Noteliner

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Re: Noteliner

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Iggy64 wrote:Thanks for the suggestions. I have put fresh copies of the Visual C++ dlls into the System32 folder in Wine, and I have reduced the number of error messages down to two.

The first error involves msvcm80.dll. There is definitely a copy of that dll in the System32 folder, and it is the same dll that I have on my WinXP machine, where Noteliner runs fine.

Iggy64 wrote: john@Laptop-61SXY91:/media/KINGSTON/Software/Noteliner2$ wine Noteliner.exe
err:module:attach_process_dlls "msvcm80.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
Try installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable normally (download the installer and run it with Wine). IIRC, Microsoft intentionally keeps these libraries from loading if they're loaded in a "wrong" way.
Iggy64 wrote: The second error has something to do with "LdrInitializeThunk Main exe", and I have no clue what that is or what it means. (As noted earlier, I just started playing with Linux a week or so ago.) The text below is the actual message I get when I try to install Noteliner from my thumb drive under Wine on Xubuntu 11.10.
Iggy64 wrote: err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\media\\KINGSTON\\Software\\Noteliner2\\Noteliner.exe" failed, status c0000142
Sorry, no idea about that. :(
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Re: Noteliner

#17 Post by I am Baas »

Have you tried to put the .dll files in the application folder (where the Noteliner .exe file is)?
Also, feed the error message text into google search.

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Re: Noteliner

#18 Post by Iggy64 »

Yes, the very first thing I tried was putting all the dlls into the folder with the Noteliner.exe file. That did not work. I subsequently tried putting them directly onto the virtual C: drive, in the Windows folder. That didn't work. I subsequently learned (by comparing with my Windows computer) that I had put some of them into the wrong path. Eventually, I tried installing Visual C by means of vcrun2005, with no luck. Then I tried using the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 distribution, and that seemed to do the trick. The error messages concerning Visual C finally were gone.

Alas, I then started getting errors concerning .NET. Wine asked me to install the Windows version of Mono. Thinking that Mono is the Linux version of .NET, I guessed that the "Windows version of Mono must be .NET. So I installed .NET 2.0 (since that is the highest Gold version available). That triggered a host of "fixme" and "err" messages the likes of which has not been seen since Hannibal crossed the Alps.

So I have created a fresh Wine prefix and will start from scratch tonight. I'll try installing the .NET and Visual C on a fresh prefix. I read somewhere that they may install much better on a fresh prefix.

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Re: Noteliner

#19 Post by Iggy64 »

Apparently, I now have Noteliner running well in Ubuntu 11.10, under Wine. For me, the critical steps were:

Start with a fresh Wine prefix (this appears to be very important).

Then, from the terminal
winetricks dotnet20 (the .NET framework required by Noteliner)

and then
winetricks vcrun2005 (the Visual C runtime required by Noteliner).

After that, a simple
wine Noteliner.exe
launched the portable app.

My earlier attempts to install .NET and Visual C directly with the Windows distributions (using Wine) did not provide a usable prefix. Neither did copying the required dlls from my Windows machine. Only the winetricks approach was successful, and only with a fresh prefix.

I have not yet tested every aspect of Noteliner in Ubuntu, but all the basic stuff is running fine, and I haven't found any glitches yet.

I like Noteliner as a simple one-pane outliner. There are not many of these around, especially for Linux.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions. They all helped me start learning about portable apps and Linux.

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Re: Noteliner

#20 Post by webfork »

Old thread update: The program was updated last back in 2011 according to Softpedia, but it's still nice.

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It takes a little getting used to but it works great in my tests on Win7x64.

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#21 Post by smaragdus »

Noteliner is not portable- it writes massively to registry and I had to delete a lot of registry keys. I wonder why this thread has not been moved to Freeware That Are Not Portable sub-forum.

The web-site is gone, it can be viewed at the internet archive.

The last released version of Noteliner is 3.6.3b.

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smaragdus wrote:Noteliner is not portable- it writes massively to registry and I had to delete a lot of registry keys. I wonder why this thread has not been moved to Freeware That Are Not Portable sub-forum.
Whoops. I just assumed it was portable. All set.

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Re: Noteliner

#23 Post by smaragdus »

@webfork
Thanks.

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#24 Post by TalkOrBell »

Not able to DL from Wayback Machine but found the 3.6.3b here-

https://download.cnet.com/Noteliner/300 ... 28353.html

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TalkOrBell wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:59 pm Not able to DL from Wayback Machine but found the 3.6.3b here-

https://download.cnet.com/Noteliner/300 ... 28353.html
Thanks for that -- I didn't maintain a copy on my system and I was unable to find another mirror so I guess download.com is the only available location. If anyone has a copy locally or hashes of the included files, please post.

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Re: Noteliner

#26 Post by webfork »

Old thread update:

Some of the links in this thread no longer seem to be working so posting a Softpedia mirror: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-to ... iner.shtml ... which seems to suggest the last update was 2011.

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