[Mono-dev] Silverlight/Moonlight questions

["Andrés G. Aragoneses [ knocte ]]

Hey Rolf thanks for replying!

Rolf Bjarne Kvinge escribió:
> Hi,
> 
>> - As you guys have managed to make widgets for the desktop using
>> Moonlight, could this be done also with Silverlight? 
> 
> I think so yes. 
> There are Vista gadgets done with Silverlight somewhere.
> 
>> If yes, how one
>> could do that from a normal .NET application that could call a
>> Silverlight widget? 
> 
> I have no idea how the Vista gadgets are made, but one idea is to use
> the System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser to embed a browser inside a desktop app.

Hugh, but why launching whole browser core just to show a Silverlight 
widget? I would bet current moonlight gadgets don't launch gecko at all.


>> Would this be cross-platform if you used on
>> managed code? I ask this because here[1] you can see that Silverlight
>> is only understood as a browser plugin, which I think it's incorrect,
>> given the first assumption.
> 
> In theory yes, but it's still a long way to go.
> 
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight
>>
>> - Is the moonlight designer already usable (it's called lunareclipse
>> right?). 
> 
> I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know :)
> 
>> If yes, is there some page to download tarballs with it? 
> 
> No, you have to use SVN to get it.
> 
>> BTW, in a similar way as previous bullet: can lunareclipse be run from the
>> desktop without a browser? 
> 
> Yes (it is a desktop application)

Then, is it a Silverlight application that can save XAML files locally 
or is it a .NET application that launches the Silverlight lunareclupse 
widget and does the job of dealing with the OS also?

>> If yes, can it be launched from Windows? 
> 
> No. It requires Moonlight, and Moonlight doesn't run on Windows.

But, shouldn't it be done in a way that in Windows could be launched 
using Silverlight instead of Moonlight?

>> Or from a .NET application? 
>> I ask this because, as I understand, Silverlight CLR runs in a Sandbox 
>> and thus it should not allow to write/read from disk, so then how can 
>> anyone save the contents made by lunareclipse in the home directory or 
>> whenever on the local computer?
>>
> 
> It is a .NET application already.

Then, how this .NET application launches a Silverlight widget?

Regards,

	Andrés	[ knocte ]

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