>Found the XP but it was bad. Eventually made do with the same W7 I had before, built a new C: for it, installed... and now can't be bothered to install VFP9 afresh, as most of the things already work as is. It's just that when I try to run Thor, it complains of a library not installed when trying to access _vfp.projects[]. Oh, well.
>And now to do something about fonts. I've set almost all of the controls to use linux fonts, looked really nice. Aaah. Life is hard.

I posted the question of forcing the codepage 1252 on wineHq, and after two weeks there was no response. And the window behavior actually got worse. So far it was that any time when intellisense could have come up, the focus would shift to the next window, so typing in a code window would suddenly switch to command window (from which I could just copy and paste back into code), or, worse, in document view or PEM window, where it would not be taken at all. Since this last update, I've found that some key combinations (didn't bother to memorize them) switch to the next VFP app running under wine, of which I may have two or three open. This now makes wine pretty much unusable for VFP - good for them that they've achieved high degree of WoW compatibility, for which they are to be commended. Too bad they also fixed so many things that were previously working.

I do have a W7 virtual now, and I do open it from time to time, but that's just as cumbersome - several mechanisms that I developed meanwhile, are not available in a virtual W7. That's where the apps would connect to the host machine (like accepting a filename in „file:///full/path/here“ format, or exporting into postgres by calling psql via shellexecute() (the trick to this is to have a shell script in a file with extension .exe :), calling gimp on a filename etc etc) and a bunch of other things.

So, to make life interesting and things more simple, the plan is to gradually redo all three or four of these apps in python/Dabo.