Running Visio?

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01]

Thomas Steffen <for_replies_only at iname.com> wrote:
> Hi,

> I tried to run MS Visio in wine, and it breaks while loading the first
> file or template. It says 

> Fehlernr. 1 ist bei der '???'-Operation aufgetreten.
> Unerwartetes Dateiende.

> which translates into 

> Fault 1: Unexpected EOF

> Going throug the debug output, I noticed file accesses for 

> warn:file:FILE_DoOpenFile 'd:\visio\system\filter32\emigs9.flt' not found or sharing violation

> although the file is emigs2.flt. Providing a link fixes this message,
> but it doesn't help Visio :-(

> Then there are a lot of messages along 

> warn:gdi:GDI_GetObjPtr Invalid handle 0
hmm.

> warn:heap:HEAP_ValidateInUseArena Heap 40e30000: invalid in-use arena magic for 40e30f77
completely irrelevant (it's the WARN variant, *not* the ERR variant !).

> Another strange message is

> warn:dosfs:DOSFS_FindUnixName '*.flt' not found in '/win/D/Visio/System/Filter32'
hmm, why does it try to use a mask here ?
Maybe some high-level function should parse that differently ?

> warn:ole:OLEClipbrd_IDataObject_QueryInterface () : asking for unsupported interface {00021a8c-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
> warn:ole:OLEClipbrd_IDataObject_QueryInterface () : asking for unsupported interface {00021a8c-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
Try using native OLE DLLs.

> fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub
dito.

> If you click [Cancel] to skip loading a file, Visio complains about
> not having enough memory, and exits. 
Yeah, *stupid* error messages again.

> So am I right to guess that something is seriously wrong with Visio in
> wine? Any ideas how to proceed? Visio does use MFC42, is that the
> problem? 
Try swapping builtin/native DLLs.

> Wine release 20011004
Upgrade !!!

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