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vtortola Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 104 Joined: Nov 26^th, 2008	Force links to be outside the node Mar 18^th, 2009 at 4:57pm	Print Post
	Hi, I don't know why, but sometimes the links appear with the ends inside the nodes, is there a way to avoid this and force them to be outside? and a way to force them to be inside the diagram? It's when I create a new one, is not related with the serialization. It happens randomly. Besides, sometimes the links have a stretch outside the diagram limits, so it's impossible to modify it. I must move the nodes to make the link appear fully inside the diagram, and only then I can modify it. Cheers.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Force links to be outside the node Reply #1 - Mar 18^th, 2009 at 6:34pm	Print Post
	Hi, I think the link ends are inside the nodes if the nodes overlap at the time when you call CreateDiagramLink. Try setting link.Dynamic = true and the link end points should update once you move the nodes. Cheers.


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vtortola Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 104 Joined: Nov 26^th, 2008	Re: Force links to be outside the node Reply #2 - Mar 19^th, 2009 at 3:08pm	Print Post
	Humm... with that option the links go a little bit wild... First of all, the issue still happens, the links ends appears inside the nodes sometimes, but in the moment you move the node the links move to the outside, so I think is ok, but would be nice have a way to do it automatically. But besides, when you use that option the links only anchor in the lateral sides of the nodes. You can manually anchor in the top or the bottom of the node, but as soon you move the node the links go to the lateral sides. Doesn't matter how the nodes are placed. So I can't afford this behavior, is there another way to force the links to be outside the node or do you know another workaround? Would be nice if there was an option that automatically move the links ends to find the shortest path between two nodes. Cheers.


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Paul Eden Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Joined: Aug 15^th, 2007	Re: Force links to be outside the node Reply #3 - Mar 19^th, 2009 at 3:20pm	Print Post
	On the version we are currently running, the links will switch between outer edge and centerpoint once the nodes being joined are too close, even with Link.Dynamic - draging a node away will make the link jump to the outer edge. Related to a minimum length of a link? There are values you can change that dictate pathing rules / allowances - off the top of my head I cant remember what they are, but there is a demo app dedicated to them from Mindfision.


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vtortola Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 104 Joined: Nov 26^th, 2008	Re: Force links to be outside the node Reply #4 - Mar 19^th, 2009 at 3:50pm	Print Post
	When AutoRoute is setted, even when the nodes are to close, even overlapped, the link never switches to the center point. When AutoRoute is false then switches to the center if are too close.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Force links to be outside the node Reply #5 - Mar 19^th, 2009 at 6:56pm	Print Post
	so, is it ok now, or you need to find a solution without AutoRoute? You could try it with link.SnapToNodeBorder; I'm not sure it will force the links to align to the border when they re created from code though...


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vtortola Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 104 Joined: Nov 26^th, 2008	Re: Force links to be outside the node Reply #6 - Mar 20^th, 2009 at 11:26am	Print Post
	hehe, actually no because the behavior of "Dynamic" make the links a little bit wild. I'm already using SnapToBorders. Dynamic + Autoroute works fine with the center point links, but the links are unabe to move to the up or bottom borders. As I said before, the best would be an option where the links automatically change their ends to be as small as possible. I mean, if you put a link between two nodes, the link try to find the two points where the distance between nodes is minimum and use them as anchors, then every time you move the node the link automatically moves to the optimal position. Take that as "wish" Cheers.


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