[Mono-list] System.Windows.Forms Form ?

[Aleksey Ryabchuk]

He is trying to run his app on Windows, so Wine is not
needed. But most likely the app will not work on this
release of Mono anyway, because of calling
conventions.

--- Jonathan Pryor <jonpryor@vt.edu> wrote:
> It should be noted that even after you get your
> application compiled, it
> won't run correctly.
> 
> At present, in order to run Windows.Forms apps, you
> need a
> specially-compiled version of Wine installed.  The
> standard Wine will
> not work with Mono.  See:
> 
> 
>
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-May/014079.html
> 
> Please note that Mono's System.Windows.Forms
> implementation is not
> complete yet, so there are likely to be programs
> that won't run under
> Mono at this time.
> 
> Alternatives to System.Windows.Forms include:
>   - Gtk#: http://www.go-mono.com/gtk-sharp.html
>   - Qt#: http://qtcsharp.sourceforge.net/
>   - SharpWT:
> http://www.sharpwt.net/OpenSource/SharpWT/
> 
> Note that the alternatives are also incomplete (but
> still being worked
> on), but are likely more complete than
> System.Windows.Forms.
> 
>  - Jon
> 
> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 07:04, Aleksey Ryabchuk wrote:
> > Hello Daniel,
> > 
> > You need to reference System.Windows.Forms
> assembly
> > from cmd line :
> > 
> > mcs -r:System.Windows.Forms.dll mywinapp.cs
> > 
> > Regards
> > Aleksey
> > 
> > --- Daniel Stutz <daniel.stutz@aplysia.ch> wrote:
> > > Hello folks
> > > 
> > > I'm new to the group of C#-developers and tried
> to
> > > use
> > > mono und Win2k.
> > > 
> > > First I did a simple console application, which
> > > compiled
> > > without problems.
> > > 
> > > Then I found an example for a form based
> application
> > > on the
> > > O'Reilly Network.
> > > 
> > > (mywinapp.cs):
> > > using System;
> > > using System.Windows.Forms;
> > > 
> > > namespace myprogs
> > > {
> > >   public class MyWinApp: Form
> > >   {
> > >     public static void Main(string[] args)
> > >     {
> > >       MyWinApp form = new MyWinApp();
> > >       Application.Run(form);
> > >     }
> > >   }
> > > }
> > > 
> > > When I try to compile the example, the followig
> > > errors
> > > are reported by mcs:
> > > mywinapp.cs(6) error CS0246: Cannot find type
> `Form'
> > > mywinapp.cs(2) error CS0246: The namespace
> > > `System.Windows.Forms' can 
> > > not be found (missing assembly reference?)
> > > Compilation failed: 2 error(s), 0 warnings
> > > 
> > > I've downloaded and installed mono with the
> setup
> > > program from the
> > > download section (mono-0.24-win32-1.exe).
> > > 
> > > Whats wrong ?
> > > Who can help me ?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Dani
> > 
> > 
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