[Mono-winforms-list] Unexpected artefacts on WinForms porting

[Sebastien Pouliot]

[Wade: this could be a problem of the generic installer wrt new distros]

On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 08:54 -0700, Sylvain Lesimple wrote:
> I installed the package mono version first but it was a 1.2.5 version, so I
> removed it.
> Then, I used the "generic" .bin installer for my tests. Also for my 1.2.6
> install.
> 
> The tests on openSUSE prompt no problems encountered with Ubuntu.

That makes me wonder about openSUSE 11 wrt the mono generic installer...

> For the libgdiplus, I installed it with classics "./configure", "make" and
> "make install", but I'm not a "hard user" of linux systems and I didn't
> really verify which lib has been used.

By default that would have installed libgdiplus under /usr/local which
is not, afaik, the location that the mono installer use.

> Sorry to can not help you more.

You already helped a lot.
Thanks

Sebastien

> 
> Sylvain.
> 
> 
> Sebastien Pouliot-3 wrote:
> > 
> > Bonjour Sylvain,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 08:03 -0700, Sylvain Lesimple wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I did some additionnal tests that could interest you.
> >> 
> >> First, on my Ubuntu distro, a part of the problem disappear when I
> >> uninstall
> >> mono 1.9 
> > 
> > How was mono 1.9 installed ? using packages from Ubuntu ? or the mono
> > "generic" installer ?
> > 
> >> to mono 1.2.6. This manip permit to fix fonts issues but it don't
> >> resolve missing borders.
> >> 
> >> Then, I installed the VMware openSUSE 10.3 which works with mono 1.9, and
> >> any of the problems encountered in Ubuntu appear. 
> > 
> > by "any" you mean "none" right ?
> > 
> >> The render is nearly the
> >> same as with mono on Windows.
> >> 
> >> So, the last Ubuntu distro seems to be responsible for those problems.
> > 
> > Maybe but it does not match any other issues I've seen. Are you 100%
> > sure that your previous tests (with libgdiplus SVN) was loading the
> > "right" library (and not another one installed ?).
> > 
> > Anyone else on Ubuntu 8.04 seeing this ?
> > 
> >> Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with bug reporting and my time credits
> >> for
> >> these investigations end today.
> >> They maybe continue later.
> >> 
> >> Merci pour votre aide et bonne continuation.
> > 
> > Merci pour tes informations
> > Sebastien
> > 
> > 
> > 
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