yFiles FLEX Developer's Guide

Table of Contents

Changes From Previous Edition

Developer's Guide Enhancements

New Features of yFiles FLEX 1.2

General

1. Introducing yFiles FLEX

yFiles FLEX Library

Where to Find Things in yFiles FLEX

2. Displaying and Editing Graphs

Model-View-Controller Paradigm

Graph Structure

Class DefaultGraph

Visual Representation of Graph Elements

Styles

Style Renderers

Label Support

Styles-related Features

Arrows

View Implementations

Class GraphCanvasComponent

Class CanvasComponent

Class GraphOverviewComponent

User Interaction

Class GraphEditorInputMode

Class MainInputMode

Class MoveViewportInputMode

Customizing Input Modes

3. Input and Output

GraphML Extensions of yFiles Products

Working with the GraphML File Format

GraphML Compatibility Modes

GraphML Default Extension Mechanism

Customizing the GraphML Extension Mechanism

Customizing the yFiles FLEX I/O Support

IXmlWriter

Using Simple Data Types

Support for Structured Data

Support for Custom Serializers and Deserializers

Optimizing GraphML I/O

Transferring Only Structural and Layout Information

Enabling Client-Side Compression

Enabling HTTP Compression

Printing

4. Communicating with the Server

Remote Communication in yFiles FLEX

Remote API

Class RoundtripHandler

Class DownloadHandler

Using DefaultServerAction and ResultHandler

5. Using yFiles FLEX with a yFiles Server

Communicating with yFiles Java on the Server

Using the yFiles FLEX Native GraphML Extension with a yFiles for Java Server

Using the yFiles for Java GraphML Extension with yFiles FLEX

Communicating with yFiles.NET on the Server

6. yFiles FLEX Java Server API

yFiles FLEX Java Server API Packages

Roundtrip Support Classes

Class AbstractGraphRoundtripSupport

Class GraphRoundtripSupport

Class Graph2DRoundtripSupport

Servlets

Class LoadGraphServlet

Class SaveGraphServlet

Class DownloadServlet

Manipulating yFiles FLEX GraphML Style Data

Shared Data

Label Layout

Integrated Labeling

Manipulating Labels on the Server

7. yFiles FLEX .NET Server API

yFiles FLEX .NET Server API Namespaces

Class GraphRoundtripSupport

Reading a Graph with GraphRoundtripSupport

Sending a Graph with GraphRoundtripSupport

Handling IDs with GraphRoundtripSupport

Adding Custom Attributes

Customizing (De)Serialization

Sending Error Messages

XML Styles

HTTP Handlers

Class LoadGraphHandler

Class SaveGraphHandler

Class DownloadHandler

8. Architectural Concepts

Look-up Mechanism

Benefits

Look-up Chaining

Customizing Look-up Behavior

Binding Data to Graph Elements

Glossary

Index