Give me some direction
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Hello Everyone! I am a Electrical Engineer, I have used basic programming languages such as VBA and Arduino platforms. I work for a coal mine in WV. I was given the following task: 1. Develop a program that uses a picture of the mine map. 2. Over this mine map I would have movable objects 3. These objects would represent equipment in the mine 4. We move this equipment through out the coal mine. I would like to be able to click and drag and relocate this equipment on the map 5. Also double click and be able to view information that is stored on our shared drive, such as electrical and hydraulic prints for the equipment. 6. Zoom in and out on the map My hope for this is to get it working on a big screen TV with a touch screen overlay attachment. To run it from a near by designated PC. I am pretty resourceful I just need a direction to start in and some advice. The mass amounts of information on the web makes it hard to get going in the correct direction. Thanks in advance
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Hello Everyone! I am a Electrical Engineer, I have used basic programming languages such as VBA and Arduino platforms. I work for a coal mine in WV. I was given the following task: 1. Develop a program that uses a picture of the mine map. 2. Over this mine map I would have movable objects 3. These objects would represent equipment in the mine 4. We move this equipment through out the coal mine. I would like to be able to click and drag and relocate this equipment on the map 5. Also double click and be able to view information that is stored on our shared drive, such as electrical and hydraulic prints for the equipment. 6. Zoom in and out on the map My hope for this is to get it working on a big screen TV with a touch screen overlay attachment. To run it from a near by designated PC. I am pretty resourceful I just need a direction to start in and some advice. The mass amounts of information on the web makes it hard to get going in the correct direction. Thanks in advance
I would expect such a project to require the use of one of the .NET languages, C# or VB.NET and perhaps also WPF. Those products have rich functionality and support libraries for much of what you want. However the actual project would need more than one person to get it complete in a reasonable time. I think you probably need to get a good consultant in to ensure management understand the amount of work involved, and to help get things started.