[Wine] Problem with PowerBuilder 6-based app

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 15 March 2008, Hugo Cardozo wrote:
> Hello to all;
> I'm looking for somebody who has tried powerbuilder 6-based apps in
> the newest versions of Wine (currently I'm using v0.9.57 in Debian
> Etch). Well, the situation is:
> I want to use a Sybase-based database management system, using Sql
> Anywhere 10 as the DB server and a powerbuilder-based app as the
> client. So I get the Anywhere 10 version for GNU/Linux, configure it
> and its ODBC interface, and now I can access my Sybase db's from
> Linux and Wine (I can even use Winsql to access the server).

How lucky for you, I used to work for Sybase :-) And my gf (who is 
sitting right next to me right now) also used to work for Sybase and 
uses Sybase products every day of her working life. AND we still have 
all out old contacts AND an easy way to get my hands on any Sybase 
software I might like to test....

I do recall getting PB to run on Wine was a major ball-ache. I managed 
it once with tons of native dlls (enough to give the Wine devs have a 
heart attack) but it was possible.

Depending on how critical your needs are and how much time you want to 
invest in getting this app running, I'd be happy to help out. Post away 
with details

> But the real problem is the powerbuilder-based client app. I didn't
> compile it (just got it already compiled, with some DLLs).
> The app starts, connects to the server, and opens the DB just fine (I
> think), but some parts of the app doesn't work:
>  - Some text boxes (that are meant for input numbers - keys) doesn't
> allow me to write numbers. When I try to input the numbers, the text
> boxes shows the string ".+" or something similar.
>  - The same thing happens with some list boxes and combo boxes.
>
> I must note that I didn't test the app very much. Surely there are
> other errors, but for now, I'm trying to fix these.
>
> I wanted to include a WINEDEBUG output, but for Wine the app seems to
> work fine: without "WINEDEBUG=+all" I don't get even "FixMe" nor
> "Warning" messages... And, of course, the output of "WINEDEBUG=+all"
> will be VERY big :-)
>
> So, thanks to all, and I will wait for any advice. Any extra
> information you need, just tell me.
>
> Hugo Segovia



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