My vote goes to dropping the System.Drawing dependency. We are currently in Alpha with the OSX version of our software. Monobjc is working its magic; thanks again for such a professional tool!
What I've seen so far is that indeed quite a few users still appear to use Tiger (no problem as such for monobjc), and even some Leopard users apparently have done a custom install and chose not to install X11. Result: Lots of users not having X11 installed (I would guess like 15%) The result is that we still cannot claim our software to act like a regular native Mac app, since X11 needs to be installed. We are now detecting the presence of X11 at startup and direct to an info page on our site on how they should install the X11, but it's really cumbersome. It also doesn't look like mono will give up the X11 dependency anytime soon... So, yes, I agree that the best way to deal with this would be to remove any dependency to System.Drawing in both monobjc and our software. This would require some work on our side too (we mostly use System.Drawing for image loading and scaling and such ... all easily replaced by NSImage and family), but it would be worth it. We intend to do this anyway, since in our software, we're now constantly casting Image objects to NSImage, which is surely not efficient. Just my 2 cents. Thanks Franky -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurent Etiemble Sent: vrijdag 24 april 2009 9:47 To: Mac Programmer; Monobjc User List Subject: [[email protected]] Re: Monobjc and System.Drawing Hello, (Note: Cross posting to the user list) For historical reasons, NSColor and NSImage were made to be implicitly usable with the Color and Image classes. It was a quick way to make existing code works (image loading, various colors, etc). Now, Monobjc contains everything needed to replace all the code linked to the colors, images or drawing. Moreover, it seems that on Tiger, the X11 installation is a show-stopper. So my question is: "Shall we drop the System.Drawing dependency ?". This will mean no more Color and Image implicit conversion, no more access to System.Drawing drawing methods, etc. Please comment on the list. Regards, Laurent Etiemble.
