Winehelper Replacement

by Mike Kronenberg | Posted in c/obj-c, cross-platform, ies4osx, wine
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I had my troubles with winehelper lately. And I had my own ideas of what a wine wrapper could look like on OS X 🙂 . So I made my little list. I did a rather quick (and dirty) programming of it to test the features and gain some look and touch experience of the different features I would like in a wrapper app for wine.

I'd like to give the cracks out there a testride on it. IF YOU JUST NEED WINE, STAY FAR AWAY FROM IT! It' still VERY buggy.

What are the main changes/features?

  • the app sits in the status bar
  • support for .app bottles (windows applications & prefix wrapped inside an .app)
  • easy managing of different prefixes (searched by spotlight)
  • fast access to winefile, regedit, winecfg inside every prefix
  • sparcle updates
  • support for .bat files
  • no unnecessary windows on screen
  • mac specific registry entries (coreaudio, antialiasing, symlinking of OS X fonts)

Wine_1_1_20.zip

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Implemented features
 
- StatusMenu
	- Icon
	- current prefix
		- start WineFile
		- start RegEdit
		- start WineCfg
		- show winetricks
	- running exes
		- show name of exes
		- kill running exes
	- options
		- show Prefix Manager
		- show Bottler
		- show Preferences..
		- show Wine.log
	- show Quit Dialog
 
- Task
	- start exe
	- enable Wine.log
 
- Prefix Manager
	- remember on or offscreen at start
	- stay on top of all windows
	- check for obsolete prefixes
	- search with Spotlight
		- for system.reg in visible folders
		- for selfcontained .app prefixes
		- reload button for search
	- search for ~/.wine prefix
	- create new prefixes
		- show overlay during creation of new prefix
		- add registry entries for coreaudio and antialiasing
		- add an icon
	- remove prefixes
	- show prefixes in the Finder
 
- Winetricks
 
- Bottler
	- create predefined apps
		- predefined apps
			- Internet Explorer 6.0
			- Internet Explorer 7.0
			- Filzip 3.06
		- standart apps
		- apps with custom script
	- create custom apps
		- select install file
		- select exe to execute
	- create Log if installation fails
 
- Preferences
	- remember on or offscreen at start
	- stay on top of all windows
	- enable/disable Wine.log
	- enable/disable Automatic updates with Sparcle
 
- Quit Dialog
	- custom dialog window on top off all other windows
	- kill all instances of wine
 
 
 
 
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TODO
- MainMenu
	- Icons for Files
		- .exe
		- .msi
		- .bat
		- .Lnk
 
- Winetricks
	- visual Winetricks
		- simple selfbuilding gui generated from winetricks
	- set winetricks_cache to application support
 
- Bottler
	- predefined apps
		- add icon
	- create custom apps
		- visual winetricks
		- add icon

enjoy

Mike

PS.
Internet Explorer 7 worked better with 1.1.19.

[update]
Workaround for installing IE7: Select "no updates" in the IE7 installer and manually copy the generated .app when ask by the IE7 installer if you would like to restart now. The IE7 installer will throw an error the moment you click that button, which triggers the wine bottler to remove the app. But the copied .app is functional. Enjoy.

[update 2]
If You try to create a custom bottle with the bottler, remove all spaces from the installers name. (txs ViRGE)