Forte Agent newsreader on Wine 1.0 on Mandriva 2008.1. If I close Agent and then re-open it, its inner newsreader pane becomes dislodged as a floating section in a scrollable window. The following image (size 29k) shows what I mean. The top image is before closing and the lower image is after re-opening. http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk268/farry6/agent.png This happens if it's fullscreen or in a smaller window. I can restore the normal view by carefully clicking two times on the third innermost of the restore-window buttons in the top righthand corner. This problem did not occur with Wine 0.9.20 in Mandriva 2007, but when I upgraded to Mandriva 2008.1 and Wine 0.9.58 then I found this problem. I tried Wine 1.0 from the Wine HQ and that had the same problem. I tried Agent versions 3.2 and 3.3 with the same results. Fortunately, I could install the old Wine 0.9.20 from Mandriva 2007 into Mandriva 2008.1 and that worked fine, so my immediate problem is solved. It would be nice to know why recent version of Wine have this effect on Agent, though. Has anybody else seen this effect? Any suggestions for fixes? I'll try debugging it if somebody suggests how. -- Dave Farrance
2008/6/26 Dave Farrance <dave.tmp1 at blueyonder.co.uk>:> This problem did not occur with Wine 0.9.20 in Mandriva 2007, but when I > upgraded to Mandriva 2008.1 and Wine 0.9.58 then I found this problem. I > tried Wine 1.0 from the Wine HQ and that had the same problem. I tried > Agent versions 3.2 and 3.3 with the same results. > Fortunately, I could install the old Wine 0.9.20 from Mandriva 2007 into > Mandriva 2008.1 and that worked fine, so my immediate problem is solved. > It would be nice to know why recent version of Wine have this effect on > Agent, though. Has anybody else seen this effect? Any suggestions for > fixes? I'll try debugging it if somebody suggests how.http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting It's somewhat laborious (a cycle of compile-test-compile-test-compile-test), but it lets you nail *precisely* what broke the app, so you can write a very good bug report. - d.
It was interesting to see your posting, because I think I'm seeing the same behavior with Forte Agent 3.2 under Wine on OSX (Mac). I am running Tiger (OSX 10.4.11) with DarWine 0.9.53. At first, I thought the window looked strange with the extra scroll bar on the right side, but your description and screen shots seem to be the same thing. I'm new to Wine, so haven't used previous versions to compare. In my case, this behavior occurs as soon as I open Agent the first time. Dave Farrance wrote:> Forte Agent newsreader on Wine 1.0 on Mandriva 2008.1. > > If I close Agent and then re-open it, its inner newsreader pane becomes > dislodged as a floating section in a scrollable window. The following > image (size 29k) shows what I mean. The top image is before closing and > the lower image is after re-opening. > > http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk268/farry6/agent.png > > This happens if it's fullscreen or in a smaller window. I can restore > the normal view by carefully clicking two times on the third innermost of > the restore-window buttons in the top righthand corner. > > This problem did not occur with Wine 0.9.20 in Mandriva 2007, but when I > upgraded to Mandriva 2008.1 and Wine 0.9.58 then I found this problem. I > tried Wine 1.0 from the Wine HQ and that had the same problem. I tried > Agent versions 3.2 and 3.3 with the same results. > > Fortunately, I could install the old Wine 0.9.20 from Mandriva 2007 into > Mandriva 2008.1 and that worked fine, so my immediate problem is solved. > > It would be nice to know why recent version of Wine have this effect on > Agent, though. Has anybody else seen this effect? Any suggestions for > fixes? I'll try debugging it if somebody suggests how. > > -- > Dave Farrance