Asking for advice for GUI choice

[igors233 (Igor S)]

@wuping

I consider uniGui and mORMot the best two gems from Delphi world.

Talking about mORMot, is it compilable in Oxygen legacy mode? If not any chance of supporting it?

[mh (marc hoffman)]

@igors233

Talking about mORMot, is it compilable in Oxygen legacy mode? If not any chance of supporting it?

That’d be up to the vendor/creator of mORMot. I suggest to talk to them; if they are interested, we’ll certainly be happy to help them port to/support Oxygene.

[SteveT]

@Theo69

The messages from Microsoft are mixed …

Here a complete(?) list:
Microsoft

• Windows Forms for .NET documentation | Microsoft Learn
• Windows Presentation Foundation for .NET 7 documentation | Microsoft Learn
• UWP Documentation - UWP app developer | Microsoft Learn
• Xamarin documentation - Xamarin | Microsoft Learn
• ASP.NET Core Blazor tutorials | Microsoft Learn

Elements

• WebAssembly

Third party cross platform

• GitHub - ElectronNET/Electron.NET: :electron: Build cross platform desktop apps with ASP.NET Core (Razor Pages, MVC, Blazor).
• GitHub - AvaloniaUI/Avalonia: Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

@mh. @ck, did I miss anything?

Theo, that’s a great list - very useful indeed. Thank you.

Steve

[ck (Carlo Kok)]

Eto is another framework to look at for cross platform work (works with Elements for .NET ofc). Uses wpf on windows, gtk on Linux and cocoa on mac

[SteveT]

Thank you, Carlo.

[claudio.piffer]

I agree for uniGUI!

For me uniGui + DataAbstract are the best choice in Delphi world for Web development

Best Regards

[wuping]

@claudio.piffer

For me uniGui + DataAbstract are the best choice in Delphi world for Web development

Yes, only except uniGui is bound to Delphi, and I am moving away from Delphi. Is there any .NET framework similar/comparable to uniGui?

[claudio.piffer]

For the .NET world I’m learning Blazor (based on WebAssembly). In my opinion, the future of the web

[wuping]

@claudio.piffer

For the .NET world I’m learning Blazor

Thank you fore the advice - forgive my ignorance - Is Blazor part of ASP.NET? Does it work with RemObject Elements?

[mh (marc hoffman)]

@wuping

Thank you fore the advice - forgive my ignorance - Is Blazor part of ASP.NET? Does it work with RemObject Elements?

Not officially supported as of now, but might just work; afaik Blazor is still in preview

Of course we have our own story for WebAssembly, with the native back-end too. I’m still holding out to see how big Blazor will be — because essentially your website will need to download the while .NET Core runtime into the browser. I can’t see that not having an significant footprint that’ll be too large for web sites (though maybe acceptable fir web apps. We’ll see…

[Patrick (Patrick Lanz)]

@wuping

Does it work with RemObject Elements?

Blazor needs MS C# for the UI, but it can consume Elements assembly.

[mh (marc hoffman)]

@Patrick

Blazor needs MS C# for the UI, but it can consume Elements assembly.

To be more precise, .cshmtl files (in regular server-side ASP.NET Core Razor and Blazor) use C# syntax (because else we’d have to reinvent a whole new syntax for all the other languages and reimplement the Razor parser), but the other parts of a Razor (and, once we get to it, Blazor) project can be any Elements language. Also, .cshtml, in an Elements [Bl\R]azor project project will still use our C# front-end, with support for its extra features.

[wuping]

It seems Blazor is a worthwhile technology to invest. And adios - Delphi.

Thank you all for the advice.