Form Designer -- advice wanted

I want to allow end users of my software (ie at Run Time) to design their own input Form or report layout.
This means I need to display a Form, and let the user add Labels, Textboxes, Images, Lines, etc, and be able to drag these around, resize, set colors and fonts, etc.
Finally I need to save properties of all the controls, and load them again when required.

I've got rough examples working, just using standard VB, saving each property in a field in a database.

Can you suggest any CJ Controls that would make this sort of thing easier?  I am thinking maybe (and vaguely) of Markup Label, and saving/loading XML.
Are there any samples of this type of thing?  Is there a better Topic to ask this question?

Hi

Thanks, I have seen the greatis control and it looks to be exactly what I am wanting to do.  But it is another 3rd party control that I would have to buy and distribute to end-users.

But mainly, I want to do it myself (hopefully with CJ controls) so I have full control ('scuse pun) over the program and can make it look the same as the rest of my app.

I think it would be a pretty big job, but I think that it could be done with the MarkupLabel control, especially the latest (non-public) version with the new MarkupWindowContainer object. Maybe you could a support ticket and ask Oleg for the new version so you could test it out?

If you only had a few control "types" that you want to make available to the user, you could have a Collection object hold classes representing your controls virtually (position, size, control type, value, etc...). Then when the user clicks an area where a control is supposed to be, you could move the WindowContainer to that position and make it visible. When the user clicks somewhere that there is no control, you could hide the WindowContainer. This way, you need only have 1 control of each type that the user can have, and you just show and hide it dynamically.  Whether or not this would be satisfactory would depend on your requirements.

The biggest issue will be moving the objects around by mouse, since I have not solved this problem very well yet - there is still apparently no way to get the current position of a Markup object, so it makes relative movement difficult. It's possible that using the MarkupWindowContainer object with an ActiveX control that the ActiveX control Left, Top, etc... properties will return their position, but I haven't had a chance to test this yet.

You also might find it easier to put everything inside a MarkupGrid object in order to constrain the user to certain cells - but again, this may not be satisfactory, depending on your requirements.

Anyway, if you care to give it a try, I would be glad to help as much as I can (which unfortunately isn't as much as it used to be lately!), so just post back with any problems that you encounter and we'll see if we can solve them,