[VB 2008] How create a plan of house

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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

"vino" <al*******@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:07**********************************@microsof t.com...

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.

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

"vino" wrote:

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.

[Patrice]

Not sure what you are trying to do but IMO you need to have a much higher
level view of this i.e. you'll render from a list of objects being able to
render themselves. Then your application will allow to handle this list
(add, delte, save to disk, load etc...) and will produce the corrresponding
drawing... At the extreme if you have a wall object in this list (rendered
as a rectangle ?) your application coudl allow to place a door on it etc...
If you select another object that also renders as a rectangle (a chair or a
table), your application knows this is not a wall and doesn't provide the
same option.

So don't see your application as something that renders low level graphics
shapes but higher level objects each one being rendered ultimately as
graphic shape...

--
Patrice

"vino" <al*******@discussions.microsoft.coma écrit dans le message de
groupe de discussion : 07**********************************@microsoft.com...

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.

[rowe_newsgroups]

On May 14, 9:03 am, vino <[e-mail]:

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]

[=?Utf-8?B?dmlubw==?=]

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" wrote:

On May 14, 9:03 am, vino <[e-mail]:

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]

[rowe_newsgroups]

On May 15, 4:50 am, vino <[e-mail]:

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" wrote:

On May 14, 9:03 am, vino <[e-mail]:

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]

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]

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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" wrote:

On May 15, 4:50 am, vino <[e-mail]:

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" wrote:

On May 14, 9:03 am, vino <[e-mail]:
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]

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]