hi,

I'm still testing the component and I've two questions for you.

1) Since I'm going to manage a large amount of boxes (>100), I want to know if there is a way to obtain a "Progress Indicator" (maybe via Windows' messages?) while the ArrangeDiagram method is executing. This can be useful for the users because the algorithm takes up to 30 seconds to execute. I use ArrangeDiagram on GridLayout and SpringLayout.

2) Sometimes arrows are not routed very well: as you can see in this image, arrow is crossing the box and we have to avoid this. (this happens both to GridLayout and SpringLayout). I was wrong on something?



for SpringLayout I use this:

var lt: SpringLayout;
begin
  lt := CoSpringLayout.Create();
  lt.EnableClusters := true;
  lt.NodeDistance  := 50;
  lt.NumIterations := 500;
  lt.ArrowAnchoring := ancReassign;
  flowchart1.ArrangeDiagram(lt);
end; 

this for GridLayout:

var lt: GridLayout;
begin
  lt := CoGridLayout.Create();
  lt.GridSize := 85;
  lt.RandomSeed := 1;
  lt.NumIterations := 500;
  lt.ArrowAnchoring := ancReassign;
  flowchart1.ArrangeDiagram(lt);
end; 

for completeness I also post assigned properties of flowchart1 object

  FlowChart1.RouteArrows := True;

  FlowChart1.ArrowStyle := asPerpendicular;

  FlowChart1.RoutingOptions.Anchoring := ancReAssign;
  FlowChart1.RoutingOptions.NodeVicinityCost := 100;
  FlowChart1.RoutingOptions.CrossingCost := 100;
  FlowChart1.RoutingOptions.NodeVicinitySize := 20;
  FlowChart1.RoutingOptions.TurnCost:= 1;
  flowchart1.RoutingOptions.TriggerRerouting := raWhenIntersectNode;
 

any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Best Regards