wine users - Apr 2002 - wine and Platypus

I've been trying to get Platypus (the ISP billing software by Boardtown) 
working under wine on-and-off for the past couple of months.  Last time I 
checked, there were some Visual FoxPro problems.  Those have now been 
resolved, but I get an 'insufficient memory' error as soon as Plat tries
to
contact the SQL database.

Has anyone gotten it to work under wine yet?  Anything I should know?  The 
underlying OS is FreeBSD, installed from the ports system (CVS snapshot 
from April 11th, I think).

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 22:05, Damian Gerow wrote:
> I've been trying to get Platypus (the ISP billing software by
Boardtown)
> working under wine on-and-off for the past couple of months.  Last time I 
> checked, there were some Visual FoxPro problems.  Those have now been 
> resolved, but I get an 'insufficient memory' error as soon as Plat
tries to
> contact the SQL database.
Which Visual FoxPro problems are you referring to?  Up until December I
believe there were some OLE issues, but the current issues I'm aware of
(I guess I'm the only one concentrating on Visual FoxPro in particular)
is the mouse button release issue.  The button release issue (AFIAK)
only appears in 'entry' boxes, and scrollbars.  Clicking buttons is ok. 
Selecting menus is ok.  Does your app allow for something like a "range
of dates" entry?  Can you click in one of those boxes, or a scrollbar
without an apparent 'freeze'?
 
> Has anyone gotten it to work under wine yet?  Anything I should know?  The 
> underlying OS is FreeBSD, installed from the ports system (CVS snapshot 
> from April 11th, I think).
If you can click in input areas, and use scrollbars, I'd like you to run
a test FoxPro 5 app from http://www.havokmon.com/stuff/wine/vfp5test.zip

I'm not capable of fixing the issue, but I have a good idea of what
works (GUI wise) and what doesn't relating to Visual FoxPro.

Thanks,
Rick
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At 09:02 AM 4/26/2002, Rick Romero wrote:
>Which Visual FoxPro problems are you referring to?  Up until December I
>believe there were some OLE issues, but the current issues I'm aware of
>(I guess I'm the only one concentrating on Visual FoxPro in particular)
>is the mouse button release issue.  The button release issue (AFIAK)
>only appears in 'entry' boxes, and scrollbars.  Clicking buttons is
ok.
>Selecting menus is ok.  Does your app allow for something like a "range
>of dates" entry?  Can you click in one of those boxes, or a scrollbar
>without an apparent 'freeze'?
It's not the actual VFP application, but the driver that was broken 
before.  I butted my head against it for a couple of days sometime last 
year -- say September? -- before giving up and just installing Windows.  :(
>If you can click in input areas, and use scrollbars, I'd like you to run
>a test FoxPro 5 app from http://www.havokmon.com/stuff/wine/vfp5test.zip
I'll give it a shot, but won't be able to until later this evening.
>I'm not capable of fixing the issue, but I have a good idea of what
>works (GUI wise) and what doesn't relating to Visual FoxPro.
I guess I should have explained in more detail...

I'm having troubles getting Platypus to work.  The VFP driver it uses was 
causing problems a long time ago (September-ish), but now it just 'runs out 
of memory' when trying to contact the SQL server.  Last night, it was dying 
because it couldn't find SHELL32.DLL, but I copied that in place and
it's
no longer complaining about it, but still dying.  I'm a bit at a loss.

If I use win98 emulation (the above is with win2k emulation), I don't 
actually get any display windows, and wine complains of an unhandled 
exception, and starts debugging.