This may be a bit of a round-about way to answer your questions, so please bear with me.
The "Microsoft Windows" enviroment is a complete operating system, while "Wine" is a basic compatability layer between some (most) application level Win16/32 APIs and a Unixish operating system. There sometimes are things that do not or cannot translate between Windows and Wine. Having said that, Wine has an excellent track record of being able to run most "user level" Windows applications under Linux. However, Wine has difficulties with applications that perform direct access to hardware or install and use system level DLLs.
Your "Home Domination" software may fall into this category. If Wine doesn't know how to access the X10 controller through Linux then "Home Domination" won't be able to access the controller through Wine.
Having said all that, I will point out that the WineHQ has built a lot of capability into Wine, and it may just be a setting problem rather than an impossibility.
So, have you tried (and can you) run other Windows programs with Wine? Can you, for instance, get Wine to run Notepad.exe? If so, then your Wine is probably configured correctly and it may just be the "Home Domination" application that can't run.
Now, to answer your specific questions:]
1) Should I run the Home Domination setup program to add it to Linux?
You can run the setup program, but all that should do is install the application. As far as I know, it wont add the application to your Linux menus
2) Should I just call the Application’s EXE from the Windows directory?
This is how I would run the application
If you can tell us more about how your Wine is set up, we might be able to help get the program to run. Also, Wine can capture debugging information that would assist in determining what the problem with "Home Domination" is. If you can post your wineconfig file and the log of your execution of "Home Domination", we might be able to give you a more definitive answer.
BTW, WineHQ also provides a set of libraries ("winelib") that you can use on a linux system to compile Windows programs and have them run natively on Linux. The author of "Home Domination" would only have to recompile on a Linux system to get a native linux app, if the app runs at all under Wine.
HTH
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Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/) Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.
Wine and X10 home control
This may be a bit of a round-about way to answer your questions, so please bear with me.
The "Microsoft Windows" enviroment is a complete operating system, while "Wine" is a basic compatability layer between some (most) application level Win16/32 APIs and a Unixish operating system. There sometimes are things that do not or cannot translate between Windows and Wine. Having said that, Wine has an excellent track record of being able to run most "user level" Windows applications under Linux. However, Wine has difficulties with applications that perform direct access to hardware or install and use system level DLLs.
Your "Home Domination" software may fall into this category. If Wine doesn't know how to access the X10 controller through Linux then "Home Domination" won't be able to access the controller through Wine.
Having said all that, I will point out that the WineHQ has built a lot of capability into Wine, and it may just be a setting problem rather than an impossibility.
So, have you tried (and can you) run other Windows programs with Wine? Can you, for instance, get Wine to run Notepad.exe? If so, then your Wine is probably configured correctly and it may just be the "Home Domination" application that can't run.
Now, to answer your specific questions:]
If you can tell us more about how your Wine is set up, we might be able to help get the program to run. Also, Wine can capture debugging information that would assist in determining what the problem with "Home Domination" is. If you can post your wineconfig file and the log of your execution of "Home Domination", we might be able to give you a more definitive answer.
BTW, WineHQ also provides a set of libraries ("winelib") that you can use on a linux system to compile Windows programs and have them run natively on Linux. The author of "Home Domination" would only have to recompile on a Linux system to get a native linux app, if the app runs at all under Wine.
HTH
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)
Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.