Photodex Producer in Wine

[Mr Edd]

Hi Guys

Newbie here.
I have been an avid user of Photodex Producer for years and in the last 12 months converted my laptop to Linux Mint which I am becoming an avid user if it too. I just installed Producer through Wine and it went in very well and runs well too. The issue I have is... The wine window is a bit smaller than my monitor size and cannot be enlarged. As a consequence, I can't see all the features and buttons on Producer.

Is there any way I can increase the size of the Wine window and also the resolution as Producer requires a minimum of 1024x768 to display the text and finer details.

I am on a laptop which I prefer as I can carry around to work on projects rather than be tethered to a PC

Thanks in advance

Edd

[Bob Wya]

Hiya Edd,

Having tested the application myself (the 15 day trial)...
Interesting I'm finding that it's not stable on my system.
I have no issues resizing the ProShow Producer application - before I get a crash dump that is!
Tested with the latest Wine Staging Git (SHA1 8caca32d0818cab757a727609f4a4129b9df9b9c - not the master).
Using a 32-bit WINEPREFIX with the Wine Windows version set to Windows XP

• Are you using a Wine Virtual Desktop?
• What version of Wine are you testing?

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  wine --version

• What version of ProShow Producer are you testing?
• Is the application stable when you change between the main operation mode tabs? (I.e. just mousing around the GUI elements - not doing anything much)
• Do you have GPU acceleration and DirectDraw enabled in the application?

Ta
Bob

[Mr Edd]

Thanks for your comment.

I have wine set to Win 7. I shall try XP tomorrow. I am using the latest version Producer. It seems very stable in the Wine window, if I maximise it I can't see all the buttons inside the window, so difficult to operate it.

I am very new to Wine so not sure what you mean by Wine staging and that long number. I'm not sure of what you mean by a Wine Virtual Desktop.sorry about all the stupid questions. Edd

[Bob Wya]

Thanks for your comment.

I have wine set to Win 7. I shall try XP tomorrow. I am using the latest version Producer. It seems very stable in the Wine window, if I maximise it I can't see all the buttons inside the window, so difficult to operate it.

I am very new to Wine so not sure what you mean by Wine staging and that long number. I'm not sure of what you mean by a Wine Virtual Desktop.sorry about all the stupid questions. Edd

Hiya Mr Edd,

Didn't mean to bamboozle you with too much information!

Hmmm. You can attach a screenshot to the forum thread (see Upload attachment box under the main forum Post a reply box) - if you think that would "explain" your issue better!
That's not normally very useful - but for UI-related issues it can be!

There could be a (possibly intermittent) bug in Wine - that's stopping the application working correctly on my system...
This might be related to the fact that the ProShow Producer executable is opening up multiple named pipes to a Windows ffmpeg binary.

tl;dr it would be useful to get some additional information (additional - to the stuff I already asked for) about your system:

• graphics card/driver version?
• what Desktop Environment are you using?

Ta
Bob

[Mr Edd]

Thank you. I am on my Kindle at moment so will respond with more detail later today.

Thanks again.

Edd

[Mr Edd]

Now on my Mint laptop... Attached are three screen shots of what is happening. I haven't as yet tried it in an XP version but will later I am using a Win 7 version.
The Wine version is Wine 1.6.2
I am using Mint Sarah Cinnamon with all the latest updates. I have not updated the Kernals since I built the machine, but I don't think that is contributing to the issue.

I can use Producer within the window and all seems to be working fine, just that I can't see all the buttons and options within the small window.

Really appreciate your time on this.

Edd

[Mr Edd]

I also have an issue with registering Producer in Wine. I get Invalid Key error messages. Yet I installed it on one of my Win 10 machines and it went okey even with the same key in the same version of Producer.


Strange???

Edd

[Bob Wya]

Now on my Mint laptop... Attached are three screen shots of what is happening. I haven't as yet tried it in an XP version but will later I am using a Win 7 version.
The Wine version is Wine 1.6.2
I am using Mint Sarah Cinnamon with all the latest updates. I have not updated the Kernals since I built the machine, but I don't think that is contributing to the issue.

That version of Wine is obsolete - the latest release is 2.3. Wine version 1.6.2 was released Fri Jan 10 21:37:29 2014 +0100. Yes - over 3 years ago.
So that version of Wine is no longer supported - in any official fashion.

You'll need to test with a newer Ubuntu release - see WineHQ: Ubuntu for installation instructions.

Your kernel version (4.4.x I guess - for Ubuntu 16.04) should be fine.

Re: your graphics card, what's the output from:

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glxinfo | grep OpenGL

??

Try re-attaching your application screenshot - but make sure the file size <200Kb (forum limit).
Any kind of basic Gimp retouching (smaller resolution, reducing the colour space, etc.) will allow you to do this!

Bob