[Bug 44071] SPFLite Editor crashes on nullpointer

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44071

--- Comment #6 from steve donato <stevedonato at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to steve donato from comment #4)
> As you recommended I went clicked on winehq developemnt 3.3 but it
> downloaded 3.2?
> Anyway, that version 3.2 worked fine and fixed the problem and installed
> SPFLight, however alost all of my pre-installed apps such as Microsoft 2003 office msword did not work. It just got the spinning cursor doing something but then just back to  normal desktop and did nothing, never visibly launching anything. (Wine does not give weeor when directory not found' I did run a different old pre-installed program that did work fine (prism Plus
> from NCH software).
> 
> So what was the problem, well I have to CLOSE original bug since 3.2 fixed the problem but Found another issue. If you don't re-install all your apps coming from a different Wine program (for example  HQ vs Staging). "wrong wine directory name in old apps properties fails". You have to either re-install almost all window apps or, drop down Linux menu and for wine apps menu entries and say add to desktop. Then right cick the desktop icon, select properties and edit the directory name for wine. In my case from wine-staging to to wine-hq. 
   Unfortunately wine does NOT give you the error 'directory not found' which
it should. Instead it just ends. I had to add the wine apps in the menu to the
desktop because I do not how to get to the properties of an app entry in the
Linux Menu list. (I am using Linux Mint 18 cinnamon)
After the properties are edited to point to the proper wine directory the
desktop symbolic link icon will invoke your win app properely because it finds
the wine directory. But remember the entries in the Menu will still do NOT work
so you cannot add them to panel because these entries still have the wrong
path/directory associated with them for wine. If you have too many apps,
another sleazy but may be necessary thing you could do is to rename the wine-hq
directory to your old/other wine version name of, in my case was
'wine-staging'. Not cool but it will work especially if you have many win apps
and 
no longer have the original installation disks. So all is good for wine-hq
development 3.2.

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