Hi,

Your FlowChart.NET Compontnt is very good and it is very usefull for us. But one thing, We can not able to create new shapes properly  by using your Shape Designer tool. Is it possible to create a shape in .bmp or in .gif format and then convert it into a shape for our tool?.

Thanks inadvance for your reply

Hi,

Thank you very much.  box.Picture property  is very user full for us to show our own images as Node Background.

One more problem i faced is i am not able to scroll the Flow Chart up and down with Mouse Scroller.
And how to create our own ShapeTemplates like "Actor"?Send any sample Code.

To create and use a ShapeTemplate -  invoke a ShapeTemplate constructor specifying some shape identifier, that adds the shape definition to the same internal array where the stock shapes are stored. You can access your shape later using the ShapeTemplate.FromId() method.

Here are definitions for some of the stock shapes:

[code]
new ShapeTemplate(
new ElementTemplate[]
{
  new ArcTemplate(40, 0, 20, 20, 0, 360),
  new LineTemplate(50, 20, 70, 20),
  new ArcTemplate(65, 20, 10, 10, 270, 90),
  new LineTemplate(75, 25, 75, 60),
  new LineTemplate(75, 60, 68, 60),
  new LineTemplate(68, 60, 68, 30),
  new LineTemplate(68, 30, 64, 30),
  new LineTemplate(64, 30, 64, 100),
  new LineTemplate(64, 100, 52, 100),
  new LineTemplate(52, 100, 52, 65),
  new LineTemplate(52, 65, 48, 65),
  new LineTemplate(48, 65, 48, 100),
  new LineTemplate(48, 100, 36, 100),
  new LineTemplate(36, 100, 36, 30),
  new LineTemplate(36, 30, 32, 30),
  new LineTemplate(32, 30, 32, 60),
  new LineTemplate(32, 60, 25, 60),
  new LineTemplate(25, 60, 25, 25),
  new ArcTemplate(25, 20, 10, 10, 180, 90)
},
FillMode.Winding, "Actor");

new ShapeTemplate(
new ElementTemplate[]
{
  new LineTemplate(10, 0, 90, 0),
  new ArcTemplate(80, 0, 20, 20, -90, 90),
  new LineTemplate(100, 10, 100, 90),
  new ArcTemplate(80, 80, 20, 20, 0, 90),
  new LineTemplate(90, 100, 10, 100),
  new ArcTemplate(0, 80, 20, 20, 90, 90),
  new LineTemplate(0, 90, 0, 10),
  new ArcTemplate(0, 0, 20, 20, 180, 90)
},
FillMode.Winding, "RoundRect");

new ShapeTemplate(
new ElementTemplate[]
{
  new LineTemplate(10, 0, 90, 0),
  new ArcTemplate(80, 0, 20, 100, -90, 180),
  new LineTemplate(90, 100, 10, 100),
  new ArcTemplate(0, 0, 20, 100, 90, 180)
},
new ElementTemplate[]
{
  new ArcTemplate(0, 0, 20, 100, -90, 180)
},
new ElementTemplate[]
{
  new LineTemplate(10, 0, 90, 0),
  new ArcTemplate(80, 0, 20, 100, -90, 180),
  new LineTemplate(90, 100, 10, 100),
  new BezierTemplate(10, 100, 35, 66, 35, 33, 10, 0)
},
FillMode.Winding, "DirectAccessStorage");
[/code]

Is there anyway that there can be a .shape file definition for reading and writing, similar to SVG/XML maybe.

Basically at this point we're rolling our own, by hacking the shapedesigner code, building a Stencil class and then serializing that class.

I would rather that there was a built-in way to do this writing and reading (XML-based perhaps) so that there can be a standard way within flowchart.net to do this.  One major advantage to this is that people would have the option to offer collections of shape libraries to the public domain.

The ability to potentially convert between visio and flowchart.net shapes would then be a huge benefit to us.

Paul.

Fantastic!

At the moment we're finalising the proof of concept, and looking to plan toward the future.

Can you give us some idea what timeline we're looking at for the 4.0.4 release?  If this is still some time off is there any likelyhood of accessing an alpha version, and if so any idea when that is possible?

We want a new shape which is having group of people (actors). By using ur shape designer tool , we able to create a shape with 2 actors side by side(I included the code bellow). But we want a shape , which is having at least 3 actors overlaping eachother so that it represent a Grop of people.

Please design that shape and send both code and .dr file. We are intrested to purchase ur tool.

The initial code for ur reference is :
ShapeTemplate st=new ShapeTemplate(
new ElementTemplate[]
{
new LineTemplate(10, 50, 5, 50),
new LineTemplate(5, 50, 5, 21),
new LineTemplate(5, 21, 30, 21),
new BezierTemplate(30, 21, 10, 14, 25, 0, 30, 0),
new BezierTemplate(30, 0, 40, 0, 45, 21, 25, 21),
new LineTemplate(25, 21, 65, 21),
new LineTemplate(65, 21, 75, 21),
new BezierTemplate(75, 21, 60, 14, 70, 0, 75, 0),
new BezierTemplate(75, 0, 95, 7, 75, 21, 75, 21),
new LineTemplate(75, 21, 85, 21),
new LineTemplate(85, 21, 90, 21),
new LineTemplate(90, 21, 100, 21),
new LineTemplate(100, 21, 100, 50),
new LineTemplate(100, 50, 95, 50),
new LineTemplate(95, 50, 95, 35),
new LineTemplate(95, 35, 90, 35),
new LineTemplate(90, 35, 90, 57),
new LineTemplate(90, 57, 85, 57),
new LineTemplate(85, 57, 85, 85),
new LineTemplate(85, 85, 80, 85),
new LineTemplate(80, 85, 80, 57),
new LineTemplate(80, 57, 74, 57),
new LineTemplate(74, 57, 75, 85),
new LineTemplate(75, 85, 70, 85),
new LineTemplate(70, 85, 70, 57),
new LineTemplate(70, 57, 65, 57),
new LineTemplate(65, 57, 65, 35),
new LineTemplate(65, 35, 60, 35),
new LineTemplate(60, 35, 60, 50),
new LineTemplate(60, 50, 55, 50),
new LineTemplate(55, 50, 55, 21),
new LineTemplate(55, 21, 50, 21),
new LineTemplate(50, 21, 50, 50),
new LineTemplate(50, 50, 45, 50),
new LineTemplate(45, 50, 45, 35),
new LineTemplate(45, 35, 40, 35),
new LineTemplate(40, 35, 40, 57),
new LineTemplate(40, 57, 35, 57),
new LineTemplate(35, 57, 35, 85),
new LineTemplate(35, 85, 30, 85),
new LineTemplate(30, 85, 30, 57),
new LineTemplate(30, 57, 25, 57),
new LineTemplate(25, 57, 25, 85),
new LineTemplate(25, 85, 20, 85),
new LineTemplate(20, 85, 20, 57),
new LineTemplate(20, 57, 15, 57),
new LineTemplate(15, 57, 15, 35),
new LineTemplate(15, 35, 10, 35),
new LineTemplate(10, 35, 10, 50)
},
new ElementTemplate[]
{
},
new ElementTemplate[]
{
new LineTemplate(0, 85, 0, 100),
new LineTemplate(0, 100, 100, 100),
new LineTemplate(100, 100, 100, 85),
new LineTemplate(100, 85, 0, 85)
},FillMode.Winding,   "test" );

When I export to Visio my flowChart with customs shapes and I open the file created by my application in MS Visio, the customs shapes are squares. Can I do it?

Stoyo,

Has there been any move toward a shape exporter?

Thanks.