[Wine]Dreamweaver MX encountered a fatal exception

[michael2cherryblossom.homelinux.com at cherryblossom.homelinux.com]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:02:14AM -0400, Angela Burrell wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I'm trying to get Dreamweaver to run. I've installed it according to the
> instructions at Frank's Corner.
> 
> My stats: Linux Mandrake 9.2 (kernel 2.4.22), and wine20040716. my
> fake_windows directory is a native FAT32 format. I am emulating Windows ME.

If memory serves me right, the WinME emulation mode is still vastly
incomplete, and hardly usable.

> When I type "wine Dreamweaver.exe", wine starts and Dreamweaver begins to
> load, showing the splash screen. After about 2 or 3 minutes, a pop up
> windows comes up with the error: "Dreamweaver encountered a fatal exception.
> Dreamweaver will now terminate. [OK]". Wine dies when i click OK.
> 
> The terminal does not show any error messages.
> 
> The stranger thing is that my fake_windows drive is shared through samba: I
> can access it with a Windows 98 machine. If I browse to the executable on my
> fake_windows drive with my Win98 machine, I can run dreamweaver fine. (the
> only thing is that my Win98 machine has 32 MB of RAM, so it takes forever to
> do anything). So the install seems to be fine: It's just running it that's
> the problem.

If the fake_windows is W98, can't you just run Dreamweaver under W98
emulation mode?  Wouldn't that make more sense?  W98 mode works much
better than W-ME in terms of completion and function, I believe.

> I am interested if anyone with Mandrake 9.2 has been able to get Dreamweaver
> MX working and if so, what wine version you have and your config file if
> possible. I really want this to work.
> 
> Thanks :)
> --AB
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Some of the older Win OS emulations are more complete than newer ones -
XP mode's TCP/IP stack didn't work when I tried it, whereas the 98 mode
stack did.  Maybe using emulation of an older supported Windows version
would help.

You may also want to look at the August release of Wine, if you can get
it to compile.  Good luck.

Hope I helped.
-Michael Chang