Movable screen objects

[mushin]

I am rewriting an existing app from another language to vb.net.
It is basically a form designer for user defined forms.

The old app allows the user to select and move the screen objects,(textbox, combobox, etc) to new locations
and then stores the coordinates to a database table.

The objects have properties like "selectable" resizable, etc,to facilitate this activity.

Are there equivalent properties in vb.net screen objects to allow this type of activity?

I see "locked" but that is about it.


Any clues?

 

[earthandfire]

Create your own user control, inherited from TextBox or ComboBox etc., and just add your own properties such as Selectable, Resizable etc.


Hope this helps.

 

[mushin]

Thanks, but not really.

The key here is how do you manipulate the position of
a screen object via the mouse?

In Progress(the old apps lang), if I set selectable and movable for a textbox, the I can, as a user), select and move that textbox to a new location.

If I create a new control in dotnet, then I still have to write those properties, but the question is how.

Do I trap the mouse coordinates and pro grammatically
reassign the location?

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Do I trap the mouse coordinates and pro grammatically
reassign the location?

Yes, but not really.

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[chrissie1]

Thanks, but not really.

That didn't sound right to me.

Christiaan Baes
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