wine users - May 2008 - Unable to run Watchtower Library 2007 Japanese : font ?

Hello,
I was using both version of WTLib 2007 (French and Japanese) under Unbuntu7.10
and Wine 0.9.47 and it worked fine with just an installation of VCRedist and
some japanese fonts in windows folder. But recently i moved my system to the new
Ubuntu8.04 with the last version of wine : 1.0 RC1.

I read that i don't need to install vcredist and font anymore. It's
supposed to be a platinum app now and that's true with my french or english
version ... But not with my Japanese one !

So i tried many tips found on appdb without any success. I tried to install
msttcorefont, vcredist, copy manually some font files to font folder and so on.
It still don't work.

Here is what i get when running the application from the shell:

Code:

aurelien at aurelien-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Watchtower/MEPSCommon$
export LANG="ja_JP"
aurelien at aurelien-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Watchtower/MEPSCommon$
env WINEPREFIX="/home/aurelien/.wine" wine "C:\Program
Files\Watchtower\Watchtower Library 2007\J\WTLibrary.exe"
fixme:menu:SetMenuInfo MNS_NOTIFYBYPOS partially implemented
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}
could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}
could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}
could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}
could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}
could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}
could be created for context 0x7
fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 228
fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 228




Well any help would be really appreciated, because i really need to make this
soft working ...
Thank you
Aur?lien.

Hi,
It seems that nobody can/want help me out ... 
This is a regression in code because it works on the 0.9.47 version with :
vcredist installed + commctrl.dll overwrited (not really needed, just for
tooltips) + japanese font.

I know that WTLib is not a free software but i can provide any result you want
in order to fix that bug. Just tell me what should i do !

Thanks,
Aur?lien.

There was a thread awhile back about problems using Japanese fonts with some
other program:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=708&highlight=japanese+font
The solution in that case may not be applicable to your problem, of course, but
you might want to take a look at it.

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Aur?lien <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
> It seems that nobody can/want help me out ...
> This is a regression in code because it works on the 0.9.47 version with :
vcredist installed + commctrl.dll overwrited (not really needed, just for
tooltips) + japanese font.
>
> I know that WTLib is not a free software but i can provide any result you
want in order to fix that bug. Just tell me what should i do !
>
> Thanks,
> Aur?lien.
>
>
>
>
>
>
Please run a regression test:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

Hi everybody !
I'm back ;-)

I've found why WTLib crashed ! [Idea] 

In fact it's always linked to font files. I dunno why but the application
cannot load a proper japanese font on startup so the application looks for
Wingding.ttf file in order to display smileys instead of characters.
Here is a screenshot about the smileys displayed ...
[Image: http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/3639/wtlibusingwingdingfontiv1.png ]

But this file is missing in the .wine/c_drive/Windows/Fonts folder. That's
why the application shows a popup alert (that cannot be read because japanese
font is not displayed) and stop, if we install the application from scratch.
[Image: http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2631/wtlibjaperrmsgtn8.png ]

So my first question is : is there another linux font that i can install to
replace the wingding one? Or is there a solution to avoid this problem ?

Fortunately, WTLib can use a specified font file under its
"preferences" menu.
So I'm now able to see japanese content except some controls like buttons,
menus or tree view 's elements.
Here is a screenshot 
[Image: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7872/wtlib07japsv2.png ]
So my second question is : is it a bug ? Maybe there are some tips to do in
order to fix the display or maybe this is actually a missing feature from wine
controls ...

Thank you for your help.
Aur?lien.

Can someone answer my questions ? 

Can i hope to have a full unicode font support for the next Wine 1.0 version ?
Or are these problems linked to missing feature that should be implemented in
1.x next release ?

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Aur?lien <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Can someone answer my questions ?
Can you run the regression test as I already asked?

Aur?lien wrote:
> Can i hope to have a full unicode font support for the next Wine 1.0
version ?
Wine already fully supports it.


Aur?lien wrote:
> Or are these problems linked to missing feature that should be implemented
in 1.x next release ?
Most likely because you setting the wrong locale:

Code:
aurelien at aurelien-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Watchtower/MEPSCommon$
export LANG="ja_JP"



You should use "ja_JP.UTF-8" instead.