[Wine] Problem with a Win95 application

Martin Gregorie martin at gregorie.org
Sun Apr 4 09:39:45 CDT 2010


I have a problem with two functions of an old Win 95 application. It
analyses gliding flight logs and produces up to three displays which can
be individually selected after the flight log is loaded but before
anything is shown apart from the initial blank window + menu bar:

- a 2-D map display of the flight - this has always worked correctly
  under Wine. though ot displays the fixmes:

  fixme:comm:EscapeCommFunction16 no cid=0 found!
  fixme:comm:EscapeCommFunction16 no cid=0 found!

- a 2-D plot of altitude vs time. This has never worked. While
  generating this display a series of 3 pop-ups appear showing the error
  "Invalid property value". The only console output is this:

  fixme:comm:EscapeCommFunction16 no cid=0 found!
  fixme:comm:EscapeCommFunction16 no cid=0 found!

  This is followed by the program exiting.

- an analysis of the flight - this is a mixture of bar graphs and text.
  This has never worked. While generating this display a single pop-up
  appears showing the error "Invalid property value". The only console
  output is this:

  fixme:comm:EscapeCommFunction16 no cid=0 found!
  fixme:comm:EscapeCommFunction16 no cid=0 found!

  And the program stops after drawing two scroll bars and adding a white
  rectangle occupying the upper part of its window. The scroll bars work
  and the program exits if the 'Exit' menu item is selected.

I'm using WINE 1.1.23 configured as Win 95 and no overrides. All
settings are defaulted apart from selecting Windows 95.

I know that this is an old Wine version, but the common failure factor
seems to be that the two failing displays are built using coloured
rectangles while the map isn't. Is this due to something missing that
winetricks could fix? 


Martin






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