wxWidgets 3.1.5

Re:wxWidgets 3.1.5 by pjc50 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:46AM (#26819759)

I basically agree with pjmlp: Win32/MFC has always worked and will continue to work.

> in C# land WinForms was discouraged

Portability, it seems. Not unreasonably, they're focusing on C# as a backend language in UNIX-like environments. While you can run WinForms from dotnet core, doing so adds a large chunk of libraries to your deployment and of course only works on Windows targets. I'm not sure I entirely approve of this direction, but it follows from targeting Java, and I do prefer C# to Java.

Of course, if you just want a little bit of the API, there's nothing stopping you from just p/invoking it out of user32.dll, which I did last month ...

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Re:wxWidgets 3.1.5 by MaxBarraclough on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:25AM (#26820164)

> While you can run WinForms from dotnet core, doing so adds a large chunk of libraries to your deployment

Sounds like the direction Java took, moving JavaFX (a rather underrated GUI toolkit from what I can tell) out of the core Java standard library.

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