Preliminary results are very, very good !!!
This evening after dinner I installed the demo version of Crossover
Office, referred to from here on out as CXO. The install was smooth
with plenty of warm fuzzies during the install. I am running Fedora
Core 4 of Linux with KDE on a Sotec/Averatec 3120x notebook computer.
After the install of CXO, I then attempted an install of
Legacy6Setup.exe. The install proceeded quite well until the very end
when it attempts to launch Legacy, then I received a runtime error 459 -
Object or class does not support the set of events. I figured
(incorrectly) that this was due to Legacy not being launched on its own
from within CXO. Exiting the install module of CXO, I then attempted to
to run it from the "run a windows command" module of CXO - same error.
Reading the documentation at this time, I saw that it is highly
recommended that Internet Explorer 6.0 be installed under CXO, as it
installs all sorts of useful .dll's that many programs as well as Legacy
Family Tree needs. Now that sure seems strange to me from my
perspective, but I did the install (careful - the download is quite
large, about 11 Megabytes, and can take an hour or more on dialup).
Don't try to install IE6 from some other CD or drive as I suspect that
CXO knows exactly what it needs and sets up the configuration properly.
After installing IE6, I then attempted another run of legacy.exe from
within CXO and lo and behold, it came up just as if I had freshly
installed it, complete with the Legacy Home page and initialization
prompts. I copied over my family.fdb file, changed the permissions
under Linux so that the program could write to the file, and was greeted
by my familar four paned family window. The file (version 5.0) was
converted as prompted with no issues. Upon exiting, I performed a
backup to a .zip file as normal.
Sherry, if you have some sort of checklist or tree that I could use to
test out each portion of Legacy, I'd be glad to test each section out
and document what occurs, both here and on the Codeweaver's site. I
consider what I did tonight as very preliminary (weeknights are short)
but I am encouraged by what I am seeing. I also feel that the freely
available program, WINE 0.9 may also run Legacy, as I attempted to get
it to run but was bogged down in the error/warning messages, so I quit
at the first runtime error 459 I saw. I suspect if I went back to WINE
and installed IE6 (WINE is developed in close concert with Codeweavers),
that I would achieve better results there as well.
I hope this isn't too long, but it should provide some encouragement
today for folks interested in getting Legacy to run under Linux - Wine
0.9 is available for free and Crossover Office for Linux us available in
a free 30 day demo to evaluate (this is what I am currently doing) for
those who want to try it out.
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