Hello Scott,
Maybe you can use the flow layout options for the form designing? In V
isual Studio in .NET applications the form designer own task is a two-
way conversion. If you add components in the form designer code will
be generated and added to the source file, and the other way around it
will be shown in the form designer. If you are interested in some grid-
based layour you could consider writing a few layout management
controls. Check the descriptions below to find out what might fit the
best:
*BorderLayout*
Allows 5 different Layoutable objects, one in each of the north,
south, east and west and one in the center. All the size components
are compressed in size, north and south are as small as they can be
vertically and as large as they can be horizontally. West and east are
as small as they can be horizontally and as large as they can be
vertically. The center Layoutable object fills all of the space that
remains.
*GridLayout*
Takes a number of rows and columns and creates a grid to which the
user can add Controls. Each member in the grid is made the same size
and laid out from left to right down the rows in the order that they
are added.
*FlowLayout*
Tries to add Controls in a horizontal line, once the line is too big
for the width of the container, it starts a new line. It can be
aligned to the left, center, or right of the container.
Using these classes in GUI creation is straightforward. When you
create a Control which will contain other controls, you wrap it in a
ContainerBox, set the box's layout, and then add all of the child
Controls to the box. The only containing Control which is not added to
a ContainerBox is the top level Control (usually a Form) which is
wrapped in either an AreaPane or a ResizeablePane. A ResizeablePane
will take the shape of its parent Control, but an AreaPane will be the
area which is specified.
(from: http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive7.html)
Maybe this will help your developers out to improve or great their own
layout manager for their applications based on the code offered at the
url above.
Yours,
Weyert de Boer
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