Running FLEx under Linux vine

[Michael Maxwell]

I've been trying to run FLEx under Vine, which is a Windows emulator
running in Linux (in my case, Ubuntu Linux). ('Vine' is a recursive
acronym meaning 'Vine Is Not an Emulator', but it is...) No success.

Has anyone had any success doing that?
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Mike Maxwell

[Andreas_Joswig]

As far as I know, the only way to run newer versions of FLEx under Linux
is to use a virtual machine to run a real Windows environment. Of course
you can run older Linux-Versions of FLEx directly in Linux, but they are
not really fun to work with.
Andreas

[Tim Kempton]

I haven't tried FLEx under Vine. The other thing to try is FieldWorks Lite (Beta) for Linux if you are content with basic editing of the lexicon.

Tim

[Michael Maxwell]

On 10/2/25 03:24, 'Andreas_Joswig' via FLEx list wrote:
> you can run older Linux-Versions of FLEx directly in Linux, but they are
> not really fun to work with

I was doing that, v9.1. What problems should I look out for?
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Mike Maxwell

[Andreas_Joswig]

9.1? I thought development stopped with 9.0, so that is an improvement.
Mostly the UI. Expect erratic scrolling on many screens, slow screen
refreshes, in the text area a cursor that is a little bit off from where
it actually sits.
Particularly for parsing the last few versions (9.2 and the current
alpha 9.3) brought a lot of improvements and bug fixes, so you won't
benefit from them. In practice this means more crashes, less information
when parsing (particularly when it goes wrong), and sometimes erratic
behavior. All in all, parsing goes a lot slower than under Windows.
See what happens, and if you can live with it, and if you have plenty of
time, you may appreciate the work that went into providing a version for
Linux. But for me, the performance of FLEx was the reason why I switched
back to Windows five years ago. This is by no means the mistake of the
developers - they had to work with a software base (called Mono) that
imposed all these things on FLEx, and from which they could not get away.
Andreas

[Michael Maxwell]

On 10/2/25 10:41, 'Andreas_Joswig' via FLEx list wrote:
> 9.1? I thought development stopped with 9.0, so that is an improvement.

My mistake--the last Linux version of FLEx is 9.0.17.44670.
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Mike Maxwell