[Mono-winforms-list] Winforms and Monomac

[James Clancey]

There will be a NSButton in the background.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jonathan Pobst <monkey at jpobst.com> wrote:

> The issues with this approach are that:
>
> - It increases the burden of maintenance to have twice as many files with
> each class split into two.
> - It destroys the history of all of our files, so we can no longer use git
> blame to see who wrote stuff.
> - Anyone attempting to commit to Winforms will have to test their changes
> on MonoMacWinForms or risk breaking MonoMacWinForms.
>
>
> To clarify the goal:
>
> When a user creates a Winforms Button, do you intend to create a NSButton
> in the background?  or will you still use Winforms button drawing code on a
> MonoMac "surface"?
>
> If the latter, that should be accomplished by writing a new XPlat*.cs, as
> that's how Winforms was designed to handle multiple backends.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> On 12/30/2010 1:39 PM, James Clancey wrote:
>
>> Thats correct.  Right now the project is still in the beginning stages.
>> And depending on what is decided about here changes the the direction of
>> this project. But the end goal is something that could eventually be
>> merged in with the mono trunk.
>>
>> Here is a link to the current project.
>> https://github.com/Clancey/MonoMac.Windows.Form
>>
>> <https://github.com/Clancey/MonoMac.Windows.Form>Thanks,
>>
>> James Clancey
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Pobst <monkey at jpobst.com
>> <mailto:monkey at jpobst.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    I'm afraid I still don't understand what you are trying to do.
>>
>>    Are you trying to use the Winforms API with a MonoMac backend?
>>
>>    Jonathan
>>
>>
>>
>>    On 12/30/2010 1:32 PM, James Clancey wrote:
>>
>>        The end goal would be all of it. For now 75%-90%
>>
>>        On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Pobst
>>        <monkey at jpobst.com <mailto:monkey at jpobst.com>
>>        <mailto:monkey at jpobst.com <mailto:monkey at jpobst.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>            What parts/how much of Winforms do you intend to use?
>>
>>            On the surface, this seems like a bad idea.  But maybe
>>        that's just
>>            cause I don't have any details.
>>
>>            Jonathan
>>
>>
>>
>>            On 12/30/2010 12:42 PM, James Clancey wrote:
>>
>>                Hello Everyone,
>>
>>                I am currently working on a Monomac project that will be
>>        using a
>>                good
>>                portion of the Winforms code base.  I have spoken with
>>        miguel and we
>>                have decided to go through the current Winform code and
>>        split
>>                the class
>>                files into multiple files.  The main class will hold non
>>        ui specific
>>                code.  Since the winforms code uses xplat I am creating
>>        a new
>>                .xplat.cs
>>                file and moving the xplat code there.  Here is the
>>        current diff
>>                for what
>>                I have done so far.
>>
>> https://github.com/Clancey/mono/commit/7bde46f1dac6549c091e978f2f294edc8ca10cb1.diff
>>
>>
>>                Please reply back if you have any
>>        questions/concerns/comments.
>>
>>                Thanks,
>>
>>                James Clancey
>>
>>
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