[Mono-dev] Resource Issue

[Robert Jordan]

Robert Jordan wrote:
> Jonathan Pobst wrote:
>> I hate to just dump my project here, but I am having trouble making a 
>> standalone test case out of this.  It causes an exception when I compile 
>> in MonoDevelop and try to run on opensuse 10.3.
>>
>> For my pet project XmppApplication:
>> svn checkout http://xmppapplication.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ 
>> xmppapplication
>>
>> Compile on .net, runs on .net correctly.
>> Compile on .net, runs on opensuse 10.3 mono 1.9 correctly.
>> Compile in MD, fails on opensuse 10.3 mono 1.9 runtime with exception below.
>> Compile in MD, runs on .net correctly.
>> Compile in MD, runs on winmono 1.9 correctly.
>>
>>    at XmppApplication.Base.Properties.Resources.get_DefaultAvatar () 
>> [0x00000] in 
>> /home/jpobst/Desktop/XmppApplication/XmppApplication.Base/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs:79 
> 
> VS.NET is embedding the image this way:
> 
>    <data name="DefaultAvatar" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, 
> System.Windows.Forms">
>      <value>..\Resources\default.png;System.Drawing.Bitmap, 
> System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 
> PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
>    </data>
> 
> But I did not find any code in mono's ResX support that flips the
> backslashes. This explains why the code runs on Windows: this OS
> does not care about the \ + / mess.

Hmm, my assumption is not quite correct, since MD is converting the
ResX at compile time. Maybe the generated .resource does not contain
these images at all.

Robert