Visual Designer

[jpobst]

One of the core features of Winforms that made it so popular and easy to use was its drag and drop visual designer. Modern.Forms will need one to provide the same level of ease and convenience.

This is probably a far-future feature, as initial focus will be on ensuring Modern.Forms itself is stable and complete enough to be usable.

[jzlhll]

I'm back!
Better and better. Greate!

1. DataGrid planned already;
2. WebView/WebControl/WebBrowser,
   I find that avalonia has CEF porting, https://github.com/CefNet/CefNet.
   Or something as mono/etc. using Webkit or System native webControl.

[ghost]

Referencing a comment I left over in the template project...
modern-forms/Modern.Forms-Templates#2

[TheColonel2688]

this may be a dumb question, but would the WinForms OOP Designer be a viable option to port to for use with Modern.Forms?

[jpobst]

Porting the WinForms designer is definitely a viable option. The Winforms designer is relatively loved and battle tested. There's a very early prototype of that here:

https://github.com/modern-forms/Modern.Forms/tree/designer-poc/samples/Designer

However the port isn't "simple". It is an extremely complex piece of software that requires extensive porting to fit into a Modern.Forms world.

[Shadowblitz16]

Can we have the designer made in vscode so it's cross platform and not only available to windows or people that can afford rider?

[MistressPlague]

exciting if it happens