[MonoDevelop] Version Control UI

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Mike Krüger <mkrueger at novell.com> wrote:
> Your grouping is the right grouping. All other files than the
> MainWindow.cs are only there for one reason:
> Make the life of the forms designer easier.
> - The forms designers started out parsing the InitializeComponents ()
> method from the forms class. I don't think that it's good to confront
> the user with this technical complexity (and you got the point - aspx
> etc. is for direct editing where gtkx files are only helpers for the
> forms designer no user should ever touch directly).
>
> IMHO you did the right thing - gtkx files are monodevelop only - it
> doesn't make a reason to build the project this way (try to think what
> happens when the project is opened in vs.net or #develop).
> I think the designer/source view is good for the gtk# designer. All IDEs
> (expect VS.NET - maybe a technical limitation in their IDE?) do a split
> system for forms.

VS does a split view for Winforms but not for anything else, so I very
much doubt it's a technical limitation. Winforms is essentially a
legacy designer - it used to store the GUI definition in a folded
method *in* the code file, so the combined view actually made sense
for that.

The more modern GUI editors in VS -- XAML, ASP.NET etc -- all have a
concept of "codebehind" being distinct from the GUI definition, even
though they also generate designer code. IMO the grouping works very
well for these, and I don't see why it wouldn't work just as well for
stetic, since it's much more akin to what we do. See also Xcode and
xib files.

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com