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## Background
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## Background
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-Perspex is a multi-platform windowing toolkit - somewhat like WPF - that is
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-intended to be multi-platform (more about that below). It supports XAML,
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-lookless controls and a flexible styling system, and runs on Windows using
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-Direct2D and other operating systems using Gtk & Cairo.
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+Perspex is a multi-platform windowing toolkit - somewhat like WPF - that is intended to be multi-
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+platform. It supports XAML, lookless controls and a flexible styling system, and runs on Windows
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+using Direct2D and other operating systems using Gtk & Cairo.
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## Current Status
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## Current Status
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As mentioned above, Perspex is still in alpha and as such there's not much documentation yet. You can
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As mentioned above, Perspex is still in alpha and as such there's not much documentation yet. You can
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take a look at the [alpha release announcement](http://grokys.github.io/perspex/perspex-alpha/) for an
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take a look at the [alpha release announcement](http://grokys.github.io/perspex/perspex-alpha/) for an
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-overview of how to get started but probably the best thing to do for now is to already know a little bit about WPF/Silverlight/UWP/XAML and ask questions in our [Gitter room](https://gitter.im/grokys/Perspex).
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+overview of how to get started but probably the best thing to do for now is to already know a little bit
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+about WPF/Silverlight/UWP/XAML and ask questions in our [Gitter room](https://gitter.im/grokys/Perspex).
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There's also a high-level [architecture document](docs/architecture.md) that is currently a little bit
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There's also a high-level [architecture document](docs/architecture.md) that is currently a little bit
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out of date, and I've also started writing blog posts on Perspex at http://grokys.github.io/.
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out of date, and I've also started writing blog posts on Perspex at http://grokys.github.io/.
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Contributions are always welcome!
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Contributions are always welcome!
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-# Multi-platform you say?
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-Well, yes, that is the intention. However unfortunately as of the time of this
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-first alpha, Perspex is only shipping with a Windows backend. There *is* a
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-Gtk/Cairo backend that's working pretty well (at least on Windows) but it's not
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-included in this release due to packaging issues. In addition, the framework did
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-work on Linux at one point but with the recent Mono 4.0 something has gone
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-wrong, and we need time to work out what that is. Getting Perspex working again
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-on non-windows support is the next thing we'll be concentrating on. You can
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-track the progress on Linux in the [issue](https://github.com/grokys/Perspex/issues/78).
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## Building and Using
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## Building and Using
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-In order to build Perpex under Windows you need a compiler that supports C# 6 such
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-as Visual Studio 2015. To compile the project under windows, you must have gtk-sharp
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-installed. However, if you're not interested in building the cross-platform bits you
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-can simply unload the Perspex.Cairo and Perspex.Gtk project in Visual Studio.
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-To build with mono (even though everything's not fully working as yet) check out the
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-[instructions here](docs/mono-build.md) and the [Linux issue](https://github.com/grokys/Perspex/issues/78).
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+See the [build instructions here](https://github.com/grokys/Perspex/blob/master/docs/build.md)
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## Contributing ##
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## Contributing ##
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-Please read the [contribution guidelines](Docs/contributing.md) before submitting a pull request.
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+Please read the [contribution guidelines](docs/contributing.md) before submitting a pull request.
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