Hello all.
I am working on a project that involves an Office-like interface; that
is, the user will be able to create objects such as textareas and be
able to resize, move, manipulate, etc. them. I am NOT asking someone to
go out of their way and write such a class for me, but I was wondering
if anyone knows of any *free* classes or libraries that are available
to do such a thing. Also, any tips or tricks would be most appreciated.


I know that I cross-posted, but the other group focused on VB6, and I
use .NET.


Thanks,
WDaquell

Sorry for not being explicit enough... what I have to make is an
environment similar to MS Publisher, where a user can create different
objects (well, in my case, one or two objects only) and resize/move
them. I know that this would be possible with a splitter control, but
using that in tandem with the ability for the user to also move the
control around the screen; that I don't know how to do. By objects I
mean controls, not forms. (Well, okay, so a form is a control...
whatever... :) )

I am designing a Highschool transcript maker. The most popular one does
not let the end-user change the layout of the transcript, so I'm trying
to make one that will allow user editing that is similar to Office's
(to dampen the learning curve).

Hope someone can make head or tail of what I just said...

Thanks,
-WDaquell

Wraith,

What is a user Friendly Environment is a discussion alone.

However, are you meaning combinations of MDI, splitters, panels,
dialog(modal)forms and normalforms and that with docking and visual styles?

(What you did by the way is not crossposting however multiposting,
multiposting is not liked in the dotnet newsgroups, we like more
crossposting, what is sending one message to more newsgroup at once. However
that they don't like in the VB classic newsgroup so I don't advise that to
do in this case)

Cor

Wraith,

In my opinion do you try to make something where only organizations with a
lot of developers have succeeded in, The level your customer would
appreciate it is based by Microsoft products on at least 20 years
development what started with as far as I know Multiplan. That time you are
behind. You don't have the bricks to build that and they don't give it away.

Even when you succeed in the screen part, than you will have the next
problem how to translate it to data. For that is of course HTML, but how do
you convert your screen to HTML. When you succeed in that, you can wait that
your customer ask why it cannot in other formats.

It is something that probably most developers want to make. I have seen a
lot who started with it, howeverstopped at a certain moment. This is a major
product of some companies and not all are successful in the competition.

Sorry that I have not another answer.

Cor

Cor,
Thank you for your response. This is actually quite cool... I didn't
know I was trying to do something so big! I hope I can accomplish this;
then I can offer it free :) .

-WDaquell