Hi,

we've tried the new functionality of free form nodes in the last 3.4 version (non beta).

Currently we experience two issues:
- stroke and stroke thickness in the free form nodes seem to be ignored and when specified remain unchanged
- when we create a new FreeFormNode by specifying the Points with the StylusPointCollection, the node is not created with the absolute coordinates specified in the collection, but relative ones (*) by placing the node at (0,0).


(*) For example if we create a square (or any irregular polygon) by passing (100,100), (100,200), (200,100), (200,200), the rectangle is created at (0,0), (0,100), (100,0), (100,100). In our application with the free form node we're trying to draw a convex hull and this is particularly annoying because we have to do a second pass by calculating the bounding box of all the points and apply the Bounds property.

One request is that it would be very useful (from the convex hull purposes) to include a bezier curve option to be set for the the freeformnode, so that the outline of the resulting shape will appear continuous.

Sabrina

Hi Sabrina,

Here's a new build of the assemblies that will honor StrokeThickness and Stroke, as long as the latter is a SolidColorBrush -

https://mindfusion.eu/_temp/freeform_stroke.zip

The thing is, currently we use System.Windows.Ink.Stroke to draw free-form nodes as it works much faster than rendering a Shapes.Path according to our tests. It supports only Color and Thickness customization though; if you need to used dashed strokes and other types of brushes, we could implement them by falling back to drawing a path when they are set, at the cost of a performance hit you might see with many points in the node.

Regards,
Slavcho
Mindfusion

Check if you haven't mistyped it. I can see FreeFormNode.UpdateFromPoints imported as public method in the help file and was able to call above code from a sample project from v3.4 installation.