Drag and drop GUI interface?

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Hi,

I need to create a GUI where the user can connect various modules together(these will just be various images to represent certain actions).

Once the modules have been connected, I need to design some way for the application to translate the visual representation of what has been designed in to transferable data.

To give a bit of background - the program is a file transcoding system, the back end is nearly complete and has been written in VB.NET. The idea is that the GUI is a 'Workflow Designer' that enables the user to create completely customisable workflows in terms of file types in and out etc. This is done by having a UI where the user can drag in various 'modules' - e.g MP3 Encode, WAV decode, MP4 demux etc and connect them together by dragging connecting lines between them.

Any advice would be massively appreciated and I hope I've explained it clearly enough, if not I will elaborate,

Thanks.

Posted 4-Feb-12 3:53am

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2012-02-04T04:10:00

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What does Java have to do with this question ? You can create classes from a common base class and support drag and drop to drop them on to a form and display them from there.

Posted 4-Feb-12 4:10am

Christian Graus