I see that there are no references to Microsoft Photodraw in the database and I can find only one request for help which seems to have gone unanswered.
I have Photodraw 2000 installed via Wine and I can open it without problem however, when I select an image or even a blank page, NOTHING at all appears in the editor screen so I have nothing to work on.
When I installed it I also found an installation problem in Ubuntu Karmic. The default path of /Program Files/ Microsoft Office/Office/ didn't work for me. The terminal kept telling me that there was no such file as Program. It seemed stall at having a space between "Program" and "Files".
I eventually installed it in a new path of /Program/Microsoft/ to avoid spaces. This worked but I wonder if in doing so, have I created the "blank editor" problem?
Anyone have any ideas?
Photodraw 2000 & Karmic Terminal Problem
What version of Wine? (You can make sure by running wine --version.) If anything older than 1.1.41, try upgrading.
As for the spaces problem, you said the terminal told you there was no "Program" path... Do you mean as an error from the installer's terminal input, or when you tried entering a path yourself? When you're entering a path you'll need to use double quotes around your path to be able to use spaces in path names.
As for the spaces problem, you said the terminal told you there was no "Program" path... Do you mean as an error from the installer's terminal input, or when you tried entering a path yourself? When you're entering a path you'll need to use double quotes around your path to be able to use spaces in path names.
Wine version
Yes Wine is version 1.1.41 which I installed yesterday. This was my first try using Wine so I downloaded the latest from the Winehq site. On the Config file it shows 1.1.41 on the About tab.
As for the "Program" problem, I tried simply to navigate to the pre-installed Wine directories in terminal ie. ~/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Office/PHOTODRAW.EXE but I could get no further than ~/Program and it didn't recognise ~/Program Files as it stopped as soon as it saw the space after ~/Program before the word "Files". I hope that makes sense!
When I enetered my own path [ Photodraw allowed me to enter a different location for the prog] I used ~/Program/Microsoft/ and it set it up for me. The location of the prog is now therefore ~/Program/Microsoft/Office/PHOTODRAW.EXE and like that it opens without problem and has put the logo in the Ubuntu Wine, Programs list but as I say, when I try to use it, the editor screen remains empty. I have been using Photodraw for years soat least I know how that works and it performs flawlessly in Windows XP but sadly on Ubuntu...........
As for the "Program" problem, I tried simply to navigate to the pre-installed Wine directories in terminal ie. ~/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Office/PHOTODRAW.EXE but I could get no further than ~/Program and it didn't recognise ~/Program Files as it stopped as soon as it saw the space after ~/Program before the word "Files". I hope that makes sense!
When I enetered my own path [ Photodraw allowed me to enter a different location for the prog] I used ~/Program/Microsoft/ and it set it up for me. The location of the prog is now therefore ~/Program/Microsoft/Office/PHOTODRAW.EXE and like that it opens without problem and has put the logo in the Ubuntu Wine, Programs list but as I say, when I try to use it, the editor screen remains empty. I have been using Photodraw for years soat least I know how that works and it performs flawlessly in Windows XP but sadly on Ubuntu...........
Re: Wine version
Two things here:dede468 wrote:Yes Wine is version 1.1.41 which I installed yesterday. This was my first try using Wine so I downloaded the latest from the Winehq site. On the Config file it shows 1.1.41 on the About tab.
As for the "Program" problem, I tried simply to navigate to the pre-installed Wine directories in terminal ie. ~/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Office/PHOTODRAW.EXE but I could get no further than ~/Program and it didn't recognise ~/Program Files as it stopped as soon as it saw the space after ~/Program before the word "Files". I hope that makes sense!
1) Apps aren't installed to ~. ~ is $HOME which is /home/username/. Wine installs its apps in "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files" (which is "/home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program Files").
Try this to navigate to the path properly:
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cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft/Office/"
wine PHOTODRAW.EXEGetting the app to install and run in the expected path like this *might* actually make it work.
Apps location
Yes, sorry I simply abbreviated it to show the difference between /Program Files/ and /Program/
I had in fact used the full path you mentioned as otherwise I could not possibly have found anything at all.
What I hadn't done was to use the quotes. Nevertheless, installing it in the original path setup by Wine makes no difference whatever. I can open Photodraw but the editor pane remains blank when I open a new page or an image, so nothing has changed.
I had in fact used the full path you mentioned as otherwise I could not possibly have found anything at all.
What I hadn't done was to use the quotes. Nevertheless, installing it in the original path setup by Wine makes no difference whatever. I can open Photodraw but the editor pane remains blank when I open a new page or an image, so nothing has changed.
Re: Apps location
Console output?dede468 wrote:Yes, sorry I simply abbreviated it to show the difference between /Program Files/ and /Program/
I had in fact used the full path you mentioned as otherwise I could not possibly have found anything at all.
What I hadn't done was to use the quotes. Nevertheless, installing it in the original path setup by Wine makes no difference whatever. I can open Photodraw but the editor pane remains blank when I open a new page or an image, so nothing has changed.
