Heidisql: Black/invisible new and more buttons on Ubuntu 16.04 and Wine 2.0.4

[ipkpjersi]

Expected behavior

I am expecting to see the new and more buttons.

Current behavior

I see black new and more buttons, and then after a few seconds they become invisible.

Failure information (for bugs)

This is a bug, just open the client and it happens. It seems that it happens only for the buttons with the drop-down menus.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open HeidiSQL

Context

• HeidiSQL version: 9.5
• Database system + version: any DB
• Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04 and Wine 2.0.4 (winehq-stable)

Failure Logs

When you open it, it looks like this:

Then after a few seconds like this:

This is the output in the terminal:

[ragnar-lodbrok]

@ipkpjersi It may be related to your video driver, not HeidiSQL
As a workaround try to run Heidi in WindowsXP mode: type winecfg in the terminal
You may also try wine staging https://wine-staging.com/installation.html

[ipkpjersi]

Your comment helped me a lot, thank you. I don't think it's my GPU drivers since NVIDIA has some pretty great propetiary drivers for Linux. Wine staging did not help. I found out that running in Windows XP mode DOES help, and I never knew about winecfg, only winetricks. It turns out I can make it so that my wine system level is Windows 10 and this specific application is Windows XP. I must admit that I am a bit perplexed why anything newer than XP/2003 results in this bug, but it does narrow it down and you did provide me with a suitable solution for my use case. Thanks again for the help.

[ansgarbecker]

This is probably still this issue in GNU Gettext for Delphi: https://sourceforge.net/p/dxgettext/bugs/80/

[ansgarbecker]

Hm, the above mentioned issue was not a _Wine_ issue but mainly on Windows, but it sounds so similar...

My just committed change may or may not help here. Please test the next build on Wine.

[ipkpjersi]

I'm unsure how to build it and likely don't have the time but if you can send me an EXE of it I can test it out.

[ansgarbecker]

The builds are automatically created via script on heidisql.com - so the exe is already there - please download from https://www.heidisql.com/download.php#nightlybuilds . Or, if that works, click Help > "Check for updates" in HeidiSQL, after connecting to some server.

[ipkpjersi]

Yup, that fixed it. Nice job! I will now close this issue.

[ansgarbecker]

Cool