[MonoDevelop] How to add to Toolbox

[Marcos Marín]

On 7/25/07, George Lober <georgelober at glowsoftware.ca> wrote:
>
> Hello Rafael,
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
>
> Rafael Teixeira wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 7/24/07, George Lober <georgelober at glowsoftware.ca> wrote:
> >> Rafael Teixeira wrote:
> >> > You are mixing incompatible graphical technologies, NPlot and
> >> > ZedGraph, are WinForms controls, and currently MonoDevelop has only a
> >> > designer for GTK#.
> >>
> >> I did try the 0.9.9.2 version of NPlot which according to
> >> http://www.mono-project.com/Libraries and
> >> http://netcontrols.org/nplot/wiki/ is a GTK# version. ???
> >
> > They have both, AFAIR, so you need to use the right one.
> >
> Admittedly I did try other versions because it wasn't loading into the
> toolbox, but the gtk version is the nplot-gtk-0.9.9.2.tar
> <http://netcontrols.org/nplot/downloads/nplot-gtk-0.9.9.2.tar> which can
> be gotten here:
> http://netcontrols.org/nplot/wiki/index.php?n=Main.DownloadArea among
> other locations, and this one also does not load. I assume you are
> supposed to select the .dll file to load the widget, thou I have to say
> that it is kind of strange to me to use dlls in a Linux environment.
>
> >>  >
> >> > Google a bit to know each technology a little more. Work on a
> WinForms
> >> > designer for MD is underway, but even when it gets ready you will
> need
> >> > to choose between one or the other, per application/project.
> >>
> >> Coming from Delphi programming, I admittedly now little about the
> >> Mono/MonoDevelop environment, so pardon my ignorance. My end goal is to
> >> have an application that can be compiled for Windows as well as Linux.
> >
> > OK
> >
> >> If I write the program with MonoDevelop/GTK# under Linux, what will I
> >> need to do to get a windows executable?
> >
> > There's GTK# for windows (but beware of versions), so if you develop
> > with the goal of having it cross-platform, you certainly, can do that
> > with MonoDevelop/GTK#. You can also develop with SharpDevelop(or
> > VS.NET)/WinForms in Windows, and it will work on Mono/Linux. What we
> > don't have is a cross-platform IDE, and as I said MonoDevelop,
> > currently doesn't have an WinForms designer.
> >
> >> Will I need to install MonoDevelop under windows?
> > You can't do that. Although MonoDevelop was born as a fork of
> > SharpDevelop, substituting GTK# for WinForms, it is plainly an example
> > of a GTK# sharp app that isn't cross-platform because it depends on
> > many other things that are Linux-specific.
> >
> >> Will I be able to compile the GTK# code under windows?
> > You don't need to, because you can use the same binaries (with the
> > GTK# libs correctly installed for the platform), but yes you can also
> > recompile on any platform, where you have corresponding versions of
> > Mono ou .NET.
> >
> >
> >> Any pointers on writing cross-platform code with Mono/MonoDevelop would
> >> be welcome.
> >
> >
> > The first page of googling "mono cross-platform" presents some
> > articles and even a book, on the subject. Google "mono cross-platform
> > gtk#" for some more specific material.
> >
> > Also our wiki is the main reference on all things Mono, including GTK#:
> > http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
> > http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharp
> > http://www.mono-project.com/Guidelines:Application_Portability
> >
>
> Yes, I have looked at these pages, but these don't answer all my
> questions. I guess a certain level of knowledge is assumed. For example
> , I know that C#(a C++ copy as I see it) is a Microsoft created language
> and is used in .net, and also that C# is mentioned in mono
> documentation. Then there is GTK# which is a wrapper for GTK+, which
> uses C/C++. The thing is I don't actually see it saying anywhere what
> language GTK# uses. I deduce it must be C#. Is this correct?


Well, GTK# is a .NET library, I assume it is written in C#, but it could be
written in some other .NET language, and regardless of which language it was
written in, it can be used with any .NET language like C#, VisualBasic.NET,
Boo, etc.

I'd say C# is more of a Java "copy" (which was based on C++).

Thanks,
> George
>
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