Alan Chandler
2001-Feb-10 13:20 UTC
Current Directory Strangely Affects Behaviour of Applications
I am trying to debug a game called Grand Prix Legends, running on wine with the transgaming patch. If just spent all day getting nowhere in winedbg because I couldn't get hold of what the game was doing. If I cd to the directory in which the game is installed (ie ~/win/sierra/gpl) and then run wine gpl.exe The program starts and fills the whole of my screen with a single black window. It sits there until I move the mouse, at which time it exits. I have just discovered that if I cd to the root of my c: drive (ie ~/win) and then run wine c:\\sierra\\gpl\\gpl.exe The program starts and I get a 640x480 window with the correct startup screen (I have "Desktop" = "640x480" in my config file). It is NOT managed (even though I have "Managed" = "Y" in my config file). However the program appears to partially work - in that a) The program responds to the mouse when I click on the correct parts of the screen, b) It runs a race with computer AI cars when I tell it too. Can anyone suggest why this subtle change might exist? [As an aside, the colours seem to be the negative of what they should be - but it could just be a completely wrong pallette, the program should respond to the keyboard, but all keys affect the underlying console window in which the game was started, and there is a multiplayer option where it should (at least) detect that I have a TCP/IP connection, but doesn't - can anyone say, are these known limitations of the transgaming patch?] Lastly, is the transgaming patch likely to be folded into the up to date CVS versions of wine anytime soon. Alan alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk chandler.u-net.com