I have installed all the OSX RhinoCommon stuff as per the McNeel docs onto a Catalina Mac. I open my Windows plugin code on Catalina Visual Studio, and there are a bunch of issues. I have decided that the approach I have taken on Windows is probably not going to work on OSX, so I am going back to square one.
First question…
My main (dockable) panel in the Windows version is a UserContol. There does not seem to be a UserControl object on Rhino for Mac. What should I use instead please (keeping in mind I ultimately want the same code to run on Windows and OSX).
You should use the cross-platform Eto UI library, which is an abstraction over the platform-specific UI libraries (WinForms/WPF on Windows and Cocoa on OSX). It is delivered with Rhino on both platforms, and many of Rhino’s UI elements are using this as well.
Thanks. I will take a look at the samples. However I am dubious as to if this is all worth the effort. Visual Studio on Catalina (fresh install) seems incredibly unstable. I am getting a lot of crashes or needing to Force Quit. Are developers able to live with this, or is it just an exercise in frustration?
I downloaded the rhino-developer-samples-6 zip from github, and opened in Visual Studio for Mac. As these were intended for Windows, I deleted the windows dll references, and added the NuGet RhinoCommon package. But I get a bunch of errors when compiling, mainly related to the Properties/Resouces.Designer.cs file. I would have thought the McNeel provided samples would work on the Mac? Perhaps they could provide Visual Studio for Mac project files. Is there a workflow to migrate from Windows to Mac?
" It is important to stress: these are Visual Studio solutions and projects. You can open solutions and projects created in Visual Studio for Mac in Visual Studio for Windows and vice-versa."
I am finding this is not the case. If I have a multi-source project in Windows, each of the source files is listed in the .csproj file as…
However in Visual Studio for Mac, multiple “<Compile Include…” lines throw a compilation error indicating there are multiple compile targets.
If you File->New Solution->RhinoCommon Plugin->Provide Sample Code TICKED in Visual Studio for Mac, then the resulting project has multiple .cs files, but the .csproj does not list any of them.
Is there a Visual Studio setting that controls this behavior?