[F6driver]

frodrick, on Jun 4 2006, 02:28 PM, said:

managed to sort bar at bottom by changing view form widescreen in BBO Lobby

However now discovered that ♣♦♥♠ sybols dont work despite symbols.ttf being in the required directory

Any Ides?

Regard

Frodrick

I am happy to report that I have BBO up and running!
For what its worth, this is what I did:
Switched from PCLinuxOS to Ubuntu 5.10
(no offense...just could NOT get PCLinuxOS to work....could not get past the news window)
So I switched over to UBUNTU
Putting symbol, verdana, & arial ttf's in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
installed mozcontrol.tgz and registered the mozctlx.dll
I ran the BBO_INSTALL.EXE, edited bbover.in so LINUX_WINE=Y and BROWSER_TYPE=C

My command line to start BBO is wine "C:\\Bridge Base Online\\NetBridgeVu.exe"

Everything worked except I could not see the symbols (-c, -d, -h, -s) in chat or in the bidding window
The answer was somehow permissions for the symbol folder in truetype directory, and the file symbol.ttf were not set to allow reading. I used sudo to change permissions allowing all to read them now.

Then it all worked....for about an hour of playing, then my system started locking up and I barely got it to do a reboot.

Now I'm here looking for a post that I hope will solve/prevent the memory leak that I believe is happening.

Thanks to everyone's input to these forums....without them this newbie would be lost in biblical proportion.

I think I need to change my command line to ' ulimit -m200000&& wine "C:\\Bridge Base Online\\NetBridgeVu.exe" '
and I am looking for confirmation, or a correction.

and finally....my thanks to Gerardo for your previous help.

Richard

[frodrick]

My friend told me how to change permissions and the sybols now work

I havent tried running BBO for long due to what was said about memory leaks, Im using Kubuntu 6.06 rather than 5.10 would that help matters?

Thanks all for your help, really would be lost otherwise

Regards

Frodrick

[F6driver]

I don't know what the differences are between each flavor of Linux and how well wine works in each.
Ubuntu/wine does have a leaky stick tho, that I can say for certain.
Maybe Kubuntu doesn't have the problem, it is a KDE based os rather than Gnome.
Play BBO for a couple hours, then come and tell us if you had any problem.

[frodrick]

Thanks F6driver, fraid to say i wont get a chance to play BBO for a long time till the weekend but thanks for yours and everyones time

I will post at weekend telling you if i get the leaks

Regards

Frodrick

[frodrick]

Hi all

Finally got round to playing BBO

I found it so sluggish i ended up booting back into windows

is this normall?

My PC is an athlon XP2500+ 512MB RAm so dont think thats the prob

Regards

Frodrick

[F6driver]

Well, it sounds like it is working then.
I suggest you tweak the table a little. That is, turn of things like FANCY card pictures, and by all means, turn off card animation!
It does play a lot faster with the card animation turned off.

[frodrick]

Yeh thats helped

Also foudn reducing number of sound helped as well

Still not great but very usable

Thanks all for your help

Regards

Frodrick

[TrialBid]

This thread has fallen silent for a while--probably because we are mostly satisfied users now of BBO under linux. However, I have noticed what seems to be a regression introduced either in BBO 4.8.3 or in wine 0.9.17 or later--I had upgraded to both of those before I noticed it. The News screen pops up as always but on linux it is now blank. I've verified that links still load in Firefox (Windows version/installed and running under wine also). I've also noticed that the news window is blank even when it should contain text. (I'd first thought it was a problem displaying the Money Bridge graphic that is sometimes the opening screen.)

Does this ring any bells for anyone? If not, I can try experimenting with older versions, try modifying the ini file browser setting, etc.

[cherdano]

It works fine here. Are you sure you reset LINUX_WINE=Y etc. in the .ini-file? (I am not saying you are stupid enough to forget this, it's just that I have been exactly that a couple of times...)

[TrialBid]

Yes, LINUX_WINE=Y is still set. I looked at that first because early on after the linux branch was created, the automatic updater, in rewriting the .ini file, overwrote that flag. That problem, I saw, was fixed a version or two ago. Indeed, I have continued to try (last time, I think, was with wine 0.9.16) running LINUX_WINE=N--just in case the wine developers finally get the compatibility issues resolved that caused the need for the flag in the first place.

[TrialBid]

Perhaps uday or others may want to weigh in on the fine points, but, remarkably, I find with BBO version 4.9.9 and wine 0.9.25, BBO seems to work marvelously well even when set to LINUX_WINE=N. That, of course, is where we all wanted to be for the sake of both BBO and wine.

What's more, it seems to run even better under wine than under Windows. I have two machines of similar horsepower where I run BBO. It definitely seems snappier on the linux machine than on the Win2K machine.

The only deficiency I've noticed so far is that the advertising banner in the upper right on the blue background is missing when running under wine.

[TrialBid]

A few more notes about 4.9.9 running under wine. There is also no ad appearing to the right of the chat area while running under wine. And I see that the Chat/Tourney/Tables/Lobby buttons seem to be stacked single-file as they used to be. In Windows, when the ads appear below them, the buttons are now in two columns.

Possibly related to my post back on Aug 23, I see that clicking on an ad in BBO under Windows opens an Internet Explorer browser. This is despite my default being Firefox--a fact that is elsewhere recognized in the BBO software, for example, if you hover over a link in chat it says "click to visit this site with your default browser" and does just that if you do.

So there was some combination of BBO prior to 4.8.3 or so and wine prior to 0.9.20 or so where the news window worked--perhaps because IE functions weren't being invoked? Getting a blank where IE may be involved is a characteristic that appears to be in the latest version as well.

If I figure anything else out, I'll post again. If anyone else has some great wisdom to share, I'm all ears!

[barmar]

What do you have BROWSER_TYPE set to? I don't think ads can be displayed if it's C or E, as the ad display uses the IE renderer.

I believe this also explains why clicking on an ad brings up an IE browser -- since the ad is being rendered by IE internally, it stays there when following links.

[uday]

When the browser type is E, the bbo client uses the default (external) browser when it needs one, and doesnt try to use an embedded browser (no news, no ads, no embedded windows for, say, help-me-find-a-game). Then again, that isnt the worst thing in the world.

When linux_wine is set to Y, the way the client does its network i/o with the server changes subtly. Not a big thing , but we find we need to do this to make it work at all in Wine. For all we know it is a bug in our original network code.

I think Gerardo once said that the only way to see the news window under linux was to install the mozilla control that mimicked the IE control. I also vaguely recall him saying that that wasnt needed in recent versions. Maybe he'll clarify.

[Gerardo]

Recent (not sure starting when, I think 0.9.19 or so) versions of Wine implement MSHTML using Gecko, so yes, it works for the ads.

Also, it works for me on 0.9.25 without LINUX_WINE=Y.
Money tables bottom bar looks OK, too.

It fails on me at play time, though (an assert fails).
Ubuntu feisty, x86, WineHQ package for edgy.

[TrialBid]

This is starting to feel like a mystery wrapped in an enigma. It seemingly matters not what BROWSER_TYPE is set to or whether LINUX_WINE is Y or N. Links from chat open in the wine-installed Firefox even for BROWSER_TYPE=A. And no ads in any configuration for me. Is there somewhere else that the new BBO can get configuration information, the registry perhaps?

Fwiw, too, Gerardo, I can play just fine. No failing asserts, etc. Mandriva 2007 on i586, wine-0.9.25 rpm as built by Ivan Leo Puoti from sourceforge.net.

[michalxo]

hey! it works for me too )
thx for help
wine 0.9.24 + installed thru wine bbo_setup.exe and I added /usr/share/fonts/truetype/symbol/symbol.ttf
and it works!

4♠ with ya all

[didier17]

Version 5.0.3 work fine on Kubuntu Edgy whith wine 0.9.24.

I am not sure for 0.9.25 with the newest version (0.9.26 to now 0.9.29), BBO crash!
I try to report the bugg to winehq.

[barmar]

I just checked the version of WINE in CrossOver Mac 6.0rc2, and it's 0.9.17. I don't know whether the version in the released version of CrossOver Mac that came out this week is newer -- I'm using this on my computer at work, and I'm waiting to hear whether the company plans on buying this or Parallels for us before I shell out money on my own.

[didier17]

Sorry for the last post

It's work out of the box with wine 0.9.29 after removing .wine directory and a new installation. Only need font symbol.ttf.

I need to resize the full screen at start with option and after it's too good.