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(everaldo)

Mono 1.9.1 and WinForms available for Maemo

2008-05-19 08:01 UTC
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During the last Novell HackWeek, me, Torello Querci and Jae Stutzman work a little on Mono packages for Maemo, we also worked a little on Tomboy port to Maemo. Last weekend I just released latest Mono for Maemo packages, the news include WinForms, ADO.NET, and Maemo-Sharp for Maemo 4 (OS2008).

If you want to play a little with the packages just add this repository to your N810:

deb http://go-mono.com/maemo chinook test

Sometimes pictures say more than a thousand words:


MonoCalendar (WinForms) running on N810



CSharpTetris (also WinForms) game running on my N810

And whoever wants to run Tomboy on N8xx devices, this is the one click install.




Packages are in test repositories for now because I am not sure about the way how we make packages available, looks a little hard to manage lots of small packages, we have now about 30 mono packages, we use the same package conventions of Mono for Debian/Ubuntu but maybe that is not the best way, as example, Python is distributed for Maemo in only one big package.

One big package looks bad for me so, my idea is to have only few packages and only Mono 2.0 (gmcs) stuff available:

  • mono-runtime
  • mono-system (including libralies, maemo-sharp and gtk-sharp)
  • mono-winforms
  • mono-data
If you have any idea about a better division of packages or some ideas, please send us a comment and we will check it for next version.
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(everaldo)

WebKit-Sharp and my FunnyBrowser

2008-05-16 09:34 UTC
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In my last article I blogged about how to create Mono bindings using GAPI, I used it to create WebKit-Sharp.

After a quick search in Google I found another implementation of WebKit bindings for Mono, you can find them there (http://cmartin.tk/webkitgtk-sharp.html), the problem is that those bindings were done by hand without using GAPI, probably because the author didn't use "gapi2-fixup" to customize and fix some information about webkit (You can find more information about it here).

Well, today I have just committed some of my local changes to webkit-sharp and the amazing "FunnyBrowser" sample, I have been using "FunnyBrowser" as my default browser now for one week and for basic navigation it works faster and uses less resources than Firefox.

Next weekend I am also planning to make packages available for Maemo if webkit works on it, I will keep you guys posted.



We haven't released webkit-sharp yet but you can found sources here:

http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewcvs/trunk/webkit-sharp.tar.gz

OpenSUSE 10.3 packages are also available (including libwebkit) on my repository in the OpenSUSE Build Service:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ecanuto:/webkit/openSUSE_10.3/

I have plans to release FunnyBrowser as package when it works with GMail without problems.
Categories: mono

(everaldo)

GARMONO #2

2008-03-17 16:58 UTC
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Ok, I promised several blog entries about GARMONO. However, for the last couple of weeks I've been busy fixing some issues with the WinForms DataGrid, which I will talk about in another entry. Today, let us talk about GARMONO and how it can help us automatically create Mono packages for Maemo.
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(everaldo)

GARMONO #1

2008-02-25 08:24 UTC
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One of hard things of cross-platform development with WinForms is that you always need to test in both Linux and Windows. My second development environment is Cygwin running on Windows but when I need to travel somewhere, I also need to have this Cygwin environment available on my Windows Virtual Machine.
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(everaldo)

Mono on Nokia 770/800

2007-03-14 13:35 UTC
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Last weekend finally I was finished the Mono packages for Nokia 770/800 devices, Wade helped me to get apt repository available. To make things more easy we made available an "Single Install Click" for Mono runtime and for Paco's PEditGtkSharp an small gtk-sharp text editior. Dependency check really make life easy, as example when you install PEditGtkSharp all need stuff (mono-runtime, gtk-sharp and maemo-sharp) is also installed.



For who wants install packages by hand, the N770 repository is:

  deb http://go-mono.com/maemo mistral user

and N800:

  deb http://go-mono.com/maemo bora user

Scratchbox developer kit is also available as binary. An wiki entry is also set up to give more information about Mono on Maemo.

The screenshot comes from Torello Querci. Unfortunately I cant buy Nokia N800 from Brazil, today I receive a mail from Nokia and they saw that to buy a device I must have a credit card emitted in USA. Maybe they can also restrict the Maemo download for non USA/Europe people ;-)
Categories: mono

(everaldo)

Mono devkit for Scratchbox

2007-02-12 19:33 UTC
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I worked last weekend on Mono devkit for Scratchbox, for who dont know what is scratchbox developer kits an small explanation from Scratchbox's documentation:
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