What is the crowd's opinion of Mono?

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Bah, Silverlight? Grumble grumble...

Hmm, looks like Moonlight actually might do the trick...

Opening crx file...

Yep, I want to use it...well, that was easy...

The following plugin has crashed: Silverlight

Bah, well it was worth a try...

I did see those when I was at OHS adopting my cat, and thought they were pretty cool!

I actually did this all on a mac. You need a program called Mono Runtime to run NBTExplorer. Download the stable release, install it, then open up a terminal window. Type:

mono <path to the NBTExplorer.exe>

To get the path to run the EXE easily, just drag and drop the EXE file into the terminal. Then in order to edit the dat files, just copy them to your desktop and open them in NBTExplorer.

I agree. Although, flash has some hang ups for this sort of thing, if you're going to go commercial it's better than silverlight because it as least has a decent enough Linux plugin. Saying that, silverlight might be easier to develop something like this with than Java thanks to the IDE and included controls but cheaper than Adobe (visual studio express). For something that's linked with charity I'm surprised they didn't go Java applet. However, have you tried moonlight? They might have gotten the same thing working with HTML 5 as well.

I suspect this might be more of a business decision for sponsorship. This is may even be the result of a deliberate silverlight promotion scheme by Microsoft.

You can use Modman on OS X and Linux, have you read the topic of Modman? :)

Here are the steps so you can enjoy it on OS X without having to switch OS:

1. Install Mono Framework. It's found here, get the 2.10+ version, not 2.6.
2. Once you have mono installed, download Modman. Put it in a folder easily accessible from the Terminal.
3. Download any mods you want, and put it in this folder, creating it if it doesn't exist: (the ~ stands for your home folder)

>~/Library/Application Support/Heroes of Newerth/game/mods

1. Open Terminal and cd to the folder you put Modman in, then run it with mono. The commands look a bit like this, if Modman is in a folder called modman in your home folder:

>cd ~/modman

>mono HoN_Modman.exe

Wait a while and modman will open up, allowing you to do whatever you want with the mods.

Here's a screenshot of it.

I can say that this appears to work with Mono on Mac which is probably an easier solution, there are a lot of graphical glitches, but it does work! You can grab Mono from here http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html then in a Terminal window simply type mono KeyBV.exe and it will operate just as it does on windows.

This might help, since you need Silverlight for Netflix.

*no it won't. Sorry. as it tuns out, moonlight has no DRM support. Looks like a VM is the best way to go.

I went to this link and downloaded the SDK version. After I installed it, I put the NBTedit program into a folder on my desktop. I opened up Terminal, typed CD Desktop, then typed CD Name of the folder the exe is in, then I think typing mono NBTedit.exe was what finally got it to work. Not certain though.

Are you simply looking for alternatives to using the Java platform on Android, or just alternative languages?

These links might be of interest for reading and whatnot:

• Android NDK
• MonoDroid

> * Neulion [...] requires Silverlight 4.0

> * Linux doesn't have a Silverlight compatible program

> * can't see it on a Linux compy

Just for future reference (didn't see this thread until just now), have you tried Moonlight?

It's the Unix-based implementation of Silverlight. Moonlight 4.0 aims to fully support Silverlight 4.0 on Linux - at the moment, Moonlight 4.0 is only a preview release, but you can try it and let us know how well it works with Neulion? I'm not running a Linux box at the moment, but if Moonlight+Neulion play well together then please spread the info for other redditors!

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