Hi Paul,

that is too cool! Amazing -- I've checked the Wine compatibility list for a couple of years, waiting... I had no hope, and yet you're so close! Amazing.

Folks may not realize the significance of this to the VFP market: this opens up a huge and growing market for VFP applications, in places where Linux is now the OS of choice.

If/when you get the mouse issue fixed, that would be worth a news notice here, for sure.

Good work, good luck,

Hank

>Hi,
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>I've gotten VFP7 (IDE and runtime) to run successfully under Linux using Wine. See my screenshot at:
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>http://www.paulmcnett.com/vfp/vfp7wine.html
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>However, there is still a showstopper. If I click with the mouse into certain controls (textbox, editbox, report designer object, and possibly others) vfp appears to enter a race condition and I'm forced to kill the process manually.
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>I'll be gathering my notes and preparing an article on this topic over the next few months... some tweaking of the Wine config files was required and manual setup is needed (copying files). I was able to use ODBC as well as local DBF tables, and all my custom apps ran fine with no modifications.
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>I need to bone up on Wine development so that I can get the mouse problem fixed. We can't very well tell our customers to not use the mouse... If anyone here knows how to do Wine debugging and is interested in getting VFP working with it, please contact me - perhaps we can work together.
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>Besides the mouse problem I mentioned, everything else I tested worked just fine with minor and acceptable display differences.
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>Deploying VFP apps to linux will be a possibility once the mouse issue is surmounted. Again, if anyone here has Wine development or debugging experience, please contact me so I can move to the next step.
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>Thanks
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>--Paul