Do you mean you want to see color and text styles in the property panel shown in the lower right? That's a simple JPanel that hosts labels and drop-downs showing a few property values. You can add more controls to it (it's called _fontBoxPanel) to show additional color and text formatting properties, or perhaps replace the whole panel with a JTable whose model lists the properties you need.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

If you are following the Flowcharter example, it doesn't actually use a ShapeListBox, but a standard Swing JList with a custom model and renderer.

You can add a fillColor attribute to the shape icons by adding the following members to the Node class in FlowcharterFrame.java:

private class Node
{
	public Node(AnchorPattern anchor,
com.mindfusion.diagramming.Shape template, String name) {
		_anchor = anchor;
		_template = template;
		_name = name;
		_fillColor = Color.white;
	}

	public Node(AnchorPattern anchor,
com.mindfusion.diagramming.Shape template, String name, Color fillColor) {
		_anchor = anchor;
		_template = template;
		_name = name;
		_fillColor = fillColor;
	}

	...

	public Color getFillColor() {
		return _fillColor;
	}

	private Color _fillColor;
} 

and then use the new Node constructor when initializing the _nodes array in the frame class constructor.

To change the appearance of shape icons, find the "//node renderer" comment and add the following lines after the setShape call:

box.setBrush(new SolidBrush(s.getFillColor()));
box.setText(s.getText()); 

and also change the icons size to one that will fit your texts.

If you prefer using the ShapeListBox control, you can access the ShapeNodes hosted inside it by calling ShapeListBox.getModel().getElement() and typecasting to ShapeNode. Then you can change the attributes of these ShapeNodes to display different colors, texts, etc.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Unfortunately the Shape class and shape libraries only define the geometry of ShapeNodes, so there's no built-in support for color attributes.

We have a NodeListView control in our WPF/Silverlight products whose elements are DiagramNode -derived objects and are cloned upon drag-and-drop onto the diagram. We could port this to Java for the next release if it will work better for you; you will be able to set any attributes on the ShapeNodes in the list then.

What you can do now using a ShapeListBox (or a JList as in Flowcharter) is to associate color attributes with shape identifiers in a separate file, and then set the colors on the internal nodes as shown in the previous post. Alternatively, you could add your own xml elements to the shape library file and load them using the Java XML API.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan