[MonoDevelop] Soc 2008 idea: Universal graphical Framwork

[Atsushi Eno]

Note that it is Ivan's plan, not those from the MD team. There is
nothing dropped.

FYI, you should not worry about it too much; Ivan has been working on
System.Design stuff in mcs tree, which is fundamental for WinForms designer.

Atsushi Eno

Gryffus wrote:
> 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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