Re: TextBox

Gopal V <gopalv82-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.dotgnu.developer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> > using cairo is prettty much the why the mono
> project would like to
> > implement SWF now after they droped the wine
> approach.

Adding another hard depedency (soft dependencies like
Xft which can be --disable-Xft'd is ok) is bad news
for pnet's portability.

Imagine having to port Cairo to tinyX :)

> > Why should dotgnu/mono invent the wheel new?
> 
> DotGNU already has this wheel: a system-independent,
> toolkit-based, non-Wine 
> approach to building a WinForms implementation from
> the ground up.  We won't 
> be re-inventing it.

A one year and one month old wheel if I'm not wrong :)

> already managed to get our  WinForms working on
Mono,
>  or it would be pretty easy to do so.

I think mono broke that recently when
[DllImport("X11")]
stopped importing libX11.so .. (or maybe there is 
something wrong with my box).

Gopal


		
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