I posted the message below into the WPF forum this morning, but it's quiet as the grave in there. I'm reposting here in case anyone's awake -- Greg
--------------------------------------------------- Folks (anyone here?), I just want to run an idea past you to make sure it's feasible before I start any coding. We have a large VB6 app that tracks manufacturing jobs of various types, now including glass cutting. The app needs to show a picture preview of a glass sheet with artistically cut corners of different shapes. Doing this in VB6 would require tedious and delicate drawing. I suggested that we write a COM visible .NET library that would use WPF to draw the picture and pop it up in a Form. I'm sure the COM interop will work and the form will open, as I've seen this done before. I'm also sure I can draw the glass sheet beautifully in WPF and it could be zoomed and panned (a 3D rotating version would be even more eye-popping, but we'll stick to 2D for now). I would have to convert the actual edge designs into path geometries, which might require graph paper and pencil and a UI tool to compose the required effect, but you would only do that once for each corner type and stash it in a library for reuse. I'm keen to feedback before I make a proof of concept. Cheers, Greg
