Sandboxie Support

Sandboxie did a great job at detecting certain apps that needed software compatibility to work normally.

I use Lingoes, a dictionary that pops up a small window at the mouse pointer when placed over a word. Lingoes v2.8.1 worked fine but it was recently updated to v2.9.1 which Sandboxie fails to detect. By the way, Lingoes runs OUTSIDE Sandboxie. So I would like to know what I need to change to get this to work again. I realise that each app will be different so is there any documentation or in-depth tutorial explaining how one would go about adding software compatibility manually? And if not, can someone kindly give me some pointers here?

Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks

The file templates.ini contains the following code:
Where did all that come from and how do I know what I need to type?

You can use Resource Access Monitor to log the system objects/resources that are accessed.

Instructions here:
http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?Reso ... essMonitor

Post your log data here in your reply and we'll see how we can ammend the compatibility settings for Lingoes.

In the meantime, I checked the program for myself.
It appears that they have changed the names of some of the program's resources.

I tested the program on XP (with Sandboxie 4.01.08 ) and had to change some of the resource names that are used in Sandboxie's template:
OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_ZWFilter_GlobaData32
OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_GrabText_GlobaData32
OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_GrabText_Mutex32

It seems likely that the 32 that I added to the above settings are the result of using a 32-bit OS, so I would recommend using a wild card character there, instead:

OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_ZWFilter_GlobaData*
OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_GrabText_GlobaData*
OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_GrabText_Mutex*
There's no guarantee that a 64-bit OS would have 64 at the end of those settings, but using a wild card character there should be OK.

You have a couple of choices.
1) You can revise the Lingoes template settings in templates.ini to add the wild card (*) character to the end of those 3 lines. Be advised though, that any changes in the templates.ini file will be overwritten if you install or re-install any Sandboxie version - at least, until these changes are made in a future Sandboxie release.

2) You could copy/paste those 3 lines into the settings for the sandbox where you use Lingoes:

[(sandbox_name)]
...
... (<- your existing settings, for the sandbox)
...
OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_ZWFilter_GlobaData*
OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_GrabText_GlobaData*
OpenIpcPath=*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_GrabText_Mutex*

If the template in templates.ini gets updated, you can come back here and remove those 3 settings.

3) You could use the Sandbox Settings GUI to enter those settings for each sandbox:
Sandbox Settings > Resource Access > IPC Access > Direct Access
Click the "Add" button and paste these settings into the window, one line at a time:
*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_ZWFilter_GlobaData*
*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_GrabText_GlobaData*
*\BaseNamedObjects*\OpenText_GrabText_Mutex*
OK your way out.

Please report back with your results if you try this.

Thank you Guest10, I included the changes you propose in version 4.01.09.