Symbol Designer

[Darren Mombourquette]

Hello, I have a question regarding the symbol designer. In the symbol designer I created a palette of 43 symbols, and then realized after I was done that I couldn’t seem to change the order they were in (which I wanted to be alphabetical). How do I reorder my saved pallete?
Also now that I have created these 43 symbols, I would like to be able to reuse some of them on a different palette. Is there a way to share these symbols across palletes?

Thanks,
Darren Mombourquette

[Administrator]

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.,