{"id":190,"date":"2007-04-16T16:21:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2007-04-16T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T15:21:36","slug":"a-new-gui-library-for-mono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/190-a-new-gui-library-for-mono.html","title":{"rendered":"Mono&#8217;s new GUI library: how is this hype justified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mono&#8217;s Miguel de Icaza reports on a <a href=\"http:\/\/tirania.org\/blog\/archive\/2007\/Apr-16.html\" target=\"_blank\">new GUI library for Mono<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have been working on a technology that we believe will revolutionize user interfaces. Today we are announcing the response to Microsoft&#8217;s WPF\/XAML, a response to Flash and WPF\/E. A cross-platform GUI toolkit (supports Windows, MacOS and Linux and is easily ported to new platforms) written entirely in managed code and 100% open source. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\/MonoCurses\" target=\"_blank\">skeletal documentation<\/a> for gui.cs.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this will be fantastic, but for the moment this looks like an early prototype, not a revolution in user interfaces. How is this hype justified?<\/p>\n<p>Personally I reckon Mono will have to implement WPF eventually, if it wants to keep in touch with what is happening with Microsoft .NET.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5ff15f59-8d3f-4ef8-b95e-2892c14c3998\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mono\" rel=\"tag\">mono<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/wpf\" rel=\"tag\">wpf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/gui.cs\" rel=\"tag\">gui.cs<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mono&#8217;s Miguel de Icaza reports on a new GUI library for Mono: We have been working on a technology that we believe will revolutionize user interfaces. Today we are announcing the response to Microsoft&#8217;s WPF\/XAML, a response to Flash and WPF\/E. A cross-platform GUI toolkit (supports Windows, MacOS and Linux and is easily ported to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/190-a-new-gui-library-for-mono.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mono&#8217;s new GUI library: how is this hype justified?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}