wine users - Mar 2010 - Wine 1.139, Donor Perfect and Ubuntu 10.04

After a long process it appears that Donor Perfect 10.07 installed under Wine
1.139 and Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 alpha 3 "Almost works"

Donor Perfect is a Fox Pro based Non-Profit Data Base which is either a web
accessed mode or locally installed under the various MS flavors.

Running under virtual box and XP inside of Ubuntu works fine. However;
legally this requires a registered version of MS.  We have a legal version of
Donor Perfect but they offer no support for locally installed non-MS.

For the first time I can now install DP 10.07 into Ubuntu Lucid and Wine.
Even getting an icon on Desktop.

However starting it brings up a mottled graphical splash which can actually
bring up menus if one happens to hover over the exact drop-down menu location.
Not practical for real work of course.

In the past "Fox Pro dlls required" message would come up and nothing
else.

I would like to send along a screenshot or two if this is allowed in this forum
but am unfamiliar with the procedure?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
This a a tiny non-profit school I am trying to help out for free.
http://www.arthurmorganschool.org/

Thanks

WH Bouterse

talkeetnik wrote:
> After a long process it appears that Donor Perfect 10.07 installed under
Wine 1.139 and Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 alpha 3 "Almost works"
>
> Donor Perfect is a Fox Pro based Non-Profit Data Base which is either a web
accessed mode or locally installed under the various MS flavors.
>
> Running under virtual box and XP inside of Ubuntu works fine. However;
> legally this requires a registered version of MS.  We have a legal version
of Donor Perfect but they offer no support for locally installed non-MS.
>
> For the first time I can now install DP 10.07 into Ubuntu Lucid and Wine.
> Even getting an icon on Desktop.
>
> However starting it brings up a mottled graphical splash which can actually
bring up menus if one happens to hover over the exact drop-down menu location.
Not practical for real work of course.
>
> In the past "Fox Pro dlls required" message would come up and
nothing else.
>
> I would like to send along a screenshot or two if this is allowed in this
forum but am unfamiliar with the procedure?
>
>   
The mailer will strip off the attached files.  Better to use a site that
allows posting of them and then posting the URL(s) here.

James McKenzie

talkeetnik wrote:
> In the past "Fox Pro dlls required" message would come up and
nothing else.
You sure your program doesn't come with some MS redistributables? Wine
won't have those dlls by itself.