Here is what I am trying to do:
I have a panel with an image displayed that is a overhead view of some of our equipment. This shape is generally an ellipsis, but it has been known to change as a customer design dictates. I am trying to create a couple hundred user controls (at runtime) and then overlay them on my image. However, the layout will change slightly each time. It wouldn't be time efficient to hardcode this layout because of the amount of times i'm going to need to reuse it.
I have dynamically added user controls to forms and webforms before, so that part I understand. What I can not conceptualize is the logic behind laying the user controls out. The equipment is sometimes thousands of feet long, and the usercontrols represent chutes for shipping boxes. Depending on the floor layout of the warehouse, the chutes can be grouped or spread out in clusters.
Each control represents a shipping chute, ...
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