Powerbuilder 5 App not printing anymore

[fhmanas]

Hello, I have an app that is working great with wine, have used it since wine 0.9.46 and has been excellent over time, with less dependencies to native dlls, I am now down to the last one msvcrt.dll

I am using the app in several Ubuntu versions, 7.10, 8.04,7.04,8.10 and wine 1.0 to 1.1.9

The app works fine in all respects but I have been informed that now it does not like to print. I have tested wine notepad and it prints fine on the same printer. My app does nothing and outputs the ff:

fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_ExtDeviceMode Mode DM_UPDATE. Just do the same as DM_COPY
fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_ExtEscape QUERYESCSUPPORT(25) - not supported.
lpr: printer-: unknown printer


I know the printer exists and is recognized by wine notepad.

Can anybody help?

[jeffz]

Hello, I have an app that is working great with wine, have used it since wine 0.9.46 and has been excellent over time, with less dependencies to native dlls, I am now down to the last one msvcrt.dll

I am using the app in several Ubuntu versions, 7.10, 8.04,7.04,8.10 and wine 1.0 to 1.1.9

The app works fine in all respects but I have been informed that now it does not like to print. I have tested wine notepad and it prints fine on the same printer. My app does nothing and outputs the ff:

fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_ExtDeviceMode Mode DM_UPDATE. Just do the same as DM_COPY
fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_ExtEscape QUERYESCSUPPORT(25) - not supported.
lpr: printer-: unknown printer


I know the printer exists and is recognized by wine notepad.

Can anybody help?

If it used to work but nolonger does then you should run a regression test to find out where it broke.

http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

[vitamin]

lpr: printer-: unknown printer

I know the printer exists and is recognized by wine notepad.

Try installing your application into new WINEPREFIX ex:

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WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-try2 wine d:\\setup.exe

[fhmanas]

lpr: printer-: unknown printer

I know the printer exists and is recognized by wine notepad.

Try installing your application into new WINEPREFIX ex:

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WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-try2 wine d:\\setup.exe

What would WINEPREFIX do? The way I understand it, WINEPREFIX allows simulation of a "2nd" Windows instance. Is this correct? Also, what is the connection with the printer not printing


Will try the regression, but to be honest I have never done any regression before.

I was thinking maybe I just missed a setting, since the 0.9.46 version is part of the official Ubuntu repository and the latest is from WineHQ

Is there a setting I should look for?

Thanks for the replies.

[fhmanas]

I have been seeing a lot of posts that says that Wine should be compiled with CUPS support, isn't this the default? If not how should I go about having CUPS support for Wine in Ubuntu using the winehq repository rather than Ubuntu repository

[dimesio]

I have been seeing a lot of posts that says that Wine should be compiled with CUPS support, isn't this the default? If not how should I go about having CUPS support for Wine in Ubuntu using the winehq repository rather than Ubuntu repository

If notepad prints for you, then you have CUPS support. If your app printed fine with older versions of Wine, and doesn't with newer ones, you need to run a regression test and file a bug report. However, before you do that, I recommend trying a fresh install of your app to a clean wineprefix to see if that fixes it.

[fhmanas]

ok will try to install in a new wineprefix, and will try a regression test.