QuickBooks 2003 Forum

After a lot of messing about I fnally managed to get QB Pro 2003 (US Version) to install, it's quite simple (I havn't tested this procedure again but it should be right).

Install cxoffice. If you've already done that and also installed IE or tried to install QuickBooks and failed, I'd stop now, clear you CXOffice install and start from scratch. But you might be able to get it working anyway so feel free to try.

Install DCom95 from the cxoffice supported applications list.

Now just install Quickbooks, it will install it's version of ie6, now this seems to be the crucial bit because when you allow it to install ie6 then something else happens at the end of the install (after ie6 does it's post-install setup). I suspect it's probably a batch file in the quickbooks install directory (as per some peoples experience with QB2004), so if you've already installed IE before you install QB and don't install QB's version of ie, then you might try 'installing' that batch file (eg $HOME/.cxoffice/dotwine/fakewindows/Program Files/Intuit/QuickBooks Pro/reboot.bat) which registers some dlls etc.

And that's it, everything being equal it should work for you.

As for how well it works,

• in general, works pretty well
• it did crash when creating the initial company file in the 'easy interview' but on restarting the company file it created opened up just fine
• it does do some really wierd things with requestors sometimes, sometimes you'll be focused in a field of a requesotor yet your input is sent to a field in the main window, some Yes/No type requestors get sort of stuck in a loop somehow (click either button and another copy of the requestor pops up), sometimes it works, and I find you can usually do what you wanted to do in some other way (the main trickyness is adding "items" by entering in a new code in a field looking for a code, if you actually drop-down and click add-new you get better results I think). Also if you click yes/no long enough then the labels etc on the requestor get screwey.
  • when creating/viewing invoices, the row of buttons at the top of the invoice (previous, next, email, print, ...) are somewhat hidden, seems they are drawn in the wrong place, I've had it once where you couldn't see them at all, but usually there is a few pixels of the top of the buttons visible so you can work out what they are. unfortunatly there is no keyboard shortcut for next/previous so when the buttons are totally hidden it's a bit of a pain.
  • entering in an invalid calculation into a field locks it solid, so don't do it.
  • I had to setup sales tax even though I don't collect any otherwise it would complain about not having supplied one, I don't know if this is a bug in QB or a problem with CX.

In all though it works acceptably well for the basic stuff, entering invoices, payments etc etc, just some of the setup can be troublesome if it decides to do an infinite requestor loop.

If cxoffice had an installer for it to ensure it nstalled properly then I'd award it a Bronze medal.

I have installed QuickBooks Pro 2003 and Quicken Premier 2003. I first installed DCom95 after locating it on Microsofts site. Microsoft seems to have block installations from within crossover; DCom95, IE, and Fonts. I then installed Quicken with only one installation complaint but it ran without any issues. I updated the product, download stock quotes, and ran graphical and text reports.

I then installed QuickBooks Pro which install IE 6.0 since it did not find IE installed. There were two diagnostics at the end of the installation indicating there was a missing support file, typical fashon there was no value in the diagnostic as the missing file was not identified. When I ran QuickBooks the first time a dialog box came up letting me know I should register the product it then flashed to the screen and quit. IE would also not run.

I contacted Codeweaver support and they had me download a new library file: comctl32.dll.so
You have to get an access code to download this file from Codeweaver's ftp site.

After installation of the library IE would run but QuickBooks continued to flash to the screen and quit. Launching in debug mode indicated that it was having trouble finding two dll's and signature checking and image file. Discovering the post above I ran the reboot.bat file and QuickBook now works.

I have download product updates. Ran reports, invoiced, done a 941 report, paid employees and found everything to be working. The only thing I noticed was the 941 report was a little too long vertically for the screen. I then decided to register the product as it will quit after 15 uses if it is not registered. I ran into issue with the first page of the registration form. If I tried to put a space in any field like company name or address a new blank registration window appeared. I tried leaving the spaces out and then it complained that it could not validate the address. So I put underline characters where ever a space was needed. The last question on the first page of the registration form is required, but the field came up invisible. Clicking below the beginning of the line exposed a drop down list to select an answer for the question. I skipped all the marketing questions on the following pages and the product registration completed.

It looks like I spoke too soon on the QuickBooks product update.I had run and quit QuickBook a few times after doing the product update. After getting QuickBooks Pro working I purchase 4.2 Crossover Office Profession downloading and installing it. I then ran QuickBooks again and was prompted that a product update was ready for installation. I answer yes to install the update and it failed with the message "Program error: The config.ini file is not formatted correctly or there are other program errors". I have placed a support request with Codeweavers.