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BrightAuthor in Wine or Crossover

Roland TL

November 26, 2014 18:32

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Hello

Since BrightAuthor is still not OSX or Linux compatible, did anybody ever try to run BrightAuthor in WineSkin oder Crossover? This might be an easy and free solution for this problem.

https://www.winehq.org

https://www.codeweavers.com/products/

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  Adam December 12, 2014 13:45

  I am trying to make this work. I can get the install file to open in winebottler but the wheels have been spinning for awhile when it tries to create the app. I may skip the app creation and see if wine will just run it if this doesn't work.

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  GD January 17, 2015 12:48

  I run BrightAuthor in VirtualBox on Mac, works great.

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  Adam March 09, 2019 09:18

  I have BA working in Wine (just this moment)

  it may have taken a while , but its working. will test it a bit more and work out  a way to document it. let me know if anyone wants info

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  Bright Scripters March 09, 2019 14:23

  Thanks for sharing Adam. Are you running Wine in Linux, or other OS?

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  Adam March 09, 2019 21:15

  OSX 10.13
  Possible it will work in Linux but I don’t have a Linux machine ( that isn’t headless) to test with

  I’m playing with packaging it into a .app application for easy of use

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  Bright Scripters March 10, 2019 13:34

  Brilliant!

  I'd be happy to take it for a spin, along with many other users.

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  Lee Patrick September 14, 2019 19:48

  I'm looking for any further details to run BrightAuthor in WineBottler/Wine. Any update on this thread? I'm having trouble creating a BrightAuthor app in WineBottler. I'm not sure if I'm choosing the right settings. Any help or insight would be appreciated!

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  Adam September 14, 2019 23:58

  I was just working on this again last night, i have it working well in Wine, i have been trying to package it so that i can give it to people but it continues to fail when moved to a new machine. wine bottler and cross over both fail to launch at all. I have decided to make a simple install script for Wine so the process would be to first install wine and then use my instructions / script to create a prefix and install BA. not the one click method i was hoping for but will likely do the job. once i have this working i will create a repo to share the script

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  Bright Scripters September 16, 2019 09:26

  This is great effort, and thanks for sharing.

  There is also a Mac/Windows/Web solution that BrightSign are working on, and about to release a public Beta.

  https://www.brightsign.biz/digital-signage-products/coming-soon/brightauthorconnected

   

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  Lee Patrick September 17, 2019 01:36

  A Mac/web solution sounds great, too! Looking forward to all these potential solutions!