[Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah

[Adam Treat]

I don't see what the problem.  We have _four_ toolkits that are actively being 
worked on.  Qt#, Gtk#, SWF with winelib, and XSharp.  As far as 'on par with 
the Windows Forms tools' well Gtk# has glade and we're working on uic# 
backend for the Qt Designer as we speak.  The good folks over at ICSharpCode 
have also expressed interest in supporting Gtk# and Qt# as well as SWF with 
SharpDevelop.  I think we have a wealth of GUI toolkit options here guys:-)

Cheers,

Adam

On Friday 20 September 2002 11:02 am, Christoph Wille wrote:
> 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
>
>
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