On 20/01/06, Jason Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will positively make sure of two things: > > 1) No win32 specific calls > 2) Logic and UI separate
:) > However, I am going to use WIndows.Forms and the "WebBrowser" > interface. I know from having had Biblestudy source publicly available > for almost 3 years now that it is very difficult to get people > interested in contributing when there is a high barrier to entry or a > steep learning curve. I'm sure that the BibleCS guys appreciate this > as well. To be honest, the main reason I started on Biblestudy instead > of working on BibleCS was because I had no experience with Borland's > tools, didn't want to pay for Borland's tools (I believe this was > right before the free versions were released) and didn't have any > interest in learning Borland's tools. > > There are probably literally MILLIONS more people that already know > the Windows.Forms API's than know GTK#. Yep, I understand that. The important thing is to make it easy for people to contribute. If we can get a system that easily converts SWF<->Gtk# etc then we get the best of both worlds. > That being said, I don't like Microsoft, thier operating system or > thier business practices (I have read every book on them that I have > gotten my hands on). Which is why points 1 & 2 at the top are > important. It should be easy for someone to come along and make a GTK# > interface, if they want to. Also tho, (the timing of this is > impeccable) on January 13th, the mono project released 1.1.13 with > "Vastly upgraded Windows.Forms implementation" I will do my best to > make sure that whatever I implement stays compatible with thier > Windows.Forms implementation. Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
