[Mono-list] Implementing System.Windows.Forms

[J. Perkins]

I would like to see - and I'm sure others would as well - a
portable GUI library that uses the appropriate native controls
for the platform it is running on. I would also like to be able
to use the VS7 designer, at least until an equally capable
open-source replacement is available. I don't care if I'm using
the SWF interface, or just something close enough to fool the
designer. Before .NET and Mono came along I used wxWindows,
which nicely fills the "close enough" niche.

IMHO, SWF is an aberration in the otherwise nicely abstracted
.NET classes, and should be Microsoft.Windows.Forms instead. I
wouldn't think it unreasonable to SWF for Windows-only code,
and something else for portable code (but as I said, it would
be nice if I could still use the designer).

This just my $0.02 on the matter, of course.

Jason