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Hi, Some years ago I developed a Delphi application for my private use and now I want it to run on Linux using wine. The application uses Paradox database engine. I tried to install the engine itself but failed. Eventually I installed the whole Delphi development environment with wine. It certainly installed BDE but I can not run even the dbd32.exe (database desktop). Machine: RH9 HW: HP

Hello! We have application written in Borland Delphi, with BDE 5 (unfortunately, I have no sources :-( ) It creates mdx files on samba share. All is OK with w2k or win98, but with Win ME programs says that file is busy, when it tries to create mdx (index ) file. If it says that file is busy it is impossible to create this file from another machine with w2k or win98- program says that file

Hello, everybody! First of all I have to say that I'm already posted this question in another forum: http://www.delphipages.com/threads/thread.cfm?ID=206179&G=206179 but as I haven't got any response from there I thought that this would be the right place to ask what I asked there. I really hope to get your help about this because I am totally new to Linux and I don't know where

Hi, I wanted to try Wine whether it was capable of running "Abev", the official hungarian tax software. http://www.apeh.hu/cgi-bin/lap.php?id=prog/pr2006 Main installer is: http://www.apeh.hu/cgi-bin/pil2006.pl?abev2006telep.exe and one has to install at least one tax form type for this software to be usable. Choose one of the numbered tax form installers, e.g.:

Hello list reader, Did people succed in trying to run Delphi applications with wine ??? Well, if they didn't work we can always try to use kylix to get them work. But I suspect that we will have to go with lot of rewriting because of the type of these applications : graphical intensive ones. Any ideas about that ? Thanks ! Guy

Hi, I've just downloaded the Ogg Vorbis source, LIB and DLL files from www.xiph.org and I've been trying to get them working in Borland Delphi 3 Pro. Has anyone managed to get OV to decode and play an OGG file using Delphi? Ideally I'd like to use DirectSound (part of DirectX), via the UnDelphiX (DelphiX with the JEDI headers) components. Also, if I choose to sell a

I have been dabbling with getting some of our Windows applications running under Linux using the CodeWeavers preview 20010629. I am making good progress and am very pleased with the results. However I am currently stuck on one problem. The Windows software is developed using Borland Delphi and the application includes a number of forms that are intended to be displayed full screen. The

Hello, I have a server samba/linux executing a software Delphi with access to database Paradox. The configurations are OK, but when more than an user is accessing the system, he is very slow. How can I solve this problem? Regard?s F?bio Ferreira fabio@datafusion.com.br

I am attempting to install the Portal GT-D mud client (www.gameaxle.com) on top of wine-0.9.6-1.fc4 which I then reconfigured using winetools-0.9-3jo after failing to install MS Office XP Pro (which I never did get to work either, but I found some references saying that it wasn't likely to). IE6 installed and runs for what it is worth. I run the setup program in the style the wine tools use

software disc ounts Office 2003 Professional - 110 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium Edition - 150 and Adobe Atmosphere 1.0 - 60 and and AutoCAD Mechanical 2005 DX - 120 Adobe Atmosphere 1.0 - 60 Borland Delphi 7 Professional - 70 QuarkXPress 6 - 110 Maya 6.0 Unlimited - 150 Games X Copy - 25 DVD X Maker - 25 Corel Photobook - 25 AutoCAD Mechanical 2005 DX - 120 SuSe Linux 9.1 Professional

Hi, I am a retired telephone tech/manager who recently had a bad experience with a local company offering digital phone service (VoIP). I have spent the last thirty years in the PSTN network, switching, PBX and key system field and am interested in learning more about VoIP. My background also includes programming, mostly specialized applications to interact with the PSTN network. Most of my

Hi all, i've installed Delphi7ENT and DevExpr_v45 components on wine. When i launch delphi i get this error: Can't load package C:\Programmi\DevExpress\Library\Delphi7 \dclcxPivotGridD7.bpl. I get this for each .bpl in C:\Programmi\DevExpress\Library\Delphi7\ It seems like delphi can't find them, but every file is present, readable and executable. Any ideas? Delphi 7 Enterprise

Hi List I got following problem: I have an old accounting software. It runs at the moment on a NT4.0 System which access the program itself on a samba share. I tried to get this application running under Linux with wine. When I copy the whole folder from the file server to the local filesystem (ext2), it works well with wine (tested with 20050111 and 20050310). But when I mount the share into my

On Mon, 12 February 2001, OmegaDan wrote: [snip code] Hmm, weird.. that does work for me. I only had the trouble that ov_time_tell returned negative infinity after a ov_time_seek to 0 secs. This is my code: function TMainForm.ReadBuf(Buffer: PChar; Size: Longword; var Time: Single): Longword; var BytesRead, Change: Longword; begin BytesRead := 0; Time := ov_time_tell(vf^); if Time <

I am trying to get a game called Mytheon working, it is a relatively unheard of MMO and there is no entry in the appDB for it. The game installed fine, but when I try to run it it it just does nothing. No errors, no waiting or anything. The command line pauses like something is going to happen for a second and then the regular prompt comes back up. Is there some way to make it so I can see

Hello I am trying to run a program that use BDE, but i get the error: An error occurred while attempting to initializa the Borland Database Engine. I installed BDE 4.51 and 5.1 but is equal. What is wrong?? Some ideas?? Regards Joaquin

I finally succedeed to show the icon from tray - the problem is that the hole application isn't hidden. I use ShowWindow from user32: ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_HIDE); Is there a better way to hide it?

Hey, I have just installed civilization IV and it's expansions in wine. After doing the required workarounds to make it run correctly it seems to work quite well. However, I have come to realize that I am only able to launch it when using the automatic added menu entry in the wine folder Ubuntu menu. I have reviewed the command being executed and tried the command copied from the launcher

Paradox 7.0 crashes wine with this error on suse 10.1: hk@linux:~> wine /home/hk/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Borland/Paradox7/pdxwin32.exe err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window height -24 err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window width -70 err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window height -24 (there it stops, and goes no further). I tested this on wine 0.9.26, 0.9.27 and

Hi there, I'm very new(bie) here, I just subscribe to the list, but I can not even see the past messages!!! How to do that??? Well, my true problem is: I trying to run an application write in Delphi (win32) on a Linux machine using Wine (version 0.9.33). This application access Firebird database, and uses some unique libraries: borlndmm.dll, dbexpint.dll, gds32.dll, midas.dll. All of them