Roderick Colenbrander wrote: > O > I think the incompatibilities you mean are for instance that in case of Mono > you can mix Windows.Forms with win32 calls. If you don't like the behavior of > something you can call a standard gdi32/user32 function and change some > stuff. >
Yes! Thank you, I didn't know 100% what I was talking about. > Things like that work because I think the .NET version of Windows.Forms maps > to win32 controls. Mono renders everything itself through System.Drawing. I > don't think a different gdiplus.dll will make any difference for this. To > allow mixing of Windows.Forms with gdi32 stuff everything needs to be > rendered using native controls. That's what mono attempted years ago using > Wine but they had various Wine integration troubles and we didn't come to a > good solution for it. > And wasn't one of those troubles that there was not gdiplus DLL? I was hoping an integration was coming closer. regards, Jakob