Mono & WInforms on OS X

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I have just begun to explore the mono winforms environment and I cannot work out how to start a program from within monodevelop without a console session being started.

My simple program runs okay but when it exits a terminal session is always created & waiting for me to 'press any key'. I guess I could arrange things so that the terminal window closes automatically, but I would rather the app just ran 'natively', is this possible or does the way mono & .net function work preclude it?

As shown in the examples at Zetcode, in 'Main' the rest of the code is started with 'application.run(new aFunction());', I thought this might be the cause of the terminal session occurring but replacing it with:

 myNewClass n = new myNewClass(); n.aFunction();

causes the program to not run at all (or maybe just exit without doing anything).

I am an experienced programmer but not familiar at all with C# or the mono/.net environment so 'stating the obvious' may be all that is required in an answer.

Your question is not clear. The reason your terminal session is not closing could be a system setting. The code you posted does not make any sense. Unless the class you are starting inherits from a Form then Application.Run(myNewClass) won't work. What type of application are you planning on making this? I am actually shocked that Mono even as Application.Run since its suppose to be limited to Windows applications based on the documentation. — Security Hound
– Security Hound, Commented Nov 18, 2011 at 18:03
I took a quick look at the page, there is NOTHING to indicate this code would work on any other operating system other then Windows with Mono installed. You cannot use a Windows Form on any other operating system other then Windows. — Security Hound
– Security Hound, Commented Nov 18, 2011 at 18:08
@RamHound Well, the code does work on operating systems other than Windows otherwise I would not have a problem. Maybe I have misunderstood something but why else would mono exist other than to provide a portable platform for .net programs? — blankabout
– blankabout, Commented Nov 18, 2011 at 19:28
@Ramhound MWF works very well on OSX. I think you misunderstand there — IanNorton
– IanNorton, Commented Nov 18, 2011 at 19:48

IanNorton · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-18 20:01:53Z

MonoDevelop will usually let you start a program with or without it running in an external console.

In MonoDevelop 2.8 on Linux you can control this by context clicking on a project in the solution tree and selecting Options; then Run on external console under the Run section. I'm not sure if you can disable this on OSX.

Found the 'run' options under the Project/program Options menu. Does exactlt what it says on the tin so thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

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