Port StoryBuilder to UNO Framework or MAUI

[terrycox]

In order to attract as wide a user base as possible, StoryBuilder must run on as many devices as possible. Currently, WinUI 3 only works on Windows Platforms.

According to Wikipedia, for desktop and laptop computers, Windows is the most used at 75%, followed by Apple's [macOS] at 16%, and Linux-based operating systems, including Google's Chrome OS, at 5% (thereof " desktop Linux " at 2.35%). With tablets, Apple's iOS has 55% and Android has 45%.

One way StoryCAD can run on more devices is to port the app to UNO.
Another would be through MAUI.
And yet another option is to consider Qt#.

This discussion started as issue #269.
See also:
https://platform.uno/docs/articles/uwp-vs-winui3.html?msclkid=f43a1190b58311ecb66a53d1aff6eb21

[Rarisma]

#StoryCAD booting and editing stories

Auto/Releasebuilder would require updating to build UNO projects

Replace System.Drawing in NRTF
Apparently has some compatibility issues on non windows platforms, MS has a page with some dropin replacements

Remove WinUIEx and CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls.Core
Shouldn't be much of an issue as they aren't used widely in StoryCAD

Replace MySQL Package with MySqlConnector
Non-Windows compatability, drop in replacement just need to adjust namspaces and member names

Some classes require partial adding to them
Simple, but required to compile

Printing implementation needs be changed/modified
Current printing implementation isn't compatible

Single Instancing needs to be changed/removed
Current implementation isn't compatible and doesn't make sense on platforms like iOS/Android/WASM

File/Folder Openeing needs to be tweaked
Small tweaks with HWIND initalisation for it work.

Tweaks in App.xaml.cs to work with Uno
UNO initalises differently to WinUI so its just a bit of a porting job

Manifest Resources must be placed at the root of a project instead of in a folder, Im reporting this to the UNO Team.

Per platform incompatabilities
Some things can be incompatible

Certain future projects might have issues porting to uno