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MindFusion ASP.NET Diagram Control, V5.6

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MindFusion is proud to present you with the new version of its ASP.NET diagram control.

Below you can read about the recently added features. As always, your questions are welcome. Use the technical support e-mail or MindFusion ASP.NET diagram forum.

Free-form nodes

A FreeFormNode collects all points from users’ mouse or touch input and displays them as node’s outline. To let users draw free-form nodes interactively, set Behavior to DrawFreeForms or LinkFreeForms.. Use the Points property of FreeFormNode to get or set outline points programmatically. If the Closed property is set, the node is drawn as a closed shape and its interior filled, or otherwise the node is drawn as a poly-line. If the distance between first and last points drawn by user is shorter than AutoCloseDistance, the node’s Closed property is automatically set to true. AutoCloseDistance  default value is float.MaxValue, so free-form nodes are always closed.

Free form nodes allow the user to draw diagram shapes with the mouse of the finger

Free form nodes allow the user to draw diagram shapes with the mouse of the finger

Convert free-form drawings to ShapeNodes

Additional drawing modes, convenient for touch input, convert FreeFormNode objects drawn by user to ShapeNode objects with matching shapes. To enable them, set Behavior to DrawFreeShapes or LinkFreeShapes. The shapes against which the user’s input is matched are set via diagram’s FreeFormTargets property. By default it contains Rectangle, Decision and Ellipse shapes.

Miscellaneous

  • NodePastedScript and LinkPastedScript client-side events raised when items are pasted from the clipboard.
  • PdfExporter now creates page hyperlinks if HyperLink is set to a value in “page://{number}” format, e.g. set “page://1” to open the second PDF page when the item is clicked
  • TypeScript definitions for the client-side Diagramming API are now provided in jsdiag.d.ts file.

Fixed bugs

  • CanvasVirtualScroll mode fixed for parent div size specified in percent units.
  • Fixed bug where the ExpandOnIncoming property specifying link direction for collapse/expand actions did not work correctly.
  • Removed several global JavaScript variables created inadvertently by the control.
  • Fixed bug where ShapeNodes’ Image did not zoom correctly in ImageMap mode for some ImageAlign values.

Installer for the latest version can be downloaded here, or from the clients area on our site:

Download MindFusion ASP.NET Diagram Control, V5.6 Trial

Updated assemblies and script files are also available as MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms NuGet package.

About MindFusion ASP.NET Diagram Control: This is a reusable ASP.NET control that provides your WebForms application with the complete functionality to create, style and present flowcharts, hierarchies, trees, graphs, schemes, diagrams in the browser. You can leverage the large set of utility methods, path finding capabilities and cycle detection to build the perfect interactive diagram that supports plenty of UI features like tool tips, multiple selection, copy/paste to/from Windows clipboard and many more.

MindFusion ASP.NET control offers you more than 100 predefined node shapes, scrollable tables, 13 automatic layout algorithms, rich choice of pen and brushes and a long list of other options that will greatly shorten the time needed for developing an online business application that must implement diagramming features. MindFusion has built many different samples and tutorials that demonstrate the features of the control and give you abundance of sample code to copy and study. You can read more about the Diagram Control for ASP.NET here.