[MonoDevelop] Control behaviour at design time?

[Michael Hutchinson]

On 29 August 2012 13:08, Jeremy Morton <jez9999 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that controls seem to behave the same at design time in
> MonoDevelop as they do at runtime; for example, I can type text into a
> TextView.  Visual Studio controls have a DesignMode property that's true
> when a control is displaying in the designer, which allows controls to
> behave differently - often very useful, and surely desirable for almost
> every control (I don't want to type something into a textbox during design,
> I probably want to drag it around).  Does such a property exist for GTK#
> controls, and if not, wouldn't it be a good idea to introduce one?

There is no designer framework for GTK#. You'd be welcome to
contribute one, but I don't think it would be easy to design or
implement.

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Michael Hutchinson
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