[Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah

[Adam Treat]

Oh, and I forgot to mention the nice GUI debugger that Martin and Miguel are 
working on :-)

On Friday 20 September 2002 11:17 am, Adam Treat wrote:
> 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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