[LUGSB] How's C#/GTK# looking?

[Harlan Crystal]

> I toyed with C#/GTK# once.  And, when I say toyed, I mean toyed.  I
> created a window with one big button in it and when you pushed the
> button it printed 'Hello World' to the console.  However, the time that
> I spent working with it (2 hours) was enjoyable.  

cool cool.

I haven't actually played with C#, but I'm assuming it should be quick to
pick up if one has done lots of java.  I hope I'm right?

> I'm not sure on the
> state of GTK# on windows, but I don't see why it would be a problem. 

I guess my fear is that you'd have to use some sort of cygwin layer or
something to make it all play nicely.

It seems like it's going to be a fair amount of re-writing to get the
GUI cross-platform either way I go: The current one is written using
windows forms and mapping that to another toolkit will be far from
one-to-one even if I stick to C#.

thanks,
--har

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Subject: Re: [LUGSB] How's C#/GTK# looking?
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> I haven't actually played with C#, but I'm assuming it should be quick to
> pick up if one has done lots of java.  I hope I'm right?

C# is a very straight forward language.  There are a few new ideas
there, but not many.

> > I'm not sure on the
> > state of GTK# on windows, but I don't see why it would be a problem. 
> 
> I guess my fear is that you'd have to use some sort of cygwin layer or
> something to make it all play nicely.

That won't be necessary.  GTK is cross platform, as is mono and
consequently GTK#.  I don't know how much you want to rely on this, but
a lot of work has been going in to getting Windows.Forms to run on Linux
with Wine.  It'll probably be worth your time to investigate that
further.

> It seems like it's going to be a fair amount of re-writing to get the
> GUI cross-platform either way I go: The current one is written using
> windows forms and mapping that to another toolkit will be far from
> one-to-one even if I stick to C#.
> 
> thanks,
> --har

--Mark.