[Mono-list] Unspecific error: System.Exception: Generic Error [GDI+ status: GenericError]

[Sebastien Pouliot]

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 18:48 +0200, Yves Goergen wrote:
> using System.Drawing;
> using System.Drawing.Imaging;
> 
> namespace MonoGdiTest
> {
>         class Program
>         {
>                 static void Main(string[] args)
>                 {
>                         Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(20, 20,
> PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
>                         // Next line throws Exception("Generic Error
> [GDI+ status: GenericError]")
>                         bmp.Save("MonoGdiTest.png", ImageFormat.Png);
>                 }
>         }
> } 

poupou at mizar:~/src> cat sd.cs 
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;

namespace MonoGdiTest
{
        class Program
        {
                static void Main(string[] args)
                {
                        Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(20, 20, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
                        // Next line throws Exception("Generic Error [GDI+ status: GenericError]")
                        bmp.Save("MonoGdiTest.png", ImageFormat.Png);
                }
        }
}
poupou at mizar:~/src> gmcs sd.cs -pkg:dotnet
poupou at mizar:~/src> mono sd.exe 
poupou at mizar:~/src> l MonoGdiTest.png 
-rw-r--r-- 1 poupou users 151 2010-10-28 13:25 MonoGdiTest.png


So it works here (tested with both 2.6.4 and 2.8.1/git master). You
likely do not have libgdiplus, or one of its dependencies, installed
correctly.

Sebastien