I agree as well. I don't like how Swing apps look-and-feel differently than native applications. Personally, I'd prefer something more like SWT. Let me plug the wxWindows project again, they've done a great job of developing a cross-platform GUI toolkit.
j code wrote: > I agree with you. If there is a better GUI toolkit and it could run on > most platforms, most people will use it instead of WinForm. > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tum >>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 9:58 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah >> >> >>I really think that instead of porting Windows.Forms (which >>would be VERY hard), we should be thinking more along the >>lines of creating something similar to Swing or SWT. A swing >>like implementation would be better as you would have more >>control over component drawing (and thus better support >>printing and UI capturing). A designer plugin for VS.NET can >>easily be written to support the new toolkit. I think the >>added bonus of being able to *reliably* port .NET GUI >>applications to .NET would encourage people to use the new >>toolkit over Windows.Forms. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
