[Mono-winforms-list] new linux gui & swf

Otto Solares solca@guug.org
Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:00:21 -0600


On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:53:22AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Now i am in the part of implementing client functionality, so i get to
> > mono, all the mono class libraries are excellent instead of reinventing
> > all that functionality.  The exact part i want to implement is SWF for
> > use in my project so clients use that API and i don't have to create a
> > new API for widgets,etc.  Any ideas, hint where can i begin to acomplish
> > my objective?  I read that for SWF there are 2 implementations in progress
> > gtk and wine.  Where should i look where are those 2 hooked into mono?
> 
> Windows.Forms is a very big API, am not sure its the best foundation as
> a toolkit for your code.

Ok. My widget toolkits are server sided as they are composited inside the
server, i will like that SWF be the front end API.  Anyway i am currently
experimenting to convert the main server logic to managed code using mono
so i'll reevaluate later if is worth the effort to use SWF for the task.

Thank you.

-solca