Prevent Wine from Opening Dialog Boxes

[wineUser8210]

I'm using wine to run a command line application in parallel on 48 cpus. Unfortunately, cross-compiling the application for Linux is not an option.

I learned that each parallel instance needs its own wine prefix. So I run the executable like this:

WINEPREFIX=$PWD/.wine /pathToWine/wine ./myExecutable

I also learned that the wineservers need to be explicitly shutdown after the application exits. I did that like this:

WINEPREFIX=$PWD/.wine /pathToWineServer/wineserver -k

At this point, the application runs successfully in parallel. Under rare circumstances though, the application produces an error and wine displays that error in a dialog box that must be closed by clicking "okay". If a single instance of the application is run, this is not a problem. However, when 48 instances of the application are run, 48 dialog boxes appear and that's undesirable. Is there a way that I can prevent Wine from opening those dialog boxes?

[dimesio]

If the dialog box you're talking about is Wine's crash dialog, that can be disabled with winetricks nocrashdialog. If it's a dialog from the app itself, you may or may not be able to do anything about it. If it's a separate executable producing it (e.g., dw20.exe is the crash handler for Microsoft Office apps), you can disable that in winecfg.

[Bob Wya]

@wineUser8210

If it's a dialog box from the application - then you can also potentially run a background AutoHotkey / AutoIt script.
A script can easily be written to delete the dialog box and restart the application (if necessary).
Basically as long the background wineserver process is intact - you are golden!

For reference the winetricks script uses AutoHotKey to do it's magic sauce with Windows installer GUI's...
For native Windows automation tasks these utilities are essential!

Bob

[wineUser8210]

Thank you for your responses! It may be a little while before I'm able to try your suggestions, but I will report back when I do. I'm glad that there may be a solution.