[RNLD] Fwd: [Toolbox] Re: crossover

[Nick]

Following the earlier discussions about running Toolbox under Crossover, 
see the note below from the Toolbox developers about a new version they 
have kindly created that works with Crossover. I have installed it and it 
seems to work fine.

Nick

On Friday, September 7, 2012 12:25:13 AM UTC+10, ToolboxSupport wrote:
>
> Test versions that fix the display problem on Wine 1.4 and CrossoverMac 11 
> are now on the Toolbox test page.
> http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/test.htm
>
> Toolbox development
>
> On Friday, August 24, 2012 9:34:52 PM UTC-4, ToolboxSupport wrote:
>>
>> The Toolbox development team has been working on the Wine and 
>> CrossoverMac display problems for a couple of months now. It appears we are 
>> close to a test version that solves most of the problems. Hopefully it will 
>> be available before the end of August. 
>>
>> It appears that recent versions of Wine do not handle display correctly 
>> when Windows Unicode rendering is used in display. This problem appears in 
>> Linux with Wine 1.4 and in Mac with CrossoverMac 11. On Mac changing from 
>> Crossover Mac to WineBottler solved the problem because WineBottler uses an 
>> older version of Wine. But WineBottler does not work correctly on Mountain 
>> Lion and Lion.
>>
>> The fix will be a version for Wine that does not call the Windows 
>> rendering functions. This change will not affect most users because Windows 
>> rendering is mostly used in non-Roman scripts. Users who need the Windows 
>> rendering can get it by running under Parallels or Virtual PC or a similar 
>> environment.
>>
>> Toolbox development
>
>
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