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!
>
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