It's that BAS time again. So, for the first time, I really gave Quickbooks
a serious workout using Codeweavers WINE on Linux.
Now the truer picture is coming to light. I found many tiny annoyances
and a few downright crashers.
Crashers:
(*) bringing up the BAS form crashes WINE everytime
(*) too-fast too-heavy keyboard action crashes WINE (i.e. too many
focus changes in between mouse moves) ... race condition
Minor annoyances include:
(*) SHIFT-TAB doesn't work
(*) dates are in American format
(*) maximising some windows causes severe display redrawing probs
(*) lotsa of other small things (focus, redraw, text highlighting)
So, I was able to bring the accounts up to date (crefully entering American
instead of Aussie dates, and simply avoiding other known bugs), but had to
calculate the BAS/GST crappe manually.
As Codeweavers say, this software is in beta test and there are many
API calls that simply do not work. As well, the console log of invalid/corrupt
system calls is very revealing. I'm not as impressed as I was a few months
ago (since I've only now really tested the depths of Quickbooks), but do
understand that daunting task facing the WINE team: it is quite difficult
to reliably implement an undocumented system API.
cheers
rickw
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