[ochinko]

Nice post, Paul.

It's great to be able to combine two passions - free software and bridge.

I am with BBO 4.50 (the special variant), WINE 0.9.1 on Kubuntu 5.10.

Petko

[FREDOL]

I am wine version 0.9.4 and BBO 4.5.6L. I have only one problem. Bidding windows and table scores windows displays false symbol ♠. Other symbols (♦, ♣, and ♥), display good. In chat windows symbol ♠ display good. File symbol.ttf is enabled font directory wine.
My linux system Fedora-Core4 language Polish. What to do this mistake? I can't resolve it.

Fredol

[pirity]

FREDOL, on Jan 4 2006, 07:25 AM, said:

I am wine version 0.9.4 and BBO 4.5.6L. I have only one problem. Bidding windows and table scores windows displays false symbol ♠. Other symbols (♦, ♣, and  ♥), display good. In chat windows symbol ♠ display good. File symbol.ttf is enabled font directory wine.
My linux system Fedora-Core4 language Polish. What to do this mistake? I can't resolve it.

Fredol

The same problem is here, debian sarge and its wine version used.

One more: i can open and see movie window, but if i click in it
(on Next button or on one of result-lines), then it's close itself; and
i can't see news neither.

PTG

PS: Maybe news doesn't work becouse of our proxy server at school,
if i don't install explorer (i don't want to), I don't know how to set up proxy in wine.

[Gerardo]

Have no clue about just ♠ symbol being wrong.

on proxy settings, please download install and register the MozControl as described earlier in the thread, then you should be able to just change the Mozilla proxy settings.

[xx1943]

Hi all

I'm new in the Linux-world, coze I'm so disappointed about Windows.

Can anyone tell me, if there is an Linux-version of the BBO-software now?

Many thanks

Sincerly

Al

[didier17]

read this topic, you have all to play BBO on Linux with Wine.
♥ good play

[Varange]

To answer the prev question:

No, there is no Linux native BBO software available. But the team at BBO have made some changes to the Windows version to enable it to run "under" the Windows emulator, WINE.

So now you can install WINE in your favorite Linux distribution, and then run BBO.

You'd need to be more specific about which distro you use to get any useful sort of help.

Also you may want to fire up your favorite IRC chat client, like XChat, and mosey over to #linuxhelp in Undernet. People there are extremely knowledgeable and are willing to help provided you can show that you've done your part in trying to solve the problem yourself.

As you may have guessed by now: Linux is a community effort and provided you know where to go and look for help, there's lots available.

Lastly, I'd like to add my voice to the happy Linux users saying thanks to Uday and the team for making a BBO version available that runs under WINE. Well done!

Varange

[TylerE]

Trying to get it to work under wine 0.9.5 under FreeBSD. Installer works great (other than some ugggggggggly fonts).

Here's what I get when I try to run the binary: (changes to bbover.ini made)

anthem% wine NetBridgeVu.exe
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not registered
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}, hres is 0x80040154

Then....nothing, no matter how long I let it sit there.

[Gerardo]

Did you install and register the MozControl?

[TylerE]

Update: I've gotten it to work quite well under Ubuntu Linux, Wine 0.9.6. Not quite flawless, but very, very, playable

[cherdano]

Not sure whether this is the right place to put this. Anyway, two problems with version 4.6.3 under Wine, one trivial, not not so trivial unfortunately:

1. The file bbover.ini gets overwritten with this update, so one has to reedit it as described above.
2. The display at the money bridge table is a bit buggy. It is buggy in exactly the same way as the display at BridgeMaster tables at earlier versions: The layout of the buttons at the bottom is messed up, they seem to be overlapping each other. Further, in one hand I saw only 9 cards in dummy after I lead his singleton suit. (The same has happened to me in BM.)

Of course, really the right place to report 2. would be at the WINE bug database, but that is a little difficult without knowing more details.

Arend

[Sigi_BC84]

FYI: VMWare is now giving away one of their server versions of the emulator software for free. I am running BBO inside Win XP inside VMWare and it works like a breeze.

So all of you having trouble or just being unhappy with running BBO under Wine should give VMWare a try (of course it requires you to have some Windows license in order to provide a legal solution).

I'm also planning to check how well BBO runs under ReactOS (a free Windows clone). If this happens to work out, BBO/VMWare/ReactOS will be a fine, completely free (as in beer) Linux solution.

--Sigi

[TrialBid]

All in all, I'm basically delighted with BBO under wine. Version 4.7.0 just arrived by autoupgrade. I continue to upgrade wine as new versions arrive. I'm at wine v 0.9.10. I install it via sourceforge rpm on Mandriva 2006.

(uday: discussion about money bridge moved to separate thread)

[datakid]

Hi, I'm trying to get bbo (4.7.0) working on ubuintu breezy with wine 0.9.1which was what came down when I apt got it.

A couple of things: yes, I've edited bboover.ini, and yes, I've found and put in place symbol.ttf.

can't find a copy of the *VU.zip - it seesms to have been moved.

this is the out put I got from

sudo wine bbo_setup.exe


musicman@dumpling:~/Desktop$ sudo wine bbo_setup.exe
musicman@dumpling:~/Desktop$ fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_SETFONT: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_SETFONT: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_SETFONT: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_SETFONT: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
err:menubuilder:extract_icon32 LoadLibraryExW (L"c:\\Bridge Base Online\\BridgeVu.hlp")
failed, error 193
err:menubuilder:ExtractFromICO Invalid ico file format
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to fork and exec wineshelllink
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_SETFONT: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGED: stub
fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc WM_STYLECHANGING: stub


This is the first time I've ever used wine, so I've no idea what it means.
any ideas? Any pointers?

cheers

[Gerardo]

please DO NOT execute wine as root, drop the sudo

executable is called NetBridgeVu.exe

It is located in "C:\Bridge Base Online\NetBridgeVu.exe" unless you choose a different path. so 'wine "C:\\Bridge Base Online\\NetBridgeVu.exe"' will work.
That usually translates to "~/.wine/Bridge Base Online/NetBridgeVu.exe", so 'wine
"~/.wine/Bridge Base Online/NetBridgeVu.exe" should work too.

All the stub lines show that specific function is not implemented (yet) in Wine.

[TrialBid]

As Gerardo said, don't try running wine as root (sudo)! Very bad!

Quote

Hi, I'm trying to get bbo (4.7.0) working on ubuintu breezy with wine 0.9.1which was what came down when I apt got it.

You may also want to add to synaptic the following repository so that you can keep up with the latest wine (currently 0.9.11): deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/

More complete instructions are at http://winehq.org/site/download-deb

There's a new wine release nearly every month and the progress in stability, reliability, attractiveness, and compatibility has been modestly dramatic.

Running under the newest wine, you'll be offered a chance to download the mozcontrol and have it automatically installed. I suggest you wait until the control is installed before leaving the opening BBO page.

[datakid]

hanks for your tips - I'm no longer as root

I can now get it to start, but it sort of hanged on "updating convention cards" or "updating profile"....

So then I updated to wine 0.9.12 using ubutu breezy's system update, and now on it crashes on the "updating convention cards" window...

this is the output:
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} could be created for for context 0x7
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}, hres is 0x80040154fixme:msvcrt:MSVCRT__sopen : pmode 0x01b4 ignored
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000010 at address 0x582aa9 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
WineDbg starting on pid 0x8
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000010 in 32-bit code (0x00582aa9).
fixme:dbghelp:sffip_cb NIY on 'd:\cvssource\bboclient\release\fredsoft.pdb'
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:1007 GS:0033
EIP:00582aa9 ESP:7fb05098 EBP:7fb050ac EFLAGS:00010202( - 00 - -RI1)
EAX:00000000 EBX:7f85d66c ECX:ffffffff EDX:7fd70024
ESI:00000000 EDI:00000000
Stack dump:
0x7fb05098: 00010024 0057c36d 00000000 00000000
0x7fb050a8: 00010024 7fb0f854 004c6cb5 00000000
0x7fb050b8: 00595760 0000011f 00000000 00010024
0x7fb050c8: 00000051 9beded52 ed490000 0000eded
0x7fb050d8: 009bed00 aced9b00 ed000000 520000ac
0x7fb050e8: 0049eded 00a3a300 7fb050bc f7000052
0200: sel=1007 base=7fec2000 limit=00001fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>1 0x00582aa9 in netbridgevu (+0x182aa9) (0x00582aa9)
2 0x004c6cb5 in netbridgevu (+0xc6cb5) (0x004c6cb5)
3 0x0052ea2c in netbridgevu (+0x12ea2c) (0x0052ea2c)
4 0x7f83be5a WINPROC_wrapper+0x1a in user32 (0x7f83be5a)
5 0x7f83caa6 in user32 (+0x8caa6) (0x7f83caa6)
6 0x7f83ff5a CallWindowProcA+0x7a in user32 (0x7f83ff5a)
7 0x7f80f4f2 DispatchMessageA+0x172 in user32 (0x7f80f4f2)
8 0x004359b2 in netbridgevu (+0x359b2) (0x004359b2)
9 0x0057ff81 in netbridgevu (+0x17ff81) (0x0057ff81)
10 0x7fcdcfaf in kernel32 (+0x4cfaf) (0x7fcdcfaf)
11 0xb7f7a617 wine_switch_to_stack+0x17 in libwine.so.1 (0xb7f7a617)
0x00582aa9: pushl 0x10(%esi)
Usage:
winedbg [ [ --gdb ] [ prog-name [ prog-args ] | <num> | file.mdmp | --help ]

Any ideas?

[Gerardo]

Please try earlier versions of Wine. Does it work with them?

[ochinko]

Run winecfg if you have it, and add atl.dll in the libraries that are searched for native first. Prior to that you should of course put atl.dll in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/. You can find it on the net searching for "free dlls".

This and the
regsvr32 mozctlx
are two of the three critical things to do. The third is editing the bbover.ini file. And the symbol.ttf, of course, helps.

[Gerardo]

If you register mozctlx, atl.dll is not needed.
But you need to put BROWSER_TYPE=C
in [SYSTEM] section in bbover.ini

But ochinko is right, looks like that step is missed (search earlier posts on the thread for MozControl)