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I am testing CrossOver Mac and my motivation is the possibility of using the Scientific Word 5.5 Latex editor under Mac OSX. I have been able to install it without any problem in a XP bootle and I can start it and it seems usable. But, a very annoying problem makes it not very useful: when I scroll the screen using the mouse or the keyboard arrows, I can see the cursor and the small vertical barr move towards the bottom of the document but the screen continues to show the first part of the document, without scrolling towards the bottom of it. Which dll manages this kind of operations? Can I correct this problem by transferring it from my PC with a legal XP licence?
I have also not been able to register SW on line, using the integrated registration tool. This is not a real problem, since I can register it by mail, once it becomes usable.

If I can solve this problem, Crossover would merit its price for me, and I will definitely buy it. Otherwise, it is not useful for me.
I hope that you will be able to help me.

Very cordially,

Murat

Hi,

I tried the demo of this with CXO-9.0 and confirm the issue you mention.

I just tried wine-1.1.40 with the demo as well -- installing gdiplus using
winetricks seems to help the scrolling issue somewhat - I wouldn't say it's
perfect, but at least it tries to scroll like this.

The equivalent in crossover would be to ;

grab the gdiplus.dll from the following microsoft pack -> WindowsXP-KB975337-x86-ENU.exe
copy the gdiplus.dll file into your bottle's drive_c/windows/system32 directory
*use wincfg to set a library over for gdiplus.dll to load the native library

The gdiplus stuff is still WIP as far as I recall...see;

http://wiki.winehq.org/GdiPlus?highlight=%28gdiplus%29

Hope this helps...

Cheers!

Thank you very much Don,
I do not have the CD with me now, but I will check it as soon as I can.
I must admit that I have not understood all operations you indicate, but I hope to be able to accomplish them by trial and error. If not, I hope that you could give me more indications on the last two operations.

Best regards,

Murat

yildi wrote:

Thank you very much Don,
I do not have the CD with me now, but I will check it as soon as I
can.
I must admit that I have not understood all operations you indicate,
but I hope to be able to accomplish them by trial and error. If not,
I hope that you could give me more indications on the last two
operations.

Best regards,

Murat

Hi,

You would copy the gdiplus.dll into the following location (where [bottle_name] is the name
of the bottle you have sw5.5 installed into);

/Library/Application Support/Crossover Office/Bottles/[bottle_name]/drive_c/windows/system32/

You can start winecfg following this page;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/crossover-mac/controlpanel

Once winecfg is started, click on the 'Libraries' tab. Enter gdiplus.dll into the string box,
click add, highlight the gdiplus entry, click edit, change it to 'native', click ok, click apply,
quit winecfg. If you get stuck, post back here ;)

Cheers!

Thank you again Don,
These operations look quite simple indeed.
I would report back when I get my hands on the CD.

Best regards,

Murat

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You would copy the gdiplus.dll into the following location (where
[bottle_name] is the name
of the bottle you have sw5.5 installed into);

/Library/Application Support/Crossover
Office/Bottles/[bottle_name]/drive_c/windows/system32/

Small correction -- that path should be:

~/Library/Application Support/Crossover/Bottles/[bottle_name]/drive_c/windows/system32/

with a tilde ('~') at the start, which indicates your home folder. Also, no "Office" in the folder name.

You can have CrossOver open the virtual C: drive of a bottle from the Manage Bottles window. Select the bottle, select the Advanced tab, click the Open C: Drive in Finder button. Then, you only have to navigate into windows/system32 manually.

Thanks Ken, I often try to get that path right....and muff it.

Buy me a Mac, and I promise to get it right all the time ;P

Cheers!