Running the Uniden Sentinel (BCD436HP/BCD536HP) programming software didn’t work on Wine when I was running on X on Ubuntu 24.04. After installing several versions of Wine with no joy, winetricksing random things, switching to the Intel non-free graphics driver, and more reinstalls than I want to remember, I finally hit upon success.
My problem was that, after I’d started the BCDx36HP.exe, I’d see a dialog box. Then the editor window would come up. And then… the editor window would disappear.
The breakthrough came when I realized I could drag the editor window as it was drawing, and it would redraw correctly and stay on the screen. However, it would redecorate from the classic look to a more modern look.
So… I turned that setting off under the Graphics tab of winecfg:
Once I’d done that, the usual instructions for using Sentinel worked.