Hi.

I want to do this:

I have my own starting & ending points of links. It is M:N relationship betweenn two tables. I want to use cascade & polyline (a oblique line) style of links.

Since I want to draw starting & ending points ONLY horizontaly or vertically I need additional space around shape --> on a picture is this area as RED. In this area I want to have all segments of links in horizontal or vertical orientation.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2uh7701.jpg


How to do this?

1) I was thinking about creating hundreds of anchorpoints around shape. There is a problem with coordinates of these points because they are set relative to shape (in percent).

2) Another way is to play with anchorpoints of cascade links. But x&y coordinates are readonly (am I right?). I have a link with CustomDraw=Full. In DrawLink event I draw my own line. After that original anchorpoints are still visible and area bounded by original link is handling link selection. Is it possible to establish my line as a new link? So when I click on a line it has the same effect like when I clicked on original link? Is it possible to arrange anchorpoints (x & y coordinates)?

So. I think Im not first who want to do something similar.

Can you give me some suggestion what is possible, good and effective?

Thanx!


...MUDO..

Hi!

Yes.

Im just testing something.

This is my solution:

link.SnapToNodeBorder = True
link.HeadShape = MindFusion.Diagramming.ArrowHead.None
link.Style = MindFusion.Diagramming.LinkStyle.Cascading
link.AutoRoute = True

Diagram.AllowUnanchoredLinks = True
link.CustomDraw = MindFusion.Diagramming.CustomDraw.Additional


Then I handle Diagram_DrawLink where I draw starting & ending points of links.

This is working now as I want. And that is working when style of links is polyline as well! First segments of links are still horizontal or vertical. OK!

Question is: for what is link.CascadeOrientation? I dont see any changes!


...MUDO...

No. It doesnt work. It seems like AutoRoute overrides link.CascadeOrientation and all RoutingOptions
Any new idea?

All what I want to do is force first segment to be in vertical or horizontal way.


...MUDO...