Question

I have a file called hellowf.cs

class MyFirstApp { static void Main() {      System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show('Hello, Mono+WinForms!');    } } 

On Ubuntu 8.10, I do the following

gmcs hellowf.cs -r:System.Drawing.dll -r:System.Windows.Forms.dll mono hellowf.exe 

… and it looks like this:

alt text http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4674/helloproblemuk5.png

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The second part of the message is missing. Why is this happening? The same binary – hellowf.exe – works fine on Windows.

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Update: This is really annoying. Here are the mono versions I have had and tried to make this work on so far:

    1.9.1 (from official ubuntu repo)     2.0.1 (from some some 3rd party repo)     2.2   (wiped every mono pkg and compiled myself) 

My Current mono version:

mono --version Mono JIT compiler version 2.2 (tarball Wed Jan 14 22:58:21 CET 2009) Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com     TLS:           __thread     GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC)     SIGSEGV:       altstack     Notifications: epoll     Architecture:  x86     Disabled:      none gmcs --version Mono C# compiler version 2.2.0.0 

… any clues?

Answer 1

Finally I have found a workaround. This seems to be a bug in Mono related to font rendering. It happens when ‘Full‘ hinting is turned on. I usually have it that way. Changing it to ‘Slight‘ or ‘Medium‘ in System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts->Details fixes the problem. Thanks for the help!