[Mono-list] RE: [DotGNU]Re: Collaboration on alternatives to the US-patent-endangered APIs?

jscottb jscottb@bonbon.net
Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:21:30 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> Some things which are massive departures from Win32:
>
> 	* You do not have to do translate message/dispatch message.
>
> 	* You do not need a Wndproc method for each window class.
>
> 	* You do not have to register a window class.
>

Not tying to get into this argument, but this is not a new this for
Windows.Forms or Microsoft.  Tk (Tcl/Tk) allows for most of this.  To me
the Window.Forms stuff looks like Tk more than anything else.

scott