[Mono-winforms-list] SWF: X11 vs GTK# vs Wine

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I have read many discussions about implementing SWF with Wine or GTK
> #. Dotgnu.org is implementing SWF using X11. 

> It seems to be a better option than Wine/GTK# because:

>      1. Does not require additional library files from Wine/GTK#

See:

	http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/toolkits.html

And:

	http://www.go-mono.com/winforms.html


>      1. Runs on Mac OSX, Linux, Windows, etc. whereas at present
>         neither Wine nor GTK# runs on Mac OSX.

WineLib (the Wine edition we use) works on Mac OS X.

> I wonder why implementing SWF using X11 has not been discussed in the
> mono project. Or did I miss those messages? J

It has been covered in depth.

Miguel.