[Mono-list] Windows.Forms on OSX

[Daniel Carrera]

We are still a long ways from bringing Windows.Forms to OSX.
We do not yet have any implementation of Windows.Forms at all.  Right now,
we are simply making stubbs so that an implementation can be done later.

On the other hand, it's certainly not too late to express your thoughts.

Mono is moving fast, so stay tunned.
Maybe you can help us there sooner!

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Greg Brown wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a new subscriber to the list. I was excited to read recently that Ximian
> is planning to bring Mono to Mac OSX.
>
> I noticed on the Mono project site that the plan is to implement
> Windows.Forms on OSX using the Cocoa framework. I don't know how far along
> the port is, but I'm curious to know if anyone has looked into the
> feasibility of using Carbon as opposed to Cocoa. From what I understand, the
> team currently porting the SWT (a Java GUI API that is part of the Eclipse
> project, http://eclipse.org) to OSX chose Carbon over Cocoa because Carbon
> is a lower-level API. Among other things, I know they had a lot of trouble
> mapping SWT's event model to Cocoa. Although I have not yet used it, I
> imagine that the Windows.Forms event model is similar, since I understand
> that it provides low-level access to the system event loop. There were also
> some other issues. A port of Windows.Forms to OSX using Cocoa could face
> similar challenges.
>
> Additionally, Cocoa applications are written either in Objective-C or in
> Java. I don't believe Cocoa is accessible from C. This may or may not be an
> issue for Mono - not having seen any of the source code yet, I don't know
> how it is being implemented under the hood.
>
> So, it seems like it might be worth considering using Carbon. Thoughts?
>
> Greg
>
>
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