[Mono-dev] Gtk# 2.8.4 runtime for windows?

[Alan McGovern]

Hi,

You can work around it by using reflection to test whether that event
exists, and if it does you can then register a handler to it. That way
you can use the new feature without having to lose compatibility with
2.8.

Alan.

2008/4/16 Vladimir Dimitrov <vlad.dimitrov at gmail.com>:
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> Hey guys I have been running In some deadlock lately using the different
> versions of GTK# that are available around here. In GTK 2.10 there is cool
> feature (Glib.ExceptionManager.UnhandledException) that enables you to
> subscribe to that event and handle any unhandled exceptions your application
> can encounter. Before that feature was available I used just a try {} catch
> block around Application.Run and was able to catch the thrown exception and
> log it. But now that this feature is available Application.Run is not
> throwing any exceptions but instead you get  a message in the Console
> saying:
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> "Exception in Gtk# callback delegate"
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> "  Note: Applications can use GLib.ExceptionManager.UnhandledException to
> handle the exception."
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> So the only way to get the exception now is to use that event which is fine.
> The problem comes when you want  to use the minimal version possible to get
> this feature so people with older installations of mono/gtk# don't get
> cutoff. The new Ubuntu 8.4 that is almost ready has a version of gtk# in its
> repository (and Debian using backports) which has assemblies with version
> 2.8.0.0 that has this event. Somehow I never got the connection between GTK+
> and GTK# versions since this feature is supposed to be in 2.10.
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> Now the question is there a place where I can get the 2.8.4 runtimes for
> windows since this is my build and developing environment? 2.8.3-x packages
> are available around (from Medisphere) but they don't contain that feature.
> And I have seen the code for 2.8.4 that has this implemented. And if I build
> against a newer version of GTK# (say 2.10) I will have to write HOWTO's and
> explain people how to install the latest mono for the next 6 months until
> Ubuntu and the rest of the most used distros gets it in their repository.
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> Thanks,
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>  Vladimir Dimitrov
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