I don't remember the option System.Windows.Forms on the survey :) But crappy or not, I have Form, Control, ComboBox, Label and TextBox running with main things that I use in Windows Mobile version, so each "Form : ViewController" can be easily ported to iPhone/iPad just making me the work to draw it on Interface Builder and use there Label instead UILabel, etc and all my core manipulation of forms and controls from windows mobile runs OK :) (that run ok on windows). Has the Windows.Forms name but uses native controls of course.
Not perfectly yet with all options (missing menuItem and TabControl) but is running and evaluating beside application development and soon future port to WP and Android (ok I still do not know what to do with intents vs TrueInstantiatedObject) Karl From: Jonathan Pryor <[email protected]> Date: quarta-feira, 13 de junho de 2012 15:13 To: René Ruppert <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] The story of MonoTouch? I wasn't there at the very beginning, but I was there close to the beginning... On Jun 13, 2012, at 5:46 AM, René Ruppert wrote: > is there a blog or something that tells the story of MonoTouch? I think it > should even become a book! Miguel also wrote a blog article about MonoTouch history: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Sep-14.html > * How did it all start? What was the initial idea? As per Miguel's blog, after the Mono 2.0 release Miguel asked his blog readers to fill out a survey indicating where Mono should go next, and they said "iPhone!" Given that System.Windows.Forms is horribly crappy on non-Windows platforms, binding the native API is the only sane thing to do... > * What was the first line of code that was written? I have no idea. From the commit log, various patches to mono were first, followed by a full sample app. I don't think I'd be far off in guessing that the first actual line of C# written was: using System; ;-) > * How much reverse engineering was involved to find out how to get things > working on an iPhone? That would be a question for Mac-guru Geoff Norton. My understanding is that the basic binding scenario didn't require much in the way of reverse engineering: it's largely just a binding of Objective-C that doesn't require a JIT, and Objective-C is well understood. > * What was the first app that ran in MonoTouch on an iPhone? An internal test app, along the lines of "Hello World" with a button. Mono for Android had a very similar first sample (make a button + callback actually work), a variation of which is the default Mono for Android Application template... - Jon _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch
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