[Mono-list] Re: Buggy Windows.Forms

[Robert Jordan]

Nikki Locke wrote:
> I am a late arrival to a project trying to do serious work with Mono. It 
> has been accepted since before I arrived that Mono's Windows.Forms was 
> buggy, and its use should be kept to a minimum. 

SWF is under heavy development. Therefore, the developer who arrived
is using SVN head :-)

> Therefore, the application has a single Canvas on which it does all its 
> GUI. Windows.Forms is only used to get keyboard and paint messages.
> 
> Recently we have discovered that Application.Exit doesn't always exit - the 
> window goes away, but mono doesn't terminate. As this is a critical 
> application which must be restarted immediately if it exits, this is the 
> last straw.

Try Environment.Exit. Additionally, you may debug the application
like described here: http://www.mono-project.com/Debugging

> I have been asked to look into the possibility of doing away with 
> Windows.Forms altogether. 
> 
> Windows.Forms is clearly an interface between the application and GTK. 
> Would it be reasonably easy to bypass Windows.Forms, and use the existing 
> GTK interface instead?

SWF is not based on GTK.

Anyhow, here you go: http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharp

Robert