Best solution for a form that looks like a paper page formular
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Hi. I am looking for the best solution to my problem. In short, I need to make a form that looks like an existing piece of paper. This paper is a formular, which you would normally fill out by hand. Instead, this form contains textfields, checkboxes and so on. The important thing is, that this form shall NOT look like a form, but should look like the paper formular. That means the possibility of background elements, customized textboxes without the white background and black borders, and so on. How do you achieve this goal in the easies way? Some kind of special technology you could use? Thanks alot for your time :) Kind regards, Lars
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Hi. I am looking for the best solution to my problem. In short, I need to make a form that looks like an existing piece of paper. This paper is a formular, which you would normally fill out by hand. Instead, this form contains textfields, checkboxes and so on. The important thing is, that this form shall NOT look like a form, but should look like the paper formular. That means the possibility of background elements, customized textboxes without the white background and black borders, and so on. How do you achieve this goal in the easies way? Some kind of special technology you could use? Thanks alot for your time :) Kind regards, Lars
If it's a desktop application I'd use WPF. A good designer can restyle the standard elements however you like.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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Hi. I am looking for the best solution to my problem. In short, I need to make a form that looks like an existing piece of paper. This paper is a formular, which you would normally fill out by hand. Instead, this form contains textfields, checkboxes and so on. The important thing is, that this form shall NOT look like a form, but should look like the paper formular. That means the possibility of background elements, customized textboxes without the white background and black borders, and so on. How do you achieve this goal in the easies way? Some kind of special technology you could use? Thanks alot for your time :) Kind regards, Lars
I would probably sub class the textbox (well, actually I always would), but the important thing is that setting the border to none, and changing the backcolor is dead easy. However, I would check out AlphaBlendTextBox - A transparent/translucent textbox for .NET[^] for a good example of transparent textboxes.
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If it's a desktop application I'd use WPF. A good designer can restyle the standard elements however you like.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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You are welcome.:thumbsup:
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads