Watchtower Library 2007 Forum

If you want to use WTLIB07 on your Intel Mac, this is it!

I have been using Parralells and/or VMware Fusion and/or Bootcamp, what a hastle for just one program!

This finally just works.

I had a look at Crossover about 6 months ago and didn't like it much. But now, I haven't had any problems with the 7.02 version of Crossover with WT Library 2007.

I have been using it for 2 weeks and everything seems to be working fine.

Download the free trial and see.

Well worth it.

David Peele
From the US,
Now serving where the need is great in Guyana, South America

I have been reading the forums and notice the COMCTL32 Issue.

It seems that that is no longer an issue. I installed Crossover 7.02 over an existing Crossover 6.?? install witch had a XP bottle created with WTLIB-07 installed. when I started up WTLIB everything just seems to work. the yellow pop-up text boxes show like they should and the * and M bible cross references and foot notes are normal.

I never did the comctl32.dll copy and install thing.

Did I do something wrong/right? 😊

or are these issues simply solved in Crossover 7.02?

Dave

Well, maps don't work...

clicking on one can crash the program.

Dave

David Peele wrote:

Did I do something wrong/right?

Dear Dave,

You did right! Yes, the latest version does not require a native COMCTL32. It works without. There is just a little quibble however. Sometimes the tooltips appear behind the main window. You can work around this by clicking the Home Page button (Alt+Home) then the Back button whenever it happens. Tooltips then resume popping up on top!

Regards, Roy

Roy,

Gotcha, I'm really happy with it so far.

I did notice that the 'up one level' controls in the left hand pane under "All Publications" are not there.

Any work around for that?

Thanks,
Dave

David Peele wrote:

I did notice that the 'up one level' controls in the left hand pane
under "All Publications" are not there.

Any work around for that?

Dear Dave,

Good question. The answer's yes: but it's the old COMCTL32 fix!

At present, you have two choices: (1) don't bother fixing COMCTL32 and accept the paging control limitations which you can still access via keyboard shortcuts; or (2) fix COMCTL32 and have icons with black backgrounds. To fix or not to fix COMCTL32, that is the question!

I think the answer depends on how you use the library. Some won't care about the paging features and scope-narrowing under Most Occurrences, but others will. I'm in the latter category. I've been using the software without COMCTL32 for a while but I miss the sorting and scoping features of search. So now I'm back on native COMCTL32. The How-To is in Tips & Tricks. The fix looks worse than it really is!

Regards, Roy

Brother Peele:
Have you found that the maps in 'See the Good Land' are up? I have a trial version of 7.0.2, and I couldn't find my 2007 disk, so I installed 2006. All worked well, except for the maps. I have looked in the threads, and I can't see a clear confirmation that the maps do indeed work. I will get a 2007 disk from a bro or sis soon, so just wondering what to expect. Running a MacBook Pro intel (couldn't use my virtual PC anymore). Thanks!

Bill FitzGibbon wrote:

Have you found that the maps in 'See the Good Land' are up?

Dear Bill,

Take a look at the Tips & Tricks section under the heading What Doesn't Work? The short answer is: no, maps do not currently work.

Regards, Roy

I too am using Crossover 7.0.2 and have had great success with it, thanks in no small part to Roy's excellent help. We are serving in Mexico English and Crossover has helped many to switch to Mac.

I also use the programs from tswintm.com for Ministry School, Secretary, and public talks. All work extremely well with no modifications needed.

What I could use some help with is installing something that would allow me to "print" from Crossover to a pdf file. Since the OS X print window doesn't come up there is no native print-to-pdf facility. I hear Vista has that, copying Apple again, but our WinXP bottles don't.

I tried to add a free utility I found but was unsuccessful at loading it in my Crossover sandbox.

Any ideas, tips, tricks?

Thanks in advance!

Frederick L. Dick
Manzanillo Inglés, Manzanillo, Colima, México

Frederick D. wrote:

Any ideas, tips, tricks?

I've posted a little guide in the Tips & Tricks section, at the end. Hope it helps.

Best wishes, Roy

That is totally awesome! Thank you so much for posting that!

You are right, not quite as easy as in OS X, but a reasonable alternative. I continue to be very impressed by your knowledge of the product.

Thank you very much. I'm going to pass this on to others I've "converted" to Crossover and the Mac.

One happy camper,

Frederick L. Dick

There's another possible option. There's a free third-party tool called CUPS-PDF, which creates a virtual printer in Mac OS X which prints to a PDF file. Once that printer is created, it's available to Windows programs running in CrossOver just like any other printer.

Awesome! Thanks Ken! It is nice to know that Codeweavers is monitoring the forums too. I appreciate all the product support. This is one of the BEST supported products I have used, and I've been on Mac since 1986.

Please keep up the good work Codeweavers!

Yours truly,

FLD

If you have a command line PS/PDF converter, you can follow the directions in the hints & tips for changing the LPT registry entry, but instead of hardcoding a path to a PS file, pipe it to the converter.

For instance, pstopdf appears to be part of Leopard(?) and is at /usr/bin/pstopdf. Since that is in my PATH, I just put this in the registry:
|pstopdf -i -o ~/Desktop/date '+Wine%y%m%d%H%M%S'.pdf

Since CrossOver is running in your user account, there doesn't appear to be a need to put "/Users/yourname/..." You can just use "~" instead. Notice, too, that I decided to use the date command to create a unique PDF file name ("Wine081031144732.pdf" for example). You could get even more elaborate and write a bash script that uses AppleScript to prompt for a file name and location to save the PDF to. I just don't have the time to write it myself. 😉

jecwobble wrote:

If you have a command line PS/PDF converter, you can follow the
directions in the hints & tips for changing the LPT registry entry,
but instead of hardcoding a path to a PS file, pipe it to the
converter.

It's a good suggestion. Thanks. You can also avoid temporary files altogether by piping to open -f -a Preview. Option f tells Mac launch services to read the pipe from standard input, option a specifies the Preview application. I've updated the Tips & Tricks to include this idea.

Regards, Roy

Dear Dave,

Just wondering about the audio when a word is highlighted. The click and go to refrences and speaker does not work on my unit however when going to the insight book and clicking on the speaker for annunciation does work. Just a convience that would be nice but not and extreme necessity.

John

Dear Frederick,
I noticed you mentioned that tswintm works on your mac with crossover 7.0.2. I have 7.1.0 and cant get wintm to work. Can you give me some direction on this.

Thank you Tony Perea

Hi Everyone,

I've been pining after a way to install the WT library on my Mac for several years now. I can't believe I haven't come across this information sooner! Only, I'm a little worried about messing with codes and whatever -- I have no clue what I'm doing. I'm an interpreter -- to me syntax means grammar and code means how interpreters talk to each other so none of our clients understand what we're saying. Fun, but not really relevant to installing the WT library. It would be really nice to work on a talk for once without having to borrow my roommate's laptop, if she's home, or haul out the big, heavy books if she's not, while desperately wishing that hard copies had a search feature.

So, I've been poking around here for a bit looking for a tutorial that I can understand, and I haven't found anything that meets me where I am yet (like, maybe some crayon drawings and an animated giraffe that talks in a really soothing voice). Can anyone point me toward the "Installing The Library for Dummies, or for Smart People Who Know Where Their Talents Lie, and Where They Do Not Lie" handbook? Thank you!!

Windy Sue

I believe that most of WTL 2007 just installs and works with CrossOver at this time. There were some issues that required 'scary' workarounds and there may still be a few bugs... so, I'll pull out my crayons and try to make this easy...

Load CrossOver onto your doc station so that the title bar at the top of your screen says 'CrossOver'

To the left of 'CrossOver' on the title bar it will say 'Configure'

Highlight 'Configure' and choose 'Install Software...'

When the CrossOver install wizard starts a window will open, one of the buttons at the bottom should say 'Install Unsupported Software...'

Click the 'Unsupported Software' Button

The next screen will be a warning about unsupported software, click 'Continue'

at 'Install into...' choose 'New bottle' and then click 'Create Bottle and Continue'

Name your bottle something memorable and then verify it is set to bottle type 'winXP'

Click 'Create', this will start the bottle creation process

Once the bottle has been created you will be brought to the window that will access the Watch Tower Library Installer, for this step, you will need to have the Watch Tower Library disk in the drive (if you have not already put it there, when you insert it the CrossOver 'autorun' feature will start in addition to the install process you have already started, just quite the 'autorun' feature)

Select 'Choose installer File...' and click 'Install'

This will open a 'Finder' browser that will let you point CrossOver at the executable installer file.

Highlight the Watch Tower Library disk and then choose the installer file from that disk

Click 'use this installer' and CrossOver will load the installer.

Now, you are at the Watch Tower Library Installer, it should walk you through the rest of the installation process.

If you have any further questions, please send us an email at info@codeweavers.com or open a support ticket and we will be glad to help.

Cheers!

Sorry Antonio! I did not see your post.

I'm not sure what I did to have WinTM work. It just does for me. There are more current versions where the author has fixed a few items to work with WINE.

Maybe just try again. I've had WinTM working since v6.x.x of Crossover.

You can contact me offline at manzanillo dot english at gmail dot com if you like. I would be glad to help you.

I also use TSWin and the author's program Talks. I've been so happy with the products I have even sent a contribution for them.

FLD