RE: [DotGNU]GUI, System.Drawing and custom widgets

[Simon Guindon]

This is great news Rhys :) I'm very happy this effort is being tackled.
I really like the X11 idea, because just running your small form sample,
it loads very very quickly, and this means this will be insanely
portable, which rocks.

The only issue I have (which I discussed with gopal) is how the widgets
will look.  Obviously widgets won't look like whatever toolkit their
desktop is using (KDE, Gnome, etc).  But this isn't something that needs
to be addressed ASAP or anything, just something to keep in mind I
think.

I use winforms pretty much every day on .NET, so as I said to gopal I
will test things whenever I have time.

So anyways I decided to make an empty form project in VS.NET to see if
what VS.NET generates works so far in X11-winforms since your sample is
just a blank form and it works.  The VS.NET generated code works for the
exception of one method call, I comment it out and it runs beautifully.

This is the line it crashes out on:

this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);

This line is generated by the IDE in the Initialize() method it uses for
its IDE generated code.

And here is the error from pnet:

token 0x0A000012: member
`System.Windows.Forms.Form.set_AutoScaleBaseSize' not found

Anyways that's what I've found so far, great work again and I'm very
excited about this :)

Take care,
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Rhys Weatherley [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: June 11, 2003 3:08 AM
To: DotGNU Mailing List
Subject: Re: [DotGNU]GUI, System.Drawing and custom widgets


On Tuesday 10 June 2003 05:42 pm, Gopal V wrote:

>       As you know Rhys has been hacking away like crazy on
System.Drawing 
> for the past weeks and a small windowing API has been added on to test

> the drawing APIs on it ..

The beginnings of my System.Windows.Forms implementation has also been
checked 
into pnetlib CVS, together with a "FormsHello.cs" sample program.

The only widget that is implemented right now is "Control", the base
class for 
all other widgets.  I'll hopefully get some of the others, like "Button"
and 
"CheckBox", in during the next day or three.  That should then
demonstrate 
the basic concepts enough for others to jump on board and help implement
the 
other controls.

The previous test case, "x11draw.cs", is no longer required, and won't
work 
any more because I changed the toolkit event interface.  But now that 
"FormsHello.cs" exists, it isn't required anyway.

Cheers,

Rhys.

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