Wine with writeitnow

osmosys · Post by **osmosys** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:42 pm

Hello,

Currently I'm moving over to linux. I got fedora core 7, and I've been running it on a virtual machine.

There is one piece of software I can't live without. It's called writeitnow:
http://www.ravensheadservices.com/

Wine is installed on my box.

When I run the application I get the following error message:

"The Java(TM) VM could not be started. Please restart the installation. You may use the parameter /manual to download or manually select a different VM.

log: c:\windows\temp\j4j223e.tmp"

I went and got j2re-1_4_2_17-windows-i586-p.exe

I installed this, but I get the same error message.

A guy got the program to run on Ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610721

His error message is different than mine, so I'm not exactly sure what to do.

osmosys · Post by **osmosys** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:46 pm

Perhaps I didn't put in enough information.

Here is an udpate:

1. I am now on Fedora 8
2. The OS is up to date. I ran: sudo yum upgrade
3. On the writeitnow site I chose the xp/vista binary
4. When I installed wine I ran: sudo yum install wine

jack-audio-connection-kit i386 0.103.0-5.fc8 updates 139 k
libfreebob i386 1.0.3-1.fc7 fedora 154 k
wine-capi i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 25 k
wine-cms i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 37 k
wine-core i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 10 M
wine-esd i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 35 k
wine-jack i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 37 k
wine-ldap i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 86 k
wine-nas i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 23 k
wine-tools i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 619 k
wine-twain i386 0.9.56-1.fc8 updates 46 k

After this I started the installation the easy way by right clicking the .exe and saying run with wine.

Then it dumps with the error message from before.

Also I got my java run times here:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

I then installed my linux one first:

chmod +x j2re-1_4_2_17-linux-i586-rpm.bin
./j2re-1_4_2_17-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Then I typed

sudo rpm -ivh j2re-1_4_2_17-linux-i586.rpm

then I installed j2re-1_4_2_17-windows-i586-p.exe by right clicking in fedora and choosing run with wine.

This installation doesn't work well either... the progress bar never finishes... but I'm pretty certain it does finish because when I do it again it says its already installed.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:40 pm

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:42 PM, osmosys <[email protected]> wrote:

http://www.ravensheadservices.com/
When I run the application [with wine-0.9.56 on Fedora 8 I get the following error]:

"The Java(TM) VM could not be started. Please restart the installation. You may use the parameter /manual to download or manually select a different VM.

A guy got the program to run on Ubuntu:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610721

It looks like you're running into
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11019 /
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11818
which were caused by commits later in December. We don't have a
handle on those yet.

I verified that wine-0.9.51 doesn't have that problem.
Installing wine-0.9.51 from winehq.org, then doing
rm -rf .wine
wine install.exe (writeitnow310s's installer)
fails with
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR71.dll (which is needed by
"...lient\\jvm.dll") not found

Working around that with
wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh wintricks vcrun2003
(no longer needed with current wine, btw) got me to the next error,
err

SHCoCreateInstance failed (0x800401f0) to create CLSID:
{208d2c60-3aea-1069-a2d7-08002b30309d} (My Network Places) IID:
{000214e6-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} (IID_IShellFolder)
...
0029:Call KERNEL32.CreateFileW(0a9a0128
L"C:\\windows\\temp\\install4jError23323log",c0000000,00000003,00000000,00000001,00000080,00000000)
ret=6d3b90d8

That file contains

java.lang.InternalError: Could not bind shell folder to interface
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.initSpecial(Native Method)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.getNetwork(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFileSystemPath(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getChildByPath(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.getPersonal(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.listFiles(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView.getFiles(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.components.FSRootChooser$FSRootModel.<init>(Unknown
Source)
...

which jibes well with the app needing My Network Places to install.

Fun fun fun. So I don't really have much help for you, sorry.
Get somebody to implement a stub My Network Places, maybe

I'll file a bug.
- Dan

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:56 pm

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:

Fun fun fun. So I don't really have much help for you, sorry.
Get somebody to implement a stub My Network Places

How cruel. It was implemented in wine-0.9.52, the version that also
introduced the hang!

Anyway, try using a version of wine close to what he used
(wine-0.9.49) but earlier than wine-0.9.52, run
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun2003
before installing, and follow that guy's recipe.
Good luck!
- Dan

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:04 pm

I just wanted to state that I use YWriter with WINE and it seems to run well. The program is similar, and it's free.

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:42 pm

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I just wanted to state that I use YWriter with WINE and it seems to run
well. The program is similar, and it's free.

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html

Looks like it's no cost, not free. Though, after looking at the page
http://www.spacejock.com.au/WhyFree.html I really have to wonder why it's not
free. Have you considered talking to the author and asking him to consider
licensing it under a free license and releasing the source? That might
increase the odds of your program being available on your favored platform
without having to resort to emulating a legacy environment for it.

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Paul Johnson
[email protected]
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osmosys · Post by **osmosys** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:04 pm

Susan Cragin wrote:I just wanted to state that I use YWriter with WINE and it seems to run well. The program is similar, and it's free.

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html

This looks like a pretty similar app. Maybe I will switch over to this.

The only real issue is I have so much work in writeitnow that I have to copy it out by hand and paste it into the new program.

Thanks for the info

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:15 pm

To be honest, YWriter runs so well in Wine I've never thought of asking. Also, I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Wine also. DNS is quirky now, runs best in Notepad, but I look forward to the day when it runs in YWriter on Wine.
Another thing... and this I'm not sure about. He writes his programs using Visual Basic. How convertible would the code be?

BTW -- Another good program that runs well in Wine and is useful for writers, researchers and other note-gatherers is KeyNote. It's on Sourceforge. It was written in Delphi and so, although the code is open, it will never run on Linux without a complete re-write.

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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Wine] Wine with writeitnow

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On Monday 17 March 2008 04:03:32 pm Susan Cragin wrote:
I just wanted to state that I use YWriter with WINE and it seems to run
well. The program is similar, and it's free.

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html
Looks like it's no cost, not free. Though, after looking at the page
http://www.spacejock.com.au/WhyFree.html I really have to wonder why it's not
free. Have you considered talking to the author and asking him to consider
licensing it under a free license and releasing the source? That might
increase the odds of your program being available on your favored platform
without having to resort to emulating a legacy environment for it.

- --
Paul Johnson
[email protected]
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