Oops. Sent w/ wrong account. > wxWindows (http://www.wxWindows.org) -- I don't think anyone suggested > this. > > Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Unix with the GTK+ toolkit, Unix > with the Motif toolkit, and MacOS. It also supports UNIX with X11! And > Mac is both Carbon and Aqua! > > I'm going to try P/Invoking this tonight and tomorrow and see how I can > do. It seems to be a fairly sane abstraction and supports many looks > and feels. > > Perhaps something Ximian or the GNOME group could do is create a GNOME > back-end for it. The GTK+ one is based on GTK+ 1.2 (I believe) and > doesn't add all the GNOME components. I'd think it's be fairly quick to > reimplement it in GTK+ 2 and GNOME2. > > It's already in Object-Oriented C++, so converting it to Object-Oriented > C# shouldn't be too hard (I know I'll hate myself in the morning for > saying that) > > The wxWindows 2 licence is essentially the L-GPL (Library General Public > Licence), with an exception stating that derived works in binary form > may be distributed on the user's own terms. This is a solution that > satisfies those who wish to produce GPL'ed software using wxWindows, and > also those producing proprietary software. > > I know it ends up being another layer of abstraction, but does anyone > see a reason this would be a bad choice for the API considering all the > OS's it already works on and has native look and feel in?
Actually, after looking at this, I think I'll still use it, but only use a small subset (the GUI portions). Just thought I should add this. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
