[Gtk-sharp-list] Mono / GTK# program crashing

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Simian Man <finlaysoni at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, I'm sure this is a simple problem, but as I'm new to C#, GTK, and
> Monodevelop, I can't seem to figure it out. I started by creating a new GTK#
> program which gives you a simple skeleton that opens a blank window and
> nothing else. When I try to add anything at all with the GUI designer,
> however, the program crashes with:
>
> Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set
> to an instance of an object
>   at MainWindow.Build () [0x002dd] in
> /home/ian/projects/congo-paint/gtk-gui/MainWindow.cs:83
>   at MainWindow..ctor () [0x00007] in
> /home/ian/projects/congo-paint/MainWindow.cs:8
>   at congopaint.MainClass.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00005] in
> /home/ian/projects/congo-paint/Main.cs:17
>
> The line of code in question is:
>
> this.menubar1 = ((Gtk.MenuBar)(this.UIManager.GetWidget("/menubar1")));
> this.menubar1.Name = "menubar1";
>
> I'm assuming that this.menubar1 is NULL at this point, but this code was
> automatically generated by the GUI designer, so I don't know what to do
> about it. Does anybody have any ideas?

It sounds like a bug in the MonoDevelop code generator. What
MonoDevelop version are you using?

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Michael Hutchinson
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