wine users - Apr 2005 - Probably a newbie problem, but my knowledge in Linux is so limited, so please Help!

Hi

I guess I should start by telling the truth, I'm not a Linux user (yet) 
and I've never tried Linux in my entire life.

The reason that I got very interested in WINE is that I've developed a 
Strategy Game for WIn32.
I don't like to discourage Linux people to enjoy my game. Since it's a 
rewrite of a Mac game, there's a bunch of Linux users who would like to.

The game, called RoboWar 5, is a strategy game were the players is 
supposed to build robots that kill the other players robots.

The game runs fine with WINE, but when the player is trying to load a 
robot a 440 Automation Error.
Is anyone here familiar with this problem? It only happens when running 
on WINE, never in Windows.

If anyone would like se with their own eyes what happens, the game can 
be downloaded here:
http://robowar.sourceforge.net/RoboWar5/Downloads.html

Also required will be the Visual Basic 6 runtime (/_MSVBVM60.DLL)_/, 
since its apparently not included in the WINE installation.
The Visual Basic 6 runtime It's also available at the link above.


Regards
Kevin Hertzberg

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:43:25 +0200, Kevin Hertzberg
wrote:
> The game runs fine with WINE, but when the player is trying to load a 
> robot a 440 Automation Error.
Is your Visual Basic program multi-threaded?

thanks -mike

Mike Hearn wrote:
> Is your Visual Basic program multi-threaded?
Thanks for responding! Really appreciate it. =)

No, the program is very "regular", no advanced or non-common
programming
practices are used.
I have no idea why it isn't working. The only thing I can think of is 
that it might involve the .ocx control called Comdlg32.ocx, which is 
used to bring up the open file dialog. However, the open file dialog is 
working until the user has selected a robot and clicks open.



Kevin


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> Kevin Hertzberg wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I guess I should start by telling the truth, I'm not a Linux user 
>> (yet) and I've never tried Linux in my entire life.
>>
>> The reason that I got very interested in WINE is that I've
developed
>> a Strategy Game for WIn32.
>> I don't like to discourage Linux people to enjoy my game. Since
it's
>> a rewrite of a Mac game, there's a bunch of Linux users who would 
>> like to.
>>
>> The game, called RoboWar 5, is a strategy game were the players is 
>> supposed to build robots that kill the other players robots.
>>
>> The game runs fine with WINE, but when the player is trying to load a 
>> robot a 440 Automation Error.
>> Is anyone here familiar with this problem? It only happens when 
>> running on WINE, never in Windows.
>>
>> If anyone would like se with their own eyes what happens, the game 
>> can be downloaded here:
>> http://robowar.sourceforge.net/RoboWar5/Downloads.html
>>
>> Also required will be the Visual Basic 6 runtime (/_MSVBVM60.DLL)_/, 
>> since its apparently not included in the WINE installation.
>> The Visual Basic 6 runtime It's also available at the link above.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Kevin Hertzberg
>>
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