Eto.Forms

A cross platform desktop and mobile user interface framework

Description

This framework can be used to build applications that run across multiple platforms using their native toolkit, with an easy to use API. This will make your applications look and work as a native application on all platforms, using a single UI codebase.

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:

using Eto.Forms;
using Eto.Drawing;

public class MyForm : Form
{
	public MyForm ()
	{
		Title = "My Cross-Platform App";
		ClientSize = new Size(200, 200);
		Content = new Label { Text = "Hello World!" };
	}
	
	[STAThread]
	static void Main()
	{
		new Application().Run(new MyForm());
	}
}

or in a F# script:

#load ".paket/load/eto.platform.windows.fsx"
// see https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/paket-generate-load-scripts.html

open Eto.Drawing
open Eto.Forms

type MyForm() as this =
    inherit Form()
    do
        this.Title      <- "My Cross-Platform App"
        this.ClientSize <- Size (200, 200)
        this.Content    <- new Label(Text = "Hello F# World!")

Eto.Platform.Initialize(Eto.Platforms.WinForms)
let app = new Application()
let form = new MyForm()
form.Show()

Getting Started

To begin creating apps using Eto.Forms, follow the Quick Start Guide.

To compile or contribute to Eto.Forms, read the Contributing Guide.

Screenshots

Windows via WPF:
<img src="./images/windows.png" width=75% height=75%>
Mac via MonoMac:
<img src="./images/mac.png" width=75% height=75%>
Linux via GTK#3:
<img src="./images/linux.png" width=75% height=75%>

Applications

• MonoGame Pipeline Tool - Content manager for MonoGame
• Manager - Accounting Software
• PabloDraw - Character based drawing application
• Notedown - Note taking application
• Eto.Test - Application to test the functionality of each widget
• DWSIM - Chemical Process Simulator
• Termission - Cross-platform Serial/TCP Terminal with Scriptable Auto-Response
• Visual SEO Studio - Technical SEO Auditing Tool
• RegexFileSearcher - Cross-platform regex file searching tool in .NET 5
• RegexTestBench - Cross-platform regex testing tool in .NET 5
• GEDKeeper (v3) - Cross-platform application for working with personal genealogical databases
• Rhinoceros 3D - 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) application

Third party libraries

| |Pure Eto.Forms|SkiaSharp edition| | | |---|---|---|---|---| |ScottPlot|||Plotting library that makes it easy to interactively display large datasets.| |LiveCharts|||Simple, flexible, powerful and open source data visualization for .Net.| |Microcharts|||Create elegant Cross-Platform simple charts.| |OxyPlot|||Cross-platform plotting library for .NET.| |Mapsui|||A C# map component for apps.| |LibVLCSharp|||Display a video in an Eto app.| |Eto.OpenTK|||OpenGL viewport control for Eto.Forms using OpenTK.| |Eto.Veldrid|||A control to embed the Veldrid graphics library in Eto.Forms.| |Eto.CodeEditor|||A package that gives you a code editor control in Eto.Forms.| |Eto.HtmlRenderer|||Provides an Eto control to display HTML content.| |Eto.RainbowLoading|||A control showing the Android loading indicator.| |Eto.GifImageView|||A control for displaying GIF's.| |Eto.SkiaDraw|||A control enabling