Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Tomi N/A
2006/11/29, Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: John DeSoi wrote: > There are supposedly some native Mono toolkits for > the Mac, but I have yet to see any Mac application that uses it. I'm aware there is substantial anti-Java bias here, but the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) uses native widgets o

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Guy Rouillier
John DeSoi wrote: > There are supposedly some native Mono toolkits for > the Mac, but I have yet to see any Mac application that uses it. I'm aware there is substantial anti-Java bias here, but the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) uses native widgets on all platforms. I've never had occasion to use

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Joshua D. Drake wrote on 29.11.2006 17:30: I forgot that NetBeans was open source now... Now? It has been open source way before Eclipse even dawned ;) Thomas ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? ht

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Tomi N/A
2006/11/29, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 17:31 +, Tomi N/A wrote: > 2006/11/29, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 10:17 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote: > > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > The closest I think you would find is Eclipse or ma

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 17:31 +, Tomi N/A wrote: > 2006/11/29, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 10:17 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote: > > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > The closest I think you would find is Eclipse or maybe KDevelop. > > > > > > > Actually NetBeans 5.5 i

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Tomi N/A
2006/11/29, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 10:17 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > The closest I think you would find is Eclipse or maybe KDevelop. > > > Actually NetBeans 5.5 is the closest thing I have seen for Java that is > even close to visual

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 10:17 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > The closest I think you would find is Eclipse or maybe KDevelop. > > > > > > > Actually NetBeans 5.5 is the closest thing I have seen for Java that is > even close to visual studio or Delphi. I forgot that NetB

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Tony Caduto
Joshua D. Drake wrote: The closest I think you would find is Eclipse or maybe KDevelop. Actually NetBeans 5.5 is the closest thing I have seen for Java that is even close to visual studio or Delphi. The visual web add on package they have for 5.5 is actually pretty amazing, it's a tech p

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 08:29 +0100, Marcus Engene wrote: > John DeSoi skrev: > > > There are highly productive IDEs for the Mac with all the goodies you > > mention. But few are cross-platform. > > > > Your statement about Windows desktop market share is correct, but it is > > not the relevant p

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Marcus Engene
John DeSoi skrev: There are highly productive IDEs for the Mac with all the goodies you mention. But few are cross-platform. Your statement about Windows desktop market share is correct, but it is not the relevant point. Many people are interested in cross-platform tools because they want to

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread John DeSoi
Hi Ritesh, On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Ritesh Nadhani wrote: I see that pgEdit is for both Windows and Mac. Which toolkit did you use to develop it and what are your primary development environment? pgEdit is written in Lisp with LispWorks (http://www.lispworks.com). It has a pretty nice c

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Ritesh Nadhani
Hello John I see that pgEdit is for both Windows and Mac. Which toolkit did you use to develop it and what are your primary development environment? Ritesh On 11/28/06, John DeSoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: > They are serious applications, but

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread John DeSoi
On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: They are serious applications, but they don't exactly have a lot of forms and look how long Mozilla was in development. I think the various interfaces in something like Thunderbird shows it can do all the standard GUI stuff pretty well. The

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 11/28/06, Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thomas Kellerer wrote: > > > And who cares if my bytecode knows something about Generics as long as > the application runs at a good speed? > I totally agree about generics, nice to have but not really needed. I dont like generics as much as c

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Tony Caduto
Thomas Kellerer wrote: And who cares if my bytecode knows something about Generics as long as the application runs at a good speed? I totally agree about generics, nice to have but not really needed. In case not everyone is up to speed about generics, this article is really good: http:/

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Tony Caduto
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Tony Caduto wrote: The reason there is no highly productive IDE for Linux/Mac with a nice forms designer and robust data binding is because in the grand scheme of things there are not a lot of desktop users for anything other than win32. Sure there are

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Andrus wrote on 28.11.2006 18:17: 5. Java is not LGPL and does not support Generic at bytecode level I have heard this "Java is not open source" over and over again. What's the issue with wanting the language to be open source? Where is the problem with using Java from a license perspective? Yo

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Tony Caduto wrote: The reason there is no highly productive IDE for Linux/Mac with a nice forms designer and robust data binding is because in the grand scheme of things there are not a lot of desktop users for anything other than win32. Sure there are lots of geeks that us

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Tony Caduto
John DeSoi wrote: As I mentioned previously, XUL is worth a look for cross platform applications. I would call FireFox, Mozilla, and Thunderbird serious applications. And check out Komodo, an excellent cross platform development environment built on this framework. They are serious applica

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:52 -0500, John DeSoi wrote: > On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Andrus wrote: > > > Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go in any serious application. > > > Funny. Did you read the original post? The poster wanted a *cross- > platform* GUI and his primary development environmen

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread John DeSoi
On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Andrus wrote: Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go in any serious application. Funny. Did you read the original post? The poster wanted a *cross- platform* GUI and his primary development environment was OS X. Mono might run on a Mac after you install thousands

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> > Conclusion: > > Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go in any serious application. Py/QT? Py/GTK? Joshua D. Drake > > > Andrus. > > > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to >

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:31 +, Tomi N/A wrote: > 2006/11/28, Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go in any serious application. > > Mono needs to show a lot more than beagle and f-spot to be even > considered interesting, let alone a platform to base industrial >

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Tomi N/A
2006/11/28, Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go in any serious application. Mono needs to show a lot more than beagle and f-spot to be even considered interesting, let alone a platform to base industrial strength applications on. As long as that doesn't radically cha

Re: [GENERAL] Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

2006-11-28 Thread Andrus
>So my advice goes towards Mono/Gtk#. There is a bunch of programming >languages for Mono/.NET to choose from, so choosing one of them mostly >depends on your taste. Here is some information missing from this thread: 1. Gtk# does not support data binding required for database application. It