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

[Lukas Cenovsky]

I think when AppManifest.xaml is in app folder, Chiron won't generate it.

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-- 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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