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Do you really want to write your own when there are so many good ones about?
For example:
www.wonderware.com
Or a lower cost one
www.kepware.com


Or tools for building HMI's in VB
www.globalmajic.com/instrumentation.htm

Francis
www.controldraw.co.uk

Jacques wrote in message <7a0mak$o74$1@news3.saix.net>...
>Hi,
>
>I would like anyone's input here. It doesn't matter what grade of
programmer
>you are.
>
>I want to write a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) package.
I
>want the user to draw controls on my forms using a toolbox I created. The
>toolbox would consist of tools such in VB. Then there would be a properties
>page so he could change the look of the controls. This layout should then
be
>saved in a database which would be fairly easy.
>
>But how do one write a program that looks nearly something like VB itself?
>How do one create these controls (like in VB)? Get control-handles around
>them? Here are a few ideas I have. Is it possible in VB? Is it possible in
>VC?
>
>        1)    create all the controls needed at runtime making them index=0
>so that you have a control array.
>
>        2)    create a UserControl with all the controls needed inside this
>one control and set its index=0 so that you have a control array.
>
>        3)   create a SSPanel and inside this put in a
>label,textbox,picturebox,gaugecontrol,shapecontrol. So that from this the
>user can create almost al the controls needed and set its index=0
>
>Any help? Comments welcome.
>
>
>