[Mono-winforms-list] Does Mono + WinForms + Mac OS X generally work?

[Coda Highland]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:12 PM, David Grayson <davidegrayson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I am new to the list and I am wondering what kinds of experiences
> people have had with porting their WinForms applications from Windows to
> Mac.
>
> I tried to do that today, and the result was horrible:
> http://imgur.com/katvM1P
>
> As you can see in the picture, there is strange sizing of buttons and
> overlapping text everywhere.  The UI is very slow to draw; sometimes when I
> click the window would spend about 3-6 seconds redrawing all the controls in
> all of the tabs.  When you move to a new tab in the application, you have to
> be lucky in order to actually see all of the components get rendered on the
> screen.   At least one of the textboxes fails to process keystrokes; I typed
> "So hard to use.\nKeystrokes not processed well." and the resulting text was
> totally scrambled with some characters missing, some characters duplicated,
> and most characters out of order." (see the screenshot).  To be fair, that
> textbox is a customized one we made with line numbering and syntax
> highlighting.
>
> We have some pretty verbose tooltips on our controls.  When the tooltips are
> working and you move your mouse around, duplicate tooltips appear a bunch of
> times and don't disappear in a timely manner.
>
> There seem to be a lot of bugs happening here and I don't know why.  This
> application works great on Windows.  On Linux it works OK, though it looks
> foreign and I had to mess with the auto-scaling settings to get everything
> to be legible.
>
> So, what's the deal with this?  Have people successfully ported WinForms
> applications to Mac OS X?  Do you think I would get better results if I had
> used Gtk#?
>
> --David Grayson
> http://www.davidegrayson.com/
>
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Your problems are more or less the reason I joined the list. Everyone
says it's supposed to work, but... ugh, not really.

Gtk# has the annoying property of being GTK. It's not native either.
CocoaSharp is probably your best shot if you want native OSX
integration.

/s/ Adam