On 10/25/07, L. Rahyen <research@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday October 25 2007 04:04, Jeffrey Cobb wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:42 +1300, Ross Levis wrote: > > > I'm a Windows (non C++) software developer and I'm wanting my software to > > > run under Wine as best as possible. My app uses CHM help files which are > > > displayed in Windows when pressing F1 or clicking Help on the menu, but > > > it does not work under Wine on Linux. It does absolutely nothing. > > > > > > Is see there are CHM viewers available but Wine does not seem to use > > > them. Any suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ross. > > I've run into the same problem... simply put I can't install Visual > > Basic Pro in WINE. So I had to opt for VMWARE and run VB in a Windows > > XP sandbox. You can check it out here: www.vmware.com > > > > You'll wanna take interest in vmplayer for Linux. It's what I use. I > > have to wait a bit for the player to come up but it's great for the apps > > I can't use in WINE. > > > > Take Care, > > Jeff > > I think VirtualBox (its free!), especially with Seamless Mode turned on, is > good alternative to VMWare and much better than VMPlayer. See > http://www.virtualbox.org/ . > But hey, this has nothing to do with WINE! And with CHM files too... It is > much simpler to run CHM-viewer than virtual machine. And of course most of > real-world users will not use virtual machines at all. So if you are > developer and want to see your application working on Linux for users (not > just you) you can use WINE or port it natively (sometimes very hard > especially if your are using non-standard languages or non-standard language > features; by saying "standard" here I mean GCC). So in many cases WINE is the > only choice. > Let's face it: we really need someone who can and want implement better > support for help files in WINE. Currently it is far from perfect. Not sure > should be it proposed for 1.0 release or not. This can delay 1.0 release a > lot if no one will working on it! Therefore there is no point to make it 1.0 > release requirement: just because there isn't enough people who want to work > on it! Don't get me wrong! There is some people who did a lot of work for > better help support in WINE. But a lot of work still should be done to make > it really good in all (or at least most) cases. > You may ask: "Why? Many users use help in Windows applications!". Yes, this > is correct. But: > > 1) Most developers either havn't enough time to work on this issue or simply > think that there is more important tasks (and this is true, good help support > isn't high priority task). > 2) There is very simple workarounds. Instead of viewing help files directly > user can run external viewer. In case of CHM kchmviewer should work well. > This isn't perfect solution of course: even worse, it isn't solution at all, > it is just an workaround. > 3) Situation isn't very bad. In many programs help works perfectly! For > example, HTML help in Photoshop CS. However, in many other programs it still > doesn't work or work very bad (depending on what format and its features the > application in question uses) and this is exactly the problem. > > What's the conclusion? We need someone who can and want (actively) to work on > this part of WINE to make it better. And this isn't one-day project, this may > took weeks or months of work. > No it won't. HTML Help (hhctrl.ocx) is implemented enough so that you can view chm files. The right advice is to tell Ross to open a bug report for this problem. Most developers don't scour the wine-users mailing list searching for bugs to fix, and really, this isn't the place to discuss problems like this. -- James Hawkins _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
