1 System.Windows.Forms README
3 by John Sohn (jsohn@columbus.rr.com) and Miguel de Icaza (miguel@ximian.com)
6 Peter Bartok (peter@novonyx.com)
7 Backup: Miguel de Icaza (miguel@ximian.com)
11 http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
15 mono-winforms-list@ximian.com.
20 Welcome to the System.Windows.Forms implementation for Mono.
22 This is still an early version of the class library. The
23 plans for this library have changed, the plans to use multiple
24 backends is no longer being pursued.
26 We are now implementing this using the Wine as library (because
27 Windows.Forms applications require the message handling to be
28 compatible with Windows, look up the Control.Wndproc method
31 To run and execute with the Mono runtime on linux, the story
32 is more complicated as we need to use the "WineLib" support in
37 The layout in this directory has some historical files that you can
38 safely ignore, the following are just historical directories:
43 All of the real code is being done in the same was as it is being done
44 in the rest of the Mono assemblies.
46 * To run Windows.Forms Applications
48 You must install the `winelib' module which is a couple of
49 libraries that are added to an existing Wine installation.