[Gtk-sharp-list] Gtk libraries

[Doug Blank]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Elmar Haneke <elmar at haneke.de> wrote:
>
>> This is useful information! Where did you get your binaries? What
>> versions are you using? Are they pre-built somewhere? I really just
>> need the Mac and Windows fixes for the above issues.
>
> I'm using the binaries from www.gtk.org.
>
>> The only binaries available on the site mentioned above are 2.24.
>
> There are several binaries available once you have a look at the
> FTP-Server linked from the summary page:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/
>
> Perhaps the 2.22 binary does help.

Thank you, thank you! Mono/MonoDevelop should come with these, but if
not, *every* system that deploys Gtk on Windows should use these
binaries. It is a shame that hard work has gone into fixing these
bugs, but they haven't made their way into all of the places that they
should.

I copied the binaries from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+_2.22.1-1_win32.zip

into my deployed mono\bin directory, and that appears to work with all
testing so far. (If anyone knows of a potential incompatibility please
let us know.)

The most important fix for us was that we can now use the clipboard to
copy text out of our application.

-Doug

PS - not sure where these suggestions should go, but:

* Gtk download page should not have an incompatible 2.24 as the default.
* There should be a clear delineation between <= 2.22 and >= 2.24.
Mixing these together is a bad idea.
* Mono/MonoDevelop should work to get the latest Gtk bug fixes into the mix
* Else, this should be documented on the Mono/GtkSharp/MonoDevelop pages

We try to be good citizens of using open source, so if there is
something more that we can do, please let me know.

-Doug

>> Thanks for this information... it seems that it is critical to know
>> these details to deploy Gtk-sharp.
>
> I foung the change that CellRendererCombo does no longer return an
> ComboBoxEntry on StartEdit. In 2.24 ther is an new Combo-Widget,
> presumably that widget is returned
>
>> Could someone make a gtk-2.24 addon for MD? Is it possible?
>
> There is no Gtk-sharp containing the extensions made in 2.24. I would
> assume that the working on Gtk3-support does not permit the Gtk-sharp
> developers to adopt to 2.24. If really needed you have to build it on
> your own.
>
> Elmar
>
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