Page viewing using .NET (capable of zoom, control editing)
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I'm working on making a report editing feature of a program I've built. The feature will contain three main sections, Design, Layout and Print Preview similar to Microsoft Access. I understand there are other options for creating reports, but this is best options for the features use in my program. If you could help with two questions regarding this: 1. Currently with the Layout view I'm using classes that inherit System.Windows.Forms.Control class. I would like to give the user the ability to zoom in and out of the Layout view. How could I implement this? Is there a different class to use than the Control base class? Would I simply need to scale the properties of the Control (font size, location, size)? 2. Currently I have two classes for each object type. For example, for Text objects I have two classes, one that contains the properties that pertain to the Text object (which provide validation for proper values). Another class inherits the Control base class and serves as the view for the Text object. This design is getting complicated. Would it be better to combine the classes and their uses into one class? I want the ability to view print preview of the report without viewing the Layout, thus would a class that inherits the Control base class be too much overhead when it will not actually be displayed on the screen? Sorry for the lengthy post. The two questions seemed tied together. Thanks for your patience... David Hovey