Hello,

We are very interested in using your diagramming pack libraries to draw family trees as article from your site (seems I'm disallowed to link it from first forum post). But could you show example how to realize same tree layout using grouped nodes as hinted? We are not keen implementing inherited nodes as it seems we have to also write csutom serialization code to show saved diagram in various platforms, while ShapeNode objects load without problems.

With kind regards,
Amit

Hi,

You can find modified layout code here:
http://mindfusion.eu/_samples/GenealogyForm.cs

In short, replace all occurrences of custom class with ShapeNode, run layout with KeepRootPosition property enabled, and use these modified AddNode methods:

ShapeNode AddNode(Person p)
{
	var bounds = new RectangleF(0, 0, 30, 40);

	var node = new ShapeNode();
	node.Bounds = bounds;
	node.Tag = new List<Person> { p };
	node.AnchorPattern = AnchorPattern.TopInBottomOut;
	node.Image = p.Image;
	node.Pen = new MindFusion.Drawing.Pen(
		p.Gender == Gender.Female ? Color.Red : Color.BlueViolet, 0);
	node.Text = p.Name;
	node.TextFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;
	node.TextFormat.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Far;

	diagram.Nodes.Add(node);
	return node;
}

ShapeNode AddNode(Person p1, Person p2)
{
	var bounds = new RectangleF(0, 0, 70, 40);

	var pairContainer = new ShapeNode();
	pairContainer.Bounds = bounds;
	pairContainer.Tag = new List<Person> { p1, p2 };
	pairContainer.AnchorPattern = PairPattern;
	pairContainer.Transparent = true;
	diagram.Nodes.Add(pairContainer);

	var p1Node = AddNode(p1);
	var p2Node = AddNode(p2);
	p2Node.Bounds = new RectangleF(40, 0, 30, 40);
	p1Node.AttachTo(pairContainer, AttachToNode.TopLeft);
	p2Node.AttachTo(pairContainer, AttachToNode.TopLeft);

	return pairContainer;
} 

I hope that helps,
Stoyan