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Hi everybody !

PlayOnLinux 3.7.3 is now available !

What's new for the users ?

- PlayOnLinux automatically extract icons during the installation process to use them in the main menu.
- A bug corrected preventing user from changing a program icon
- Few translations were corrected
- Definitive correction (we hope) of $PROGRAMFILES variable problem. Script are being rewritten.
- PlayOnLinux is now available in Greek (Thank you kapcom01)

A little bit more technical for the scriptors ...

- POL_LoadVar_PROGRAMFILES was created to assign the name of Program Files directory to $PROGRAMFILES variable. In few case, when the directory was called "Program Files", the following commande returned %ProgramFiles% instead of the real name, and it was the cause of many bugs in all the scrpts.

wine cmd /c echo "%ProgramFiles%"

- POL_LoadVar_PROGRAMFILES is automatically called on prefix creating. There is no need to use it in the scripts, we just need to erase old lines that cause bugs. To be sure that the scripts will be compatible with the old version, we started to replace

PROGRAMFILES=`wine cmd /c echo "%ProgramFiles%" |tr -d '\015' | tr -d '\010'`
PROGRAMFILES=${PROGRAMFILES:3}

by :

PROGRAMFILES="Program Files" 
POL_LoadVar_PROGRAMFILES

- When you make a shortcut with POL_SetupWindow_make_shortcut, if the icon argument is empty, POL will try to extract the icon from the exe file and use it.

Enjoy !

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PS. A new version of PlayOnMac is also available, and compatible with Snow Leopard

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Linux. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools. We have improved support for Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preliminary support for Internet Explorer 7 in this release, there has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the back-end.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.0 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

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What changes does Wine 1.1.38 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- Better support for memory allocations debugging.
- Improved MIDI support.
- A wide range of Direct3D fixes.
- OLEDB fixes (should fix Clipart in Office).
- Improved debugger support on x86-64.
- Many MSI fixes.
- Various bug fixes.

A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page.

To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link :

What changes does Wine 1.1.37 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- A number of fixes in AVI file support.
- Several MSXML improvements.
- A few MSI fixes.
- Various bug fixes

A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page.

To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link :

What changes does Wine 1.1.33 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- Gecko now installed at wineprefix creation time.
- Better support for certificates in crypt32.
- Improved sound support in mciwave.
- Some more Direct3D 10 functions.
- Many cleanups for issues spotted by Valgrind.
- Various bug fixes.

A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page.

To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link:

Hello everyone!

Two of the members have seen their ranks being modified:

Berillions

Although Berillions got the scriptwriter status for a few days, the related announcement hasn't been made yet. It is done now :-)
A great thank to him.

MulX

For everything he has done for PlayOnLinux since the beginning of the project, MulX just got the administrator status. This status is mostly symbolic because he already had administrator privileges for quite some time.
MulX is the one to be contacted if there is a problem and I'm not available, since he has almost the same access rights than me.

Congratulations to you two!


By Tinou

What changes does Wine 1.1.32 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- Many crypto fixes, particularly on 64-bit.
- Improved DVD access on Mac OS.
- Several common controls improvements.
- Various HTML support improvements.
- More DIB optimizations.
- Various bug fixes.


A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page

To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link:



By MulX

PlayOnLinux 3.7, the latest version of PlayOnLinux is now available.

Changes

The changes brought by PlayOnLinux 3.7 are:
- Right-clicking directly on the applications is now possible.
- The ability to change an application's icon.
- The ability to access very quicly to the installation directory of an application.
- The ability to stop all the applications run by PlayOnLinux at once.
- A new option: "playonlinux --debug <Application>" allows us to help you by providing more informations so that we can understand why <Application> doesn't work for you.
- A much improved manual installation procedure (e.g. you can choose the version of Wine to be used).

Download

If you want the generic package or if you want to know how to get PlayOnLinux in your favourite distribution, visit the download page: http://www.playonmac.com/en/download.html

A huge thank to NSLW for the help that he provided during the development.


By Tinou

Hello everyone!

Those of you who wander the forum may have noticed topics about several scripts for Steam games. The scripts were in test stage for a long time but are now ready for daily use. These scripts configure the following games:

- Half-Life 2
- Half-Life 2: Episode 1
- Half-Life 2: Episode 2
- Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
- Portal
- Team Fortress 2
- Counter Strike: Source

This last script is only an update of the previously available script for Counter Strike : Source with, in addition, a few bug fixes.
Compared to a standard installation, these Steam scripts bring an even easier installation as well as better performances, because we did select the best suited version of Wine for each game.

I want to thank in particular Obi1-46 for his graphic work (that you can see in the installers) as well as BlondVador, Panzer, Obi1-46 (one more time) and everybody else for their very exhaustive tests that allowed me to improve the scripts, and NSLW for pointing out a careless mistake of mine.

From now on, you will find these scripts directly in PlayOnLinux's "Install" menu.

A few screenshots:
[box title=HL2_1]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/121.jpg[/box][box title=HL2_2]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/122.jpg[/box][box title=Portal]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/123.jpg[/box][box title=TF2_1]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/124.jpg[/box][box title=TF2_2]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/125.jpg[/box][box title=TF2_3]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/126.jpg[/box]

Have fun :sunglasses:.

By cendre