Examples of good IDEs to analyze for custom Form/Report designer
- by Paul Sasik
I am working on a basic form/report designer. Some of the features i'm looking to implement are:
Single or multiple selection of objects
Alignment of objects (when several are selected)
Same-sizing of objects (when several are selected)
Moving/dragging of selected object(s)
Selected object resizing in eight directions (using object grips)
For features and look-and-feel I've analyzed and used a mixture of ideas from:
MS Visual Studio 200x (most useful so far)
Visio
Crystal Reports
My question is: Have I overlooked some other IDEs that provide these kinds of features that are better and user-friendlier examples of what to do than others i've looked at? (They don't have to be Microsoft products. That's just what i have ready access to.)