On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 08:12 -0400, Andrew York wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that the Gtk interface > is a focus of Mono/Monodevelop anymore.
I don't know if it ever was a focus of 'Mono'., > They make most if not all of > their money from iPad and Android based development so there is not a > lot of motivation to make these changes even if they are helpful. You are confusing the Xamarin people with the Mono community. No I wouldn't expect anything useful to come from Xamarin. You can't even use Xamarin stuff on Linux. > Also are not the Mono dev leaders planning on switching to XWT in >the next year or so. I'm not sure how much focus will be on Gtk in >the future, but again I may be wrong. Gtk is ultimately bound to GNOME. And there are top-notch GNOME applications that use Gtk#. The work on the bindings I'd expect to come from that angle. But xwt... "Xwt is a new .NET framework for creating desktop applications that run on multiple platforms from the same codebase. Xwt works by exposing one unified API across all environments that is mapped to a set of native controls on each platform." I wish them the best of luck, but I've heard this song before, and it doesn't usually work out well. The underlying controls don't correspond to each other 1:1 and you get left with least-common-denominator and lots of edge conditions. Even if that works out there is the question of how hard they will work on the Gtk backend [xwt sits on top of a 'native' toolkit, one backend is Gtk]. So you could end up with xwt as a cross-toolkit abstraction layer that works on Windows and Mac and others are red-headed step-children. I doubt Xamarin has any real interest in anything outside of Windows and Mac. As for Gtk versions an Monodevelop - in the previous thread I don't see any reference to opening a MD bug about the supporting later versions. That would be step #1 I think. > On 10/12/2012 7:12 AM, Doug Blank wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Elmar Haneke <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> This is useful information! Where did you get your binaries? What > >>> versions are you using? Are they pre-built somewhere? I really just > >>> need the Mac and Windows fixes for the above issues. > >> I'm using the binaries from www.gtk.org. > >>> The only binaries available on the site mentioned above are 2.24. > >> There are several binaries available once you have a look at the > >> FTP-Server linked from the summary page: > >> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/ > >> Perhaps the 2.22 binary does help. > > Thank you, thank you! Mono/MonoDevelop should come with these, but if > > not, *every* system that deploys Gtk on Windows should use these > > binaries. It is a shame that hard work has gone into fixing these > > bugs, but they haven't made their way into all of the places that they > > should. > > I copied the binaries from: > > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+_2.22.1-1_win32.zip > > into my deployed mono\bin directory, and that appears to work with all > > testing so far. (If anyone knows of a potential incompatibility please > > let us know. > > The most important fix for us was that we can now use the clipboard to > > copy text out of our application. _______________________________________________ Gtk-sharp-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gtk-sharp-list
