[Mono-osx] System.Drawing into Cocoa views?

[Maxi Combina]

Hi,

please excuse if my suggestion is too newbie but, can't you
ship libfreetype.6.dylib with your app?

Regards,
maxi

2011/7/20 Eric J. M. Smith <eric at tarkvara.org>

> Hi everybody,
>
> Clay Fowler was able to provide more information about the drawing
> bridge (appended to the end of this message).  The good news is that
> the functionality is already built into MonoMac using
> Graphics.fromHwnd().  The bad news is that it depends on the user
> having X11 installed, as well as a version of libfreetype.6.dylib
> which is newer than the one included with Apple's X11.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Eric Smith
> Tarkvara Design Inc.
>
>
> On 18 July 2011 17:29, Clay Fowler wrote:
> > Rendering in a NSView with System.Drawing is very simple and performs
> > extremely well. We also have cross-platform rendering in our products. To
> > use it, just enable the bridge with one line of code in the Main of your
> > project:
> > NSApplication.InitDrawingBridge();
> > (... we do this right after NSApplication.Init() and
> > before NSApplication.Main(args)).
> > Then override DrawRect in your custom NSView classes and do this:
> > public override void DrawRect(RectangleF rect)
> > {
> > if (Handle != IntPtr.Zero)
> > {
> > using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromHwnd (Handle))
> > {
> >                     // ... Normal drawing here...
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