Re: The Guide work under wine?

[Jim Knecht]

Hello, First I am on a Mac not Linux so some of this may or may not apply but I will post it all so maybe you can find similar options in the Linux version.  I am using Wineskin to create wine apps,(http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php).  Mac is based on unix as is Linux so most of this should apply, it's just how you select the options in Linux that you will need to figure out.

I was receiving the same "Failed to create empty document." error what I had to do was add some dll overrides

I added 

*comctl32 (native, builtin)

*riched30  (native, builtin)

riched20  (native, builtin)

riched32  (native, builtin)

in wineskin what I did was choose wine cfg, which gave me a windows line configuration window: Libraries tab, DLL overrides then I chose each of those.

That is all I remember doing different but I'm not 100% sure since I didn't write it down.

Basically the "riched" ones are Rich text Edit controls (the text box you type in within the Guide) and adding them allows the empty document to be created.

Hope this is enough to point you in the right direction with Linux.  Let me know if you figure it out and the steps that need to be taken.

On Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:50:14 PM UTC-4, Luki wrote:

Hi,
tried to launch it from wine on linux
and got "Failed to create empty document."
without any explanations. Is it possible to make The Guide work under wine?

[rosta...@gmail.com]

Hey its 2017, TheGuide wasnt updated since v2.0 in 2008 (9 YEARS !!!) and you know what ?

ITS STILL THE BEST AND FASTEST TREE EDITOR I KNOW IN 2017 - USE IT EVERYDAY ON PC and NOW ON MAC

so i managed to make it work in Wine 1.6.1 on Mac OSX 10.8.5

i was getting the same error: "Failed to create empty document."

With excellent hint from OP i opened winguide-2.0-win32.exe (installer) using Wine 1.6.1

before creating bottle in Wine i recommend clean OSX reboot

1) choose to make a bootle in Wine
2) in wintricks check these winetricks (you can filter the winetricks list by initial letters "com" and "rich"):

[x] comctl32
[x] comctl32ocx
[x] comdlg32ocx
[x] msftedit
[x] riched20
[x] riched30
[x] richtx32

not sure if you need all of these but it works with these

3) create bottle
- click Yes on all winetricks install prompts
- during TheGuide setup i chose C:\Guide as install path
- at the end uncheck "Run The Guide" instead finish bottle by choosing Guide\Guide.exe as default exe to run via Wine
- the resulting file is aprox. 270MB (includes wine files)

ITS WORKING NOW

- it takes little longer to start the program (about 20-30 sec) but that might be Wine delay
- once started, the functionality seems to be very fast
- it didnt crash so far but time will see if Wine emulation is stable enough in long term

HAPPY TREE EDITING ON OSX in 2017 and on...