[Wine] Installing MS Train Simulator

[tomf at wigsplendor.com]

Maybe try "Splash Screen Killer"?
It installs from winetools under "Install tested software" -> Tools.

Quoting Thomas Mertes <thomas.mertes at gmx.at>:

> Hello
>
> When I try to install MS Train Simulator the setup.exe
> program switches to full screen mode. This full screen
> mode hides all other installer windows. The window that
> asks me if I want to install Adobe and the window that
> asks me to replace CD1 with CD2 are not visible.
> Therefore it is necessary to guess what I should do
> during the installation and do the input blindly.
>
> The main installation window has a minimize button.
> When I press this minimizer button the installation
> screen minimizes. Afterwards it is impossible to get
> the installation screen back. It just stays minimized.
>
> This happened with wine version 0.9.46 under
> Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). My graphics is on board.
>
> I am not interested in informations about hacks to get
> MS Train Simulator working, like take an old version
> of wine (i know that the installation worked already),
> use this or that original dll and after the installation
> you have to patch this and that file.
>
> I mail this bug report to help the wine developers to
> bring wine to a state where such things work out of the
> box. I think that approx. three wine versions ago the
> installation of MS Train Simulator worked without
> any windowing foreground / background problems.
> So probably some windowing changes where suboptimal.
>
> Greetings Thomas Mertes
>
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