Drop down menus lock up wine

Sound1 · Post by **Sound1** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:38 am

For various reasons I decided to use wine to operate Quickbooks 8.1 the Australian version. This was working beautifully up until last week.

Now I have a problem with the drop down menus. When I click on them to show account info etc, they drop down then disappear. Sometimes they lock Quickbooks up and I have to force quit it.

It all started when I was moving down to the bottom of pages with the mouse or clicking on the arrows, down or up. (technical talk) Then everything freezes. Again force quit.

I don't understand. It was working flawlessly.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. Installed wine from Add/Remove Apps etc.

Anyone have any ideas? Cheers.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:01 am

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Sound1 <[email protected]> wrote:

For various reasons I decided to use wine to operate Quickbooks 8.1
the Australian version.

What version of Wine is it, i.e. what does wine --version say?
If it doesn't say wine-0.9.59 or higher, you probably want to update;
see http://winehq.org/site/download-deb

Sound1 · Post by **Sound1** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:11 pm

Thanks Dan.

It was an older version of wine. Funny though. It was a clean install and just did it through add and remove.

I presumed it would download the latest version of wine.

Tested Quickbooks. Seems to be working ok.

Thanks again.

Sound1 · Post by **Sound1** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:29 am

I recently updated my machine to latest intel.

Running Ubuntu 8.04. Wine 1.1.3

Menus still lock up when get to the bottom. Screen goes greyed out.

Does it matter about the 64bit chip and Quickbooks not being 64bit?

Any ideas?

Stu