Oh, and I forgot to mention the nice GUI debugger that Martin and Miguel are working on :-)
On Friday 20 September 2002 11:17 am, Adam Treat wrote: > I don't see what the problem. We have _four_ toolkits that are actively > being worked on. Qt#, Gtk#, SWF with winelib, and XSharp. As far as 'on > par with the Windows Forms tools' well Gtk# has glade and we're working on > uic# backend for the Qt Designer as we speak. The good folks over at > ICSharpCode have also expressed interest in supporting Gtk# and Qt# as well > as SWF with SharpDevelop. I think we have a wealth of GUI toolkit options > here guys:-) > > Cheers, > > Adam > > On Friday 20 September 2002 11:02 am, Christoph Wille wrote: > > At 10:19 PM 9/20/2002 +0800, code wrote: > > >I agree with you. If there is a better GUI toolkit and it could run on > > >most platforms, most people will use it instead of WinForm. > > > > Define "most people". From my experience it will attract programmers > > starting on the new platforms like Mono, but only very few from the MS > > .NET camp. You are almost limiting the portability to a one-way road, > > which is not a good thing. > > > > Most important to the success of a platform are the tools - and unless > > you have tools that are on par with the Windows Forms tools (yes, that > > would be Visual Studio .NET's forms designer), you can have the best > > platform in the world and only few are going to use it (it needn't be > > hard, just harder than "the other thing"). > > > > We can discuss (and even flame) about the potential ugliness etc. of > > Windows Forms - it is the UI toolkit that sits on top of .NET, fact. It > > must be darn easy for MS .NET programmers to re-wire their apps for Mono > > (read: as little changes as possible, next to no roadblocks) > > > > Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
