wine users - Oct 2008 - Need help with an old VB application

Hi,
i'm not new with wine but i'm in trouble with an old vb application.
I just tried everything i know to solve but i'm still at the start point.
I want to open a document (.rtf or .doc ) with OO . This VB application needs
the full path of the application i want to use to open the documents. I write
down the complete and full path ( Z:/xxx/yy/oowriter ).
The path is correct and the Writer opens quickly but with an error message like
"/C:/Programs/xxx/yyy/1.RTF does not exist"
I think the application use some " Shell (application,document) " to
open the docs.
What can i do in this case ? I think winepath or other registry tricks cannot
apply.

Please i need help, i've just spent many ours without results.

Thank you

ccxx wrote:
> Hi,
> i'm not new with wine but i'm in trouble with an old vb
application.
> I just tried everything i know to solve but i'm still at the start
point.
> I want to open a document (.rtf or .doc ) with OO . This VB application
needs the full path of the application i want to use to open the documents. I
write down the complete and full path ( Z:/xxx/yy/oowriter ).
> The path is correct and the Writer opens quickly but with an error message
like "/C:/Programs/xxx/yyy/1.RTF does not exist"
> I think the application use some " Shell (application,document) "
to open the docs.
> What can i do in this case ? I think winepath or other registry tricks
cannot apply.
>   
Your application is making an assumption when handing off the path the
OpenOffice.org.  You need to create a drive where the file actually
exists on your system.  Look at the Winecfg program on how to do this.

BTW, why are you using the Windows version of OpenOffice.org?  I know it
exists for many Linux distributions, Solaris and MacOSX.

James McKenzie

> I write down the complete and full path ( Z:/xxx/yy/oowriter ).
> The path is correct  

No, it's not. Windows paths use backslashes.

ccxx wrote:
> The final question is : How can i pass the right path to OOWriter ?
Use the sample script from 2.4