Hello,
I am quite new at this side of the track so please bear with me.
I have a winform code that was written and compiled fine with C#/SDK.
I am now trying to convert it to gtk#/mono and having a heck of a
time.
This is very good tutorial/HOWTO material. I have CCed mono-docs-list to see if someone is interested in stepping up and doing a `Winforms to Gtk# porting tutorial'.
for example, how do i convert these line of codes to gtk#/mono
The first thing to keep in mind is that the use of absolute positioning on a form is not recommended when using Gtk.
The problem arises when a user changes his font, or is using the application in another country. For example the common "Ok" button would become "Aceptar" in spanish. So any absolute positioning is considered a bad idea.
So in Gtk, you use widget containers to lay things out.
Second, in Gtk you would not put the layout code directly into the source, because we consider this tedious. So you would do this using "glade-2". With Glade-2 you would design your form, and say, save it into `sample.glade'. Then you would load the UI from there (see the tutorial, there are examples on how the GUI is loaded, and events and widgets connected).
Your example using Gtk# and Glade would look like this:
using Glade;
using System;
class Boot {
static void Main ()
{
Application.Init ();
Form f = new Form ();
Application.Run ();
}
}
class Form {
Glade.XML ui;
[GladeWidget]
Button button1;
[GladeWidget]
Entry entry1;
Form ()
{
ui = new Glade.XML ("sample.glade", "window1", null);
ui.Autoconnect (this);
}
void on_button_clicked (object o, EventArgs e)
{
Console.WriteLine ("I got clicked");
}
}
In Glade, you would have to layout your widgets, and put a button1, and entry1 widgets.
See my attached images for details:
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This is the GUI designed for the example above.
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Notice that I have set the widget name to "button1",
and that the label is set there to "OK". Also notice
my huge font, because I cant read
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Select the "Signals" tab in the "Ok" button,
and click on the button shown above to add
a signal handler.
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Select the signal clicked
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And now click on "Add" to add the signal
handler. This is very important. Do not
forget, or the binding to your C# function
will not be there.
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Miguel.
