Lotus Forms Viewer 3.5

chef · Post by **chef** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:16 pm

I installed Lotus Forms Viewer 3.5 with Wine and I thought it was successful. When I tried opening an xfd or xfdl file the forms viewer opens but the file does not. I am new to Wine so any help would be appreciated. I am trying to find someway to open Air Force forms and I figured Wine would be the best route.

I am running Mac OSX 10.6.2 with a 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB Ram.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:24 pm

chef wrote:

I installed Lotus Forms Viewer 3.5 with Wine and I thought it was successful. When I tried opening an xfd or xfdl file the forms viewer opens but the file does not. I am new to Wine so any help would be appreciated. I am trying to find someway to open Air Force forms and I figured Wine would be the best route.

I am running Mac OSX 10.6.2 with a 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB Ram.

Chief:

There is a missing function in Wine's implementation of riched20 that
prevents using PureEdge and Lotus Forms Viewers. You might be glad to
know that there is activity on fixing this. In the meantime, winetricks
riched20 is what you need to make this program work (maybe).

If you give me a download site, I would gladly test it on my Mac with
the current version of the patch I'm working on (with several others as
well.)

Contact me off-list if needed.

James McKenzie

chef · Post by **chef** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:15 am

James,

Thanks for the information. You can download the forms viewer from the following link:

http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/viewerdownload.asp

It's good to hear the it is being worked on. I'll give winetricks a shot and see what happens, otherwise I'll wait for the fix.

chef · Post by **chef** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:20 am

I tried applying riched20 but when I trying opening an xfdl file I get the following error:

unable to find or load a Rich Edit DLL.

Let me know if you better luck.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:51 am

I tried applying riched20 but when I trying opening an xfdl file I get the following error:

unable to find or load a Rich Edit DLL.

Chief:

I'll attempt to find out why this is not working this evening, if someone else here does not get to it first.

James McKenzie

chef · Post by **chef** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:00 am

Hopefully you figure out what is the problem.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:42 am

chef wrote:

Hopefully you figure out what is the problem.

The program started up, but the file I had crashed the program, and not
so neatly either. I'll have to grab a proper form today and test this
evening.

Hopefully, the fix a couple of us have been working on will be completed
this weekend and sent in to be evaluated and incorporated into the next
development version of Wine.

James McKenzie

chef · Post by **chef** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:35 am

Thanks for the update and your hard work!

chef · Post by **chef** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:18 pm

James,

Do you know if the fix was included in the latest update?

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:22 pm

From: chef <[email protected]>
Sent: Feb 21, 2010 12:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] Re: Lotus Forms Viewer 3.5

James,

Do you know if the fix was included in the latest update?

No it was not. A couple of us developers are working out how best to test the fix and to see if it needs more work.

James McKenzie

chef · Post by **chef** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:08 pm

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:37 pm

chef wrote:

Ok

One other thing. The program seems to like crashing without warning
when opening an Army supplied form and another XFDL form that I found.

I will continue to do testing and see if this is fixable.

James McKenzie

chef · Post by **chef** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:27 pm

if you need any other forms let me know

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:35 pm

chef wrote:

if you need any other forms let me know

Chief:

I get an error when I startup the program and the viewer 'magically'
closes when displaying the US Army's DA-31 (Leave and Pass Request).
This form does display cleanly on the same program in both WindowsXP and
Windows Vista.

James

chef · Post by **chef** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:20 pm

That's the problem I am having with the forms viewer, it would just crash. Thanks for working on a fix.

chef · Post by **chef** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:05 pm

Any luck?

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:40 pm

chef wrote:

Any luck?

None. I will keep on trying. The previous version did work just fine.
Maybe IBM broke it ?:) I'll also look at the fixes for Lotus Notes 6.5
as well. Been very busy lately.

James McKenzie

chef · Post by **chef** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:01 pm

Thanks for the effort!

chef · Post by **chef** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:08 am

any progress so far?

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:13 am

Subject: [Wine] Re: Lotus Forms Viewer 3.5

any progress so far?

Working on building 1.1.41 with Mike Kronenberg's build script. This has been a difficult process.

Also, my time is further constrained because I have to attend classes to get a certification so I can attempt to keep my present job.

James McKenzie

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:48 pm

chef wrote:

any progress so far?

None. As I've stated, my office uses the older Pure Edge Viewer. I
could not get a Department of the Army, nor a Standard Form to open in
the viewer.

My patches for the richedit function did not fix this.

James McKenzie

Kernel · Post by **Kernel** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:31 am

I have completed a beta for this program, and it is available: Here.