[MonoDevelop] Forms Designer in MonoDevelop

[Petit Eric]

Back to the begin :
http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms_Designer
:-)

2010/1/21 Mike Krüger <mkrueger at novell.com>:
> Hi
>
>> >> If you are saying that the SharpDevelop designer uses P/Invoke (DLLImport)
>> >> to access unmanaged libraries then I agree, porting the SharpDevelop
>> >> designer to MonoDevelop may be the wrong approach.  I would very much like
>> >> MonoDevelop to stay dedicated to being cross-platform.
>> >>
>> >
>> > No p/invokes are used for the designer :)
>> I'm really not an expert of it but the MWF are not in the same way as
>> the Management space, who use P/Invoke to provide "managed" code in
>> the framework ?
>>
>
> >From the viewpoint of the forms designer it doesn't matter if the
> windows forms implementation uses p/invoke or not - the framework
> provides a designer and the controls can (and many to) provide their own
> mini-designers and all plug in into a managed services framework and all
> services can be implemented in managed code. The forms designer itself
> is much more high level than 'paint a widget here - draw text there'
> etc.
>
> btw. isn't designing windows forms controls with sharpdevelop an
> option ? All IDEs share the same project format - and it's unlikely that
> we have a mwf supporting design time (but it's open source - therefore I
> may be wrong here).
>
> Regards
> Mike
>
>> >
>> >> If what you are saying is that the SharpDevelop designer relies on .NET
>> >> classes which are incomplete in Mono currently then I do not see why this
>> >> has to shoot down the idea of a designer in MonoDevelop so quickly.
>> >>
>> >> I imagine that a good number of the people asking for or expecting to find a
>> >> forms designer in MonoDevelop are currently on the Windows platform.
>> >> Running only on Windows for the moment would still be useful.
>> >>
>> >> If I get some free time one of these days I could try to run the stand-alone
>> >> designer on .NET to get an indication of how well it works when the platform
>> >> support is there.  I could also poke around the designer in SharpDevelop to
>> >> see how easily it might be ripped out.  I just thought somebody more
>> >> knowlegable, like Mike perhaps, might be able to quickly tell me if breaking
>> >> the problem in two like this would actually make anything easier.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Ripping out the forms designer shouldn't be that hard at all (in fact
>> > it's 'just' ripping out some services which should be provided) -
>> > integrating it into monodevelop ... is a lot of work, but doable.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Mike
>> >
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