wine users - Apr 2011 - Winevdm launchs a second, unwanted black window.

Hello,

A couple of years ago I installed Wine on my Ubuntu 8.04 in order to be able to
run Winisis, the Unesco program for managing library databases. Everything
worked fine, until I decided to upgrade the Ubuntu. Now that I have wine 1.2
installed on a Ubuntu 10.04, I am experiencing the following problem. Each time
I run Winisis, Winevdm launchs a second, black window. You may say it is not a
big problem, but actually it is, since this "second black window"
prevents me from switching between applications. That is, whenever I press
alt+tab, I loose my chance to get back to Winisis, for when I try to do that I
only find the black window, but no traces of the application itself.
I will really appreciate your help. 

Regards

Fernando

Capivara wrote:
>  Now that I have wine 1.2 installed on a Ubuntu 10.04, I am experiencing
the following problem. Each time I run Winisis, Winevdm launchs a second, black
window.
, or maybe I should say, Winevd launchs itself in a second, black window, since
its name is written on top of it. Consequently, when I close that window,
Winisis closes too.

I think that now I have a more accurate idea of what is going on with this
software. The thing is that, in order to run Winisis on a real windows xp or
2000, you previously have to overwrite a couple of original .dll files with the
new ones provided by the Unesco, namely: ctl3d.dll and ctl3dv2.dll. Otherwise,
the Windows takes Winisis for a 16-bit application and threfore declares itself
unable to launch it.
Well, I have copied these two files into c:\windows\system32 and
c:\windows\system, have afterwards run winecfg and added them in the
"Library" option, but to no avail.
I am still waiting for your answers.

Excuse me for answering myself again.
What I was trying to say in my last message is that maybe all I need to do is
make Wine detect Winisis as 32-bit application, so that the emulator does not
have to use winevdm.exe to run the program.
What do you think about this new piece of information?

It is me again. 
Please forget my last two posts. My first intuition was right and now that I
have installed Ubuntu 8.04 on another computer I know it for sure.
So, now I am running Wine 1.2 on this Ubuntu Hardy and I have just finished
installing Winisis, which runs perfectly, that is, I only see the program`s
window and I can swiftly switch between applications.
The next thing was to find out if this second Wine was using Winevdm or not. So
I went to the command line and typed: ps ax grep winevdm... and there it was!
So, as I said at the beginning, it is not a question of .dlls or of 16-bit or
32-bit applications. It is a question of the Ubuntu version, I am afraid, for
the difference between the two Wines - the one running on 8.04 - 1.2 - and the
one on 10.04 -1.2.2 - - is not to be considered. I think.
Any hints, please?

Capivara wrote:
> I It is a question of the Ubuntu version, I am afraid, for the difference
between the two Wines - the one running on 8.04 - 1.2 - and the one on 10.04
-1.2.2 - - is not to be considered. I think.
> Any hints, please?
Try the latest development release.

Hello Vitamin,

thank you for your answer. Yes, I think I downloaded the pre-compiled binary
package, the one you have to install by entering the following cpmmands:
./configure, make, make install. Previously, I had also installed a lot of
required packages such as flex and bison, after which Wine stopped saying that I
should run ./configure with --without-x option.
But, now that you mention it, the truth is that I entered those commands (make,
make install, etc) with sudo. Otherwise they did not work.

Might that have something to do with the problem I am now facing?

Best Regards

Fernando