Moving a unconnected link along with the node

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1

Consider there is a node and a link which is not connected to any node on the other side. Now if we move the node the link re-routes keeping the open end of the node at the same location.

I want to have a feature like if I move any node which has a unconnected link the whole link should move along with the node without rerouting.

Any suggestions ?

2

You’ll note that if you select such Links, they will be moved along with the Node. So I think you just need to override DraggingTool.ComputeEffectiveCollection to include connected Links that are not connected to other Nodes.

3

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried using it but the location of the link and node are going in random location.
Could you provide some examples regarding the same ?

This is how it happens right now:
This is my node with unlinked connection
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when I tried to select the node and drag the node and the links gets seperated:
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4

How did you override DraggingTool.ComputeEffectiveCollection? Here’s an example override that includes a lot more than what you want, because it includes related Nodes:

    public override Dictionary<Part, DraggingTool.Info> ComputeEffectiveCollection(IEnumerable<Part> parts) {
      if (this.IsShiftKeyDown()) {
        return base.ComputeEffectiveCollection(parts);
      } else {
        var map = new Dictionary<Part, DraggingTool.Info>();
        if (parts == null) return map;
        foreach (var n in parts) {
          GatherConnecteds(map, n);
        }
        return map;
      }
    }

    private void GatherConnecteds(Dictionary<Part, DraggingTool.Info> map, Part part) {
      var node = part as Node;
      if (node == null) return;
      if (map.ContainsKey(node)) return;
      // record the original Node location, for relative positioning and for cancellation
      map[node] = new DraggingTool.Info() { Point = node.Location };
      // now recursively collect all connected Nodes and the Links to them
      foreach (var link in node.LinksConnected) {
        map[link] = new DraggingTool.Info();
        GatherConnecteds(map, link.GetOtherNode(node));
      }
    }
5

Well my implementation was

public override Dictionary<Part, Info> ComputeEffectiveCollection(IEnumerable parts)
{
var connectedLinks = (parts.ToList().First() as Node).LinksConnected;
var openConnections = connectedLinks.Where(l => l.FromNode == null || l.ToNode == null).First();
Dictionary<Part,Info> toBeSelectedParts = new Dictionary<Part, Info>();
toBeSelectedParts.Add(parts.ToList().First(), new Info());
toBeSelectedParts.Add(openConnections as Part, new Info());
return toBeSelectedParts;
}

6

Note that for the Nodes that you want to include in the effective collection, which should include all selected Nodes, that the corresponding Dragging.Info needs to have their original Location.

7

Yeah. Noted that. The following code worked for me:

public override Dictionary<Part, Info> ComputeEffectiveCollection(IEnumerable parts)
{
var map = new Dictionary<Part, Info>();

        if (parts.OfType<Link>().Any())
        {
            return base.ComputeEffectiveCollection(parts);
        }
        if (parts == null)
        {
            return map;
        }

        foreach (var part in parts.OfType<Node>())
        {
            Node node = part as Node;
            map[node] = new Info() { Point = node.Location };
            var connectedLinks = node.LinksConnected;
            if (connectedLinks.Any())
            {
                connectedLinks.Where(link => link.FromNode == null || link.ToNode == null).ToList().ForEach(openLink => map[openLink] = new Info());
            }
        }
        return map;
    }