CraigsPalFree problems

prawer · Post by **prawer** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:55 pm

Hello Wine Gurus,

I am new to running apps with Wine but have been moderately successful so far. I am trying to work with CraigsPalFree, a nifty app that allows the user to "power-search" craigslist -- sortable results, multiple locations, etc.

The URL is craigspal.com and the download location is http://www.craigspal.com/to_download.php.

Here is what happens (the order varies):

1. When I first start it, Wine reports that the app is trying to display web pages, and prompts me to install Gecko (which I do)
2. On subsequent starts, the app informs me that "CraigsPal wasn't able to connect. Reconnect?" (I say 'yes')
3. Black squares flash on the screen
4. I get an error OLE 8000FFFF
5. I get an "access violation" in module craigspal.exe if I try to choose search locations

Any ideas? Does this look a familiar error from other apps?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:12 pm

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:55 PM, prawer <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Wine Gurus,

I am new to running apps with Wine but have been moderately successful so far. I am trying to work with CraigsPalFree, a nifty app that allows the user to "power-search" craigslist -- sortable results, multiple locations, etc.

The URL is craigspal.com and the download location is http://www.craigspal.com/to_download.php.

Here is what happens (the order varies):

1. When I first start it, Wine reports that the app is trying to display web pages, and prompts me to install Gecko (which I do)
2. On subsequent starts, the app informs me that "CraigsPal wasn't able to connect. Reconnect?" (I say 'yes')
3. Black squares flash on the screen
4. I get an error OLE 8000FFFF
5. I get an "access violation" in module craigspal.exe if I try to choose search locations

Any ideas? Does this look a familiar error from other apps?

Terminal output? Wine version?

Off hand, might try native wininet.

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-Austin

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:43 am

i gave it a quick try, first off it looks like it needs msxml4 (do 'winetricks msxml4). The errormessagebox still comes up doesn't seem to be fatal anympore. The error itsself seems to come from unimplemented stuff in mshtml. You could try 'winetricks ie6' to work around that problem. Biggest problem: the GUI looks terrible, so i doubt it's usable in the end. Good luck

prawer · Post by **prawer** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:12 pm

Thanks so much for the suggestions. I'll give them a try. Very responsive user base! I'm impressed ...

prawer · Post by **prawer** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:08 am

I was able to install msxml4, but ie6 gave me a corrupt download location error: perhaps i need to run winetricks as sudo?

Still getting an OLE error, only now of the number 80004001. Now getting an access error at js***.dll (don't have the number in front of me). Ah well.

prawer · Post by **prawer** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:19 am

Sorry for a final update, but i retried winetricks ie6 and the app works! A little tourettetsy flickering here and there but totally usable.

Thanks!

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:20 am

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, prawer <[email protected]> wrote:

perhaps i need to run winetricks as sudo?

No.

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-Austin