How to capture drag events for RadDiagramConnection objects?

[Eric]

Hi There,

Can anyone provide an example of how to catch connection 'drag & drop' events in a RadDiagram? I've bound all the connection related DnD events to a property handler but it get a hits very sporadically when moving the connections from one shape to another. The code is shown below. No doubt I'm doing something silly but I can't find any example anywhere in the docs. Any suggestions on how to get this to work are greatly appreciated.

 

Regards,

Eric G.

 

       // create some event handlers

       private void EdgeDragEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("drag enter");
        }

        .....

       // create some connections and wire them to the handlers

     var connection = new RadDiagramConnection() { Source = edgePair.Key, Target = targetInfo.node, ... TargetCapType=CapType.Arrow2Filled};
                connection.DragEnter += EdgeDragEnter;
                connection.DragLeave += EdgeDragEnter;
                connection.Drop += EdgeDragEnter;
                connection.BeginEdit += EdgeDragEnter;
                connection.EndEdit += EdgeDragEnter;
                connection.GotFocus += EdgeDragEnter;
                connection.ManipulationCompleted += EdgeDragEnter;

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Eric,

The diagram elements doesn't work with real drag/drop operations. Instead they use the mouse events. Keep in mind that when trying to customize drop-related functionality.

Can you tell me what exactly do you need to achieve? What drag and drop logic should be implemented?

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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[Eric]

Hi Martin,

I need a callback that is invoked when an edge is moved from node A to node B. Per your suggestion I've added connection.MouseUp/Down events thinking that this would fire the mouse up event when the mouse is released with the edge arrow on B but this is not the case. Any suggestions?

-Eric

        private void Connection_MouseUp(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("mouse down");
        }

        private void Connection_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("mouse up");
        }

       ....

       var connection = new RadDiagramConnection(...);

        connection.MouseDown += Connection_MouseDown;
        connection.MouseUp += Connection_MouseUp;

 

[Eric]

Poking around some more I found that the ManipulationStarted event does reliably fire on the start of a connection move operation but my ManipulationCompleted event is never called (nor are any of the other Manipulation...() events.

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Eric,

The ManipulationStart/Completed events are part of the WPF's touch support and doesn't work with the diagram specific logic (like dragging connections). Those are inherited from the UIElement class. 

To achieve your requirement, you can use the ConnectionManipulationStarted and ConnectionManipulationCompleted events of RadDiagram.

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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