Only if X is already running and you have your default Terminal environment setup to launch X apps from Terminal.
Andy On 6/18/04 1:00 PM, "Elfred Pagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pounded the keyboard to produce: > Does it work with GTK# Applications? > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:20:53 +0200, l0ne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone! >> I was quite intrigued by the chance of having .NET applications also >> run on my beloved iMac, but I'm quite terminalphobic -- so, after >> having seen that .NET exes work on my Mac (yeah!), I've written a small >> starter .app to run exes by double-clicking. >> >> THINGS IT DOES: >> - It works with both mono and ilrun (portable.net). >> - Starts applications in Mac OS X's Terminal.app. >> - Registers .exes and .dlls with cute, shiny, handmade, >> emblazoned-with-mono-logo custom icons, removing that ugly Virtual PC >> icon from them (which is Windows's default icon for exes, just >> stretched to 128x128. Not "redrawn to look good in 128x128". Just 32x32 >> icons stretched to that size. Ugh). >> - Detects "mono" and "ilrun" by watching into common directories >> (/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/local/bin, >> /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework and so on). >> - If a .NET environment is not detected, it offers the user a chance >> to install Mono or Portable.NET from a PKG (if such a package is put >> into the program's Resources folder) or, if none is available, shows >> links to go-mono.org and dotgnu.org. Which means that the program >> allows for dumb-proof drag'n'drop installation of Mono (by taking >> "extra steps" on first launch as per Apple Human Interface Guidelines). >> - Can be configured to launch X11 along with the Terminal, allowing >> programs that use Windows.Forms or other windowing toolkits to start >> correctly. >> >> THINGS IT DOESN'T DO: >> - The preferences aren't complete yet - they don't disable the "Use >> Mono" or "Use DotGNU" option even when the corresponding piece of >> software isn't available, very possibly leading to bad behavior >> (NullPointerExceptions suddenly finding their way into the Console at >> the very least). >> - It doesn't allow the user to turn off the Terminal -- that is, to >> load the .exe without having the Terminal window show up. Mainly >> because I'm lazy. >> - It doesn't make any coffee. >> - It has no way of intelligently understanding whether a program is >> console-only or uses a windowing toolkit, so you must activate or >> deactivate X11 manually for now. >> - It does not pass any command-line parameters to the .exe being >> started. Again that's because I'm just lazy. >> >> You can find the .app (with no .pkg inside its Resource folder) at >> http://matrixtcg.altervista.org/monostarter.zip and source at >> http://matrixtcg.altervista.org/monostarter.src.zip (pay attention: the >> .xcode project refers to a portable.net.pkg that isn't there for size >> reasons. Just remove it, the program will detect the absence of pkgs in >> the Resources folder and work just fine). I haven't included a license >> in the .zip but I will soon, and it will be GPL. >> >> - e. v. aka l0ne >> >> -- >> Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f >> >> Sponsor: >> Lerboristeria.biz: per la tua bellezza e salute il miglior assortimento >> * di prodotti erboristici ed oggettistica online >> * >> Clicca qui: >> http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=2152&d=18-6i?mid=2380&d=18-6 >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >> > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
