[Mono-winforms-list] System.Windows.Forms.Screen.BitsPerPixel does not exist

Jonathan Pobst monkey at jpobst.com
Wed Jan 23 11:33:35 EST 2008


This property was added last week.  It will allow your code to 
compile/run, however it is stubbed to always return 32.

It is currently available in SVN, and will be available in 1.2.7.

Jonathan


Stephen Apostolopoulos wrote:
> Using Mono 1.2.6 from the tarball on Ubuntu 7.10 x86_64, the following code 
> does not compile:
> 
> class Bug
> {
>     public static void Main()
>     {
>         int bpp = System.Windows.Forms.Screen.BitsPerPixel;
>     }
> }
> 
> $ gmcs bpp.cs /reference:System.Windows.Forms.dll
> bpp.cs(5,47): error CS0117: `System.Windows.Forms.Screen' does not contain a 
> definition for `BitsPerPixel'
> /usr/local/lib/mono/gac/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll 
> (Location of the symbol related to previous error)
> Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
> 
> Known bug? Are there plans to support this property in Mono 1.2.7? Or at 
> least add it with a "throw new NotImplementedException()", so that code 
> using it can at least compile? 
> 
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