RE: winforms for GUI?

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:57:40 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <000001c47b61$23662f40$0d01a8c0@MarkVaio>
> So I guess I'll be using Gtk# for my GUI.  That's a shame, I 
> always liked wxWindows.  I also guess I'll be stealing the 
> GTK wrapper from Python, unless it sucks.
> 
> Any comments on how I should wrap GTK?

Darn.  I just remembered that GTK doesn't use native widgets in windows like
wxWindows does.  That is unacceptable.  Anyone doing a real windows app
would still use winforms which would isolate Linux.

I wonder how much trouble it would be to port wxWindows to both .Net and
Mono. It would probably be easier to do my own GUI wrapper that used
winforms on windows and GTK on Mono in a transparent manner.  I could
rip-off wxWindows as much as possible.  I could write it in Prothon.  

This would give Prothon a big advantage over the other languages in Mono as
it would have the only portable GUI with native widgets on windows.  Of
course the other languages could call the Prothon GUI as a library.