RadDiagram Round Container & Overlap

[Joel Palmer]

I want to start from your example labeled "Diagram Toolbox".  This examples has a lot of circles.  However, your containers are square.  Can you give me an example of a container that is styled as round?

Also, I need to model circles that over-lap.  Do you have a way to show the part that is overlapping as a different color and I could put some text explaining the over-lap?  For example, if I have Family1 and Family2 and I need to model how Family3 has people from both groups because of a marriage between F1 and F2, I would have 3 circles that have overlap.

[Joel Palmer]

Ignore the 2nd paragraph.  From my learning, it seems that request is out of bounds. 

However, I would still like to have an example on how to make a container a circle instead of its default square.

[Joel Palmer]

Also, is there a way I can perform a Layout command against a Container?  There are a lot of examples on how to do this against a RadDiagram, but what if I have a list of items in a Container that needs to be formatted?

TreeLayoutSettings settings = new TreeLayoutSettings()
{
    TreeLayoutType = TreeLayoutType.RadialTree,
    VerticalDistance = 20,
};
var layout = new TreeLayout();

foreach (var item in this.diagram.Items)
{
    if (item is IContainerShape)
    {
        settings.Roots.Add(item as IContainerShape);
    }
}

layout.Layout(this.diagram, settings);
this.diagram.AutoFit();

var main = diagram.CreateContainerShape("Main");
var group1 = diagram.CreateContainerShape("Group1");
var group2 = diagram.CreateContainerShape("Group 2");
group2.AddItems(lst.ToArray());
main.AddItems(new[] { group1, group2 });

ontrol? 

[Pavel R. Pavlov]

Hi,

Unfortunately, there is not an easy way to change the shape of the RadDiagramContainerShape objects. They are designed to be rectangular and we do not suggest changing such core functionality.

Furthermore, the RadDiagram framework exposes the Layout feature. This means that the RadDiagram is capable of arranging its items. The RadDiagramContainerShapes are actually shapes which can also be arranged by the diagramming framework. Unfortunately, they do not expose the same Layout functionality. This is why there is no way to trigger that feature in the context of the RadDiagramContainerShape.

Regards,
Pavel R. Pavlov
Telerik

 

 

 

[Joel Palmer]

I found that performing a layout first then adding the shapes to the container subsequently allows me to show them in a layout fashion.  Thanks for your help.