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mac and theWord

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:29 pm
by barryjg
I have just bought a new imac. I have been able to get e-sword to work under wine, but not theWord (which I really want to use). It goes to theWord splash screen and then just stops. Can anyone help please?

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:06 pm
by csterg
Any log? Any error?

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:52 am
by barryjg
Hi, thanks for your reply.
The following log appears;
err:menubuilder:fork_and_wait wineshelllink returned 1
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to fork and exec wineshelllink
err:menubuilder:fork_and_wait wineshelllink returned 1
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to fork and exec wineshelllink
err:menubuilder:fork_and_wait wineshelllink returned 1
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to fork and exec wineshelllink

Barry

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:59 am
by csterg
oops, this is totally uninformative. No idea.
In general, tw should be wine-friendly since it is a self-contained .exe
Sorry, no idea here,
Costas

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:58 am
by barryjg
Thanks for trying Costas. Who knows I might find a solution - I hope so as theWord is excellent.

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:03 am
by Sharemax
Greetings -
I have successfully installed 'The Word' on the Mac using Crossover 8.0 without any installation issues. It performs well, with only a few idiosyncrasies'. The program functions fully, loads all modules easily without issues, is very useful and displays perfectly.
The issues I have noted are:
• Every item in some book trees cannot be selected with the mouse. Using the window toolbar arrows or the keyboard arrow keys works fine and enables you to successfully navigate to any item.
• Sometimes - not often - when you select a new Bible version tab, the program will continue to open new windows instead of changing the current version in the Bible window. This can be frustrating, but closing The Word / Crossover and restarting The Word program again solves this issue.
Although not specifically addressing your Mac wine issue, TW can successfully work on the Mac within the Mac environment.

Paul

Re: mac and theWord - Try Crossover!

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:29 am
by Word1956
Hello every one,

The Word works perfectly on my Mac. I use it with Crossover. Unlike Parallels or Fusion, it does not need a copy of Windows installed. It is simple! The Word installs simply and easily!

Word1956

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 1:50 pm
by csterg
• Every item in some book trees cannot be selected with the mouse. Using the window toolbar arrows or the keyboard arrow keys works fine and enables you to successfully navigate to any item.
Fixed for wine.
Costas

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:38 am
by core
Hi,

I confirm the same. Installation went really smooth with CrossOver 9.2 and TW 3.2.0.1102 .

The only thing that is a bit slow is if you swap from let's say the Bible view to the Study view, it takes 1-2 seconds to change the corresponding toolbar.
Also, when you resize the window to full screen, it takes around 5 seconds.

Beyond that, the main menues (File, View, Tools, Window, Help) and the "Verse Reference (F4)" feature as well as the "Search" feature are really fast. Also - very important - the hyperlinks (cross references) within the text show up really fast - No difference to TW without Emulator.

At first sight creating modules seem to be a piece of cake too. No difference to the windows version.

In Him,
Cornelius

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:35 am
by Meyer
Hi, I use virtualbox 3.2.10 on a mac air. PERFECT! Everything works great!
cut & paste, performance, resize window, really fast.
blessings

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:26 pm
by miterreader
I have TW installed in Wine on Ubuntu as a compact installation. I access the same installation from WinXP on VirtualBox on the same machine. Here's the issue: if I run TW from Wine (after the initial installation) it does its usual building the indexes for all the modules. If I exit TW and run it from VirtualBox, it rebuilds the indexes for the visible Bible modules. If I exit TW and run it from Wine, it rebuilds the indexes for the visible Bible modules. Every time! When there has been no change at all to the installation or edits to the modules. How do I make it stop rebuilding the indexes when there has been no change to the modules?

Re: mac and theWord

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:53 am
by csterg
This happens because there is a time-difference in the 2 'machines' (the real and virtual). theWord checks the last-modification date of the file to decide this: obviously there is something different (or wrong) between the 2 and theWord things each time that it needs to do so
Costas