Watchtower Library 2007 Forum

Thank you very much for showing us how to use WL2007 on Mac. I've recently switched my machine to Mac. So far I am using Cross Over games version 7 to run both WL2007 English and WL2007 Japanese.
However, It seems that they don't synchronize each other because they don't recognize each other.
Do you know anything about this matter?
Thanks.

taka noz wrote:

Do you know anything about this matter?

Hi Taka. You are very welcome.
Although not with the Japanese edition, I find the same problem between English and Chinese: synchronisation doesn't work. I haven't found out why not as yet. I've not had time to look at it closely enough. I suspect it might just be one of those minor things that do not work. But I'll get back to you if I find anything out.
Regards, Roy

Thanks Roy for your generous effort to help us out.
Synchronize feature is very vital since my mother tongue and language of the cong is different...
Anyways, I am looking forward to hearing from you!
taka in Japan

Hello Roy, I am setting up a Macbook for my Grandmother w/ WT Lib. and saw your mention of the free Crossover Games for users of Crossover for Mac. Is this promotion over? I have been using a version of Crossover for a little over a year so maybe my version is too old. Thanks for the solutions so far...
Micah

Roy, I have few ideas regarding running WTLIB on *nix, and need your help. I'd like to discuss it privately, I just was not able to find a way to contact member here privately. My contact address is tarasov.igor at gmail dot com. Hope on hearing from you soon.

And since this message is kinda off-topic, feel free to delete it.

Thanx,
YB.

TiGR wrote:

Roy, I have few ideas regarding running WTLIB on *nix, and need your
help. I'd like to discuss it privately, I just was not able to find
a way to contact member here privately. My contact address is
tarasov.igor at gmail dot com. Hope on hearing from you soon.

Dear TiGR,

I'm more than happy to help as best I can. I'm also very keen to keep the help public and on this forum. Not because I don't want to help but because helping everyone individually can take a lot of time.

If our mutual discussion can assist others, then much better that we make it available for the others. What do you think? Bottom line, let's try opening a new thread on this forum. Post your problem and let's see where we go. Of course, I might not be the only one that can help you. I feel sure others will have valuable input too.

On the other hand, if it turns out that your problem is so very specific to yourself then we can switch to private direct e-mails. On the other, other hand! Does it concern development work? In that case, private might be preferrable.

Best wishes,
Roy

Micah Yeaman wrote:

Is this promotion over?

Dear Micah,

Sorry about the late reply. I've been quite busy lately. Anyway, the simple answer is that (assuming you have a current subscription) you should find a link to "CrossOver Games 7.0.0 for Mac" in your account under My Downloads.

CodeWeavers have kindly given us free access to the games-optimised version of CrossOver, indefinitely as far as I can tell. Exactly what happens if you sign up now for CrossOver Mac, do you automatically get Games version freely? My guess is yes. Still, it might be worth dropping them a quick question by e-mail: their support is excellent. Then perhaps you can post the answer here.

Best wishes,
Roy

Hi... I just got an email that CrossOver version 7 is available today. I had gotten Watchtower Library working on version 6 with your previously posted instructions. I just downloaded version 7, but before I install it on my MacBook I wanted to make sure it will not mess up my currently working version of Watchtower Library. What can I expect when installing the newer version? Any tips would be appreciated, I'm sure many people will be dealing with this over the next few days. Thanks! Jasmine 😊

Jasmine wrote:

but before I install it on my MacBook I wanted to make sure it will
not mess up my currently working version of Watchtower Library.
What can I expect when installing the newer version? Any tips would
be appreciated, I'm sure many people will be dealing with this over
the next few days.

Good thinking Jasmine!

I've posted a tip entitled Upgrading to CrossOver Pro 7 in the usual Tips & Tricks section. I recommend installing from new rather than unpatching an existing installation. I think it's the least error prone, most consistent way to arrive at a level playing field, so to speak.

Best wishes,
Roy

Yes, it includes some development work. I've been helping developing wine a bit lately. But my skills and experience in C are very, very limited. I've made 2 patches, and helped on other bugs, so now wine displays tooltips, favourites and reference works work, and also no bug with statusbar.

Also, I've created russian site discussing problems of installing wtlib on wine:

http://wiki.polosatus.ru/wtlib/onlinux/

Just want to say thanks to Roy, manage to get Watchtower 2007 to work properly on OpenSuse 10.3 using the comctl32.dll on my window disc and deleting "dead beef" manifest.

Thanks
Mark

I have a Mac mini with a G4 I was wondering if there is any way to run watchtower Library 2007 on a G4.
Anything suggestions, thanks

2 questions here:

• has anyone compared how much memory/resources are used on a mac when running the WTLib in Crossover as compared to running Parallels & WTLib?

• When running WTLib under XP in Parallels on my Mac, I can open as many copies of the WTLib as I want. Does anyone know if you can open more than 1 copy or window containing the WTLib when running it under Crossover?

You could always create another bottle. Each bottle is a separate environment.

FLD

You should also be able to run additional instances using the Run Command dialog. Or even just duplicate the launcher helper application (the icon that CrossOver creates for WTLib in ~/Applications/CrossOver). It's actually Mac OS X which tries to prevent a single application from being launched multiple times. Making a copy and launching that side-steps this limitation.

Sory to change the topic.

I have Watchtower Reader 2007
Running on Windows Vista with office 2007

Can anyone help me copy the Bible Rbi8 with the * and M markings onto Office Word or PDF? or Can anyone help me extract the contecnt from the PUB files into a readable format?

I'm part of a team trying to improve a program for PDAs and we need the RBi8 with the marks for some of the languages we provide the program in.
If you would rather contact me by email or private message please do?

Your help is appreciated.

Hi to all..... It is possible to install Watchtower Library 2007 using Watchtower Library 2005 instead of using Watchtower 2006. At this point, i use Linux BackTrack (KDE) and i don't have WTLIB 2006. I only have here is WTLIB 2005 and i am a new Linux user. So do you think it is possible to install my Watchtower Library 2007 using WTLIB 2005? Thanks.....

Saavedra Mostajuachs wrote:

So do you think it is possible to install my Watchtower Library 2007
using WTLIB 2005?

Dear Saavedra,

I'm not clear about what you're trying to do. You only have the 2005 CD-ROM, it seems. In that case, how can you install 2007? You would need a 2007 edition CD-ROM!

Could you provide more information?

Kind regards, Roy

Gud day Roy!!!!

What im saying is about this:

(Date: 2008-01-30 10:00 edited by Roy Ratcliffe on 2008-01-30 10:02)
"The best workaround is to install 2006 edition Watchtower Reader then replace the data files with those from the 2007 Library edition. For details, see the "2007 data with 2006 software" thread in this forum."

like i said before, i don't have 2006 WTLIB to use, I only have here are 2007 WTLIB and WTLIB 2006, but i couldn't installed the WTLIB 2007 on Linux OS, but when i read your comments in this forum, it is possible to install WTLIB 2007 using watchtower reader 2006, but the problem is, there is no available WTLIB 2006, only WTLIB 2005 and 2007 are available. That's why i ask is it possible to install WTLIB 2007 on linux OS (backtrack) using WTLIB 2005? Thanks a lot......

Saavedra Mostajuachs wrote:

I only have here are 2007 WTLIB and WTLIB 2006

Ah, so you have two CD-ROMs: 2005 and 2007. I see. You should then be able to install just 2007. This is your best option. It should install without problems.

In answer to your question regarding mixing 2005 with 2007 though, I don't know. I don't have the 2005 CD-ROM anymore myself to try it out. My guess is that it will work. It should be easy to test. Just follow the instructions in the Tips & Tricks section, under heading 2007's Data with 2006's Reader and CrossOver 6.2.1. Just follow the instructions albeit replacing 2006 with 2005! I'd be interested to know if it works.

Best wishes, Roy

Hi,
Thank you for the tips! I recently installed watchtower 2007 and it runs pretty well, even without adding any windows files.
However, when I installed the Chinese edition, most of the characters did not display correctly. They appeared as smiley faces and boxes, instead of chinese characters.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Chris
Edison Chinese, NJ

It may help to install the Core Fonts package into the bottle. It's considered a "dependency" package, which is normally hidden. On the Mac, you can go to CrossOver's preferences dialog, on the Installer Assistant tab, and uncheck "Hide service packs and dependencies". Then you will see the Core Fonts package in the Software Installer window. See if installing that helps.

Hello Roy:
you seem to have the acumen towards mac's ive been a pc user since its inception..........my laptop is fried
will any of the newer macbooks actually run the wt libraries......look forward to your answer

regards,

Terry M

terry mogel wrote:

will any of the newer macbooks actually run the wt
libraries......look forward to your answer

Well, the answer depends on what you mean by "actually" run the Watchtower Library. It's a Windows-only program, so never actually runs on Macs in the truly "native" sense of the word. CrossOver runs an Open Source tool called Wine which emulates native Windows. It works well, but not perfectly and not natively. By native I mean as software that was specifically designed for Macintosh, built using Apple's developer tools, interfacing to Cocoa and other Mac-specific frameworks. Watchtower Library does none of that, unfortunately. Maybe one day. I've always fancied doing it myself. But the software uses proprietary encoding on the library data files (possibly encryption too, hard to tell) but nothing that can easily and legally be decoded by third-parties. We'll just have to wait for the society. Of course, they have plenty of other things to do!

I digress. There are a few ways to run the Library on Macs: CrossOver is the lightest way because it does not require you to install a virtual machine, nor have a Windows license; CrossOver's Wine component replaces Windows from Microsoft. But there are other ways, e.g. VirtualBox from Sun, Parallels and VMware. These and others like them are the only ways to run Windows applications on Macs, including the new ones.

I can't imagine that Apple will ever support Windows applications without some sort of emulation (if that's what you're meaning). They're as different as chalk and cheese underneath the hood. Macs are BSD Unix running a lot of Apple-proprietary toolkits and components. Windows is, well, something entirely different. I think they always will be incompatible (by design).

But, from my point of view, don't let that put you off choosing Mac!

Hope that helps, Roy

thank you very much for supporting watch tower library on my new apple. this was the only thing that i was afraid of, when i switched from windows to osx. once again: thank you very,very much.

nice greetings from austria

i have install watchtower library 2007 no problems in the macpro books using linux as a second os all you has to do is partition your mac and install a copy of ubuntu 8.10 linux in the second partition once you do that install wine and mscorefonts under add programs and put wtcd in and setup using wine and that-it

I have had WT08 installed on my MAC and running under the croos over but cannot get the new version of WTL to run. All I get is an icon on my dashboard - any ideas?

Hi Wesley, Have you tried Watchtower Library for Mac? It supports the 2009 edition.