[IronPython] Still stuck on rich editor with IronPython and Silverlight

[Jimmy Schementi]

AH! Thanks Dino! 

In the XAP file there is an AppManifest.xaml, which specifies a version number. Ours (both what Chiron generates and what's on gestalt.ironpython.net) is still set to a version of SL2, for Moonlight compat, which turns on quirks mode when running in SL3+. Changing Chiron.exe.config's AppManifest template (or your own copy of AppManifest.xaml) to have SL4's version number will run without quirks mode enabled, hopefully letting you use the richtextbox.

For gestalt.ironpython.net, we will have multiple XAPs depending on what SL version you want to use, and the SL3 and 4 XAPs will have updates version numbers.  

Michael, let me know how this works out for you.

~Jimmy

On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:11 PM, "Dino Viehland" <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Ok, I know what's going on here, but I don't know the exact solution.  I'm
> hoping one of you two know the solution.  The good news is there's no bug,
> the rich text box isn't supposed to work! :)
> 
> What's going on is that quirks mode is disabling the creation of the 
> rich text box.  This appears to be due to a version check against the 
> version that's coming from the XAP.  So I guess fixing some Silverlight '
> version specified in the XAP file will fix this - I don't know if that's 
> a XAP being generated by Chiron or if it's something on gestalt.ironpython.net.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-
>> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
>> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 6:21 PM
>> To: Discussion of IronPython
>> Cc: Jimmy Schementi
>> Subject: Re: [IronPython] Still stuck on rich editor with IronPython
>> and Silverlight
>> 
>> On 17/04/2010 03:19, Jimmy Schementi wrote:
>>> Michael, let's get Dino in on this ...
>>> 
>>> Dino, This seems like our fault, but I'm not savvy enough to track it
>> down or verify my claim. Seems like it doesn't work regardless of
>> invoking via reflection or ref.emit code; calling it's constructor
>> 10,000 times still gave the same result. As Michael said, doing
>> anything with RichTextBox fails when invoked from IronPython, but works
>> fine when invoked without IronPython on the stack (pure C# app, for
>> example). I'm amazed that it fails when *called* from C#, meaning that
>> IronPython is doing something to make statically compiled code fail.
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for looking at this Jimmy. IronPython must be doing something
>> really quite impressive here. :-)
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>>> We can look at this together on Monday unless you get to it sooner; I
>> thought I knew how to use windbg but failed miserably at doing anything
>> useful, so you'll have to help :)
>>> 
>>> ~Jimmy
>>> 
>>> On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:01 PM, "Michael
>> Foord"<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm still stuck on using the Silverlight 4 RichTextBox from
>> IronPython. Unfortunately this is blocking our project. :-(
>>>> 
>>>> Instantiating the RichTextBox directly or loading it from xaml
>> fails.
>>>> 
>>>> A wrapper class in C# that instantiates the RichTextBox and returns
>> it to IronPython fails.
>>>> 
>>>> A wrapper C# class that internally creates the RichTextBox but never
>> returns it to IronPython *still* fails. Anyone got any suggestions for
>> possible alternative approaches?
>>>> 
>>>> My latest (failing) attempt. C#:
>>>> 
>>>>  public static class Foo
>>>>  {
>>>>      static RichTextEditor _editor = null;
>>>> 
>>>>      public static void Create(StackPanel panel)
>>>>      {
>>>>          _editor = new RichTextEditor();
>>>>          panel.Children.Add(_editor);
>>>>      }
>>>>  }
>>>> 
>>>> IronPython:
>>>> 
>>>> clr.AddReference('SilverlightTextEditor, Version=1.0.0.0,
>> Culture=neutral')
>>>> 
>>>> canv = Canvas()
>>>> xaml = Application.Current.LoadRootVisual(canv, "app.xaml")
>>>> 
>>>> from SilverlightTextEditor import Foo
>>>> panel = StackPanel()
>>>> xaml.Children.Add(panel)
>>>> 
>>>> Foo.Create(panel)
>>>> 
>>>> (Note that RichTextEditor is a standalone UserControl editor
>> component built on top of the RichTextBox. It works fine from C#.)
>>>> 
>>>> All the best,
>>>> 
>>>> Michael Foord
>>>> 
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