On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 11:56 -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: > It's a shame that there is legal concern around mono's Microsoft > compatible stack. I saw the release notes about Mono 2.0 -- pretty > sweet. WinForm support seems like a "killer app". How sweet would > that be to have nearly every WinForms app developed for Windows > runnable on Linux. That would be huge. Sadly there is the legal > concern that MS will sue you blind if you do so. Hopefully, someone > will make a WinForms compatible API for Java (something that would > wrap Swing or SWT or both). Maybe I'll do that :-).
I'm sure a similar API could be developed. But there's one big feature lacking in Java that would make a straight API port difficult: delegates. WinForms and every other GUI toolkit I've seen on c# relies heavily on them for event handling. The Java api would need a ton of listener classes, like what Java-Gnome does. Works but could not be a straight port; some assembly would be required. > > -Bryan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
