Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins

2012-03-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richard wrote : don't expect everything to work as well as it does with real Windows. Richmond. I hope you don't mind if I pass on that statement ! However, it reminds me of the definition of Real and Virtual Memory on the IBM computers of the 70's. 1 - If it's

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins

2012-03-08 Thread Richmond
On 03/08/2012 02:28 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richard wrote : don't expect everything to work as well as it does with real Windows. Richmond. I hope you don't mind if I pass on that statement ! You are very welcome to. I don't like Windows to be honest,

[OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
WINE 1.4 http://www.winehq.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to using Wine as opposed to a VM like Parallels? Bob On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Richmond wrote: WINE 1.4 http://www.winehq.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Tim Jones
Simply put - no Windows license required; your app runs natively on the hosting platform (Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, etc.). On the other hand, there are a number of apps that don't run quite right. Tim On Mar 7, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
On 03/07/2012 08:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to using Wine as opposed to a VM like Parallels? Pretty hopeless for Livecode as WINE does not render PNG images. Personally I check Windows builds in XP in VirtualBox. Bob On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:31 AM,

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
On 03/07/2012 08:21 PM, Tim Jones wrote: Simply put - It's NOT Windows, and it's free, so don't expect everything to work as well as it does with real Windows. Not any good really with the Livecode IDE as doesn't work at all well with PNG images. If, however, you are developing Livecode