[Wine] LinkWord Language Learing Software W/ ActiveX error

Marcel W. Wysocki
Fri, 30 May 2008 14:22:54 -0000

On Fri, 30 May 2008 07:45:38 -0500
"jsable1975" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> 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


try installing ole32 using winetricks


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Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net>
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