HOWTO GET DREAMWEAVER 3/4 WORKING ON LINUX WITH CROSSOVER OFFICE Originally written by Arend van Beelen Jr. Modified by D. Scott Barninger 7 October 2002 1. You need to have CrossOver Office installed on your system (version 1.2.0 as of this writing). 2. You need to have installed MS Office in CrossOver Office (the primary thing it was meant for :-). You can, however, avoid this by installing DCOM95 from the CrossOver Office setup menu. 3. Now make sure you give the installer of Dreamweaver a filename which does not contain any spaces. I'm not sure, but you should also make sure the full directory path doesn't contain spaces. 4. You can now run the Dreamweaver installer from CrossOver Office. The install will go quite smoothly. On the end it seemed to hang, but finally the installer window disappeared and CrossOver came up with a window saying I should press Done when then installation was complete. 5. On my installation there was even an entry in my application menu with the icon of Dreamweaver. Though you might want to decide to put the link in a more logical folder. 6. Soon you will find out the icon with Dreamweaver doesn't work; Dreamweaver will whine it can't find its resources file. You can avoid this in two ways, but the most userfriendly one is to create a link in your homedirectory to Dreamweaver's config directory: ln -s ~/cxoffice/support/dotwine/fake_windows/Program\ Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver\ 4/Configuration ~/Configuration The other way is to go to the directory where Dreamweaver is installed and run the program from the console each time: cd ~/cxoffice/support/dotwine/fake_windows/Program\ Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver\ 4 ~/cxoffice/bin/wine ./Dreamweaver.exe *** KNOWN ISSUES AND WORKAROUNDS *** 1. Don't use the color picker from the Properties bar, it will crash the program. Instead, you should use the color picker from the menu Text->Color. 2. When starting up you might get a startup error. This is not harmful. It is actually a nag to register the software. Unfortunately this error might be hidden behind the startup screen. To close it, close the Dreamweaver entry in your taskbar. The program will continue loading then. 3. When opening a new window, focus problems occur. You will have to minimize other Dreamweaver windows to get good focus. Also, if you have focus set to follow the mouse you will find that all of the tool pallettes disappear when you move the mouse out of the document window. You will need to reset focus on your system to follow mouse click. 4. When closing a window, make sure other Dreamweaver windows are maximized again. Otherwise, rendering problems might occur. 5. After you have closed a window, it is possible you can't click anymore on the menu of other windows, you will have to use the Alt+ combinations to access the menu. Hope CodeWeavers will solve these problems soon, so keep voting for Dreamweaver on appdb.codeweavers.com :-)