Lou Elston
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- Oct 21, 2003
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I am a VB programmer, not an artist\graphic designer type.
I need to determine if I can do what I want in Vb, or, do I need to use another tool, or, a combination of VB and another tool. I could use VB.net, or VB6.
I do not wish to give away the idea of what I want to do, (and possibly market later), so I will describe something that while different from the item that I will want to draw, is similar in what I want to do.
Imagine that I want to design a building, (my project is not architectual, so CAD is not really applicable). This building would appear on a users screen, an/or desktop. It would always be the same size, (2 inches\10 inches\whatever...tall). the user would input some paramaters that would determine if this building would have 5 or 100 floors on it, and if there would be 1 or multiple windows on each floor. So, while the size of the building would not change, the size\height of the floors would, and, the number of windows on each floor would also change. Also colors might change on windows and or floors depending on the paramaters entered.
So, I need to use adjust the inside of my graphic container, (in this case a building, but also could be a paramid, or a milk bottle, (a non standard shape, not round, not square, possibly a combination of).
First, what to use to draw the possibly non standard shape container? Second, what to use to pass the paramaters to it, and to calsulate the necessary sizes to make everything fit inside of the container, and to adjust the colors?
I appreciate any advice and\or direction that you could send my way.
Lou
I need to determine if I can do what I want in Vb, or, do I need to use another tool, or, a combination of VB and another tool. I could use VB.net, or VB6.
I do not wish to give away the idea of what I want to do, (and possibly market later), so I will describe something that while different from the item that I will want to draw, is similar in what I want to do.
Imagine that I want to design a building, (my project is not architectual, so CAD is not really applicable). This building would appear on a users screen, an/or desktop. It would always be the same size, (2 inches\10 inches\whatever...tall). the user would input some paramaters that would determine if this building would have 5 or 100 floors on it, and if there would be 1 or multiple windows on each floor. So, while the size of the building would not change, the size\height of the floors would, and, the number of windows on each floor would also change. Also colors might change on windows and or floors depending on the paramaters entered.
So, I need to use adjust the inside of my graphic container, (in this case a building, but also could be a paramid, or a milk bottle, (a non standard shape, not round, not square, possibly a combination of).
First, what to use to draw the possibly non standard shape container? Second, what to use to pass the paramaters to it, and to calsulate the necessary sizes to make everything fit inside of the container, and to adjust the colors?
I appreciate any advice and\or direction that you could send my way.
Lou
