Thanks a million, this is probably what I'll do in the future. Thanks again, Dan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Baltasar García Perez-Schofield < baltas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Dan, > > > Thanks Baltasar, >> Since it's deprecated, what do you suggest I use instead? >> > > Ufff... here be dragons. > http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/ > > Winforms would be ideal if it was finished, since you would not have to > write any other code. Unfortunately, it is not. Take into account that > there is not support for WPF. > > Okay, probably the best graphic toolkit available, when talking about > completeness, for C#/mono, is Gtk#. Gtk# is able to show windows and > graphics of any kind (Cairo), in Windows, Mac and Linux. It's a good > option, I think the best one currently, though it is also maybe > temperamental and capricious in how to show widgets to the user (it thinks > it knows better than you). Since you would paint in the window canvas > though Cairo, I think you're safe, though. You also have an installer for > each platform. > http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/tutorials/ > > You can use Stetic, included in the MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio > environment, or still use Visual Studio if you're ready to code the GUI by > yourself (this what I personally recommend). > > QtSharp is cool, since it gives you access to Qt, a great toolkit, for C#. > However, I don't know how easy is to distribute a cross-platform > application with it. > https://github.com/ddobrev/QtSharp > > Xwt is an effort to create a truly toolkit which is native for each > platform. I don't know about its maturity, though. > https://github.com/mono/xwt > > As you can see, there are lots of options, none of them totally good. I'd > stick to Gtk#: either create a specific UI for Linux, or even replace your > curent view with a Gtk# one, which will be cross-platform. I mean, provided > you are ready to "re-code". > > Anyway, you app with Cairo (included with Gtk#) could be interesting. > > -- baltasar > >
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