Hello,

I don't think that's a bug, so I'll post here instead.

It seems FlowChart.NET does not consider crossing Bezier arrows within its features. It does not support drawing arcs, or does not take into account the crossing cost in routing options (the latter being my main concern), while it works fine with Polyline and Cascading arrows.

Is this something unsupported by the component? Are there plans to add support for it?

I realize this might be a complex topic to handle, so I would also have a suggestion parallel to that. Most of the time (if not always) I don't need the complexity of Bezier curves for arrows within my software development. I mostly use them to have rounded corners.

So I think adding a fourth arrow style "RoundedCascading" to have rounded corners instead of straight ones might be nice, much like Rectangle vs. RoundedRectangle for box shapes. It might be easier to handle crossing arrows that way, while having an interesting visual appearance.

Thanks!
JGG

Indeed, Bezier curves can get quite expensive to calculate when there's many of them. That's why I think having a rounded corners option on arrows would be nice and inexpensive.

I just noticed there's no intermediate arrows on Bezier either as well, probably for the same reason you mentioned.

So yeah, rounded arrows would be a nice feature, I would use them instead of Beziers

Thanks!
JGG

This is looking good!

However, it seems rounded arrows revert to square corners mode when ArrowCrossings are set to something else than None. Is this normal?

Thanks!
JGG

Try this version:

https://mindfusion.org/_temp/fcnet.zip

Stoyan

thank you too 

You are right, that seems to happen with ArrowSegments = 2. The developer will look into it tomorrow.

Stoyan

Working pretty fine so far, thanks!

I have another minor issue to report (sorry if I seem a little picky ), there are visual artifacts on the corners when the arrow pen is larger than normal (say 1mm and more). It seems the arc does not complete its 90 degrees curve.

Thanks again!
JGG