Actually, the last thing should be picking is the GUI toolkit, design your app logic without tieing it to a GUI and write a separate wrapper program for each GUI environment and console. It makes things easier to test aswell.
Ian -- I may have used dictation software to write this email, please excuse any confusing mistakes. Stifu <[email protected]> wrote: >How easy that would be depends on your skills, naturally. You may be >new to >Mono, but familiar with Java or other similar environments. What you're >trying to do sounds relatively easy. The way I understand it, you want >to >generate a certain image depending on the value of some UI controls. > >The first thing you'll have to do is pick a GUI Toolkit. >Your options are basically: > >- Use WinForms. No install needed on Windows, but no designer with >MonoDevelop, and buggy on Linux and especially Mac. However, your app >might >be simple enough that you could avoid getting into serious problems. > >- Use GTK#. Install needed on Windows, but works better than WinForms >across >platforms. Not as popular / used as WinForms in the .NET world, though, >and >its future seems a bit uncertain. > >- Use a different GUI toolkit depending on the OS. Most expensive >solution, >but best results. > >- Patiently wait for the upcoming GUI Toolkit by the Mono team: XWT. >Won't >be available anytime soon, as it's not even been officially announced >yet. > > >Alan_Brit wrote >> >> Hi all >> I am new to mono platform. I have been reading about it and it seems >to be >> what i am looking for... >> Well, I would like to create an application and could run it on most >> common OSs and Mono seems o do it. >> >> More specifically, i would like to develp and application realted >with >> mapping (a map and put some icons on it and refresh it periodically). >> Firstly I would like to start by a desktop app then implement the >same but >> for the web. Some requirements about these application mainly is: >> >> A window, with a map, with some comboboxes and listboxes and possible >tree >> controls in order to show information and click on these rich >controls and >> update something on the map, for instance, centralize in the map the >> clicked object in the listbox >> >> Please, could you advice me in terms of (easy) mono tools to do that? >> >> Thanks a lot >> >> Alan >> > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/New-to-Mono-Web-and-Desktop-Mapping-tp4281638p4281747.html >Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >_______________________________________________ >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
