[cw-discuss] Wine and Cxoffice

[Jeremy White]

Hi Laurent,

Sure; Wine and CrossOver have some differences.  The differences
usually center on kludges that our supported applications need
in order to work smoothly.  We also tend to make sure that installers
work more reliably and smoothly.  We also included the patented font hinter,
so fonts render a bit more nicely.

But all of our work goes into Wine first, so Wine is often a bit ahead
of CrossOver.  Unfortunately, it can often be 'bleeding edge' as well,
so it does come with some risk.

If you look in your ~/.cxoffice directory, under each bottle there is
a configuration file.  You can edit that file to point your paths to
a Wine installation instead of ours, and that will then use a differint Wine.

More simply, and more what I recommend, is that you set your WINEPREFIX
to point to your CrossOver bottle.

So that would be:
  WINEPREFIX=~/.cxoffice/<my-bottle> /path/to/my/wine /path/to/my/exe/file

Note that bleeding edge versions of Wine can change the registry in ways
that aren't compatible with CrossOver, so you may want to archive your bottle
before doing that, just in case.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Laurent Dinclaux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wonder how much is cxoffice in sync with wine?
> 
> I have noticed that ,now, wine seems to work much better that CXoffice
> for the apps I use: photoshop save for web, fireworks etc... And
> developpement seems really active and fast now.
> 
> What I like in CXoffice is the way it manage menus, icons, file
> associations etc... It is so nice ;)
> 
> So, is there anyway to use wine engine with CXoffice? How can this be achieved?
> 
> Regards
>