Forte Agent windowing problem

[Dave Farrance]

Forte Agent newsreader on Wine 1.0 on Mandriva 2008.1.

If I close Agent and then re-open it, its inner newsreader pane becomes
dislodged as a floating section in a scrollable window. The following
image (size 29k) shows what I mean. The top image is before closing and
the lower image is after re-opening.

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk26 ... /agent.png

This happens if it's fullscreen or in a smaller window. I can restore
the normal view by carefully clicking two times on the third innermost of
the restore-window buttons in the top righthand corner.

This problem did not occur with Wine 0.9.20 in Mandriva 2007, but when I
upgraded to Mandriva 2008.1 and Wine 0.9.58 then I found this problem. I
tried Wine 1.0 from the Wine HQ and that had the same problem. I tried
Agent versions 3.2 and 3.3 with the same results.

Fortunately, I could install the old Wine 0.9.20 from Mandriva 2007 into
Mandriva 2008.1 and that worked fine, so my immediate problem is solved.

It would be nice to know why recent version of Wine have this effect on
Agent, though. Has anybody else seen this effect? Any suggestions for
fixes? I'll try debugging it if somebody suggests how.

--
Dave Farrance

[David Gerard]

2008/6/26 Dave Farrance <[email protected]>:

This problem did not occur with Wine 0.9.20 in Mandriva 2007, but when I
upgraded to Mandriva 2008.1 and Wine 0.9.58 then I found this problem. I
tried Wine 1.0 from the Wine HQ and that had the same problem. I tried
Agent versions 3.2 and 3.3 with the same results.
Fortunately, I could install the old Wine 0.9.20 from Mandriva 2007 into
Mandriva 2008.1 and that worked fine, so my immediate problem is solved.
It would be nice to know why recent version of Wine have this effect on
Agent, though. Has anybody else seen this effect? Any suggestions for
fixes? I'll try debugging it if somebody suggests how.

http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

It's somewhat laborious (a cycle of
compile-test-compile-test-compile-test), but it lets you nail
*precisely* what broke the app, so you can write a very good bug
report.


- d.

[mareich]

It was interesting to see your posting, because I think I'm seeing the same behavior with Forte Agent 3.2 under Wine on OSX (Mac). I am running Tiger (OSX 10.4.11) with DarWine 0.9.53. At first, I thought the window looked strange with the extra scroll bar on the right side, but your description and screen shots seem to be the same thing. I'm new to Wine, so haven't used previous versions to compare. In my case, this behavior occurs as soon as I open Agent the first time.

Forte Agent newsreader on Wine 1.0 on Mandriva 2008.1.

If I close Agent and then re-open it, its inner newsreader pane becomes
dislodged as a floating section in a scrollable window. The following
image (size 29k) shows what I mean. The top image is before closing and
the lower image is after re-opening.

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk26 ... /agent.png

This happens if it's fullscreen or in a smaller window. I can restore
the normal view by carefully clicking two times on the third innermost of
the restore-window buttons in the top righthand corner.

This problem did not occur with Wine 0.9.20 in Mandriva 2007, but when I
upgraded to Mandriva 2008.1 and Wine 0.9.58 then I found this problem. I
tried Wine 1.0 from the Wine HQ and that had the same problem. I tried
Agent versions 3.2 and 3.3 with the same results.

Fortunately, I could install the old Wine 0.9.20 from Mandriva 2007 into
Mandriva 2008.1 and that worked fine, so my immediate problem is solved.

It would be nice to know why recent version of Wine have this effect on
Agent, though. Has anybody else seen this effect? Any suggestions for
fixes? I'll try debugging it if somebody suggests how.

--
Dave Farrance