yFiles FLEX Developer's Guide

Table of Contents

Changes From Previous Edition

Developer's Guide Enhancements

New Features of yFiles FLEX 1.4

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

Look-up Support

Class DefaultGraph

Visual Representation of Graph Elements

Styles

Style Renderers

Port Support

Label Support

Styles-related Features

Arrows

Rendering-related Features

Bridges

View Implementations

Class GraphCanvasComponent

Class CanvasComponent

Class GraphOverviewComponent

User Interaction

Class GraphEditorInputMode

Class MainInputMode

Other Input Modes

Class MoveViewportInputMode

Creating Custom Context Menus

Customizing Input Modes

Customizing User Interaction Behavior

Customizing Edge Creation using Port Candidates

3. Graph Hierarchies

Concepts

Grouping

Folding

Working with Graph Hierarchies

Folding Characteristics

Managing Graph Hierarchies

Grouping Support in DefaultGraph

Class GroupedGraph

Interface INodeHierarchy

Related Classes

Class FoldingManager

Interface IFoldedGraph

Converters and Callbacks

Visual Representation of Graph Elements

View Implementations

Class HierarchyTreeView

User Interaction

Class GraphEditorInputMode

Class NavigationInputMode

4. 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

Reflection Based Serialization

Optimizing GraphML I/O

Transferring Only Structural and Layout Information

Enabling Client-Side Compression

Enabling HTTP Compression

Printing

Using CanvasComponent's Printing Support

Advanced Printing using CanvasPrinter

5. Communicating with the Server

Remote Communication in yFiles FLEX

Remote API

Class RoundtripHandler

Class DownloadHandler

Class UploadHandler

Class ImageExportHandler

6. 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

Handling Fonts

7. 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

Class UploadServlet

Class ExportServlet

Manipulating yFiles FLEX Styles, Labels, and Label Models

Reading and writing custom styles and label models on the server

Reflection Based Serialization

Class StyledLayoutGraph

Class FlexIOTools

Working with Labels on the Server

Label Layout

Adding Labels

Working with Graph Hierarchies on a yFiles Java Server

Grouping

Folding

Tutorial Demo Code

8. 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

Reflection Based Serialization

HTTP Handlers

Class LoadGraphHandler

Class SaveGraphHandler

Class DownloadHandler

Class UploadHandler

Class ExportHandler

9. Architectural Concepts

Look-up Mechanism

Benefits

Look-up Chaining

Customizing Look-up Behavior

Binding Data to Graph Elements

Mapping Data to Graph Elements

User Tags

A. Obfuscation

Why Obfuscation Matters

Name Obfuscation and its Benefits

Glossary

Index