[Mono-osx] Winform on 64 bit OSX

Duane Wandless duane at wandless.net
Wed Jan 19 08:18:43 EST 2011


It is actually 100% native.  It takes the WinForm UI object and 'translates'
that into a native Cocoa object.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Stifu <stifu at free.fr> wrote:

>
> Interesting!
> I wonder how complete or mature it is.
> And does it look native?
>
>
> Duane Wandless wrote:
> >
> > sebi, check out this link:
> > https://github.com/Clancey/MonoMac.Windows.Form
> >
> > A WinfForm to Cocoa wrapper.
> >
> > Duane
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:09 AM, matteo tesser
> > <matteo.tesser at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> 64 bit operating systems usually can run 32 bits applications. The
> >> current version of mono for  OSX is a 32 bit app.
> >>
> >> mono Windows.Forms apps runs on Mac OS X 10.6 even though the UI is
> >> not apple compliant.
> >>
> >> Matteo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:00 PM, sebi77
> >> <balazs.sebestyen at webcamlaboratory.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >        Hello!
> >> >
> >> > I have a .Net application what I want to port to OSX, therefore I use
> >> Mono.
> >> > Up to now my Winform app works somehow, but with several errors. Now
> >> I'm
> >> > reading:
> >> >
> >> > "Mono's implementation of the System.Windows.Forms API is built on top
> >> of
> >> > Carbon and can only run with Mono on 32 bit systems."
> >> > http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:OSX
> >> >
> >> > That means it doesn't work at all on a 64 bit system? (I have a 64bit
> >> 10.6
> >> > OSX). If this is the case, I have to rewrite the app with GTK#? I
> don't
> >> want
> >> > that, because Windows is the most important target platform, and with
> >> > Winform I be sure the app works on Windows at least. If I have to
> >> rewrite
> >> > everything, maybe I have to choose QT?
> >> >
> >> > sebi
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