Moving Web Control Programmatically

[fripper]

I have a VB .Net web app and I want to reposition a textbox control on the
webform programmatically. I'm not sure how to do that ... can someone help
please?

Thanks ...

 

[Lucas Tam]

I have a VB .Net web app and I want to reposition a textbox control on
the webform programmatically. I'm not sure how to do that ... can
someone help please?

You can't really... because there is no X's and Y's on the web.

You can put a placeholder in a different location and move it there
instead.

 

[fripper]

Hmmm ... I was afraid that was the case. I gather that I cannot draw, say,
a rectangle on the web form ... it appears that all the GDI+ graphics
capabilities are available to Windows forms only.

 

[Lucas Tam]

Hmmm ... I was afraid that was the case. I gather that I cannot draw,
say, a rectangle on the web form ... it appears that all the GDI+
graphics capabilities are available to Windows forms only.

Yup exactly.

If you need to draw complex shapes, you may want to consider using another
technology such as Flash, Java, or Winforms in IE.

 

[Greg Burns]

That's not quite true. I know that you can dynamically create image files
and display those on web pages.

Here is the first article I googled.

http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=25487

Really depends on what you are trying to do.

Greg

 

[Lucas Tam]

That's not quite true. I know that you can dynamically create image
files and display those on web pages.

I don't think that is what the OP was looking for. You can't arbitrarily
draw lines anywhere on a webpage in ASP.NET.

Creating image files is a different matter - but once you've created the
image file, you still can't arbitrarily place the file anywhere on the
screen.

 

[Greg Burns]

ACK

Greg

I don't think that is what the OP was looking for. You can't arbitrarily
draw lines anywhere on a webpage in ASP.NET.

Creating image files is a different matter - but once you've created the
image file, you still can't arbitrarily place the file anywhere on the
screen.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Fripper,

See my sample in your first thread about this

Cor

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Lucas,

You can (in IE) using the fixed style and JavaScript

http://huizen.ddsw.nl/bewoners/ligthert/

This is now already old personal webpages of my (completly dutch)

Choose for "foto groter" in that

Cor

 

[fripper]

This has been a helpful exchange ... thanks very much. I have a VB .Net web
application and at one point I want to draw a bar graph where the length and
position of each bar is related to the value of particular variables (think
charting in Excel). I had hoped to do this without having to get into
client side scripting but it appears that I cannot.

Guess I cannot put it off any further ... gotta learn JavaScript!

Thanks again.

 

[Greg Burns]

Bar Graphs to Go

Creating a Custom Graph Control from Scratch

http://www.aspnetpro.com/features/2004/07/asp200407so_f/asp200407so_f.asp

(subscription required)

Greg