Troopmaster

What works

Update 04-15/2011: Still works same as before. Only real issues is hanging after DotNet download and scrolling reports not refreshing properly.

Updated 07-24-2010: Everything still works fine for every wine version up to and including version 1.2. Still hangs on DotNet download, but killing and restarting TM gets around that issue.

Everything works that I've tried so far under Wine 1.1.*, except for the program locking up after downloading the data when using the DotNet addon.  However, just kill the process and restart it. You will then get a prompt about using the files currently on the computer. Click 'Yes' and you're ready to go. You need update rights to the data for this.

What does not

2011-08-20: Icons for buttons are all black. This was fine in wine-1.3.25. Planning on doing some regression analysis.

Window loses focus after downloading data from server. Mouse and keyboard events are non-resposive, but window still refreshes.  Kill process and restart. The data was downloaded.

Sometimes popup windows get hidden behind the dialog window that created them.

Workarounds

What was not tested

new AutoMailer feature to schedule emails from within TM. In Windows this is a background process in the system tray.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

When using TroopMaster under VirtualBox, I would rate it as Gold. Works just as it would on a regular Windows machine. (But then that's not Wine, is it?)

TroopMaster needs mfc42.dll and gdiplus. Use winetricks to get it. See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

After downloading the script,

%  sh winetricks vcrun6 gdiplus

The mshtml.dll also needs to be overridden using winecfg.

doesn't run under wine 1.1.22

1.) install latest version of wine

•   follow install instructions from wine download page

2.) install cabextract either through you package manager, or termnal  http://www.cabextract.org.uk/

  sudo apt-get install cabextract

3.)  then get winetricks http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

•   now depending on how you set up wine tricks you can type in termnal

  sh winetricks

  or

  winetricks

4.) select vcrun6 and gdiplus in the gui (graphical user interface) that shows up

• if you want to center the image when the program loads select ie6
  

5.) select next

• now run your troopmaster installer .exe

• follow troopmaster instructions as they popup

--------Extra Stuff-------

1. troopmaster did not make a short cut for me. if you want you can follow these instructions to make a desktop and/or menu shortcut(s)

------Desktop------

1. after installing there was no ico file for me to find. i downloaded a png file from Here

   2.then install imagemagick

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

   3.ran the this command

convert [location]/633976.png to [other location not on desktop]/633976.xpm

*reasion being that if you delete this file the icon will no longer show*

   4.now go to ~/.wine/drive_c/Troopmaster Software/TM4
   5.right click the troopmaster.exe and select make link
   6.move it to your desktop rename it to TroopMaster
   7.right click the link and select properties
   8.click the image that apperes on the new window
   9.go the the location of your new icon file and select it

now you got a desktop icon!

--------menu item-------

1. install imagemagick
2. sudo apt-get install imagemagick
3. ran the this command

convert [location]/633976.png to [other location not on desktop]/633976.xpm

*reasion being that if you delete this file the icon will no longer show*

1. right click applications
2. select edit menu
3. under the area you want select new item
4. click the image
5. select the new icon
6. in name type in TroopMaster
7. in command type in
   

env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine" wine "C:\troopmaster Software\TM4\TroopMaster.exe"

comment "add anything you want"

now you got a menu item

enjoy troopmaster on ubuntu 9.04

---------------------------personal notes---------------------

i am willing to take suggestions and spelling and grammar checks (spelling and grammar is not my forte)

if you find that anything is not working, report it

When you first install TroopMaster, the background is of an outdoor scene with moving water. Sometimes this causes to program to peg the CPU. This background is the file 'troopmaster.gif' in the "Troopmaster Software\TM4" directory. There is another background without moving called with filename 'troopmaster.jpg'. If you are having this problem, do the following:

 1. rename troopmaster.gif to some temporary name, like troopmaster.tmp.

 2. rename troopmaster.jpg to troopmaster.gif

3. rename the temporary troopmaster.tmp to troopmaster.gif

4. Now that you've reversed the two background files, Troopmaster should start up with no moving background, and the program should be responsive. You can now change the Preferences to use still water:

File->Preferences...

Select 'Background' tab

click button "Watercolor with still water" (This is troopmaster.jpg)

5. Now name the files back as they were originally.