I am trying to create a "conversation control" that can show a running list of entries, much like the IM application on many smartphones. To do this, I was thinking about using a WinGrid and then merging cells together to get the overlap look that is prevalent with other UIs that do this sort of thing.
I started by trying to merge cells and shown in this example (http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/p/34712/206196.aspx#206196), but was unsuccessful.
Does anyone know of a way to mimic the overlapping "text bubbles" look prevalent in many IM apps? Does Infragistics have a control that would be easily adaptable to this?
Hi,
I'm not sure I know exactly what you are trying to do. Different IM applications display in different ways. Can you post a screen shot of what you are trying to acheive?
Mike,
Thanks for your reply. I am trying to achieve a look like that shown in this attached image. I am trying to find a control that will allow for these "overlapping" bubbles to denote that the user has changed in a conversational stream. My first thought was to use an UltraGrid and use a different Row Layout for each row to allow for the overlapping (merged) cells. I tried the example with Row Layouts that you gave in the link in my prior post, but couldn't make that work. I was going to get the cell overlap to work and then use the RichText Editor example to put some nicely formatted cell contents together.
Can you think of a better way to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Keith