can someone please remind me how to conditionally enable winforms support on windows in my csproj? P

can someone please remind me how to conditionally enable winforms support on windows in my csproj? Porting a program I wrote that heavily relies on Win32 to Linux

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:17 AM

I only use WinForms to run the Win32 message loop, so it's not needed on Linux...but the app won't compile with

<EnableWinForms>true</EnableWinForms>

<EnableWinForms>true</EnableWinForms>

being present

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chairclr•2/5/23, 1:21 AM

@kaijellinghaus

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Kai•2/5/23, 1:22 AM

Is it literally just flipped?

Kai•2/5/23, 1:22 AM

Looks amazing but also why didn't they do it this way around in the first place

chairclr•2/5/23, 1:23 AM

i just dragged the svg into an editor

chairclr•2/5/23, 1:23 AM

new server emoji? :happyfish: imo

Rritchie ❤can someone please remind me how to conditionally enable winforms support on win...

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 1:24 AM

if you build with Mono ittl work under linux with forms

chairclr•2/5/23, 1:24 AM

you probably do something like this with a .targets file, right?

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:24 AM

This is a .NET 6 app, and I don't actually want the win32 message loop under linux

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:25 AM

The only reason I need it on windows is because it's required to receive system-wide keyboard events, which I need for this program to work

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:25 AM

But since X11 is likely going to have its own mechanism for this anyway, the win32 message loop is useless here.

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 1:26 AM

this wont work under Wayland sadly, and uhhh you can do this easily on windows without winforms

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:26 AM

Only reason I'm using winforms is because it's convenient. You can just call

Application.Run()

Application.Run()

without instantiating a form, and it'll run a Win32 message loop for you.

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 1:27 AM

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-getkeyboardstate

GetKeyboardState function (winuser.h) - Win32 apps

Copies the status of the 256 virtual keys to the specified buffer.

LLyris the Kitori this wont work under Wayland sadly, and uhhh you can do this easily on windows w...

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:27 AM

That's...okay. I'm on X11.

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 1:27 AM

ah on X11 one min lemme remember what i used

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:27 AM

but, that's not really what I'm even struggling with

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:27 AM

I need to conditionally disable the EnableWinForms property in the csproj when building for non-Windows platforms

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:28 AM

I just can't remember how

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 1:28 AM

https://github.com/Furball-Engine/Furball/blob/master/Furball.Game/Furball.Game.csproj

GitHub

Furball/Furball.Game.csproj at master · Furball-Engine/Furball

A Game Engine designed in C# using a custom made Renderer called Furball.Vixie, uses a similiar design to the Engine peppy made while developing osu!stable - Furball/Furball.Game.csproj at master ·...

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 1:28 AM

you can see how to do so here

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 1:28 AM

my engine conditionally switches from net7.0 -> net7.0-windows on windows builds

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:33 AM

how do I check if I'm on windows with the c# preprocessor?

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 1:33 AM

is it just

#if WINDOWS

#if WINDOWS

or something else

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 1:50 AM

you can conditionally define something like

WINDOWS

WINDOWS

in the csproj

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:01 AM

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:01 AM

literally anything in the silk codebase ^^^

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:32 AM

hmmmmmm the output from

pactl list-sink-inputs

pactl list-sink-inputs

seems like YAML

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:32 AM

but I've never had to parse YAML before, let alone in .NET, and idk if it's even proper YAML

chairclr•2/5/23, 2:35 AM

ever had to runtime detour native code that is called by both managed and native code in .net? its horrible

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:38 AM

no, what's a nightmare is interfacing with linux utils over command-line lol

chairclr•2/5/23, 2:38 AM

lmao

Cchairclr ever had to runtime detour native code that is called by both managed and native...

chairclr•2/5/23, 2:38 AM

i have read far too much .net runtime code

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:40 AM

I'm scared because like

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:40 AM

I need to write a parser for this type of output

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:41 AM

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003101379558113300/1071620136550809692/pactl-sink-inputs.txt

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:41 AM

i dont think thats meant to be parsed

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:41 AM

...well, maybe not

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:41 AM

but it needs to be

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:41 AM

because that's a bunch of info I need

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:41 AM

infact it isnt, if you read the manpage

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:41 AM

need each sink input ID, the name of the app that owns it, and the volume of the sink input

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:41 AM

you can add the

-f

-f

switch

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:42 AM

to change it to json

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:42 AM

-f json

-f json

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:42 AM

https://www.mankier.com/1/pactl

pactl command man page - pulseaudio-utils | ManKier

pactl can be used to issue control commands to the PulseAudio sound server.

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:43 AM

beyley

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:43 AM

I love you

Lyris the Kitori•2/5/23, 2:45 AM

a lot of cli utilities that people would think to parse have switches to make them output a more computer friendly format

ritchie ❤OP•2/5/23, 2:49 AM

now I just wanna know if C#'s json parser can set private fields