[Mono-list] OS X, mono-1.1.4, and managed forms

[Peter Dennis Bartok]

Thomas,

This is the wrong list. Winforms related stuff should go to 
mono-winforms-list@ximian.com

Also, the OS X driver is early alpha, has no keyboard support yet,  and is 
by no means complete. And, it's not a 'team', but a single guy doing it on 
the side. He'd probably welcome your constructive criticism in form of 
patches :-)

As for menus, ultimately we will shoot for using the OS X menu bar, but 
initially it will be application drawn.

Cheers,
  Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: "Thomas E. Vaughan" <tevaughan@boson.homelinux.net>
To: <mono-list@lists.ximian.com>
Date: 11 March, 2005 10:50
Subject: [Mono-list] OS X, mono-1.1.4, and managed forms


>
>In an earlier post, I asked about using mono for
>cross-platform GUI development.  For this purpose, mono
>seems to have a good prospect, as managed forms are
>supported by native backends (Quartz on OS X, X11 on
>GNU/Linux, and Win32-or-whatever-you-call-it on MS Windows).
>
>OS X, however, has at least one prominent peculiarity: the
>menu bar.  It seems that managed forms under mono-1.1.4 draw
>the application's main menu in the application window.  Does
>anyone know whether the mono-on-OS-X team plans eventually
>to put the application's main menu into the OS X menu bar?
>(If not, then I might investigate Qt#, as someone else on
>this list suggested.)
>
>As I noted in my post about the dotfield game that I wrote
>to test out the possibility of using mono and managed forms
>from cross-platform GUI development, there is a small set of
>anomalies that appear unique to mono-on-OS-X:
>
>- Drawing is *really* a lot slower (order of magnitude?) on
>  OS X than on GNU/Linux or MS Windows.
>
>- The right mouse button appears to the application as if it
>  were the left button.
>
>- CTRL and SHIFT modifier keys on mouse click aren't visible
>  to the application.  (This is a big drag, given the
>  previous bullet.)
>
>- The commanded size of the main form, at least in my toy
>  application, needed a mysterious extra 22 pixels or so in
>  height in order for every control to be visible.  On
>  GNU/Linux or MS Windows, the same executable (that has a
>  nicely fit window on OS X) generates rather a too-tall
>  window.
>
>-- 
>Thomas E. Vaughan <tevaughan@comcast.net>
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