Are Eto Modeless Forms supported on Rhino 8 Mac?

csykes · February 4, 2023, 6:26pm

mcneel/rhino-developer-samples/blob/3179a8386a64602ee670cc832c77c561d1b0944b/rhinocommon/cs/SampleCsEto/Views/SampleCsEtoModelessForm.cs#L10


      
          using Eto.Drawing;
          using Eto.Forms;
          using Rhino.UI;
          using System;
          using System.ComponentModel;
          
          
namespace SampleCsEto.Views
          {
            /// <summary>
            /// Warning! Modelers forms are not currently supported on Mac, you should use
            /// Panels for cross platform mode-less UI.
            /// </summary>
            class SampleCsEtoModelessForm : Form
            {
              public SampleCsEtoModelessForm()
              {
                Maximizable = false;
                Minimizable = false;
                Padding = new Padding(5);
                Resizable = false;

Is this still true as of the latest build of Rhino 8 WIP?

curtisw · February 5, 2023, 9:45pm

I’m not sure why that warning is there, it has actually never been true. Modeless forms have always been supported, but there are caveats due to the nature of how on Mac you can have multiple documents open at once, so your modeless form would have to manually handle which document it is associated with.

Using a Rhino panel is preferred so that it will automatically switch between documents (though you still have to handle when the current document is switched on the panel).