[VB 2008] How create a plan of house

[vino]

Hello,

I am creating a VB 2008 application and i would like to create a plan.
I try with Graphics of GDI but it doesn't work how i wish.
Each wall and window of my plan is a Graphic but Graphic is not an object
and then i cannot work on (move, delete).
Is there an other method wich is better to do this or may be i have to
create work with label which will be an object.

Thanks for your help.

Gilles.

 

[Miro]

I dont know how much time you want to spend on it, or if it is even worth
your time designing this...

take a look at http://www.punchsoftware.com/products/platV12.htm

it works great and its 99 bux

I have no relation with this company, but I have used the product and it was
very nice in creating a house layout and then it lets you 'walk' through it.

Just making sure that your time you spend on this might be worth more than
this 99bux in which case this might be a quick and cheap solution for you.

Miro

 

[Family Tree Mike]

Before you get too far into this, you should spend time at this site:
http://www.bobpowell.net/.

 

[rowe_newsgroups]

Hello,

I am creating a VB 2008 application and i would like to create a plan.
I try with Graphics of GDI but it doesn't work how i wish.
Each wall and window of my plan is a Graphic but Graphic is not an object
and then i cannot work on (move, delete).
Is there an other method wich is better to do this or may be i have to
create work with label which will be an object.

Thanks for your help.

Gilles.

I'd go lookup WPF and use it to do this.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe [MVP]

 

[vino]

Hello and thanks all for your replies.

I have already heard about WPF to do something like i want but it is a new
technology introducing n Visual Studio 2008 and then and don't know how to
use it.
I expect find on the web topics about this even if there is not a lot.

Thanks.

 

[rowe_newsgroups]

Hello and thanks all for your replies.

I have already heard about WPF to do something like i want but it is a new
technology introducing n Visual Studio 2008 and then and don't know how to
use it.
I expect find on the web topics about this even if there is not a lot.

Thanks.

Sorry, I lost a bit of you replay in translation. Are you saying
you're having trouble finding examples for WPF? If so, a simple search
on google.com for "wpf tutorial" turned up quite a bit of samples for
me. I'm not sure if Microsoft has a video series out yet for this (if
so someone please share the link) but you could benefit from the
Silverlight ones at silverlight.net, it doesn't support as rich as a
model as WPF, but the XAML and event wiring (watch the 2.0 Beta ones
unless you like JSON) could still be useful for you.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe [MVP]

 

[vino]

I have no time to learn WPF or Silverlight (i already use flash) in details
then i will continue using visual basic. I will see it later during my free
time because i agree with you it seems to be a powerfull technology for
graphics.
My goal is creating easily plan and after save it and generate data about
this one. There will have a link between data creating and other winforms of
my project.

 

[rowe_newsgroups]

I have no time to learn WPF or Silverlight (i already use flash) in details
then i will continue using visual basic. I will see it later during my free
time because i agree with you it seems to be a powerfull technology for
graphics.
My goal is creating easily plan and after save it and generate data about
this one. There will have a link between data creating and other winforms of
my project.

First off, Silverlight is not a "Flash Killer" in my opinion. The only
time that Silverlight would really compete with Flash is when it comes
to dynamic and (very) interactive content or when you need SEO on a
fully dynamic site (XAML is searchable, compiled ActionScript is not).

Secondly, it seems to me that you're not very good with GDI+ so you're
going to have to learn it or something else anyways. And in my opinion
graphical object manipulation is much easier to learn and do with WPF
than trying to master GDI+ and hack your way through the code to move,
resize, and delete objects. But in the long run, the choices you make
(probably) won't effect me, so I wish you the best of luck in whatever
you choose to do.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe [MVP]