Wine / Visual Foxpro 7 Problems (mouse click freezes the program)

[Paul McNett]

Hi,

First of all, apologies if I'm not posting this in the correct place.

I'm successfully running Microsoft Visual Foxpro 7 under Wine, however I 
needed to use the native versions of shlwapi and oleaut32.

There is a major problem still, however, and that is that foxpro will freeze 
as soon as I use the mouse to click in certain controls (the command 
window, a textbox, an edit box, others).  After I kill Visual Foxpro, the 
output of Wine shows this:

XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 18197 requests (18196 known processed) with 875 events 
remaining.

I should also mention that while Visual Foxpro does freeze in that no 
further input or output will occur, as the mouse pointer moves any text in 
the control will either be selected or deselected... IOW the control seems 
to be acting as if I never released the mouse button and it instead thinks 
I'm trying to select text.

I know that Visual Foxpro runs with its own controls - it does not descend 
from the Windows common controls.

I've tried running with the following command, to attempt to figure out what 
is causing the issue:

wine -debugmsg +relay vfp7.exe &> /tmp/vfp7-wine-debugmsg.txt

however when I run this way, the mouse problem does not occur.  So running 
with the relaying resolves the issue, but obviously it runs too slowly to 
be useful.  And since it doesn't hang Visual Foxpro, I can't determine what 
call is causing the issue.

I am new to Wine debugging and could use a few suggestions on how to 
proceed.  I know that if I can get Visual Foxpro working on Linux the 
repurcussions for the Visual Foxpro community will be huge - new life will 
be breathed into the very product that Microsoft would rather see wither 
away.

Thanks in advance.


-- 
Paul McNett - p at ulmcnett.com
Hollister, California, USA