 this morning. It installed and ran with some anomolies (e.g. the installer's EULA doesn't display at all!, .doc import works really poorly, a few pixels misplaced here and there, can't invoke web browser to display help), but it might be good enough for some users.
It's a free download at http://www.rsalsbury.co.uk/rd.htm and I recommend it as a test app. His FAQ says no Linux or Mac port is planned, so there must be interest out there, and he'd probably be tickled pink if Wine improved to the point where it ran his app well enough for aunt Tilly to use. Sources not available but the author seems like a good guy, and would probably be willing to work with us if we really needed it (especially if we fixed a few things first, like that EULA display problem). - Dan
"Dan" == Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com writes:
Dan> On a whim, I tried out RoughDraft 2.11 under wine-20031118 this Dan> morning. It installed and ran with some anomolies (e.g. the Dan> installer's EULA doesn't display at all! ...
Are you sure there wasn't a windows stacking order problem and the EULA was in fact buried below the installer window? Run with desktop mode and move the other windows out of sight.
However having the windows stacking order right would be a "good thing" :-)
Bye
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 14:46, Dan Kegel wrote:
Sources not available but the author seems like a good guy, and would probably be willing to work with us if we really needed it (especially if we fixed a few things first, like that EULA display problem).
That's probably our richedit control sucking. Not an easy fix I'm afraid. Quite a few installers have this problem :(
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