wine users - Sep 2008 - Saab Electronic Parts Catalogue (EPC)

Hello everyone,

I am trying to get Saab's Electronic Parts Catalogue (EPC) to work with
Wine. This is the only program I need running on Windows and stops me from fully
enjoying the Linux. I'm running FC 9 with Wine v1.0. The installation of the
program was very smoothly with no issues at all. However it fails to start -
hangs when the main screen is supposed to show. I am getting following messages
on the console. Any ideas/suggestions would be highly appreciated:



Code:

err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
fixme:storage:StgCreateDocfile Transacted mode not implemented.
err:ole:marshal_object object doesn't expose interface
{00000126-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}, failing with error 0x80004002
err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x80004002
err:ole:ClientIdentity_QueryMultipleInterfaces IRemUnknown_RemQueryInterface
failed with error 0x80004002
fixme:ole:DllGetClassObject 
	CLSID:	{b196b286-bab4-101a-b69c-00aa00341d07},
	IID:	{d5f569d0-593b-101a-b569-08002b2dbf7a}
err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {b196b286-bab4-101a-b69c-00aa00341d07}
could be created for context 0x80000001
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface
{b196b284-bab4-101a-b69c-00aa00341d07}
err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x80004002
err:ole:ClientIdentity_QueryMultipleInterfaces IRemUnknown_RemQueryInterface
failed with error 0x80004002

Hi, to fix the last warnings you can get winetricks and install msls31 and
riched20.

So:



Code:

cd ~
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks msls31 riched20




This 'might' fix it (if it doesn't try adding riched30 to the last
line). If it does, tell us, please.

Also, did you try to change emulated version? Sometimes it helps due to
different functions for the same means.

qwertymn wrote:
> hi, i get different console output then you, so for now i'll just share
my experiences here. I installed on a complete fresh ~/.wine (you can do
something like WINEPREFIX=~/garbage wine SETUP.EXE, after installation
WINEPREFIX=~/garbage wine EPC.EXE)
> The installation went smoothly, after starting i get the splash screen,
then the main gui, but then an error messagebox pops up about a DIB error, and
then the app freezes. I guess that 's a bug in wine somewhere. I did not
install any additional winetricks packages. With the stupid hack below i was
able to start the app, but i'm not sure if it's functional, as many menu
items are greyed out, and i dunno really how to use the app. Maybe you could try
the above recipe , and see  how far you can get. The DIB-bug needs more
investigation, but i lack time atm to do so
> 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/dlls/gdi32/dib.c b/dlls/gdi32/dib.c
> index 440857d..2d7b0ac 100644
> --- a/dlls/gdi32/dib.c
> +++ b/dlls/gdi32/dib.c
> @@ -1076,6 +1076,7 @@ INT WINAPI GetDIBits(
>  done:
>      release_dc_ptr( dc );
>      GDI_ReleaseObj( hbitmap );
> +    if(!lines) return 1;
>      return lines;
>  }

MSDN:
> GetDIBits
> The GetDIBits function retrieves the bits of the specified compatible
bitmap and copies them into a buffer as a DIB using the specified format.


> Return Values
> 
> If the lpvBits parameter is non-NULL and the function succeeds, the return
value is the number of scan lines copied from the bitmap.

I don't exactly agree with patches that only try to work around past some
point. Because what we are doing here is bad (I believe, but correct me if
wrong), because we are saying that it all went well and that we copied one
scanline from the bitmap, when, in fact, that wasn't the case. So this means
we are 'lying' to get one app to get past one point, which may make a
bunch of other games not work or even make this game fail later on (which could
be the case).

But, oh well, you know that:
> stupid hack

I think that a bug should be submitted with all the necessary information and
this could be later fixed. If you can live with that fix I suggest you make a
specific wine-patched-version that only runs that application, so that you know
that won't affect other games.

But, oh well, I'm glad you got it to work to the degree you needed :)