[Wine] Re: Character Limit Problems During Program Install

Daniel Skorka skorka at gmx.net
Mon Jun 5 07:58:09 CDT 2006


brohism <brohism at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Sim City 3000 Unlimited and when it asks me for
> the serial key, it doesn't let me put in all the characters.  The
> serial key input is broken into 4 input fields, each with a different
> max character length.  For each one, it doesn't allow me to put in the
> last character for that segment.  So, for example, the first field has
> a length of 4 characters, but it's only letting me put in 3.  I ran the
> installer from the console, but got no errors whatsoever.

Was mentioned in an issue of WWN (I think). Something to do with
incorrect calculation of character width and the issue being
non-trivial. I think there's a bug report on it, too.

Daniel


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