An intranet app I'm developing in asp.net uses a tabs metaphor for the UI.
Each tab pane consists of a Panel webcontrol and at runtime, clicking on a
tab causes its corresponding panel to relocate to the top left position and
become visible and the other panels to become invisible, using CSS and
javascript. Each panel occupies most of an 800x600 screen.
While I am developing these screens in the visual designer, I give the top
left corner coordinates of each panel a value that situates it to the right
of the previous panel, and I scroll horizontally in the IDE to see a
particular panel to work on it:
[p1 ] [ p2 ] [p 3 ] [ p4 ] [ p5] [ p6 ] [ p7 ] ... [ p'n' ].
<<-- ->>
I tried changing the top left corner coordinates to flip the axis, and
scroll vertically in the designer, with each panel appearing below the
previous panel (which would be a lot less cumbersome to work with):
[ p1 ]
[ p2 ]
[ p3 ]
[ p4 ]
....
but there doesn't seem to be an analogous vertical scrolling option in the
IDE. Horizontal coordinates seem to go on forever, but vertical coordinates
are fixed to a page size. Is there a setting that will give me a "virtual
canvas" along both axes at design time?
Thanks
Timo
