Hi,

It seems to work well enough in the Anchors.html example. The link router keeps positions of link end points and only routes intermediate segments. Do you expect it to also select different anchor points from the pattern?

Regards,
Slavcho

Are you setting AnchorPattern after creating the links? This is not realigning link end points automatically, and the link router will keep the initial end point positions. You could call link.originConnection.chooseBestAnchorPoint(point) and link.destinationConnection.chooseBestAnchorPoint(point) methods after changing AnchorPattern to realign the points.

Also are you using the default Router class or GridRouter?

So you mean end points are at correct positions, but not orientation of link segments ? I guess changing to GridRouter might help, try setting diagram.router = new GridRouter(diagram) to check. Please attach or email us a saved diagram with which you get wrong results.

Sorry we've missed that, but found the email now. The image seems to show the result of layered layout, and then followed by call to routing methods? Check if it works better for you if you set layout.anchoring to Keep or Reassign, and run the layout while nodes' AnchorPattern is set. Otherwise we don't have a good criteria to choose first segment's orientation when router sees link end point exactly at node's corner (placed there by the layout class). We could add some property for preferred orientation, and then you'd be able to set it in sync with layout's orientation if you prefer layout to ignore anchor points.

Regards,
Slavcho

Hi Anna,

We'll have it in mind for upcoming release.

Regards,
Slavcho

Hi,

We've added preferredOrientation flag to the default Router class, find a build on PM page. Our test case is -

function testCornerRouting(diagram)
{
	diagram.setDefaultShape("Rectangle");
	var node1 = diagram.getFactory().createShapeNode(10, 60, 20, 20);
	var node2 = diagram.getFactory().createShapeNode(60, 10, 20, 20);
	diagram.getFactory().createDiagramLink(node1, node2);
	diagram.getLinkRouter().preferredOrientation = MindFusion.Diagramming.Orientation.Horizontal;
	diagram.routeAllLinks();
} 

Without setting the flag (default is Auto value) the link will have segments in different directions after routing, otherwise they should be oriented according to the flag.

That should help for links that start / end near node's corner. If you have some very tall layers in the horizontal layout, you might still end up with link that connect to top or bottom sides. If you need to enforce connections only on left/right sides, try using anchor points or something like the DistributeVertically method here -
https://mindfusion.eu/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1302946461/1#1

Regards,
Slavcho