Re: winforms for GUI?

Joe Mason <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:51:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:57:40PM -0700, Mark Hahn wrote:
> 
> > 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.  

Hmm, I thought I posted links to the .NET versions of wxWindows and Qt
last week.  Did they not get through?

Google for "wx.NET" and "Qt#".  They're both in alpha, I believe.

Joe