Is this possible? Launching one Wine program from another

[Nugar]

Hi all,

Recently, I got Photoshop CS4 working under Wine 1.1.24. It was portable version.

Also, I use BreezeBrowser Pro to manage my photos. Under Windows, I can set up Photoshop as my editor for BreezeBrowser, just let the program know the path and you're ready.

Is this possible under wine? I've tried:

wine "/path/to/pscs4/Photoshop.exe"

wine \"/path/to/pscs4/Photoshop.exe\"

to no avail.

Is this possible at all?

Thanks in advance,

Nugar

[rocky5051]

I couldn't see why not. The Windows version of Firefox, under Wine, can initiate other Windows applications you've downloaded from within it's download manager if you choose to do so.

I would assume the path you give CS4 would be in terms of the virtual C:\ drive, assuming you let Wine install BreezeBrowser to this directory.

You wouldn't need to include the wine command for it to do it, I believe.

[Nugar]

Thanks, Rocky. It doesn't work, I'm sorry to say.

[NightMKoder]

If you're specifying an application to launch from within a windows app - you need to specify it in windows terms. ie.

wine "/path/to/pscs4/Photoshop.exe"

becomes

"C:\Program Files\...\Photoshop.exe"

[Nugar]

Thanks NightMKoder. In this particular case it doesn't work.

Cheers,

Nugar

[cogadh]

Define "it doesn't work". What exactly happens when you do that? Is there any error output from the app or Wine?

[Nugar]

Hello cogadh,

Thanks for your post.

The way it is supposed to work is this:

• I add the path to Photoshop to the BreezeBrowser preferences as the default external editor.
• Once added, I can right-click on an image and select "edit" and Photoshop should open and in turn open the image (in my case, it opens in Adobe Camera Raw, actually)

That second step is not working. Photoshop won't open.

There are no error messages, neither from Wine, Breezebrowser nor PS. PS just won't open.

But I can live with that. Making that work would make my life easier, but not a deal-breaker.

Thanks again,

Nugar

[NightMKoder]

Can you post a wine log from trying to open it?

[Nugar]

Hmmm... I don't know how to do that!

[cogadh]

Run the app via the terminal, Wine will output its own error messages there. For example:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/path/to/app
wine app.exe

When you try to launch PS from BreezeBrowser, Wine should produce some kind of informative message in the terminal.