wine users - Sep 2010 - Enter key disfunction on Arc+ progress 3 cad software

Hello to everyone
I report a bug that persists wine 1.3.2 with the win program ARCPLUS (or ARC+)
release PROGRESS 3 (year 2003) http://www.arc-techno.com.
It's a not widespread cad and it's not included in the list
compatibility for wine.

Arc+ software receives input from keyboard shortcuts (eg Ctrl + F2), pop up
menus, icons, buttons, context menu (right mouse button) or from the command
line.
In all these cases are called proprietary macro, which are contained in text
files written in proprietary code, easy to interpret.
The input keystrokes are easily customizable with a simple text file, which is
the Enter key is called from the string ";".
The mouse input, and icons and menus one, work without problems.
The command line accepts typing but don't respond when pressing Enter, and
taht's the only dysfunction.
The command line is essential to enter alpha-numeric input (text, dimensions,
etc. ..)
The remainder of the program works very well.
I asked for to the software company without receiving any real help (the answer
was: there will not be tests for Linux).
I hope to find other arcplus users with which confront me and, if anyone knows a
solution or is interested to test the program, can contact me.
Excuse my English and thanks in advance for your attention.
Giamp

do you tried a screen keyboard to test if there is no problem with your keyboard
configuration??

uhm.. no... right.. i try it

ok.. i tried it.
on screen keyboard works just like the pc one.
there is the same defect: the enter button has no effect

Giamp wrote:
> there is the same defect: the enter button has no effect
Does terminal say anything?

How i can do to visualize the terminal under ubuntu 10.04?

ok.. this is the message of the terminal

giampa at giampa-laptop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Progress 3/Bin$ 
wine arcplus.exe
err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"hardlock" failed to load
err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"Haspnt" failed to load
fixme:storage:StgCreateDocfile Storage share mode not implemented.

then run the program

and on close the program terminale also says:

err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised
err:ole:get_unmarshaler_from_stream Failed to create marshal, 0x800401f0
err:ole:CoReleaseMarshalData IMarshal::ReleaseMarshalData failed with error
0x8001011d

On 9/13/10 6:26 PM, Giamp wrote:
> and on close the program terminale also says:
>
> err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised
> err:ole:get_unmarshaler_from_stream Failed to create marshal, 0x800401f0
> err:ole:CoReleaseMarshalData IMarshal::ReleaseMarshalData failed with error
0x8001011d
>
Is this after you attempt to close the program?

James McKenzie

James McKenzie wrote:
> On 9/13/10 6:26 PM, Giamp wrote:
> 
> > 
> > err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised
> > err:ole:get_unmarshaler_from_stream Failed to create marshal,
0x800401f0
> > err:ole:CoReleaseMarshalData IMarshal::ReleaseMarshalData failed with
error 0x8001011d
> > 
> > 
> Is this after you attempt to close the program?

Yes. This is after i have closed the program.

The 'dongle' type device is required. It's an hardware level
software protection that stands on parallel port and, in its absence, prevents
the program start
but, at this moment, is not connected: the hardware protection is bypassed by a
software patch.  [Rolling Eyes]

You need to post the terminal output from pressing the Enter key in the app.

Giamp <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>James McKenzie wrote:
>> On 9/13/10 6:26 PM, Giamp wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised
>> > err:ole:get_unmarshaler_from_stream Failed to create marshal,
0x800401f0
>> > err:ole:CoReleaseMarshalData IMarshal::ReleaseMarshalData failed
with error 0x8001011d
>> > 
>> > 
>> Is this after you attempt to close the program?
>
>
>Yes. This is after i have closed the program.
>
These errors can then be ignored as they are symptomatic of the program's
failure to start-up.
>The 'dongle' type device is required. It's an hardware level
software protection that stands on parallel port and, in its
>absence, prevents the program start but, at this moment, is not connected:
the hardware protection is bypassed by a
>software patch.
If you have the device, can you connect it up and see if the program works as it
is supposed to?

James McKenzie

James Mckenzie wrote:
> Giamp <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > James McKenzie wrote:
> > 
> > > On 9/13/10 6:26 PM, Giamp wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised
> > > > err:ole:get_unmarshaler_from_stream Failed to create
marshal, 0x800401f0
> > > > err:ole:CoReleaseMarshalData IMarshal::ReleaseMarshalData
failed with error 0x8001011d
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > Is this after you attempt to close the program?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yes. This is after i have closed the program.
> > 
> > 
> These errors can then be ignored as they are symptomatic of the
program's failure to start-up.
> 
> 
> > The 'dongle' type device is required. It's an hardware
level software protection that stands on parallel port and, in its
> > absence, prevents the program start but, at this moment, is not
connected: the hardware protection is bypassed by a
> > software patch.
> > 
> 
> If you have the device, can you connect it up and see if the program works
as it is supposed to?
> 
> James McKenzie


The device is on parallel port, that no longer exists but, trust me, the problem
cannot be there.
The program works very well. Not only works the enter key.
So, you can't issue commands from the command line.
Thank you, James

Demo is available from http://www.arc-techno.com after registration :( 
but the current version is 2009, progress 3 release dates back to 2003, and the
software house no longer provides support for progress3. 2009 edition is so
different (i think) from progress3.
Other versions (up to the 2005 edition) were freely downloadable from the site
without registering, but not anymore. I have the 2005 demo edition, if you want
I can make a torrent, otherwise, Progress3 is available on network (emule or
torrent but, it is not legal :(  )


James McKenzie wrote:
> On 9/15/10 2:23 PM, 
> Can you run the regression test to point out which change to Wine, over 
> two years, caused this problem to occur?
 I think not being able to do a good translation. What do you mean?

However, I think I'm not being able to make a bug report. I can groped but
don't expect guaranteed results. I'm sorry, but ask me too.

>
>Demo is available from http://www.arc-techno.com after registration :( 
>but the current version is 2009, progress 3 release dates back to 2003, and
the software house no longer provides support
>for progress3. 2009 edition is so different (i think) from progress3.
It may be time to upgrade to the latest version.  I don't like to run
'unsupported' software in case it breaks.
>Other versions (up to the 2005 edition) were freely downloadable from the
site without registering, but not anymore. I
>have the 2005 demo edition, if you want I can make a torrent, otherwise,
Progress3 is available on network (emule or
> torrent but, it is not legal :(  )
Let's not do that.  I don't like the thought of those folks showing up
at my front door.
>
>
>James McKenzie wrote:
>> On 9/15/10 2:23 PM, 
>> Can you run the regression test to point out which change to Wine, over
>> two years, caused this problem to occur?
> I think not being able to do a good translation. What do you mean?
>
>However, I think I'm not being able to make a bug report. I can groped
but don't expect guaranteed results. I'm sorry, but
>ask me too.
There were over 7,000 software change commits between Wine 1.0.1 and Wine 1.2. 
That's many changes.

A regression test uses a divide by two alogrithm to 'bisect' the number
of commits and then you build Wine from the resulting source code and then run
your program under the resulting output.  This continues until the software code
change that caused the problem is identified.  However, you may not want to or
cannot do this (for many reasons.)

I will try to get the demo and see if I can get it to work this week, time
permitting.

James McKenzie

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