[Wine] Geoplan/Geospace almost works...

[Dan Kegel]

Nicolas wrote:
> I'm a math teacher, and I would like to use Geoplan/Geospace under wine
> (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4002).
> Problem is, the (non modal) dialog box behave badly. For example, as
> explained on the db page, the window can't be selected, no mouse action
> on it does anything, and worse, the property dialog can't be opened
> without crashing the app : it can't be closed, and the app refuses to
> close if any diakog box is still opened.
>
> I really need this application to work, for it is quite unique on the
> market : geometry in space doesn't have many programs as does have plane
> geometry (geogebra, Cabri...).
>
> The previous version of the app (GeospaceW) works OK, the dialogs behave
> normally. But I don't know if it's fully compatible with the last version.

The site mentioned in the appdb,
http://www2.cnam.fr/creem/
no longer exists.  The new site appears to be
http://www.ac-amiens.fr/pedagogie/maths/new/geoplan/index.htm
but the zip file there has CRC errors:
  inflating: GGAvecComplexes/Geoplan.dll   bad CRC 38192722  (should
be 44897414) ...
There seems to be a commercial version, too, with a demo
version which can be downloaded from
  http://crdp.ac-reims.fr/ressources/logiciels/default.htm
Annoyingly, you have to download two files there and unzip them,
a unified installer would be nicer.

Happily (or not, depending on your point of view), the demo reproduces
the problem.  I've filed a bug for this,
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11372

You can perhaps help by voting for that bug and encouraging
other teachers to vote for it.
- Dan