Eto.Forms

A cross platform desktop and mobile user interface framework

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Description

This framework is built so that you can target multiple platforms with one UI codebase.

The overall goal of this framework is to expose a common API that can be used to build functional applications that run across platforms using their native toolkit. This will make your applications look and work as if it were a native application on all platforms.

For advanced scenarios, you can take advantage of each platform's capabilities by wrapping your common UI in a larger application, or even create your own high-level controls with a custom implementations per platform.

This framework currently supports creating Desktop applications that work across Windows Forms, WPF, MonoMac, and GTK#. There is a Mobile/iOS port in the works, but is considered incomplete.

This framework was built so that using it in .NET is natural. For example, a simple hello-world application might look like:

public class MyForm : Form
{
	public MyForm ()
	{
		Text = "My Cross-Platform App";
		Size = new Size (200, 200);
		var label = new Label { Text = "Hello World!" };
		this.AddDockedControl (label);
	}
	
	[STAThread]
	static void Main () {
		var app = new Application();
		app.Initialized += delegate {
			app.MainForm = new MyForm ();
			app.MainForm.Show ();
		};
		app.Run ();
	}
}	

Applications

• PabloDraw - Character based drawing application
• Notedown by Mod Monkeys - Note taking application
• Eto.Test - Application to test the functionality of each widget

Namespaces

• Eto.Forms - User interface
• Eto.Drawing - Drawing/graphical routines
• Eto.IO - Disk/Virtual directory abstraction
• Eto.Platform.[Platform] - platform implementations

Currently supported targets

• OS X: MonoMac (Cocoa)
• Linux: GTK#
• Windows: Windows Forms or WPF

Under development

• iOS using MonoTouch

Future plans

• Android using Mono for Android (or equivalent)