Numeric rounding error - QuickBooks 7.1

[Circlotron2]

Using wine 3.0-rc1
Haven been using QuickBooks 7.1 on wine for 4 years and for quite a while it has been good. About 1 or 2 months ago I started noticing that when filling out the columns for an invoice, in the QTY column if I type the integer value 5 the value 5.00001 is inserted. If I type anything with a decimal portion greater than 0.5 e.g 11.6 or 35.7 then the values 42,961.27297 and 42,985.37297 respectively appear instead of the typed in values. 4.99999 typed in will give 5 but 4.9999 gives 42,954.67287.

Trying to run from terminal to look for error messages but it looks in the wrong place

me@my-pc ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Intuit/QuickBooks $ wine qbw.exe
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\qbw.exe"

Any ideas?

[Bob Wya]

@Circlotron2

If your application creates a .lnk Windows file - that's the best place to check the executable path...
E.g. for the Ubisoft Uplay Launcher - using the Unix strings utility to parse the binary file:

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cd "${WINEPREFIX:-${HOME%/}/.wine}/drive_c/users/${USER}/Desktop/"
strings "Uplay.lnk" | egrep '^C:'
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\Uplay.exe

So:

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wine start 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\Uplay.exe'

is a pretty sure bet!

See: WineHQ Wiki: Wine User's Guide: 3.1.1 How to run Windows programs from the command line.

RE: the problem you are experiencing... Generally the only effective way to troubleshoot issues like that - is to run a Regression Test.
See: WineHQ Wiki: Regression Testing.

Feel free to post some terminal output here as well - I'll take a look at that as well.

Just please ensure you use the forum Code:

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tags for terminal output and commands you've typed in.

Ta
Bob

[Circlotron2]

Hi Bob.
Thanks for that. Right after I posted I reluctantly upgraded from 3.0-rc1 to 3.0-rc6 and that seems to have fixed the problem. I wanted to wait for the proper 3.0 release but it still hasn't arrived. Not going to compile from source because the last time I did that it broke the sound. Easier to just use the update manager. I'm getting old...

[Bob Wya]

np ... Stay young - run Gentoo. Then you're always compiling!

Bob