[Mono-winforms-list] Blank windows

[Natalia Portillo]

I've prepared a test case and...
The test case worked "perfectly" (transparency is still not being set), so I
don't know what is the cause of the problem neither how to guess it.


Natalia Portillo wrote:
> 
> No, I have my own framework for translation.
> 
> However it only changes the button images, the forms background image and
> transparency key are constant, defined as so:
>            this.BackgroundImage =
> global::OpenMetaverse.Properties.Resources.frmAbout;
>             this.TransparencyKey = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
> 
> Once the "blank window" bug appeared it doesn't work until restarting the
> whole machine.
> Even then, if I've put a conditional "if running on mono don't set that
> parameters" the windows still appear blank.
> 
> Tested on following environments:
> Mac OS X 10.6 (64-bit kernel), Mono 2.4.2.3
> Mac OS X 10.6 (64-bit kernel), Mono 2.4.3
> Mac OS X 10.6 (64-bit kernel), Mono 2.6 RC 1
> Gentoo Linux x86-64 + KDE4 (composite enabled and working), Mono 2.4.3
> OpenSuSE 11.2 (fresh install on virtual machine) x86, Mono 2.4.2.3
> Mac OS X 10.5 (PowerPC G4), Mono 2.4.3
> 
> I don't know if buttons may also be causing the problem, they are PNG with
> alpha channel loaded from embedded resources.
> 
> I suppose I can prepare in the day a test project for filling a bug.
> 
> 
> Petit Eric wrote:
>> 
>> once time did you use the translation feature of winforms ?
>> 
>> 2009/12/13 Stifu <stifu at free.fr>:
>>>
>>> Could you please file a bug report with a reduced test case?
>>> You could also try with Mono 2.6 RC1 if you haven't already, just in
>>> case.
>>>
>>>
>>> Natalia Portillo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have an application created using WinForms that uses the
>>>> TransparencyKey
>>>> value on all the forms.
>>>> At first start of the application that setting is just ignored at all.
>>>>
>>>> I've tested on OS X's X11 (of course composite is working) and on Linux
>>>> x64 under GNOME, KDE4 and XFCE (all the three say that composite is
>>>> enabled, and are using them for their own transparencies)
>>>>
>>>> At a point of the application it just simply crashes, and then if I try
>>>> to
>>>> run it again, I get the window, empty, and fully black (white on Mac OS
>>>> X)
>>>>
>>>> Any idea of what is happening here?
>>>>
>>>
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