[Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah

[Christoph Wille]

At 10:19 PM 9/20/2002 +0800, code wrote:
>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.

Define "most people". From my experience it will attract programmers 
starting on the new platforms like Mono, but only very few from the MS .NET 
camp. You are almost limiting the portability to a one-way road, which is 
not a good thing.

Most important to the success of a platform are the tools - and unless you 
have tools that are on par with the Windows Forms tools (yes, that would be 
Visual Studio .NET's forms designer), you can have the best platform in the 
world and only few are going to use it (it needn't be hard, just harder 
than "the other thing").

We can discuss (and even flame) about the potential ugliness etc. of 
Windows Forms - it is the UI toolkit that sits on top of .NET, fact. It 
must be darn easy for MS .NET programmers to re-wire their apps for Mono 
(read: as little changes as possible, next to no roadblocks)

Chris