[Wine] LinkWord Language Learing Software W/ ActiveX error

jsable1975
Fri, 30 May 2008 12:45:38 -0000

Hi all,

   I am new to Wine and Linux. I am currently running Ubuntu 8.04 with Wine
1.0-rc2 on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop.
   For the last couple of days, I have been trying to get my Linkword language
learning software to work on my laptop (Rosetta Stone seems like a lost cause at
this point).
   A little about this program, it is a "stand alone" type program,
and by that I mean you don't have to install anything. You can just throw in
the CD-Rom and click on the *.exe file and off you go. Also, you can copy the
whole CD to your HDD and click on the *.exe and it works flawlessly (at least on
a windoze machine). Currently, I have copied the CD-Rom to my hard disk drive.
When I run it in, all of the instruction screens appear and work fine, but when
you click on the final "next" to start the actual program, I get a pop
up with the following error:

Run-time error - '429':
ActiveX component can't create object

When I ran it from the terminal, this is what I get for the output:

john at Buntu-Box:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Greek$ wine Lw24.exe
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx
(0xa5e284,7366,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x32fae8),
partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x127a60)->(0x12cc20, 0, (nil)), hacked
stub.
john at Buntu-Box:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Greek$
fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosErrorNoTeb no mapping for 8000000a
john at Buntu-Box:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Greek$

I have no idea what this means, so any help that anyone can provide would
greatly be appreciated!

Thanks,

John