[Mono-winforms-list] Month Calendar and NumericUpDown Control

[Jonathan Gilbert]

At 10:37 PM 10/06/2005 +1000, JBA wrote:
>Hey guys,
>
>I saw a commit that said NumericUpDown was implemented so I wired it
>into MonthCalendar (which should now be considered feature complete).
>
>Along the way I discovered what I think are bugs in NumericUpDown. If
>NumericUpDown is not actually complete yet then feel free to ignore
>these points:

Well, it should essentially be complete, but let's see what you've got.

>- Setting the Value property for the numeric up down control while it's
>not visible results in that value not being set. I believe the flow is
>this:
>	Set .Visible = false
>	Set .Minimum 
>	.Value now has .Minimum as it's value
>	Set .Value;
>	.Value calls one of the updateedit method which inturn uses a parseedit
>method which for some reason reads the minimum value as the current text
>and so .Value gets reset to parsed minimum value.

I wrote up a test case but was unable to reproduce your results. Can you
reduce it to a minimal test case for me?

>- It's not responding to Readonly property correctly (.ReadOnly = true
>means up/down buttons work but not text editing.

This is the correct behaviour for .ReadOnly.

>- It seems to render buttons on windows for me, but not on linux

This is probably a bug in mono's ControlPaint or whatever ControlPaint
calls (something in the theme library).

>- It doesn't seem to be handling the key press events (this may be an
>issue with the way I'm using it though).

It does for me :-)

>There was something else about the way MonthCalendar render's on linux
>but I can't remember it now. Will send that through when I remember.

Okay :-)

Jonathan Gilbert