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

[Michael Foord]

On 23/04/2010 00:10, Lukas Cenovsky wrote:
> I think when AppManifest.xaml is in app folder, Chiron won't generate it.
>

That is correct - which means when we add (or remove) an assembly we 
have to also manually add it to the AppManifest because Chiron will no 
longer do it for us...

Michael

> -- 
> -- Lukáš
>
>
> Michael Foord wrote:
>> Thanks very much - this is great news for us! I'm trying this now. 
>> Having to hardcode our AppManifest.xaml is unfortunate as we normally 
>> let Chiron generate this for us (whilst developing) - but I guess we 
>> could just recompile Chiron.
>>
>> Much appreciated,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On 22/04/2010 23:13, Jimmy Schementi wrote:
>>> 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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