Genghis is a set of extensions built on top of .NET and integrated with WinForms to provide application-level services in the same flavor as the Microsoft Foundation Classes. Genghis gets its name as the functional heir to Attila, a similar set of functionality built on top of ATL.
Most of the Genghis classes were built by different folks and while every effort was made to keep things consistent by choosing .NET and WinForms design techniques, everyone does things their own way.
This work is the work of the individuals involved and does not represent any contribution of their respective employers. You are under no obligation to use any of Genghis at any time, but if you do, you are required to abide by the License.
You can download the latest Genghis source code from here. The Genghis archive includes this page, the source code to the Genghis class library, a series of samples showing off the various classes and a pre-built, signed version of genghis.dll in the redist folder. Notice that some of the samples use the Genghis files directly instead of using the compiled Genghis assembly. Either usage is supported by Genghis (except where it drives the WinForms Designer nuts).
Help on using CVS with Genghis is available here. Thanks to Rob MacFadyen for hosting and Brad Wilson for documenting CVS for Windows folk.
Help on building Genghis is available here. Thanks to Brad Wilson for the NAnt build scripts for folks without VS.NET.
Th e bug tracking system for Genghis has been graciously donated by Rob MacFadyen, developer of rmTrack. Bugs can be logged or viewed at the Genghis rmTrack site. Use guest/guest as the login (browser cookies required).
Please do not send Chris Sells or any of the other contributors personal email complaining about Genghis. Also please do not post Genghis bug reports to any mailing list. A much better way to contribute to the life of Genghis is to submit the fix along with the bug report.
This group is made up of official Genghis contributors:
If you'd got something you'd like to see contribute to Genghis,
please let me know (multiple people are free to collaborate on a single
feature).
Feature |
Owner(s) |
Progress |
Screen Shot(s) |
Command line parser |
included |
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Completion combo |
included |
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Control hosting status bar |
included |
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C ursor changer |
included |
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Custom check state treeview |
included |
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Custom XP theming controls |
included |
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File Search Engine |
included |
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FileDocument class (doc/dirty bit management) |
included |
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FindReplaceDialog |
included |
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FolderNameDialog |
included |
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HandleCollector for the world |
included |
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Header group box control |
included |
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Image combo |
included |
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More robust validation ala WebForms |
included |
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Most-Recently-Used (MRU) files support |
included |
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MSN Messenger-style popup window |
included |
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Multiple Top-Level Windows |
included |
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Multiple-instance detection |
included |
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Path resolution b/w UNC, local (including SUBST, etc) |
included |
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Retrieving mapped drives |
included |
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Retrieving shares |
included |
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Screen Saver class |
included |
screenshot (sorta : ) |
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Scrollable Picture Box |
included |
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Sorting listview (including the little triangle thingy) |
included |
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Splash Screen class |
included |
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Status Bar Extender |
included |
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WebCommandLineHelper |
included |
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Window serializer |
included |
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Wizard framework |
included |
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Command updating |
sample |
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Cool bars/Cool menus |
sample |
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Docki ng App Bar |
sample |
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A real image list control |
Matt Wilson (of Attila fame!) |
pending |
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Advanced layout managers, e.g. grid/table |
pending |
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Command routing |
pending |
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Dynamically docking/undocking windows |
pending |
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href exe-safe serialization framework |
pending |
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Managed HTML display ala a C# port of Mozilla? |
pending |
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Menu/toolbar editing ala Office or VS.NET |
pending |
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Outlook-style Bar |
pending |
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SDI, MDI and Explorer-style application wizard |
pending |
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Tab-based MDI implementation (ala VS.NET) |
pending |
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Tear-off menus |
pending |
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User-sizeable panel |
pending |
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Windowless control architecture |
pending |
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Note: Anything marked with "sample" means that there's a sample included with Genghis that shows the current implementation of a feature but that it's not done enough to be part of the official Genghis component. Mostly the hold-up is integration with the WinForms Designer.
The Genghis documentation is composed of the C# documentation comments as part of the automated build. Check redist\Genghis.chm for the latest.
SimplePad is an MFC application that should serve as a simple baseline for what Genghis should enable to be built easily. We currently need a raw WinForms implementation to help guide the Genghis development efforts. After building it, use Help->Help Topics to see the list of features that the MFC SimplePad application provides straight out of the wizard (also duplicated here):
The current .NET implementation of SimplePad is now available as one of the Genghis samples. Thanks to Paul Bartrum and Chris Burrows for all their hard work on this!
rmTrack provides the hosting space and administration support for Genghis bug tracking and source code control.
Copyright © 2002-2003 The Genghis Group
Th is software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, subject to the following restrictions:
This license based on the open source zlib/libpng license. The idea was to keep the license as simple as possible to encourage use of Genghis in free and commercial applications and libraries, but to keep the source code together and to give credit to the Genghis contributors for their efforts. While this license allows shipping Genghis in binary form, if shipping a Genghis variant is the sole purpose of your product, please contact The Genghis Group for a new license.