I whipped up a twenty button GUI and picture box using Monodevelop and GTK# and the stetic form developer in about 20 minutes. 15 of those were learning my way around the toolbars, etc. However, anyone doing it will find it has a familiar feel if they have used VS before. It is the same kind of thing: drag and drop and then manipulate positions, etc. and hook up signals. I did find one MAJOR advantage to monodevelop/gtk# resizing is absolutely automagic. You set a minimum size for objects and the click a single box to allow it to expanded to your hearts content.
I am very wary of using Mono for a major development until ALL of the implications of the MS/Novell situation fall out. I am personally concerned that with the Mono development being hosted at Novell, and the potential problems they have caused for themselves with respect to issuing GPL software, that this may all come crashing down on their heads and carrying us to the bottom with them. There are no such encumbrances with GTK# that I am aware of. Bob Philip Covington wrote: > Mono 1.2 has been released with almost full support for Winforms. I > say almost because I have found that about 90% of my Winforms code > compiled for .NET also runs under Mono 1.2 without recompiling. This > is much better than a few months ago when I did the same test. There > are a few Winforms components that are not yet implemented. > > For those wanting to create cross platform GUIs with the familiar > Windows Forms, you can use VS 2005 on Windows and Monodevelop on > Linux. Monodevelop does not have a Winforms designer like VS 2005 > though, so GTK# and Glade may still be the better choice since the > Glade interface designer is available in both Windows and Linux. > Monodevelop has the stetic form designer but there is no equivalent on > Windows(?). > > Phil N8VB > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > > -- Robert W. McGwier, Ph.D. Center for Communications Research 805 Bunn Drive Princeton, NJ 08540 (609)-924-4600 (sig required by employer) _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
