Re: [Mono-dev] Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 26

2013-04-26 Thread James Bellinger
This isn't really fair to Mono Windows Forms. On Windows, at least, it works quite well except for some buggy table layout behavior. Some of the controls are painted using the XP and above theming as well. I did use it in a commercial product for a while (granted, a free tool for not-free

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 26

2013-04-26 Thread James Bellinger
On 4/26/2013 10:50 AM, Jonathan Pryor wrote: So on the one platform for which it doesn't use it's own theming and instead uses the platform theming (it uses WinAPI ~directly), it looks good. Great. That also happens to be the platform which has it's own native System.Windows.Forms

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 26

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Apr 26, 2013, at 9:45 AM, James Bellinger ja...@illusorystudios.com wrote: Other than that it's really very usable. [On Windows, at least.] So on the one platform for which it doesn't use it's own theming and instead uses the platform theming (it uses WinAPI ~directly), it looks good.

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 26

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Apr 26, 2013, at 11:01 AM, James Bellinger ja...@illusorystudios.com wrote: This really suggests WinForms ought to be made to look better on other platforms instead of diffusing the needed effort to end users and forcing them to maintain more code. Arguably true, except: 1. Nobody has

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 26

2013-04-24 Thread Rauf Butt
Hi Alexandre, WinForms is specific to Microsoft platform. Additionally, it will require license too. The purpose of using GTK or Mono is specifically because of the cross platform compatibility. Regards, Rauf Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:00:28 +0600 From: ?

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 26

2013-04-24 Thread Konrad M. Kruczynski
XWT maybe? Don't know though whether it's mature enough. On śro, 2013-04-24 at 13:09 +0100, Rauf Butt wrote: Hi Alexandre, WinForms is specific to Microsoft platform. Additionally, it will require license too. The purpose of using GTK or Mono is specifically because of the cross

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 26

2013-04-24 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Rauf Butt raufb...@gmail.com wrote: WinForms is specific to Microsoft platform. Additionally, it will require license too. System.Windows.Forms is implemented on Mono. It looks like Windows 95, has rendering issues, and is generally user-hostile, but it DOES