powder cell

Luana · Post by **Luana** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:20 am

Hello,

I need some help running a somewhat old windows program on wine.
I am trying to run powdercell (XRD refinement thingy), here you can find the homepage of the program (sorry it is in german): http://www.bam.de/de/service/publikatio ... r_cell.htm
The only report about this program dates from 2008, and I can't really tell how successful it was: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=2366

Let's go to the specs. I am running wine 1.2.3 on an imac 2.7Ghz Intel Core i5. I created the directory where the program sits, so that there should be no fuss about it. There I executed

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wine pcw23

which should install the thingy.
I immediately get this:

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fixme:commdlg:GetOpenFileName16 custom templates no longer supported, using default
fixme:commdlg:GetOpenFileName16 custom hook 0x11f74ce2 no longer supported

and a window prompting me to open a file and that is missing a lot of stuff (I have used this program on windows ages ago). Once I try to open a file (anything really) the program crashes. If it is wine or the program itself that are crashing, I don't know. It also doesn't seem to like the fact that it is 16bit program.

I appreciate any help I can get to make this program run.

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:40 am

Luana wrote: The only report about this program dates from 2008, and I can't really tell how successful it was: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=2366

The platinum rating means it worked perfectly out of the box.

It also doesn't seem to like the fact that it is 16bit program.

Probably this: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14920

Luana · Post by **Luana** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:56 am

The platinum rating means it worked perfectly out of the box.

Thanks for letting me know.
However it still crashes (no idea why).
If you know a way I can give more information (like making wine output some more detailed log) please tell me how.

The thread http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14920 has been closed since the problem is supposed to be solved. Maybe it is one of those applications which simply won't run.

Thanks dimesio.

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:20 am

Luana wrote:
The platinum rating means it worked perfectly out of the box.
Thanks for letting me know.
However it still crashes (no idea why).
If you know a way I can give more information (like making wine output some more detailed log) please tell me how.

The thread http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14920 has been closed since the problem is supposed to be solved. Maybe it is one of those applications which simply won't run.

Thanks dimesio.

Read the bug report. That was not a Wine bug, it was a MacOSX bug. You didn't say what version of MacOSX you are using; make sure it is one that includes the fix.

If that's not it, post complete terminal output, including the command you used to start it and the full crash log.

Luana · Post by **Luana** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:33 am

Read the bug report. That was not a Wine bug, it was a MacOSX bug. You didn't say what version of MacOSX you are using; make sure it is one that includes the fix.

Okie, sorry, I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8, which is the latest before Lion.

If that's not it, post complete terminal output, including the command you used to start it and the full crash log.

I read the bug report, actually. And I realize it is not a wine bug (at least the one in the post isn't, I don't know about the one I get). It shouldn't be a mac bug either (in theory).
I don't know if you will find the complete terminal output any better, but here it goes:

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mac:~ luca$ cd powdcell
mac:powdcell luca$ wine pcw23
fixme:commdlg:GetOpenFileName16 custom templates no longer supported, using default
fixme:commdlg:GetOpenFileName16 custom hook 0x11f74ce2 no longer supported
mac:powdcell luca$

Thanks

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:52 am

Luana wrote:

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mac:~ luca$ cd powdcell
mac:powdcell luca$ wine pcw23
fixme:commdlg:GetOpenFileName16 custom templates no longer supported, using default
fixme:commdlg:GetOpenFileName16 custom hook 0x11f74ce2 no longer supported
mac:powdcell luca$

There's no crash there.

Luana · Post by **Luana** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:19 am

Okie, then I don't understand. It opens the prompt of the program to open a file and when I try to (open anything) the program closes itself.

This is pretty much what I was following.
http://sdpd.univ-lemans.fr/du-sdpd/nexu ... wderce.htm

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wine pcw

doesn't work for me.

This is what I get. When I try to open anything on the little "open file" window, it closes itself.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1075164421 ... 9422623746

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:01 am

Okay, I downloaded the file. The installer, pcw23.exe, does crash for me, with a full backtrace. Luckily, the installer is just a WinZip self-extracting file. I was able to unzip it with the unzip command. However, I'm on Linux; I don't know if the command is the same on a Mac, so you'll have to figure out that part yourself. Once unzipped, it appears the program (Pcw.exe) can just be run without needing to be installed.

Luana wrote:
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wine pcw
doesn't work for me.

The exe is Pcw.exe, not pcw.exe, and you need to type the full filename when running with Wine:

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wine Pcw.exe

You also need to cd to the directory where the exe is located before running it or it will immediately shut down.

Two things: I am using Wine 1.3.26, and I ran it in an emulated virtual desktop (Graphics tab in winecfg). Try one or both.

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