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Anna Malashkina
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Using HTML icons in js diagram
Jun 4th, 2020 at 1:59pm
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Is it possible to use HTML icons somehow in js diagram text\diagram nodes?
  
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Re: Using HTML icons in js diagram
Reply #1 - Jun 5th, 2020 at 7:12am
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Hi Anna,

If you mean icon fonts like Font Awsome, usually it should be enough to set node's or cell's font to the respective font and specify icon as Unicode number in text value -

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<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<link rel="stylesheet"
		  href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.9/css/all.css">
</head>

e.node.setFont(new Font("Font Awesome 5 Free", 6));
e.node.setText("\uF200");
 



Free icons from Font Awsome specifically are rendered only in 600-900 range of font weight though, which you can't specify via our public APIs. If that's what you are using, you'll have to override our drawing code, e.g. something like this -

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var original = MindFusion.Drawing.Text.prototype.draw;
MindFusion.Drawing.Text.prototype.draw = function (context, drawShadow)
{
	if (this.isIcon)
	{
		context.font = '600 4px "Font Awesome 5 Free"';
		context.fillStyle = "black";
		context.fillText(this.text, this.x + 5, this.y + 10);
	}
	else
	{
		original.apply(this, [context, drawShadow]);
	}
};

e.node.text.isIcon = true;
 



You could as well create an Icon class with a single draw function as above, and add its instances to nodes similar to extra images and text from this topic - https://mindfusion.eu/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1488530760

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Re: Using HTML icons in js diagram
Reply #2 - Jun 5th, 2020 at 12:39pm
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Hi Slavcho, could you suggest a solution based on a class name? I'm designer of the font with icons inside. The approach is very like FontAwesome. I'm afraid, the permanent part is class name only. The unicode beyond of an icon symbol is very likely will be changed from time to time.

Typically, to insert an icon, developers use the following:

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<span class="icon flag"></span> 



I guarantee that "flag" will be unchanged but would avoid the constrain like keep the unicode "\uF770" for the flag icon forever.
  
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Re: Using HTML icons in js diagram
Reply #3 - Jun 5th, 2020 at 1:25pm
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Hi Anatoly,

Are these icons rendered through SVG? You might try displaying them using diagram's standalone SvgNode objects, or by adding to other nodes MindFusion.Drawing.Image objects whose source is set to the SVG. That's assuming you still have a way to get the source SVG from class name.

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Re: Using HTML icons in js diagram
Reply #4 - Jun 9th, 2020 at 3:47pm
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Thank you, we found internal solution for this given feature - place font-based icon onto canvas.

Let me make the discussion more general to cover possible feature requests in the future. Rendering of graphs onto canvas makes the resulting picture quite static. I know, that you suggest elementary interactive components in your library, such as 'click' into some active zone, "hover" by mouse cursor, probably more. But what do you think if we need to connect some rendered element with element visible in DOM. This element can hold texts/hyperlinks/etc. regulated by classic DOM approach with CSS, handlers, events, etc. Have you ever thought about to get developers ability to _insert_ such DOM element on the top canvas with "z-index: +1" ?

I'm asking because canvases give rendering speed and control by in-house solutions, while classic DOM handles a variety of common capabilities, e.g. ability to CTRL+C figures or message on diagram block.
  
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Re: Using HTML icons in js diagram
Reply #5 - Jun 9th, 2020 at 3:49pm
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I'm sure, I 'm not the first one who asks for such crazy mix of technologies)
  
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Re: Using HTML icons in js diagram
Reply #6 - Jun 10th, 2020 at 6:00am
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We have "ControlNode" objects in desktop platforms that can host any standard or custom .NET / Java control (always on top of diagram Z order as you noted), we'll have in mind implementing the same in JavaScript version for next release.

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Re: Using HTML icons in js diagram
Reply #7 - Jun 11th, 2020 at 9:25am
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Great! Thank you for considering this extension
  
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Re: Using HTML icons in js diagram
Reply #8 - Aug 18th, 2020 at 3:31pm
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You can find a preview of ControlNode class here -
https://mindfusion.eu/_beta/jsdiag_html.zip

3rd and 4th nodes in the palette are ControlNodes with different html templates, including buttons and text inputs. ControlNode.getContent returns a div containing HTML DOM created from your template, in case you need access to child elements.

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