I have written a minesweeper clone called dotfield. I know, not a very imaginative name. :^)
Anyone interested may grab it from http://home.comcast.net/~tevaughan/software/dotfield-0.1.tar.gz The source code is included. (GPL) If you look at the source, then please don't laugh. I don't really know what I'm doing yet in csharp. I just used my C++ experience together with a perusal of the basic language overview and the class documentation on MSDN. So I'm certainly doing many a thing "wrongly", at least so far as the right csharp way is concerned. I have tested it on Mac OS X, on Debian GNU/Linux, and, briefly in a previous version, on MS Windows. Each of the non-MS-Windows platforms had mono-1.1.4 installed, though I had to compile mono-1.1.4 from source on Debian. Below are some of my observations. Note that I am a newbie to Mac OS X *and* a newbie to mono/csharp/dotnet. (1) Although the game runs well enough on Debian when displayed on the local X-windows screen, it locked up whenever I tried to display it across the network on the Mac's X server (the X server from Apple).. (2) I couldn't figure out how to make a main menu work. The application kept crashing. The source code for my menu skeleton is commented out in the source. (2a) It's unfortunate, though I suspect probably necessary, that although managed forms on Mac OS are rendered via Quartz, the main menu is drawn inside the window. It would be really cool, from a cross-platform development point of view, for the main menu to show up in the OS X menu bar at the top of the screen. (3) Drawing is *really* slow on Mac OS X. (4) Right clicking doesn't work on Mac OS X (even with a two-button mouse :^). (4a) Shift-clicking doesn't work on Mac OS X. (4b) Control-clicking doesn't work on Mac OS X. There are other strange things that I noticed, but these are the ones that I remember right now. Sorry if these are all well known. -- Thomas E. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
