MindFusion JDiagram

What's new in MindFusion JDiagram V4.0.1?

• Preserve Order in Tree Layout - Keep the original geometric order of child nodes when arranging them under their parent.
• Undirected Path Finding - If IgnoreDirection is enabled link direction is not considered when looking for paths.
• Selection Improvements - Let users select existing items, but not modify them or draw new ones.

What's new in MindFusion JDiagram V4?

• Styles and Themes - The appearance of items in a diagram can now be modified using styles.
• Node Effects - Two visual effects (GlassEffect and AeroEffect) can now be applied to nodes.
• One Way Graph Layout - Links that enter into nodes from the same general direction and exit them from the opposite side.
• Rotation improvements - All built-in node types can now be rotated by setting their RotationAngle property, or interactively through the rotation handle.
• Node List - Nodes from the control can be dropped onto diagrams.
• Layers - Items can now be assigned to layers. Layers can be hidden, locked or moved up and down in the Z order.
• Magnifier - The new magnifier tool allows users to interactively zoom in or out of the diagram by holding down a modifier key or pressing a mouse button.
• Ruler Improvements - Ruler units can now be specified more precisely through instances of the new MeasureUnit class.

What's New in MindFusion JDiagram 3.5?

• Java Swing components as nodes
• Load UI controls in single Applet instance
• Improved path-finding for long links in QuickRouter
• SwimlaneLayout improvements
• %T shows total number of pages in print header

What's New in MindFusion JDiagram 3?

TreeView nodes: The TreeViewNode class represents nodes that can display hierarchical data. The root items displayed in the node can be accessed through the RootItems property. New items can be added to and removed from the returned collection. The root items can have child items on their own and so on. For more information, refer to the TreeViewItem class. 

Ruler control: The Ruler control provides horizontal and vertical scales that helps users measure and align diagram items. In order to set the Ruler as a parent of a DiagramView, call its setDiagramView meethod. The control also implements support for scrolling and can be used instead of JScrollPane. 

Export to SVG: The SvgExporter class creates a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing from the content of a Diagram. Custom-drawn elements are exported too through an SVG implementation of the Graphics2D interface provided by JDiagram. 

Adjustment handles styling: The ActiveItemHandlesColor, SelectedItemHandlesColor and DisabledHandlesColor properties have been replaced by ActiveItemHandlesStyle, SelectedItemHandlesStyle and DisabledHandlesStyle. The HandlesVisualStyle objects returned by them provide sub-properties for greater control over the appearance of selection handles. The adjustment handles can now be painted not only in solid color but with arbitrary brushes, such as GradientBrush and TextureBrush objects. 

New ScriptHelper methods

• The createColor method creates a Color instance. 
• Use createPaper and createPageFormat to create objects requied for print job setup. 
• CreateSize and createSizeF create Dimension and Dimension2D instances. 

JDiagram provides many different options for customization and personalization of your diagrams and charts. You can choose among a variety of shapes, arrows and color styles.

Below you can read some of the most important features available in JDiagram

JDiagram Component

• Redistribution is royalty free
• JAR file available
• Is a Swing component
• Can be purchased with source code
• Implements the Document/View architecture

JDiagram User Interaction

• Several user interaction modes
• Node modification constraints
• Scrolling and zooming
• Panning
• Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse
• Alignment to grid
• Multiple selection
• Tool-tips
• Docking points can be defined for nodes
• Undo/Redo support
• Copy and paste to/from the system clipboard

JDiagram Programming

• Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections
• Numerous properties for customizing appearance and behavior
• Numerous utility methods
• Path finding and cycle detection
• Rich event set

JDiagram can Store and Retrieve Diagrams into/from

• Files on disk
• Java streams
• ASCII strings
• XML documents

JDiagram Output

• To display through Java Swing
• Printing and print preview
• To browser as an applet
• Export images in jpeg, gif, tiff and png formats
• To a browser using HTML image maps
• Export to PDF
• Export to SVG

JDiagram Diagram Elements

• 87 predefined node shapes
• Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns
• Table cells can span several columns and rows
• Container nodes
• Ability to define custom shapes and shape libraries
• Rotation of shapes at arbitrary angles
• Sections of table rows can be expanded or collapsed
• Control hosts allow using Java controls as diagram nodes
• Links can comprise multiple segments
• Link segments can be straight lines or curves
• Support for custom node and link types
• TreeView nodes

JDiagram Behavior

• Tables can be scrolled
• In-place text editing
• Ability to set selection handles behaviour
• Lock diagram elements
• Expand / collapse object hierarchies
• Read-only mode supported
• Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to linked nodes

JDiagram Automatic Layout

• Layered graph layout
• Simulated Annealing graph layout
• Spring-Embedder graph layout
• Radial tree layout
• Directional tree layout
• Grid layout
• Automatic link routing
• Layered graph layout
• Circular graph layout
• Orthogonal graph layout
• Flowchart graph layout

JDiagram Appearance

• Various text alignment styles
• Text can be laid-out in polygonal areas
• Styled HTML-like text formatting
• Different styles for visual indication of a selected object
• Z-order
• Nodes can display images and text
• Customizable fonts and colors
• Rich choice of pen and brush styles
• Ability to define custom node shapes
• User-assigned mouse cursors
• Custom painting of nodes
• Shadows
• Arcs over link intersection points
• Transparent nodes
• Invisible nodes

JDiagram Link Diagram Items

• Nodes to nodes
• Table rows to table rows
• Table rows to nodes
• Unconnected links

JDiagram Hierarchical Grouping

• Attaching nodes to other nodes
• Attaching nodes to link control points
• Attaching nodes to link segments

JDiagram Auxiliary Controls

• Overview control
• ShapeListBox control
• Ruler control