[MonoDevelop] Soc 2008 idea: Universal graphical Framwork

[Lluis Sanchez Gual]

El dj 27 de 03 del 2008 a les 13:54 +0100, en/na Petit Eric va escriure:
> 2008/3/27, Lluis Sanchez Gual <lluis at novell.com>:
> > A user interface designer is not like a drawing tool. The controls you
> >  put in the design surface must look and behave exactly like the controls
> >  at run-time. They are not graphical representations of the run-time
> >  controls, they are the *real* controls running in a special design mode.
> >  To do what you propose you would need to replicate gtk#, winforms and
> >  any other widget library you want to support using the designer
> >  framework. Even if you do that (which would take several years) it
> >  wouldn't work for custom widgets which use custom rendering.
> >
> >  MonoDevelop already provides a toolbox and a property grid which can be
> >  shared by all designers. There isn't much more you can share.
> This share work with WinForms (.designer file) ?

No, since MD does not have a WinForms designer, and there are no plans
to implement it.

Lluis.