Getting SoundSlides to work?

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:14 pm

I am a professional journalist and I use Linux as my main operating system (edit: on my laptop. This is a personal computer, otherwise I would ask the IT guys at work). I want to install a program called Soundslides under WINE but when I attempt to do so, I cannot see the text involved with the program.

SoundSlides has a quick demo download. The demo is free. I don't know if anyone has an idea of what could possibly be wrong. I'd be eternally grateful if someone could figure out what is wrong.

My husband seems to think that I am missing a DLL. If everything else in the program works but the text, I can't help but think it's a quick fix. If I knew more I would fix it myself.

Thank you for your time.

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:39 pm

Hi, i tried the demo, but i don't see any missing text, where exactly is the text missing? Have you compiled wine yourself? If not, what distro/package do you use? If yes, did you check you had all the prerequisites installed (like freetype etc)

In the end maybe a simple "wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks && sh winetricks corefonts" might do the trick, but as i said, it seems to work without that fine here. good luck

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:50 pm

I am using wine version 1.1.1. I didn't compile this myself. IIRC I used wget to install.

I'll wait a bit to see if you respond and then I'll give your suggestion a try. Thanks!

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:24 pm

OK I tried the fonts trick you suggested and it still doesn't work. I took a screen shot of what it looks like on my Windows computer and outlined what my problem is on the Linux box:

The text that is circled I cannot see on my Linux box with Wine (though I do see the buttons). Also, almost any other text I also cannot see, like the user agreement text. The text below the circle I can see fine. But the text below the JPG box, I cannot see. When it loads photos, I can't see the progress text underneath.

Thanks.

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:18 pm

Hi, on my computer i can see that text just fine (using the demo) . Are you using any native dlls?

Maybe you could try install on a new and fresh ~/.wine (like fresh install in another directory like WINEPREFIX=/tmp/garbage wine SoundslidesPlusInstaller.exe , and then run the app .

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:20 pm

qwertymn wrote:Hi, on my computer i can see that text just fine (using the demo) . Are you using any native dlls?

Maybe you could try install on a new and fresh ~/.wine (like fresh install in another directory like WINEPREFIX=/tmp/garbage wine SoundslidesPlusInstaller.exe , and then run the app .

To be honest, this is a fresh install of WINE. About a month ago I inherited this comp from my husband, who upgraded. I hate Vista so I installed Ubuntu to try something that didn't use all of my resources.

I installed WINE about two weeks ago. This is the first program I've used in WINE, so it wouldn't break my heart to uninstall it and install again. I'll give this a shot though and see what happens.

Thanks.

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:27 pm

Still doesn't work.

You all must tire of newbie questions, because I really only know enough to be dangerous. If someone could point me toward something to read on how to fix it I gladly would, I just hope it won't take days of independent research to figure it out.

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:29 pm

maybe someone else on ubuntu could give the demo a try to see if he/she gets the same problem, then we'd know if it's due to the ubuntu package (i'm on fedora 9 with wine compiled from source).

If everything fails, i'd suggest to compile wine from source, if that's not too much trouble at least

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:33 pm

OK I'll try compiling from the source. I have no idea how much trouble that actually is but I suppose I'll find out

EDIT: Maybe I'll wait a bit and see how this plays out for a bit

EDIT: And I used the add/remove applications to install my version of Wine 1.1.1

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:36 pm

I'm using 1.1.1, openSUSE packages, and I can't see the text either.

qwertymn--what version of Wine are you using?

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:43 pm

Here is another picture if that helps:

While on my Linux box.

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:52 pm

I just tried with the latest git, and the problem is still there. What I see matches the screenshot.

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:31 pm

Here's a note from the developer when I asked him about this issue:

Thanks for the screenshots. This *really* seems like a missing font issue to me. All of the missing text is rendered via the same font (coded as "_sans" which should target to your default sans-serif system font).

I seem to recall that missing "msttcorefonts" on Ubuntu would cause font outline issues with Flash Player (which is a dependency for Soundslides).

I've downloaded the fonts but the problem remains. Hrm...

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:11 am

I have the fonts, too. After reading your last post, I also installed flash player, and verified it was working. The text still doesn't display.

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:05 am

hmm, so i wonder what's different on my system, here's what i see:
[img]/tmp/80.jpg[/img]

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:12 am

err, i mean (hope this works now)

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:34 am

hmm, so i wonder what's different on my system

That's what I'm wondering. My system:

Wine 1.1.1
openSUSE 10.3, 32 bit
KDE 3.5.9
nVidia Quadro 210s (onboard), 169.12 driver

When I ran the installer, I got a slew of messages like this in the console at the point where the EULA was supposed to appear:

fixme:mlang:fnIMLangFontLink_GetStrCodePages (pszSrc=L"oftware's proprietary notices. \00a0", cchSrc=32, dwPriorityCodePages=1073742335) stub
fixme:mlang:fnIMLangFontLink_GetStrCodePages (pszSrc=L"ftware's proprietary notices. \00a0", cchSrc=31, dwPriorityCodePages=1073742335) stub
fixme:mlang:fnIMLangFontLink_GetStrCodePages (pszSrc=L"tware's proprietary notices. \00a0", cchSrc=30, dwPriorityCodePages=1073742335) stub
fixme:mlang:fnIMLangFontLink_GetStrCodePages (pszSrc=L"ware's proprietary notices. \00a0", cchSrc=29, dwPriorityCodePages=1073742335) stub

This is just a sample--the full output was much longer. It looked like the there was a fixme of this type for every letter in the EULA. Did you see anything like that when you installed?

Running the installed program, this is what I get in the console:

dimesio@linux-95tw:~> WINEPREFIX=/home/dimesio/test3 wine 'C:\Program Files\Soundslides\Soundslides Plus.exe'
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {56fdf344-fd6d-11d0-958a-006097c9a090} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {56fdf344-fd6d-11d0-958a-006097c9a090} could be created for context 0x1
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {56fdf344-fd6d-11d0-958a-006097c9a090} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {56fdf344-fd6d-11d0-958a-006097c9a090} could be created for context 0x1
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:Binding_GetBindResult (0x19a550)->(0x32cb74 0x32cb88 0x32cb90 (nil))
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:secur32:schan_FreeCredentialsHandle (0x94e2d8): stub
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:ObtainUserAgentString (0, 0x32e923, 0x32e91c): stub
fixme:urlmon:ObtainUserAgentString (0, 0xc210d0, 0x32e91c): stub
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:urlmon:CreateURLMonikerEx ignoring flag URL_MK_UNIFORM
fixme:wininet:InternetLockRequestFile STUB
fixme:urlmon:Binding_GetBindResult (0xc1ed40)->(0x32f2d0 0x32f2e4 0x32f2ec (nil))

How does that compare to your console output?

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:49 am

Qwertymn, what versions of everything are you running? My system is so new I could do just about anything to it and be OK.

EDIT: When I run the program, the console does nothing. I don't run programs from the console though, so if you do that might be different. But since we have the same problem, I assume you're talking to qwerrtymn.

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:12 am

Kinare, what are your system specs?

Kinare · Post by **Kinare** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:24 am

Wine 1.1.1
Ubuntu 8.04
Intel GMA 950 Graphics card (Asus F3F laptop)

As I said before I literally just got this computer about a month ago, and I really haven't had the time to do much to it.

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:48 am

Kinare wrote: Ubuntu 8.04

32 or 64 bit?

Usurp · Post by **Usurp** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:17 pm

dimesio@linux-95tw:~> WINEPREFIX=/home/dimesio/test3 wine 'C:\Program Files\Soundslides\Soundslides Plus.exe'

did you try to cd to its directory first ?

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:31 pm

>Qwertymn, what versions of everything are you running? My system is so new I >could do just about anything to it and be OK.

uname -r
2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686

wine --version
wine-1.1.1-191-g5798b95

gnome 2.22.3

@dimisio: i get the same console output as you. so that doesn't help much to solve the issue...

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:07 pm

Usurp wrote: did you try to cd to its directory first ?

Yes; it makes no difference. There has to be something that Kinare's system and mine have in common that is different on qwertymn's.

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:08 pm

qwertymn wrote:>
wine --version
wine-1.1.1-191-g5798b95

That's what I have from git, which doesn't work for me either, so it's not a case of something being patched in the last few days.

qwertymn--what fonts do you have installed on your system? Do you have any fonts in Wine's windows/fonts directory?