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Watchtower Library

The 2007 version of wtlib. Is based on the program Watchtower Reader 2006.

Application Details:

Version: 2007
License:
URL: https://www.jw.org/en/online-h...
Votes: Marked as obsolete
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.1.11

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Test Results

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What works

Installs without issue.

Basically everything, _once_ you make adjustments as directed below.

What does not

I haven't managed to print directly, but can copy & paste to an app and print there. Reset the Library/page setup menu as the page and border sizes are swapped.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Synchronisation

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

This needs a bit of work to get going. 1. Install as usual. 2. Recompile your kernel. When I find a way I'll upload a kernel config known to work on the slackware 2.6.21.5 source. 3. Install winetricks into linux and run winetricks vcrun2005 4. Grab winetools and install all msttcorefonts. 5. Link in dlls. cd to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 Run "lndir ../../program\ Files/Watchtower/MEPSCommon ." 6. In the same directory run "mkdir MEPSPlugIns" 7 cd into MEPSPlugIns and run 'lndir ../../../Program\ Files/Watchtower/MEPSCommon'

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowGentoo LinuxDec 20 20081.1.11Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 5.x "Lenny"Nov 22 20081.1.9Yes Yes NoGoldNils-Eric Wilkman 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 5.x "Lenny"Nov 12 20081.1.8Yes Yes NoGoldNils-Eric Wilkman 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 5.x "Lenny"Oct 25 20081.1.7Yes Yes NoGoldNils-Eric Wilkman 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux Unstable "Sid"Nov 23 20081.0.1Yes Yes NoSilverOlli 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
3107 listview columns do not sort in Acemoney CLOSED FIXED View
3332 Explore Folder using ShellExecute fails CLOSED FIXED View
5887 Wine does not load dynamically generated fonts CLOSED FIXED View
5898 Tooltip text need comctl32.dll to show well NEW View
7156 Multiple apps need wingdings.ttf NEW View
12540 Favourites menu doesn't work as expected CLOSED FIXED View
12542 UI errors on built-in comctl32 CLOSED DUPLICATE View
12553 Watchtower Reader (2005-2007): Toolbars misplaced, hidden NEW View
12693 statusbar doubletab problem CLOSED FIXED View
12701 watchtower library - listview works slow and wrong CLOSED FIXED View
13159 tooltips won't show up on partly hidden items NEW View
13162 Watchtower library 2007 japanese: requires Wingding.ttf to run, or it crashes CLOSED DUPLICATE View
16585 Printing document with images crashes wine CLOSED FIXED View
17654 Edit control on toolbar behaves badly CLOSED FIXED View
17915 Watchtower Library 2008 : crashes when opening maps CLOSED INVALID View
18089 Windows explorer.exe is able to lunch .exe files which refer another directory with DLLs NEW View

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HowTo / Notes

How to: Qu�ick guide on Watchtower Library installation






Common problems

Tooltip shadows stay after tooltips disappeared

This issue appears on some video cards with Compiz enabled. The workaround is in disabling fade animation for wine tooltips. To do this:

  1. install Compiz configuration tool. In most distributions it is in package named compizconfig-settings-manager.
  2. After you install it, run it (executable file named ccsm).
  3. Then go to Animations, open Close animations tab and double-click line that starts with Fade.
  4. Click plus sign in pop-up window,
  5. In new window select Window Class as Type, enter Wine as Value, select And as Relation and check Invert.
  6. Click Add button and you're done.

Black blocks in interface and text on Intel video cards

If you use Intel graphics and experience blacked out text and interface items in Watchtower Library, (that is, experience bug 24998), you can fix it with following steps:

  1. Run wine regedit
  2. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/X11 Driver. Create it if it does not exist
  3. Create new String value (using context menu on right part of interface) named ClientSideWithRender and set its value to N
  4. Close (restart) all wine applications

Broken fonts

If you see squares instead of text in Watchtower Library on the first run, go to settings (press f2) and change font settings, choosing any font you like. If you see broken characters in interface, you may need to install MS truetype core fonts for web package. To do this

  • Install msttcorefonts package using your packaging system. If it fails:
  • Install it using winetricks (this will affect your wine installation only, fonts won't be available for non-wine applications):
    winetricks corefonts

Problems with XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment and others

XFCE and some other DE ignore path parameter for desktop and menu launchers. As result, Watchtower Library prior to 2011 does not start when you click these. The simple solution is to change "Command" parameter in launcher to

wine start wtlibrary.exe

Watchtower Library for Mac OS X 10.7.3 "Lion"

There are some initial issues with using the Watchtower Library in Mac. The first issue is

Installing WINE

Simple solution: watchtowerlibraryformac.info

Or, you could follow the guide in the WINE wiki about installing Macports (MacOSX Installation). It is recommended that once you have installed MacPorts you need to configure it (How to install & configure Macports)

Do not install WINE but rather install wine-devel sudo ports install wine-devel for the latest WINE version.

You should also update X11, the default version is 2.3.2 which doesn't display all of the images in the Watchtower Library. The website XQuartz MacOS Forge contains the latest XQuartz (2.6.2). Once XQuartz has been updated you can run the Watchtower Library out-of-the-box with no issues.

To set up an application to run the Watchtower Library from the dock, go to Applications -> Utilities -> AppleScript Editor

Once in the editor copy & paste the following script:

tell application "Terminal"
    do script "/opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\\ Files/Watchtower/Watchtower\\ Library\\ 2010/E/WTLibrary.exe"
end tell

Click on run to make sure it works and then click on compile if successful and then save the script as an application filetype (Leave startup screen unchecked). Once saved as an application drag it into the dock.

Missing DLL File Errors

WINE in Mac doesn't seem to look for the DLL files in the same way it normally does. The DLL files it is referring to (Such as uresearch21u.dll) are located in the "MEPS Platform 2.3" folder in the Watc­htower directory. However WINE searches for them in the /drive_c/windows/system32 directory. Just copy and paste the contents of the "MEPS Platform 2.3" folder to the "system32" folder to resolve the issue.

Broken "Fetch from clipboard" function

If you copy multiline-text and a reference happens to be divided between two lines, the results can be a bit odd. This seems to be by design; wtlib seems to read the clipboard contents line by line. For example, if an article reads:

hechos recientes son más que los de antes" (Rev. 2:
19, 20).

Then wtlib will extract Revelation chapter 2, the entire chapter. This is due to wtlib reading just one line at a time. Now, in linux you can install xclip and run this command after having copied, say for example an entire article:

xclip -o | tr "\n" " " | xclip -selection clipboard -i

The command translates \newlines to spaces. If you do that before going Edit - Fetch from clipboard in wtlib, the correct references are extracted :D (Just Rev. 2:19, 20 in the example above).

You could even stick the command in a script and launch that from a button on your panel, or something.

I don't know how to do this in windows, but could be AutoIt would be a start...

What should I include when I submit a new test result?

Whether the install process went fine, or if not, what went wrong

Whether the program starts without any tweaks/modifications, or if not, what needs fixing/tweaking.

If the program runs, does the following work, or if not, what has to be done to fix/tweak it?

  • Search and navigation through the library
  • Tooltips (rest the mouse over a link)
  • Special characters like in Hebrew, and the */M signs in the Bible
  • Toolbar buttons just above the publications tree on the left, do they look good/ do they work?
  • Print (you obviously need to have a working printer setup in Linux first, wine will pick up CUPS printers at least. You can add cups-PDF printer if you have no physical printer)
  • Maps/graphics
  • Word list box
  • Add Favourites
  • Open Favourites
  • Settings
  • pronunciation (if you have a sound card and language version you are testing have this feature)
  • Synchronisation (if you have multiple languages installed)

did I forget something? just edit this note.

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