- Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:29 am #531288 I’ve been able to convert VRC to run on current Macs using the Wine environment, and am trying to get TwrTrainer converted.

In doing that, I know that it’s using VBasic runtime 6, and can get it to start up, and give the login credential message, but I get a problem from Wine when I have asked the program to open an .apt file (even the sample one).

I’m hoping you could tell me what the dependencies are for TwrTrainer. Knowing those, I have a fighting chance at the conversion. If it works, I can roll up a stand-alone Mac version that could be distributed.

Am trying with even less success at present to do same for vSTARS and vATIS, same info would be helpful too.

Thanks for having written and maintained these!

- Mon Mar 11, 2019 3:31 pm #531295 Do you get an error?

Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy
Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC

- Mon Mar 11, 2019 3:49 pm #531296 Yes, but it is an error from Wine, not from TwrTrainer. "run-time error 445 object doesn't support this action"

- Mon Mar 11, 2019 4:41 pm #531298 It's been many years since I wrote TWRTrainer and I have no idea what dependencies it may need on a Wine system, but a search of the forums here revealed that some users were able to get it to work on some systems after installing and registering the following activex controls:

mswinsck.ocx
msflxgrd.ocx
comdlg32.ocx

Maybe you need these files?

Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy
Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC

- Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:48 am #531315 Got them, still same problem.

- Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:54 am #531316 No idea then, sorry!

Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy
Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC

- Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:55 am #531317 You recall whether you used VB5, VB6, or what? Should be fairly vanilla I’d think.

- Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:05 am #531318 It was vb6.

Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy
Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC