OCAD and Wine

[Ed]

nothing to do with alcoholic drinks...

Has anyone else played around with OCAD running under Linux using Wine? I've got OCAD8 going quite nicely under kubuntu 7.10 (see attached screenshot), but the button icons are a bit tempramental (tooltips always work though, if you can't remember where every button is and what it does). Also not got printing going yet, but haven't yet configured printing for Wine anyway and I've got CUPS disabled as it's on an old machine...

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Maybe this is a way to get OCAD running on those funny fruit-flavoured computers as well?

[offtopic]nopesport really needs a computing/technology/geek forum for this kind of thing rather than having to put it in Discussion where a minimum of 99% of sane people are not going to have a clue what it's about. Get to it, mods![/offtopic]

[xtophe]

Hello,

You already lucky to be able to load a map. On mine (Debian Sid, Wine 0.9.51, clicking the open button doesn't produce any dialog. so I can't open anything. I got the same problem as you with the icons.

I also got problems with Condes. Some elements are way too big which make it unusable.

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Xtophe

[Ed]

have you got Internet Explorer installed (I used IE4Linux to install IE6)? Beyond that I don't think I've got anything other than default settings.

Discovered that there's a problem saving course planning files though - OCAD crashes and the file is left unreadable... maybe have to try overriding some libraries.

[kedge]

When I tried last year using Ubunto 6.06 I couldn't get OCAD to run properly using either WINE or Crossover, because the OCAD files opened looking like Xtophe's screenshot above.

Condes ran OK, but only if I exported the map file from OCAD (running in XP) as a jpeg file. Then it seemed to run perfectly well under Wine, as did the standard SI software programs.

Must have another go and see what happens using the latest Ubuntu or maybe Linux Mint, which seems to be the most user friendly Ubuntu clone.

[distracted]

I have OCAD 8 running fine in Wine on a Gentoo machine, bar the two issues you've mentioned - no printing, and inability to save any new files. Saving changes to old files is fine though, I have a directory with the 'blank' planning files which get copied and pasted/renamed whenever they are needed. However, can't seem to get the demo of OCAD 9 to work.

[Ed]

I assume you mean you can't save new planning files, or also new map files? I've successfully created map files, just not planning files.

[distracted]

everything files-wise - planning and map files. On save, the file closes and although "saved", an error box with "format not correct" or similar appears on attempting to open that file. Also had difficulty exporting course planning files to image files at one point, I think that problem has cleared itself up now.