AD
Administrator
Syncfusion Team
September 19, 2005 09:53 PM UTC
Hello Darren,
The SymbolDesigner application does not provide an interactive way to rearrange or extract and reuse specific SymbolModels from a SymbolPalette. However, it should be straightforward to make use of the Essential Diagram API and add these two functionalities to the SymbolDesigner, or in a simple custom utility.
To rearrange the SymbolModels in a SymbolPalette, you will have to first deserialize the symbol palette file(*.edp file) to get the Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Diagram.SymbolPalette object. A SymbolPalette is a special type of Essential Diagram Model that hosts a collection of SymbolModel objects where each SymbolModel represents a Symbol. You can access the collection of SymbolModels in a SymbolPalette through the SymbolPalette.Nodes property, and rearrange the Nodes collection as per your requirement. Once the SymbolPalette''s collection of SymbolModels has been updated, you can re-persist it as a new SymbolPalette file, thus providing you with the ordered collection.
You can use a similar approach to transfer and reuse certain SymbolModels to a second SymbolPalette. YOu will have to first programmatically extract the required SymbolModels from the source SymbolPalette, and then add the SymbolModel instances to a second instance of a SymbolPalette, and save the second SymbolPalette as a symbol palette file.
Referring to the ''FileOpen_Click'' and ''FileSave_Click'' methods in the SymbolDesigner''s MainForm.cs file will give you an idea on how to load and save SymbolPalettes.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you require additional input on this.
Thanks,
Prakash Surendra
Syncfusion Inc.,
