[MonoDevelop] Soc 2008 idea: Universal graphical Framwork

[Gryffus]

So what hapened to this project?? : 
http://i-nz.net/2007/08/23/monodesign-winforms-designer-report/

I remember i actually HAD a winforms designer in my mono in past... 
There has been a lot of talking about it... Why it has been dropped???? :-(

Gfs

Lluis Sanchez Gual napsal(a):
> 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.
>
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