[Gtk-sharp-list] AccessViolationException on StatusIcon.GetGeometry on Windows

[Ricardo Gladwell]

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 20:04 +0200, Christian Hoff wrote:
> rgladwell wrote:
> > I'm calling StatusIcon.GetGeometry to place a pop-up notification. This works
> > fine on my Linux/Mono, but is failing on Windows Mono/.NET with an
> > AccessViolationException (please see attached 
> > http://www.nabble.com/file/p24257005/stacktrace.log stacktrace.log ).
> >   
> Uggh, this sounds like a bug. Are you using Windows Vista or a later 
> version?

I was getting this on Windows XP. Will check my Vista instance as well

> We've had quite some trouble with AccessViolationExceptions 
> lately. Please file a bug report at www.mono-project.com/Bugs together 
> with a small repro and the complete console output (including any 
> GLIB_CRITICALS or GLIB_WARNINGS you may get before the exception occurs).

Will do.

Also, I'd be interested to know if there was a technical reason why the
StatusIcon wasn't made a sub-class of Gtk.Widget?

-- 
Ricardo Gladwell <ricardo.gladwell at gmail.com>