mono/mcs/class/System.Windows.Forms

System.Windows.Forms README

by John Sohn ([email protected]) and Miguel de Icaza ([email protected])

The maintainers:
Peter Bartok ([email protected])
Backup: Miguel de Icaza ([email protected])

Mailing list:

http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list

The address is:

[email protected].


* Introduction

Welcome to the System.Windows.Forms implementation for Mono.

This is still an early version of the class library. The
plans for this library have changed, the plans to use multiple
backends is no longer being pursued.

We are now implementing this using the Wine as library (because
Windows.Forms applications require the message handling to be
compatible with Windows, look up the Control.Wndproc method
for details).

To run and execute with the Mono runtime on linux, the story
is more complicated as we need to use the "WineLib" support in
Wine.

* The Layout

The layout in this directory has some historical files that you can
safely ignore, the following are just historical directories:

Gtk/
WINElib/

All of the real code is being done in the same was as it is being done
in the rest of the Mono assemblies.

* To run Windows.Forms Applications

You must install the `winelib' module which is a couple of
libraries that are added to an existing Wine installation.