Just installed Dreamweaver / Crossover 3 on SuSE 9.1. Dreamweaver uses better fonts now and seems to work even with /lan remote server in php / mysql. Uploads no prob.
BUT:
whenever I try to start Extension Manager:
Before it starts I can see this bouncing KDE-Icon instead of ExtensionManager's
After a couple of seconds it gives up.

I have checked the script which tries to start EM and it looks like:

!/bin/sh

exec /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine "C:~WB~Program Files~WB~Macromedia~WB~Extension Manager~WB~Extension Manager.exe" "$@"

I've had no luck on running the extension manager, either, but I did manage to get my extensions installed (I have a couple of sites that make heavy use of Interakt's phakt and impakt extensions). This method does, unfortunately, require Windows :( . I installed Dreamweaver on Win2K, then installed all my extensions. Then going into "Documents and Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration", I copied all of the config files into "~/.cxoffice/dotwine/fake_windows/Program FIles/Macromedia/Dreamweaver MX/Configuration" (if you do this in Linux, be careful not to wipe out whole directories, but just replace duplicate files - where Windows Explorer will "merge" directories, Linux's behavior is to replace directories with the same name in toto).
I haven't tried all the features yet, but I've been able to connect to my databases and create recordsets with the phakt adodb server model, and it detects all the server behaviors in my current pages.
Performance is not as fast as I'd like, and working in design view seems a bit sketchy, but it's not bad overall. I would like to see DWMX 2004 running, with its improvements over MX.

I'm also running Dreamweaver on SuSE 9.1 (Pro), and have tried both with Crossover 3.0.0 and 3.0.1. FWIW, it went in very smoothly with both versions in my system. I'm also having no issues with the extension manager - runs as expected. The only minor issue was that it did not create an icon for the extension manager. I have just checked, and you should be able to start it with a fairly simple command line - not many parameters passed to cxoffice. The command I used - you may want to try this - was:

/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine '/home/username/Path/To/Extension Manager/Extension Manager.exe'

If this works for you, you can enter this as the command for a link to application. Also, you may want to try replacing the "~WB~" with "/" in that script - it's basically trying to do the same thing as my command above.

Finally, if it still doesn't work, try launching either the script or the direct command from within a console - it should give you more feedback if there was an error message. You can also try passing the option '--verbose' to cxoffice, like so:

/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --verbose '/home/username/Path/To/Extension Manager/Extension Manager.exe'

If you do this you will get quite a bit of output, but it may help you to debug what's going wrong!

Hope this can solve your issues - I know I would be kind of annoyed if I couldn't use the multitude of DW extensions out there ;)

Happy to help!

Regards,
Peter

Here's some of the output I get running the command with --verbose:

err:module:import_dll Module (file) Extensions.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Extension Manager\\Extension Manager.exe") not found

err:module:import_dll No implementation for Gemstone.dll.??1CMacrPath@@UAE@XZ imported from L"C:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Extension Manager\\Extension Manager.exe", setting to 0xdeadbeef

It's mainly messages regarding those two dll's.

What it looks like has happened is when Dreamweaver installed, it did not copy/register all of its dependencies properly, so you are getting these errors. FWIW, I do seem to remember having this issue when I installed once.

I think this is how I fixed it at the time - go to your cxoffice Program Files/Common Files/Macromedia and copy Extensions.dll and Gemstone.dll from there into Program Files/Macromedia/Extension Manager. If those files aren't present, it may be worth searching the cxoffice drive for the files and see if you can find them that way.

HTH :)

Peter

That did it, thanks!

Goodly goodly - always happy to help 😊...

Added to the Tips & Tricks section too, in case anyone else encounters the same problem....