Tst wrote:
As uncool as it is, I just had a thought - you could place a Visio control in an ActiveX container on the front panel and use that.
Ha, I had an idea many moons ago to simply use Visio as the tool, and then manipulate Visio's output file to the proprietary output format. There were two problems:
One, I took a look to see if anyone had deciphered Visio's output and was discouraged -- I was hoping for a format something like "Rectangle(Origin=xx,xx Width=xx, Height=xx)" but it seemed infinitely more complicated than that. As I remember, though, there were several types of output formats you could choose from. None jumped out as easy to manipulate, though.
Two, I needed some non-graphical widgets that weren't supported in Visio. I could possibly fake it out, maybe, maaaybe.... But the surer approach was to write my own tool from scratch.
Eh, I'm getting there...
