James McKenzie wrote: > I read through the forum thread and there is no statement that you tried > to run it without any patches/fixups/winetricks. It is very important > that you try this and then post whatever error messages you receive when > trying to start it. Some of the fixups have Wine native counterparts > and they need to be updated to include functions that your application > wants to use. > > James McKenzie In that thread I mention the errors I found with the following tests: - Clean wine + application: crash after start - Clean wine + application + mdac28: fails with a "type mismatch" after connecting to DB - Clean wine + application + mdac28 + mfc42 + oleaut32(native): I can connect to DB. Arrows in the form mentioned in this thread are missing, and the screen/form mentioned in the other thread still crashes... All the messages seen are quoted in the thread for each test. Regards,