[Mono-winforms-list] Starting Form on top of Child Form Issue - Mono 2.4.2.3 with SUSE 11
Petit Eric
surfzoid at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 09:26:25 EST 2009
How are you playing with ShowDialog(); you use this as Container or
anything else, your winforms are TopMost or not in their property, do
you have something about this.MdiChildren and this.Parent ?
2009/11/26 Steve <utnsteve at gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> As Jonathan mentioned, we downloaded Mono 2.6, including the latest
> MonoDevelop from the site link provided.
>
> Unfortunately, it has not solved our problem of the Starting Form getting
> stuck on top randomly. I really wished it was not random...
>
> We are compiling our program code in OpenSUSE 11.1 with Mono and
> MonoDevelop. Should we compile it another way?
>
> Maybe the "ShowDialog() method" is not working for us in Mono, is there an
> alternative method that would achieve the same results and is known to work
> in Mono?
>
> Thank you for all your replies so far.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Jonathan Pobst <monkey at jpobst.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2.7 would mean getting the Mono source from SVN and compiling it yourself.
>>
>> Instead, you can grab the 2.6 preview installer from here and see if it
>> fixes it:
>>
>> http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/download-preview/
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> Steve wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> Thank you for your replies.
>>>
>>> Can you provide me with a link to the Mono JIT Compiler version 2.7?
>>> Can only find version 2.4.2.3...
>>>
>>> Once I know where to get it from, I'll compile and do some testing and
>>> will le tyou know the results.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Petit Eric <surfzoid at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:surfzoid at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> you could also try to upgrade mono , no ?
>>> Mono JIT compiler version 2.7
>>>
>>> 2009/11/23 Carlos Alberto Cortez <calberto.cortez at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:calberto.cortez at gmail.com>>:
>>> > That seems like a bug. We have a lot of bug fixes in the new
>>> upcoming
>>> > versions, but it would of of great help if you could provide a
>>> test case or
>>> > a VC# solution so we can test.
>>> >
>>> > Carlos.
>>> >
>>> > 2009/11/23 utneflyte <utnsteve at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:utnsteve at gmail.com>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi All,
>>> >>
>>> >> I am using Mono 2.4.2.3 on OpenSUSE 11.1 and SUSE Linux
>>> Enterprise 11
>>> >>
>>> >> I have a kiosk application created with VS2008, compiled in
>>> MonoDevelop on
>>> >> OpenSUSE 11.1 and then exported to the machine running SUSE and
>>> Mono.
>>> >>
>>> >> All forms are of a fixed size taking the full aspect of the
>>> screen. Screen
>>> >> resolution 800x600 and so is all form sizes.
>>> >>
>>> >> I only have 1 issue left... and need community help.
>>> >>
>>> >> The first form (Starting Form) of the program, thus the one that
>>> should
>>> >> always be under all other forms... sometimes appears as the
>>> top-most form.
>>> >> When it does, that form is inactive (in a frozen state) and the
>>> only way
>>> >> to
>>> >> close it is via ALT-F4. Once it's closed, we can see the form
>>> that the
>>> >> user
>>> >> clicked to try to open the other form.
>>> >>
>>> >> There is a need to open forms using ShowDialog() method.
>>> Actually i am
>>> >> using, frm.Owner = this; frm.ShowDialog(this); where frm is the
>>> child form
>>> >> to open depending on user action (e.g. button press). That way,
>>> there can
>>> >> be
>>> >> 10-15 forms open one after another in a hierarchy. but, as all
>>> form are
>>> >> displayed using ShowDialog() method, there can be at most one
>>> direct child
>>> >> form open at any given time from a parent form. Also, that child
>>> form can
>>> >> open another child form too. This is how navigation goes.
>>> >>
>>> >> When the Starting Form on-top stuck issue happens, it occurs
>>> randomly when
>>> >> a
>>> >> user clicks and the program opens a form on top of the current
>>> form. It
>>> >> doesn't matter what is on the form loading or the form that it
>>> comes from.
>>> >> It is random, the user could be clicking very slowly, one click
>>> per minute
>>> >> or 10 clicks per second, it occurs so randomly...
>>> >>
>>> >> Anyone experience this type of behavior and have a
>>> >> solution/work-around/different manner that should be used to
>>> open these
>>> >> forms?
>>> >>
>>> >> Looking forward to your replies.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thank you.
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