[Mono-list] Implementing System.Windows.Forms

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
16 Sep 2002 11:51:44 -0400


> Why don't 'we' just use XLib?  Since wine is layered
> on top of this?  AFAIK mono should be aiming for
> compatibility with the Microsoft .NET runtime which
> means it shouldn't matter if our Windows.Forms
> implementation does not run on Windows.

Because we have to emulate the Win32 messages to support completely the
Wndproc method in the Windows.Forms classes, which is a big chunk of
Wine.

Miguel.