[Mono-list] No Go with Mono

[Thomas Cataldo]

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 13:07, Steve Anderson wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I stumbled across the Mono website on the weekend and after reading the FAQ, 
> I decided to dive in and setup Mono on my PC, running Mandrake 8.1.  
> 
> I am creating a fairly small Java app which I wish to distribute and although 
> I think the app's back end code is great, I am very disappointed with the GUI 
> front end (i.e. Swing front end).

IMHO, you should keep your java backend code and use SWT (from
www.eclipse.org) for your GUI. With SWT, you'll get gtk2 widgets on
linux, and native MFC widgets on win32.