I'm hoping to get the VerbAce Arabic-English translation program (http://www.verbace.com/index.htm) running under Wine. I use an Aspire One netbook running the default Linpus OS. I installed Wine and was apparently able to install VerbAce (it shows up in the programs list on my desktop), but when I try running VerbAce nothing happens. This is a very small, simple program, and it should be possible to get it running under Wine. Does anyone have any suggestions?
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, vmcfarland <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I'm hoping to get the VerbAce Arabic-English translation program (http://www.verbace.com/index.htm) running under Wine. I use an Aspire One netbook running the default Linpus OS. > > I installed Wine and was apparently able to install VerbAce (it shows up in the programs list on my desktop), but when I try running VerbAce nothing happens. This is a very small, simple program, and it should be possible to get it running under Wine. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > > >Terminal output? -- -Austin
I tried the trial, and it starts fine here (albeit a bit slow, and fonts could look better) Try to install on a new fresh ~/.wine, with latest wine-version. If still failing, paste console output
Partial success -- I was eventually able to get VerbAce running on my Aspire One with the help of my school's tech support. I had the same result as qwertymn. The program runs pretty slowly, and it doesn't display Arabic text correctly. The letters are all displayed separately instead of being connected to each other, as they should. I tried installing new Arabic fonts into Wine, but that didn't solve the problem. It must be an issue with Wine and not with the OS. Firefox on my Aspire One displays Arabic words correctly, and I can type Arabic in OpenOffice. Anyway, thanks for the tips, and I hope I can eventually fix this problem with the font.