I have a GoView with about 1000 GoObjects on it, more or less evenly distributed within a circle centered in the view, but with significant overlapping.
I am writing a declutter algorithm to allow the user to hover over a congested spot, "explode" those objects under the mouse, and then be able to hover on one of the exploded objects to get a tooltip.
I am using the ForceDirectedLayout to do this.
Basically, when the mouse hovers over the view, I check to see how many objects are within a small square around the mouse (PickObjectsInRectangle). If more than one, then I move the found objects into a new layer, and use ForceDirectedLayout to rearrange them and spread them out nicely.
I have "built a fence" around the display area with a max charge of 2500. I have spent several days playing with the Electrical Charge/Field methods and have come up with a set that does a reasonably good job - except for one problem.
When there are a number of nodes involved, one or more of the objects gets shot out of the lower right of the view and given X and/or Y coordinates of 50,000+ and the view's underlying document is expanded to fit the new coords. The view's DisplayRectangle is NOT altered so it looks fine except for the blown-out objects.
I have found that if I detect this situation by looping through the objects after the layout and looking for coordinates out of range, and then manually moving each out-of-range node back to the center of the chart, and then redo the forcedirected layout, then it works fine.
I have seen in another thread that you recommended doing a TreeLayout first and then a forceDirected layout.
Is that a good idea here?
Or is there something that I can set that will prevent the ForceDirected algorithm from exploding objects out into never-never land?
Setting the Document.AllowResize = false has no effect.
Thanks