Hi!

We're trying the WpfDiagram component and looks pretty good for us, we'd like to clarify some doubts before buy it for ensure that fulfill our expectations.

As there's not support for data binding yet, could you give me some guidelines for generate a diagram dynamically from data? We are interested in represent our data as diagrams, and give to each box the ability to drill down to the DataRow or entity object that is representing. I guess we'll have a boxes and links tables or entities arrays, and we need represent them and... in some way... bind the elements, so may be keeping a simple Id in the box/link would be enough.

Could we disable the design mode programatically? I mean, sometimes we'll want to show a diagram, be able to drill down to data but don't be able to move, resize or delete graphical elements ( and therefore data).

And finally (by the moment ) do you have a tutorial, documentation or example about how we can create our own shapes and DiagramNodes?

Our application is based on dynamic data, the most of the times is data binded and the rest we have to implement our own data binding mechanisms. The points more important for us, are the ability to create diagrams from data and create data from diagrams that we could develop using WpfDiagram as UI.

Cheers.

thanks

Hi,

We have them only for the Windows Forms control, but the diagramming API is the same so you can apply them to WPF too. A difference is that in WPF you must override the SaveToXml and LoadFromXml method to implement custom serialization.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Regarding tables, when you download the win-forms version also check the Entities sample.

- how to put pictures in TableNode.Rows.

You set the Image property of some cell, e.g. table[0, 0].Image = anImage;

- how to put pictures with their own events (in the ERM sample there is a picture that when you clicked it appears a dialog)

If the image is inside a cell, you could handle the CellClicked event. The icons at the bottom of tables in the Entities sample are ShapeNodes, attached to the table using the AttachTo method. For such icons, handle the NodeClicked events.

- how to fix the anchors to a certain rows.

Set Row.AnchorPattern, e.g. table.Rows[0].AnchorPattern = ...;

I hope that helps,
Stoyan