Author Archives: Slavcho

Custom Grid Drawing in Charting for JavaScript

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In this blog post we will look in short at the steps to build this JavaScript area chart with custom grid:

The line chart uses DateTimeSeries for the data and a standard GridType for the major grid lines. The auxiliary grid lines among them are made with custom drawing: we will discuss in details the code for that.

The sample uses MindFusion Charting library for JavaScript, which also supports TypeScript.

You can see the sample online at https://mindfusion.eu/samples/javascript/chart/CustomGrid/DateTimeSeries.html

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Customizing Diagram Link Shape-s in JavaScript and React

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In this blog post we will look at 3 different ways of customizing diagram links. They are:

  • Drawing one ShapeNode in the middle of the link.
  • Drawing a rectangle in the middle of a link.
  • Drawing a ShapeNode at conjunction points.

The following image illustrates DiagramLink s created by each of the three methods.

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Using Flexbox Layout to Arrange Diagram Components in React

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This tutorial demonstrates how to use the flexbox layout to arrange the various diagram controls that come with the diagram library for React. The controls we will arrange are DiagramView , NodeListView , Ruler , Overview, Zoomer and Ruler. This is a screenshot of the final application:

We build our project using the React framework and MindFusion diagram library for React available from https://www.npmjs.com/package/diagram-library-react.
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