Running Agfa Photowise on Wine

[Tony Lambregts]

Timo Kujala wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I did some inspection how to get Agfa Photowise and my old CL50 to work under 
>Wine.
>
>By default Photowise runs perfectly, except that when you try to connect to 
>the camera, serial connection will always fail. After some debugging there is 
>a very simple reason why this happens:
>
>Photowise tries to flush the file handle using FlushFileBuffers(). Under wine, 
>doing this on /dev/ttyS0 will return error and FlushFileBuffers() returns 
>FALSE. Photowise will detect this as error and refuses to continue.
>
>By forcing FlushFileBuffers() to always return TRUE, Photowise starts to work 
>perfectly and finally my Agfa CL50 works with full 115200 speed under linux 
>:)
>
>Perhaps somebody could figure out a clever fix for this in the future 
>versions?
>
>
>
>  
>
If you start a bug report in bugzilla explaining the problem and attach 
 a diff -u or at least show of how you hacked wine, there is a good 
probability that someone could work up an adequate patch that could be 
applied to CVS. Heck you might be able to do it yourself, with a little 
help.  http://bugs.winehq.org


Tony Lambregts