RE: [DotGNU]winforms

[Simon Guindon]

Ok sounds good, I starting doing some stubbing.  I'm new to this kind of
stuff, I'm used to writing apps where all the code is mainly mine lol.

Another question, VS.NET uses XML comments and #region #endregion stuff
to organize the IDE generated stuff more nicely, I'm guessing we want
this stripped out when I give it to you for pnet right?

Take care,
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Rhys Weatherley [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: June 16, 2003 6:39 PM
To: Simon Guindon; Portable. NET
Subject: Re: [DotGNU]winforms


On Tuesday 17 June 2003 08:16 am, Simon Guindon wrote:
> Ok so I've decided I'm going to tackle statusbar, I've already started

> and its going pretty good.
>
> Two questions I have though.  First off, I'm writing the control in 
> .NET using the Windows Control project settings, I doubt you guys 
> accept code into pnet CVS that's from VS.NET but I'm asking anyways, 
> is this acceptable?

If it is code that you have written yourself, using VS.NET as merely a 
glorified text editor, then that's OK.  It would be nice though if the
code 
used the same coding style as the rest of winforms (see pnetlib/HACKING
for 
coding guidelines) so that it doesn't appear "jarring" to the casual 
observer.

> Another thing, statusbar's have panels, so you can show different info

> in the statusbar etc, do I have to do DrawString's manually for the 
> text etc, or can I make use of composite controls by adding labels and

> Panel objects into my statusbar?  I've done composite controls but I 
> know some people think drawing by hand is quicker.

I think hand-drawing will be closer to how MS does it.  It's not a
question of 
being "quick", but rather being faithful to the MS behaviour.  Have a
look at 
the Wine code's status bar control and see what they do.

Cheers,

Rhys.