[Mono-list] System.Windows.Forms

[Peter Dennis Bartok]

Jim,

>I started at the download page "download/fedora-4-i386/" you mention, but 
>took the easy option of "put the mono.repo file in ..." and used yum to 
>install. That could explain why I did not get everything the repo file 
>refers only to  mono-1.1, gtk-sharp 1.0 and 2.0 and mono-tools + mono-deps.

I've been told you can use
   "yum install libgdiplus mono-complete"
and it will install what you need for winforms.


>The sources (mono-1.1.13.2-source.tar.gz) were downloaded this morning from 
>the URL you mention - the file is 18,043,178 bytes. I don't understand why 
>we have a difference; I used WinZip to unzip / untar it to a Windows folder 
>on XP (sorry about the lack of taste!) and the only reference to "Form" is 
>in the words "platform" and a single WinForms text file in .\web which 
>tells you how to compile Managed.Windows.Forms from the sources - the file 
>is dated 17th Sept 2004

Use a real tar. You will find that the files are in the archive and WinZip 
is just too braindead to extract them. Not sure why that is.


>My reference to the WinForm Wiki not being updated is an error (it was late 
>last night when I was browsing!) From 
>http://www.mono-project.com/Gui_Toolkits#Windows.Forms goto 
>http://svn.myrealbox.com/blog/ - The box on the left "Progress" all refers 
>to early 2005, Archives stop in Jan 2005 and clicking on Last Comments 
>brings up a thread which starts in Jan 2005 though it has been bumped up by 
>a null posting in Jan 2006.

I stopped updating the progress box because it resulted in confusing entries 
in monologue. But the blog itself continues to be updated, albeit not as 
often as I'd like to do it. To avoid more people getting confused like that 
I just removed the progress box.
You should re-read the archives list again. It *starts* with January 2005, 
and at the bottom you will see January 2006.


Cheers,
 Peter