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I'm currently running the demo version of CrossOver Office 3.01 on Mandrake 10 Official.

I'd already downloaded and installed Internet Explorer 6 SP1 and the corefonts package for CXOffice.

I installed PartyPoker using the latest download version (as of September 14, 2004) and told CrossOver Office installer to emulate Windows XP.

The app SEEMS to run fine, let's me log in and everything. However, in the window where the list of tables should be, it's blank. The app THINKS there's something there as the scroll bar handle changes size depending on the area selected, but no text shows up.

Yeah forgot to mention that you need to download and install the microsoft core fonts package. Only place I know where to get it, is from transgaming.com. Try searching on Microsoft.com and see if you can't find it there.

Oh and another thing, even though the font is missing you can still see what table you have selected on the right middle side of the window. Just simply use the arrow keys to move up and down. Other than that small issure everything else has worked and shown up for me before I installed the font package.

I tried PartyPoker as well and no tables showed up as well. But doubled clicking on where the table should be opened up a table screen and I was able to play. I had a few strange things with the sound when the program was waiting for a player to act but other than that it seemed to work fine.

I still prefer PokerStars over Party and it works perfectly with CodeWeavers and I've played on that site several years since it went online. Unlike the free version, CodeWeavers seems to work flawless with PokerStars. There are a couple of minor issues with the free version of Wine with PokerStars that CodeWeavers doesn't seem to have.

I solved the problem of the table list not displaying. I did this by using a native commctl32.dll and commctrl.dll from a Windows95 (original upgrade) CD. I first tried a commctl32.dll from the WindowsXP SP2 installation that shares my PC with my SUSE linux 9.0 Iinstallation. I am using Crossover Office Standard, version 4.0. Note, the correct commctrl.dll is actually in one of the .cab files as kommctrl.dll. (You have to rename it to commctrl.dll. There is a commctrl.dll in one of the precopy*.cab files that apparantly is only used by the setup program. It doesn't work with commctl32.dll. Using the Windows 95 commctl32.dll and commctrl.dll, I still have a few minor glitches. The sort buttons at the top of the table list don't usually show, but if you click where they should be, they will appear while the left mouse button is down and the list will sort on the column you clidke on. The buttons also appear very briefly when the list updates. Also, in the table windows, the chat display window is apparently showing white text on a white background. If I select text with the mouse, it is visible. Otherwise it is invisible. Also, the background of the player name boxes is dark brown in Windows, but apparently transparent in Linux/Crossover. It rather difficult to read my own table balance, as it is yellow on a light tan background. The other players' boxes are in front of the dark brown chair (with the pictures of players turned off), so they are pretty easy to read. Apparently the wine commctrl32.dll doesn't fully implement the function that displays the table list. I don't have access to a Windows98 or ME commctl32.dll, so I don't know if that works. If I can find one, I might give it a try.

I got the chat window to display properly by using native riched32.dll and riched20.dll from Windows XP SP2. The only remaining issues I have are with the player name boxes: The background is transparent (instead of semi-transparent brown in Windows) and the player actions don't display. Neither of these is a show stopper, but the background color issue sometimes makes the text hard to read, especially the money figure in your own box (hard to tell when to rebuy, sometimes).

I'm running CXoffice 5.0.1, and it runs great out of the box.