wine users - Jan 2005 - Collins Master Dictionary (closer yet)

Hey, thanks for all the help,

the

"Desktop"="800x600"

line in the .conf file helped a lot, the elements within the window don't 
dissappear anymore. Thanks! :)

Only one little glitch is keeping the program from being useful:
The dictionary doesn't use a standard 'search' field and button as
one might
expect, instead, all of the entries for the selected language appear in a list 
in a field on the left.  To search for a word, one makes this field active 
(highlights an entry within) then begins to type.  As each letter in the word 
is typed, the closest alphabetical match is selected.  For example, if I were 
looking for the word "titipuchal", I would begin typing and for each
letter
the definition field (on the left) would display:

t - T,t: the letter t
i - ti: PRON. PERS. you
t - tit?n: titan, giant
i - titilar: [light, star] to twinkle; [eyelid] flutter, tremble
p - titipuchal: mex. a large quantity, abundance
u - titipuchal: mex. a large quantity, abundance
c - titipuchal: mex. a large quantity, abundance
h - titipuchal: mex. a large quantity, abundance
a - titipuchal: mex. a large quantity, abundance
l - titipuchal: mex. a large quantity, abundance

however, when using my current install with wine, I get the following result:

t - T,t: the letter T
i - I,i: the letter I
t - T,t: the letter T
i - I,i: the letter I
p - I,i: the letter P
u - U,u: the letter U
c - C,c: the letter C
h - H,h: the letter H
a - A,a: the letter A
l - L,l: the letter L

I have no idea what sort of file would be responsible for the dictionary's 
processing of the keyboard input.  Is this a result of a missing DLL that was 
installed by the dictionary installer?  The installer was run from an actual 
windows install, therefore whatever DLLs it installed are in the 'real'
win98
folder and not in the wine windows folder.  How do I find out what files are 
installed by the installer program?  is there an easy way to do this?


-zoe

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:46:33 -0500, zoe wrote:
> I have no idea what sort of file would be responsible for the
dictionary's
> processing of the keyboard input.  Is this a result of a missing DLL that
was
> installed by the dictionary installer?  The installer was run from an
actual
> windows install, therefore whatever DLLs it installed are in the
'real' win98
> folder and not in the wine windows folder.  How do I find out what files
are
> installed by the installer program?  is there an easy way to do this?
That's almost certainly a missing feature from our ListView
implementation, which is found in comctl32.dll

To fix this really we should implement type-ahead find like Windows has,
I'll see if I can put it on the TODO list if nothing else, but for now you
can use a native comctl32 DLL from Windows 98.

To do that copy comctl32.dll and commctrl.dll to the
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system directory, then in the config file put this:

[AppDefaults\\dictionary.exe\\DllOverrides]
"comctl32"="native, builtin"

Obviously replace dictionary.exe with the name of the program you run.

Hope that helps Zoe!

thanks -mike