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Martin Mc YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 11 Location: Bracknell Joined: Oct 23^rd, 2008	Draw Arrow into a shapenode or in a shapenode Jul 25^th, 2012 at 5:51pm	Print Post
	I seem to be failing to find a solution for this simple task. I want to draw a box (Shape) then i want to draw an arrow (link) then starts from outside the box but ends up in the box. The problem is the link tries to automatically anchor to the box. sounds simple but i have struggled many a moon to try and resolve this one. i have tried turning off allowincomming and out going links but you get a no entry sign when you draw into the box. Ive also tried setting anchor patterns to nothing so it wont latch onto the box. I can get this to work with a link that is not a polyline, but i want a single straight line. Any help would be great.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Draw Arrow into a shapenode or in a shapenode Reply #1 - Jul 26^th, 2012 at 9:47am	Print Post
	You could move the last control point to the current mouse pointer location: Code private void diagram_LinkCreated(object sender, LinkEventArgs e) { DiagramLink link = e.Link; link.ControlPoints[link.ControlPoints.Count - 1] = diagramView.ClientToDoc(diagramView.PointToClient(MousePosition)); link.UpdateFromPoints(); } I hope that helps, Stoyan


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Martin Mc YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 11 Location: Bracknell Joined: Oct 23^rd, 2008	Re: Draw Arrow into a shapenode or in a shapenode Reply #2 - Jul 27^th, 2012 at 2:26pm	Print Post
	Thanks for this. I managed to stumble across a solution by accident in the end, all you have to do is make all nodes / boxes locked before adding the links, works perfectly. Thanks for your suggestion though.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Draw Arrow into a shapenode or in a shapenode Reply #3 - Jul 27^th, 2012 at 3:57pm	Print Post
	Locked nodes + AllowUnconnectedLinks will create the link exactly at the end point, but will not associate links with nodes (link.Destination will remain null). I suppose that will work for you if using the control only as a drawing tool and don't need to traverse the graph later.


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