LayeredLayout.TimeLimit Property

Gets or sets the maximum time to spend in the path searching phase, expressed in milliseconds.

 Syntax

VB6

Public Property Get TimeLimit() As Long
Public Property Let TimeLimit( _
    ByVal value As Long _
)

C++

public:
int get_TimeLimit ()
void put_TimeLimit (
    int value
)

 Property Value

A long value. The default is 10000.

 Remarks

The layered layout algorithm arranges graph nodes and links along the longest path in the graph. Large graphs with many links could contain hundreds of thousands of possible paths, so finding the longest one would be very time-consuming. When the time-out set with this property occurs, the path-finding routine stops and the layout algorithm uses the longest path known at that moment. Usually, for graphs containing several hundreds of nodes, 1-2 seconds are enough to find a long-enough path to produce nice layered layouts.