On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:17:54AM +0000, Stifu wrote: > Hi, > > I doubt WinForms will be dropped anytime soon. > > By the way, did you hear about XWT (https://github.com/mono/xwt)? This could > be a nice way to go forward without having to implement WPF.
Oh, that looks nice, looks like it mirrors the widget tree of gtk which i woudln't have expected but i guess is easiest to start with (as gtk works everywhere) > That said, best of luck if you still want to implement WPF on top of Mono. quite a chunk of moonlight works quite well on the desktop, i had great fun writing. https://github.com/inorton/XamlPreviewer and https://github.com/inorton/MoonBase Best of luck! Ian > jcscherer wrote > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > I am obviously new to the mailing list and would first like to introduce > > myself. I am Justin Scherer and I am currently a college student at North > > Central College. I am pursuing my degree in Computer Science. I have now > > been working with C# and WPF development for little over a year. I have > > also worked on many large scale projects dealing WPF and how the framework > > is built. I am new to trying to port or recreate all of this for Mono and > > I realize that this is a large task to try to accomplish. I also realize > > that just trying to get the basic framework down is going to take quite a > > long time. But, with all of this said, I feel that it needs to be done. > > Windows will be deprecating the Windows Forms quite soon, especially with > > the launch of Windows 8 just on the horizon. With the deprecation of > > Windows Forms, most of our tools for Mono go to waste since this is what > > we usually build all of our GUI applications around. I am seeing if there > > is any interest in pursuing this large t > > ask. If there is, feel free to email me at this address and we can start > > to see what it will take to get this project underway. Again, I realize > > the amount of work that will need to go into this and I also realize how > > much time we already put into our own lives. But, if enough support is > > there and we can get at least a basic framework built up, I feel that we > > can achieve this immense goal. Thank you for all of your time and lets see > > if we can get this project up and running. > > > > > > //Signed// > > Justin C. Scherer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/WPF-development-for-Mono-tp4448822p4448934.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
