Hi,

I want to meet following requirements:

1) My node should be diamond shaped with background color that shows its state and an image (based on which type of node it is) is placed on it. And there is node name at bottom which can not be edited.
2) The background color of the node can be changed dynamically.
3) Nodes should be placed on the diagram sheet by dragging them from the toolbar and dropping them on the sheet
4) Right click on any node/link will open a context menu
5) Double click on any node/link will open a dialog box
6) Can we change the selection template of the node
7) On mouse scroll we should be able to zoom-in/zoom-out
8) Selecting a node should select only the image area not the node name.
9) There should be a toolbar from where we can create link and the cursor the should change to pen and we should be able to connect two nodes.
10) When creating a link we should be able to perform validation whether the link between this two nodes is allowed or not.
11) We should be able to pan the diagram sheet.


Please suggest me how to achieve above requirements sample code will certainly help in meeting this requirements and preparing a demo application.

Thanks in advance,
Anurodh

Thanks.

That will be great.

Also, i would like to know if following is possible.

1) There will be an option like say "Display Grid" - choosing this option will show grid lines in the diagram sheet.
2) The grid should also confer to zoom-in/zoom-out i.e. when zoom-in the grid cells should increase in size and so on.
3) Also can we have following features with grid diagram sheet having some nodes -
    a) Align to grid will place all nodes in their most neighboring grid cell
    b) Align left - i.e. when more than one node is selected then the nodes left position should be aligned to left position of the node that was selected first.
    c) Align right
    d) Align tops
    e) Align bottoms
    f) Equal vertical spacing - when more than one node is selected the vertical spacing between them should be equal
    g) Equal horizontal spacing

Thanks again for the quick reply.

Looking forward to get some help so that i can then go on and try to implement the remaining set of requirements just to get a demo running.

Thanks,
Anurodh

Thank you very much. Yes, it will certainly help.

I have some more queries. Can following set of features be met with wpf diagram:

1) Binding diagram with List/Collection of objects so that if we change one of the binded object or the list itself it automatically refreshes the diagram.

2) On mouse hover we would like to have bubbling effect that is the node should zoom-in as if we placed a magnifying glass over it and we move out of the node it should again come to its original size.

Thanks again,
Anurodh

Thanks for the reply.

Could you please tell me how to achieve following requirements:

1) Copy/Paste of selected nodes (nodes may be more than one)

2) Change background picture of diagram sheet dynamically

3) Change link color dynamically

4) Customized tooltip on node/link

5) The text attached to the node can be aligned dynamically to bottom/top/left/right of the node.

6) The layout of the diagram can be changed dynamically to Compact View and Hierarchical View.

Thanks in advance,
Anurodh

Thanks for the reply.

I tried using ShapeNode.TextFormat property in the sample but it looks like we can set Far/Center/Near but could you suggeat me how to align text to bottom/top/left/right of the node.

like for ex. left alignment will look like:
<Text>Node

Thanks,
Anurodh

Yes you are right but in the sample sent by you, the LineAlignment is set to StringAlignment.Near but hen also the text is coming at bottm centre of the node. I want it to be left aligned. I think may be its related to node origin.

How to do this?

Thanks,
Anurodh

Could you please elaborate on above point.

2) Databinding is the first feature we are looking for as we are planning to have a central object model and binding our diagram to the  collection object of that central object model and there will be separate modules/threads which will be updating this object model and based on the changes the diagram should refresh itself.

When can we get the databinding feature and could you suggest an approach to achieve above requirement with wpfDiagram.

The idea behind this is that our diagram can scale to 50,000 nodes/links and we do not want to load the diagram each time say a node property or some links get changed. So how to do it in an efficient way so that the UI operation is fast enough? How the wpfDiagram can help achieve this?

Thanks,
Anurodh

Thanks for the reply.

When can we get the databinding version.

we would like to see a reasonable performance with say 1000 nodes. Is UI VIRTUALIZATION implemented?

Thanks,
Anurodh