I'm curious, why Mono? On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Joel Longanecker < joel.longanecker at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello fellow area Linux users. > > This is my first root post on this mailing list, of which I have been a > subscriber for a few months, so I hope I get this right. > > > The last few months I've been developing a tool for using Mono at a lower > level than it has been in the past. The general use case is to simply put > it, is developing kiosk applications with Mono, and deploying them to a > minimal Linux system. > Right now, I'm using SDL as an interface to communicate with the frame > buffer. (At some point, I would like to go lower and talk to the frame > buffer and devices exposed in /dev/ without using SDL) The key component to > this is exposing the frame-buffer as a System.Drawing.Graphics graphics > context. (not using X11) > > The sample program I currently have written is a basic clock showing some > simple effects (Drawing text, arcs, and using transparency and linear > gradients) A screenshot of the sample application can be seen running under > windows here: > https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rA2-96ysTLA/URB7-luv4lI/AAAAAAAABxg/8BXEABOsrDI/s656/Untitled.png > > The project is located here, and is published under the BSD license. > https://github.com/longjoel/Sunfish > > Here are some of the potential use cases I see potentially being > applicable. > > * Information Kiosk (weather, status dashboard, rss feed reader) > * Car-puting > * Industrial workstation (Zebra printers, Barcode scanners, RFID systems, > GPIB Instrument communication) > > Thanks for taking the time to hear me out on this and give some feedback. > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/ec9f905f/attachment.html>
