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Re: [DotGNU]define official DotGNU GUI toolkit
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David Sugar |
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Re: [DotGNU]define official DotGNU GUI toolkit |
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:30:13 -0500 |
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Naturaly my favorite pick would be fox :). But it is worth pointing out that
there are native ports of gtk on some of those other platforms too. Quite
honestly, I think it's a ugly too, but perhaps gtk may be the best
compromise. Certainly I think it's better to use an existing toolkit rather
than create yet another windowing toolkit (yawt?!).
On Friday 06 December 2002 11:46, Stephen Compall wrote:
> We all have our favorite GUI toolkits. However, I feel that DotGNU
> needs to recommend an official preference. So here are some problems
> with a couple of the well thought-of possibilities:
>
> * GTK
> Cygwin. Plus, it's ugly.
>
> * Qt
> Wonderful, but not cross-platform (w/o Cygwin? on Windows, X on OS X).
>
> * wxWin
> Same problems as AWT in JavaTM.
>
> So I propose two other possibilities:
>
> * A portable written-from-scratch toolkit, like JavaTM Swing, that
> only uses low-level underlying drawing mechanisms.
>
> * Tk. I can't think of a more portable graphical toolkit.
>
> * Add yours here.