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Making Raised Node Edges
Mar 29th, 2010 at 4:08pm
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I noticed that a lot of nodes in your samples have a 3-dimensional 'raised' appearance. From what I gather, this is done via the Pen's CompoundArray setting. I have been playing around with that on my own project, but just can't get the hang of it. The Winforms forum has only 1 message regarding the CompoundArray and it is very short. Can you point me to some documentation of that or just tell me what array values to use for the 3D look?

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Re: Making Raised Node Edges
Reply #1 - Mar 29th, 2010 at 6:39pm
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Set diagram.EffectProvider to an instance of the EffectProvider class from MindFusion.Diagramming.EffectsProvider.dll and set Diagram.EnableEmbossEffects = true.

I hope that helps,
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Re: Making Raised Node Edges
Reply #2 - Mar 30th, 2010 at 12:15am
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Very cool. That worked great. Thanks.

But what the heck is the Pen's CompoundArray anyway? I see it affects the thickness of the border, but so does Pen Width. And I don't get how the visual 'progress bar' used to set it in the Properties window corresponds to an array of Singles. Very mysterious.
  
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Re: Making Raised Node Edges
Reply #3 - Mar 30th, 2010 at 8:13am
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A compound pen can be used to draw several lines with different thickness for item's border. For an example, draw some nodes in the "Controls" sample project; you will see the borders there drawn using double lines.

The widget in the Pen editor is not a progress bar, but it lets you toggle some parts of the lines drawn with this pen either visible or invisible (by clicking on one of the bars). To see any effect from clicking there, you must also set a larger pen width.

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