Have a look at behaviours. There was a gallery with some for download and I did a demo at a user group meeting once showing how to add drag behaviours to shapes. Also gravity and physics... Knock up something in half hour. Not sure if the gallery is even still up. I may have the demo somewhere still... Will check when I get near a computer On 10/09/2013 8:54 AM, "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, for a Silverlight 5 demo I have to create a control that looks and > behaves like a simple "designer" we see in modern IDEs. They want to see a > blank canvas, then use the mouse to drag rectangles onto parts of the > canvas, delete, arrange and resize them, and possibly z-order them as well. > I would then save the layout of the resulting rectangles. The saved > definitions would be used by a different app to fill a screen's rectangular > areas with reports, charts and pictures. > > Creating the designer experience from scratch would be pretty taxing as > I'd have to manually move visuals around in response to mouse gestures. > Before I embark upon such an exercise I was wondering if anyone could think > of a way of cheating and perhaps piggy-backing on something else to help me. > > Greg >
