[Mono-winforms-list] Getting started (again)

[Bill Medland]

On February 11, 2005 08:33 am, Jackson Harper wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:47 -0800, Bill Medland wrote:
> > Yes, but why do I have to specify what the third party has chosen to use
> > to implement their black box?  I thought we'd got over that stupidity
> > with C a decade or two ago.
>
> This doesn't have to do with the implementation of System.Windows.Forms.
> Its only needed if the application uses types from System.Drawing.

My abject apologies.  I hadn't noticed that the code was actually using 
System.Drawing.

>
> > > >I have plenty of examples to work with ; Bradley L Jones' "Teach
> > > > yourself the
> > > >C# Language in 21 days".  I guess it's going to take a few months yet
> > > > until the Winforms stuff really stabilises and becomes usable.
> > >
> > > Why, what have you tried that didn't work?
> >
> > Day01 - MyForm.cs - Compiles (when you know how), runs.  Throws some sort
> > of font complaints; terribly slow, puts characters into the text box in
> > the wrong order.
> > Day16 - FormApp.cs - Reasonable.  Null exception on closedown.  Big
> > deal!!! PicForm.cs Doesn't display the jpg picture.  No big surprise.;
> > that's a lot to ask
> > BorderForm.cs - The fixed borders are resizable
> > ButtonApp.cs - Terrible repaint behaviour; keeps hiding the content
> > GetName.cs - Totally unusable.  Button doesn't display.
>
> Have you filed bugs for any of these issues?

Not yet.
I'll see about doing so when I have consulted with the author about releasing 
the code and when I have either figured out that I can't build from svn 
without upgrading autoconf/automake (which I don't intend doing) or made it 
so that the svn code will make with what I have.
Probably next week.
>
> Cheers,
> Jackson
>
>
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