[Mono-winforms-list] Odd StatusStrip.PreferredSize behavior

[Carlos Alberto Cortez]

Hello,

This seems to be a bug in our implementation. If you provide a test case (a
small one ideally) we can try to figure out what's happening.

Carlos.

2010/5/17 Mike Fried <michaelbfried at gmail.com>

> I'm writing a program under Windows in Visual Studio (2008, switching to
> 2010 soon) that will target Linux using Windows Forms and .NET Framework/CLR
> 2, but I started testing under Mono and making changes to work around issues
> in Mono and in Mono under Linux only recently (using Ubuntu 10.4 and SUSE).
>
> I discovered a bunch of bugs that don't reproduce on Windows, many of which
> I could simply work around by switching off the System.Environment variable
> or working around in trivial ways, but I'm looking for a better solution in
> particular for one bug. The current bug that's biting me is that in a custom
> editor that I have written, I perform manual layout of the scrollbars and
> status bar, but when I go to get the PreferredSize from the StatusStrip in
> Mono (Windows and Linux), it returns (22, Height) and in .NET it returns
> (Width, 22).
>
> I took a peek at the source code to the Mono 2.6.4 branch of StatusStrip<http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/branches/mono-2-6-4/mcs/class/Managed.Windows.Forms/System.Windows.Forms/StatusStrip.cs?revision=155916&sortby=file>and
> ToolStrip<http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/branches/mono-2-6-4/mcs/class/Managed.Windows.Forms/System.Windows.Forms/ToolStrip.cs?revision=155916&sortby=file> to
> try and understand what's going on, and I tried a number of things without
> making some kind of test against the width or height to work around the
> preferred size being "wrong", but I couldn't get the desired behavior. I've
> searched the web without finding anything else about this.
>
> Is this a known issue? Does anyone have any alternative APIs that they
> suggest I use instead? I'd like to fix this code and move on so that
> regardless of what kind of Fix mono takes later, it won't break my code in
> the future.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Fried
>
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