Hi,

Is there a way where I can put some labels to the shape nodes. The current property uses the text which I provide on the body of the image. I want the label to appear outside of the image (may be bottom). Please help. Thanks,

Amit

Hi Stoyan,

Is there any plan of having this feature inbuilt in the default ShapeNodes in near release of DG.

Regards,
Amit

Thanks very much Stoyan

Kudos to you and your team. 

Regards,
Amit

Hi Amit,

Create a new TextFormat instance, set its alignment members and assign it to myNode.TextFormat.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi Amit,

This worked for me

private void OnChangeStringFormat(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
	if (diagram.ActiveItem != null)
	{
		if (diagram.ActiveItem is ShapeNode)
		{
			StringFormat sfmt = new StringFormat();
			sfmt.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far;
			sfmt.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Far;

			(diagram.ActiveItem as ShapeNode).TextFormat = sfmt;
		}
	}
}
 

Are you sure you are using the latest version? What kind of Shape have you assigned to the node?

Stoyan

Hey got this working now. I had created a StringFormat object only once for all nodes in my application load, and then was resuing for each nodes I created later. But that was not working.

Then I created a new object of StringFormat for each new node I create, and then it is working properly as expected (labels below images).
Any idea why is this behavior.


Thanks,
Amit

Hi Stoyan,

My SF object was well initialized before I assigned it to any node's TextFormat property, hence even if the check you mentioned shouldn't cause this to fail. But it's fine, I don't mind creating new instances each time, just hope it's good on memory.

Btw, one issue which I am observing is that if my labels are big (areound 2 or 3 words) then they break into multiline - which is fine but sometimes they get overlapped by the image of the node. Is there anyway how I can make sure that the lablels always start below the image area (may be after a gap of a few pixels).

Is there any email id where I can send you the screen shot explaining the behavior.

Thanks,
Amit