Re: [DotGNU]webforms/winforms?

[tali streit]

Rhys Weatherley wrote:

> tali streit wrote:
>
> > I am still of the opinion that we have a chance here to get it right
> > from the beginning, and my belief is that a well featured canvas is
> We will probably need to be backwards-compatible with
> whatever Microsoft's API uses.  I haven't investigated this
> far into .NET, so I don't know how close or far away it is
> from enlightenment.
actually, evas is just a canvas - you can use it to "draw" on. it 
doesn't really have anything to do with controls. you can just plonk 
text, lines, rectangles and images on it. (i guess it is closer to GDI+ 
then win/web forms)
imlib2, which is closely related, is an image library - it handles the 
caching and format reading (and i think possibly writing... cant remember).

as for staying backward compatible with microsoft - they hold the System 
namespace - so i believe we should fully implement all of it in pnetlib.
but how about we implement our own, as something like Sys or GNU or 
dotGNU or something? then we could have Sys.GUI.canvas or... whatever. I 
don't see much point in extending the System namespace.

> But I agree that we should reuse existing canvas
> implementations where possible.  No point re-inventing
> that wheel.
agreed. with evas we would need a windows port (dotGNU will run on 
windows eventually, no?) as it is centered on X.
i think evas is a very good step in the right direction. and imlib2 also.

PS. i was in brisvegas on the weekend :)