[Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah

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I agree with you. If there is a better GUI toolkit and it could run on
most platforms, most people will use it instead of WinForm.


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> [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com] On Behalf Of Tum
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 9:58 PM
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> Subject: [Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah
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> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Here are some of my thoughts on the state of GUIs and Windows Forms.
> 
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> Windows Forms has very nice native controls.  It is fast, 
> responsive but VERY POORLY designed.  It is only a thin layer 
> about native windows controls.  Using native controls is 
> *ok*, but they could have at least used the 
> model-view-controller design pattern. The first thing I did 
> when I started using Windows Forms was to write 
> model/controller classes for lists and trees.
> 
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> Swing is wonderfully designed.  It is the best and most pure 
> OO UI class library out there.  It used to have major speed 
> problems, but that hasn't been too much of an issue lately.
> 
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> I really think that instead of porting Windows.Forms (which 
> would be VERY hard), we should be thinking more along the 
> lines of creating something similar to Swing or SWT.  A swing 
> like implementation would be better as you would have more 
> control over component drawing (and thus better support 
> printing and UI capturing).  A designer plugin for VS.NET can 
> easily be written to support the new toolkit.  I think the 
> added bonus of being able to *reliably* port .NET GUI 
> applications to .NET would encourage people to use the new 
> toolkit over Windows.Forms.
> 
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> If a swing-like toolkit was written, only a few native 
> routines would be needed.  Drawing/blting (System.Drawing?), 
> window creation and message/event dispatching.  This would be 
> trivial to implement on Windows and Linux.  Most of the UI 
> could then be written in portable managed code :D.
> 
> ::Tum
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