Hi,

I have my own shape class which extends ShapeNode.

I am implementing copy/paste using the readExternal/writeExternal methods.

All works fine. However, I need to be able to update the text of the pasted shapes each time it is pasted.

For example, if you have a shape with text "MindFusion" then on the first paste, the new shape should be "MindFusion 2" and then next paste "MindFusion 3" and so on.

I tried using the readExternal() to read the text of all the current diagram shapes to determine the suffix. However the getParent() returns null instead of the Diagram object.

I also tried using the shape's constructor which is used for the copy/paste but the suffix is added twice - as it is called on both copy and paste?

I then thought about using one of the diagram listener methods. The nodeCreating() event does not get caught when pasting however.

Is there another event which will be triggered on each paste?

Or is there a better method of achieving this?

Thanks,

Chris

Hi Stoyan,

I tried as you suggested and it works perfectly!

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Chris

It should be possible - override the "public DiagramItem clone(boolean clipboard)" method in your custom link class and return an instance of the same class.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

The control calls setOrigin and setDestination on the links after cloning all items. The built-in clone method looks as shown below btw. If you have any problems, try implementing a constructor that takes two node arguments and calls the respective super class constructor, and then implement clone in the same way:

public DiagramItem clone(boolean clipboard)
{
	return new DiagramLink(this, getDummyNode(), getDummyNode());
} 

I hope that helps,
Stoyan