GoDiagram 2.5 beta

GoDiagram (6 and previous)
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We are pleased to announce the public availability of the next beta release of GoDiagram version 2.5.
[EDIT: beta kit locations are now obsolete]
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Taken from the release notes for GoDiagram Win:</O:P><O:P>
Summary of Significant New Features since 2.4

  • added GoDocument.RoutingTime property, with GoRoutingTime enum, to control when links are routed, including when nodes are dragged onto a link or when a link is dragged onto a node
  • added IGoRoutable interface, implemented by GoLink and GoLabeledLink; the IGoRoutable.CalculateRoute method is implemented by GoLink to call GoLink.CalculateStroke
  • added ToolTipText property on GoView, GoLink, and GoLabeledLink
  • ability for user to resize GoOverview.OverviewRect to rescale the Observed GoView
  • refactored GoSubGraph by splitting into a new base class, GoSubGraphBase, that can be used to implement your own subgraphs
  • added Flowgrammer, Fishbone, UpdateDemo, DataSetDemo, InteractiveForce samples
  • added DecoratedTextNode, InfoNode8, LimitingSubGraph, XmlSubGraphTextNode example classes in Demo1
  • faster automatic layouts, using type-specific IGoLayoutNetwork, IGoLayoutNetworkNode, IGoLayoutNetworkLink classes for each kind of GoLayout
  • added GoLayoutTree
For GoDiagram Web, there is also better support for AJAX-style functionality:
  • added GoPrintView Control, renders as multiple large images for multi-page printing by browser
  • added GoViewDataRenderer class, to permit customization of the client-side data that accompanies each image
  • extended functionality in GoWeb.js, the standard JavaScript functions running on the client, for doing more on the client without postbacks, such as hiding/showing DHTML, reloading other views, handling errors, invoking server-side event handlers
  • implemented GoContextMenu and MenuItem for simple client-side context menus, a source-compatible subset of WinForms functionality, defined using styles, with the default definitions contained in the GoWeb.css file
  • added GoWebImageHandler, an IHttpHandler to generate images more efficiently than GoWebImage.aspx
  • improved the sample web applications to make most views "NoPost"
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I forgot to mention that the GoDiagram Web samples are still under development. The C# samples are mostly there except for DataSetDemo and Flowgrammer. We’re still working on the VB samples.

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OK, there are new kits on our web site.
The biggest changes have been improvements to the VB versions of the samples, and to our GoDiagram Web samples.
One new feature: support for customizing the link points for links connected to a GoBoxPort when GoBoxPort.LinkPointsSpread is true.
There were some minor API changes in IGoPartInfoRenderer and GoViewDataRenderer, in GoDiagram Web.

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And yet again, there is a newer beta kit available.
An interesting new feature is improved routing of orthogonal links at a GoGeneralNode or GoBoxPort (such as used by GoBoxNode).
Also: Some more improvements to the samples. Some minor improvements to all three autolayout classes, that automatically set GoPort.FromSpot and GoPort.ToSpot if the node only has a single port. Added GoView.DragRoutesRealtime to permit delaying routing until a drag is finished, while still allowing GoView.DragsRealtime to be true.

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FYI: Your download link on the web site for GoWeb 2.5 2.0 incorectly points to 1.1.

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Ooops. You’re right. Thanks for pointing it out. The correct names are provided in this forum topic, as I wrote above.
However, those kits are going away soon, to be replaced with the 2.5 release kits.