Paul, I was recently (Wednesday!) in contact with someone who has got VFP5 running - he had mouse problems but might have a solution, or might have a different problem and know the solution to yours. Would it be acceptable for me to copy your posting to him and pass on your email address?

RJL

>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