GetPortAt

[Truman Lackey]

I have used GetPortAt before and it worked, but now I have either forgotten how I used it or for some unkown reason it has just stopped working! A sample application is attached. Does this function work for ports that belong to a symbol? Thanks Truman WindowsApplication3_5452.zip

[Administrator]

Hi Truman,

A Port is an object anchored to a symbol that provides a location at which connections to other symbols can be made.

1) Here is a code snippet that demonstrates how you can get the location of the ports of the selected instance of MySymbol:

private void PortLocation_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string portlocation = string.Empty;

if (this.diagram1.SelectionList.Count == 1)
{
if(this.diagram1.SelectionList.First.GetType() == typeof(MySymbol))
{
MySymbol mysym = (MySymbol)this.diagram1.SelectionList.First;
foreach( Port port in mysym.Ports )
{
portlocation+= port.Name + ":" + port.Location.ToString() + "\n\r";
}
}
}
this.label1.Text = portlocation;
}

2. 2) Here is a code snippet that updates the text of the label based on whether the user clicked on a port or did not (using the View''s GetPortAt() method:
private void diagram1_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
{
Port port = this.diagram1.View.GetPortAt(new Point(e.X,e.Y),0);
if(port!=null)
{
if(port.GetType()==typeof(Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Diagram.CirclePort))
this.label1.Text = ("You clicked on port:" + port.Name);
}
else
this.label1.Text ="You did not click on a port";
}

3. And finally here is the custom Symbol class(MySymbol):
public class MySymbol : Symbol
{
private Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Diagram.Rectangle outerRect = null;
private Ellipse innerEllipse = null;
private CirclePort leftport;
private CirclePort rightport;

public MySymbol()
{
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Add child nodes to the symbol programmatically
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Add an outer rectangle

this.outerRect = new Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Diagram.Rectangle(0, 0, 120, 80);
this.outerRect.Name = "Rectangle";
this.outerRect.FillStyle.Type = Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Diagram.FillStyle.FillType.LinearGradient;
this.outerRect.FillStyle.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Gold;
this.outerRect.FillStyle.GradientStartColor = System.Drawing.Color.Gray;
this.outerRect.ShadowStyle.Visible = true;

this.outerRect.LineStyle.LineWidth = 1;
this.AppendChild(outerRect);

// Add an inner ellipse
this.innerEllipse = new Ellipse(10, 10, 100, 60);
this.innerEllipse.Name = "Ellipse";
this.innerEllipse.LineStyle.LineWidth = 1;
this.innerEllipse.ShadowStyle.Visible = false;
this.AppendChild(innerEllipse);

//Port locations

leftport = new CirclePort(new PointF(0, this.Height / 2));
leftport.Name = "LeftPort";
rightport = new CirclePort(new PointF(this.Width, this.Height / 2));
rightport.Name = "RightPort";
//Append CirlePorts to MySymbol
AppendChild(leftport);
AppendChild(rightport);
//Make CenterPort visible
this.CenterPort.Visible = true;

//Add Label
Label lbl = this.AddLabel("My Symbol", BoxPosition.Center);
lbl.BackgroundStyle.Color = Color.Transparent;
}
}

Regards
Arun

[Administrator]

Thanks for the explanation. I was flawed in thinking that I could just add a port to a diagram and then connect to it. The reason that I asked this is I was copying symbols from one diagram to another and the ports of the copied symbols were not linkable. It seems that when I cloned the original symbol that the collection of ports for the new symbol were getting their parents set to nothing. To fix this I had to go through the collection and set each port''s parent to the newly created symbol.

Truman