Watchtower Library 2009
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Wine Application Database
This Software is listed in the Official Wine Application Database
Winehq Main AppDB entry Watchtower Library
- Winehq AppDB entry Watchtower Library 2008 (with 3 Maintainers - probably enough. While it has been rated platinum, it is more correct to be rated as gold. It is not yet running flawlessly. Users could submit more test results which would help users with different distributions) and maintainers for different languages might help. If you can confirm a bug report filed, this can help wine developers who might consider fixing it.
Installing
Installation instructions Use the latest version of Wine. Your Distribution may have provided version 1.0, but this is very, very old and will not work. Upgrade. It does not seem to work with an older version of the library installed in the same wineprefix, so start with a new wineprefix, and by using WINEPREFIX you can keep it separate and unaffected by other software you use with wine. (If you have nothing else installed, you could just delete your .wine folder and start from scratch).
Fonts
The first install of the application will show boxes without any letters if you have not installed the windows fonts as per the wine application database. This is not needed as you can then press F2, which will bring up the option to select a replacement font. Make your pick and you are good to go. Font smoothing is recommended as it greatly improves the readability of text.
- Missing fonts - choose another
- smoothing for wine applications-easier reading.
Starting with version 1.1.12 wine supports fonts smoothing which makes fonts looking much better. By default, this option is disabled. In order to enable it use winetricks.
Fedora
Fedora 12
With the default install, the library works well on a clean (ie.new) .wine folder with four issues. Firstly, it looks better with the fonts and font hinting - which can be downloaded/set by winetricks and secondly, when it installs, it leaves two unusual boxes on the desktop - click on the one that is not ending in .ink and you will be asked if you trust this software. If you do, click yes and it will then display the library icon. delete the .ink file on the desktop. (While You can use the .ink file with wine start, the other one works and you probably dont need two.) Thirdly, text shows as boxes, but press f2 and select a font -any will do, but some look better than others. For number 4, pulse audio may crash. Not to worry, you can run winecfg and select anything else as long as it is not pulse. The pulse driver is not complete and the fedora package have added this unsupported driver which can work for many other programs.
- Using winetricks
First install wine and cabextract if you want font hinting turned on using winetricks.
- yum install wine cabextract
using your browser, copy the page http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks to a file called winetricks. Mark it executable and run it. Click on font hinting. You can run winecfg to create a wine folder and set the sound to pulse or ALSA. here we go..
- winecfg
Pulse can crash winecfg, but run it a couple of times and it will usually get there. If all fails, you will need to edit the registry and delete the pulse drive under audio. If this is scary, create a new wineprefix, and it will just work(tm). If you see messages on the terminal open /dev/snd/seq failed you may also need to run as superuser for the sound to work with Alsa..
- modeprobe snd_seq
Put the cdrom in and type in a terminal window (or navigate to the cdrom and double click Setup.exe)
- wine /media/WTLIB08E/Setup
Follow your nose and after the install, double click the icon and mark the icon as trusted (if you trust it) and double click again to start it. Then to workaround the square boxes, under properties select a font for the text. You might choose liberation serif. Done.
Problems: Boxes upon the first time started, workaround select a font to use under properties. Pulse may be a culprit in some crashes, running winecfg and selecting another can oft work around it, but it may work without going to the trouble.
Known issues
All Versions of wine pre 1.1.16 will crash if you try and print the help file. This is easy to work around. Just say no. Dont print it, unless you have the latest Wine. printing the helpfile when the text is showing boxes, will print a pretty page of more boxes. Select a font first as mentioned above and then print a copy.
