Juce on wine : fonts gone?

#1

this bug is a rather exotic one, I confess, but still wanted to share:
if you run a win32 juce app on linux using the wine win32 emulator, the fonts disappear (at least on my ubuntu 7.04 & wine 0.9.33 test setup over here). Easy to reproduce using the command “wine juce_demo.exe”.

You might ask why bother, since juce has fantastic support already for native linux apps. That’s absolutely true, but here’s the case: this impacts also juce win32 vsts that run using the dssi bridge (which depends on wine). Yes, juce can do native linux vsts too, and I love it for it. But alas, not many linux hosts support that yet (only the superb energyXT I believe), and most use some kind of win32 emulation if they support vsts at all.

Sidenote: a dssi -> native vst bridge would be a killer thing imho. Then Rosegarden & co could run native linux vsts

#2

Interesting - I’d never tried that before. Seems like the only problem is that the default fonts are missing - if you switch to the font demo page, the rest all work.

To fix that I guess it would just have to figure out whether it’s running on linux and choose the linux default fonts instead - but how does an app find out if it’s running in wine?

#3

hmm, how do we detect if we are running inside the matrix ? :lol:

I could be wrong, but seems if you’re running on wine, you see extra registry keys? Found this here : http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

other than that, without having looked at that part of the juce code, so forgive me if I’m suggesting something stupid : if you can somehow detect the default fonts are missing, you could conclude it must be wine? And try again with linux fonts?

#4

Ok, try the stuff I’ve just checked in…

#5

Jules, thanks for fixing it. I tested quickly using the changed win32 files, but saw that I’d need to pull in the rest of the juce tip too to make it compile. That will take a while, since I have to merge some changes back into it.

Do you plan to do an official point release in the near future? Would be a good time for then to me merge again.

#6

Yes, I think it’s about time I did another release, actually.

#7

Jules, I switched to 1.44 and win32 VST dlls are working fine under wine now. Thx!

(I tested with Rosegarden & the DSSI->VST bridge)

#8