Specialized Web Control

[clint1028]

Specialized Web Control

I am an ASP.Net programmer that up to this point has dealt mostly with
pure data and not a lot of graphic type programming. I need some
advice from all of you .net guru's out there. Here is my situation.

I have a web page that needs the ability to have an x / y grid that
would be similar to a graph that you would plot points on. The grid
has 64 square boxes. The boxes themselves in the real world are 330ft
but to us programmers they are just square boxes. This grid has two
requirements:

1. The ability to DRAW (or depict) a user selected boundary. This
boundary could be down to the 1ft level but when drawing would have a
snap to grid effect where lines could only be parallel.
2. Must be able to select a several points on the graph. Also based on
1ft.

HERE IS THE PROBLEM!!!

I have no idea where to start with the solution? Can this be done in
HTML? Dynamic HTML? Active X control? Could someone point me in the
right direction by giving me some insight? Point me to a component
that might let me do this. If there is someone out there that would
want to program this control LETS TALK. What type of effort am I
looking at here?

Thanks for your time.

[Kevin Spencer]

Hi Clint,

Due to the limitations of HTML, this would not be best as HTML. It should be
an ActiveX Control hosted in the browser, a Java applet, or an embedded .Net
Form.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
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Specialized Web Control

I am an ASP.Net programmer that up to this point has dealt mostly with
pure data and not a lot of graphic type programming. I need some
advice from all of you .net guru's out there. Here is my situation.

I have a web page that needs the ability to have an x / y grid that
would be similar to a graph that you would plot points on. The grid
has 64 square boxes. The boxes themselves in the real world are 330ft
but to us programmers they are just square boxes. This grid has two
requirements:

1. The ability to DRAW (or depict) a user selected boundary. This
boundary could be down to the 1ft level but when drawing would have a
snap to grid effect where lines could only be parallel.
2. Must be able to select a several points on the graph. Also based on
1ft.

HERE IS THE PROBLEM!!!

I have no idea where to start with the solution? Can this be done in
HTML? Dynamic HTML? Active X control? Could someone point me in the
right direction by giving me some insight? Point me to a component
that might let me do this. If there is someone out there that would
want to program this control LETS TALK. What type of effort am I
looking at here?

Thanks for your time.