Hi,

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Create a custom Shape definition whose text area is outside the 0-100,0-100 range. Another possibility is to use separate nodes as labels, and attach them to the main node using the attachTo method.

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Try TreeLayout.arrange() if your graphs are trees, or some of the other layout classes otherwise.

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If just for decoration, you could create some unconnected links and lock them, or handle the drawBackground event and draw the lines using the Graphics2D API. If you need the real links between nodes to be always horizontal, try aligning the links ControlPoints in response to some events, such as linkCreated and linkModified.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi,

This defines a rectangular shape where the text is displayed below the rectangle:

Shape sp = new Shape(
	new ElementTemplate[]
	{
		new LineTemplate(0,0,0,100),
		new LineTemplate(0,100, 100, 100),
		new LineTemplate(100, 100, 100, 0),
		new LineTemplate(100, 0, 0, 0)
	},
	null,
	new ElementTemplate[]
	{
		new LineTemplate(0,110, 100,110),
		new LineTemplate(100,110, 100, 200),
		new LineTemplate(100, 200, 0,200),
		new LineTemplate(0, 200, 0, 110 )
	}, 0, "newShape");

	diagram.setDefaultShape(sp);
 

The attachTo argument specifies a corner to which the attached node should be anchored. It is not aligned to that corner, but the group preserves the original distance from the child node to that corner.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi,


Try this:
ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().setDismissDelay(Integer.MAX_VALUE);

What do you mean by seeing the text only for invisible nodes?

Stoyan

Hi,

Have you set the shape's Image or the NoWrap flag? Seems in that case the control applies clipping to the shape outlines, which does not work that great if the text region is set outside the outlines.

Stoyan