I'm new to draw.io and mgraphx. I know how to create a shape 'programmatically' in draw.io using 'extras/create shape'
I'm wondering if it is possible to drag some basic shape to a diagram, 'merge' them to a single shape, then add some connection point and finally drag the new shape to a library.
I tried grouping the basic shapes but a group is not a shape in itself (it cannot have connections points, and it cannot be connected to other shapes, only the contained shapes can).
Is there a way to create a new shape 'diagrammatically' from basic shapes?
if not, ther are some examples that show how to do the merge of basic shapes using the mxgraph library ?
thankyou
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It has been a few since a started playing with LibGDX.
Now I am tryin g to drag and drop bodies onto slots of the same shape:
E.g. Squares can only be dropped onto squares of the same size or bigger. The same for triangles and circles.
https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/blob/master/tests/gdx-tests/src/com/badlogic/gdx/tests/DragAndDropTest.java
My point of start is the sample above, but I have no idea put everything together.
1 - What would be the easiest way to implement?
2 - Should I used Box2D and Physics Body Editor to create a polygon shape and use it in the drop method to test the dragged shape with the static shape?
3 - How to test the vertices/edges using Vector2 to see if its is bigger or not?
Hope I am on the right direction.
I have SWF vector shape, how to get access to control points of this shape? I want to move some points of this shape with as3 code. SWF created with flash professional CS5, code in flash develop.
Other way to create some Sprites in CS5, and move them with as3, but how to tie them with shape control points?
Employ readGraphicsdata() to read the GraphicsPath of your shape, it contains commands and control/anchor points. You can then parse that vector to find out the point you want to alter, then you change it, then you feed the path back into your shape via graphics.clear(); graphics.drawPath(path);, or use drawGraphicsData() instead to draw the complete set of graphics shape.
The manual on readGraphicsData()
The manual on GraphicsPath class format
We have a flash application that we are planning on converting to javascript. It's a pretty simple map application with an image as the background and a bunch of simple polygon movie clips that represent destinations on the map.
I would like to iterate through each movie clip and extract the shape into an array of x,y points to redraw the polygon using an external javascript function.
Is this possible with actionscript?
If you want to export the shape coordinates at author time, you can do try the JSFL script recommented by #strille or this one or export transparent images (if that's not too limiting for your application).
If you need to export the shapes at runtime, you can use the awesome as3swf library to decompile the swf and export the shapes. Have a look at the ShapeExport wiki as there are couple of handy exporters for js like JSCanvasShapeExporter and the more generic JSONShapeExporter
There are ways you can read the coordinates from an SWF. For instance, I've written a parser in PHP (link). Getting the data doesn't help though, as it turns out. The Flash painting model is different enough from the HTML5 one enough to make transfer exceeding difficult. The main obstacle I discovered is that in Flash, a path can be filled with two fill styles: one for area enclosed by the path, the other for enclosed area considered to be "outside" by the even-odd rule (e.g. the pentagon in the middle of a star). Since the HTML5 canvas let you specify only one fill style, you can't redraw shapes from Flash accurately. I was trying to create a tool that extract shapes as SVG and was getting a lot of gap and holes in the result.
Flash Player 11.6 introduced readGraphicsData() which does exactly what you ask for.
If you need to target an earlier version, then there's no simple way to read shape coordinates from a display object with ActionScript at runtime unfortunately.
If you just want to extract the shape coordinates once someone has written a jsfl script for Flash CS3 which looks like it might be able to help you out.
I'm now working on a painting app. It uses a html canvas. Users can draw shapes on the canvas.
Now a problem comes to me. I want to select the line that I drew on the canvas. When it is selected, I can drag it or delete it. How can I implement it ? Any good ideas?
It might be worth your while to have a look at https://github.com/canvimation/canvimation.github.com this contains the source code for a drawing application using canvas.
You should note that this application is being re-coded but there is not yet a working version using the new code on line. The new source code is in the stage1 branch. Hopefully this new code is easier to understand than the old code and the code referred to below comes from the stage1 branch.
Basically a shape object is created for each shape drawn which includes all data about eh shape, including path data and data giving the rectangular boundary around the shape. When the "boundarydrop" div is clicked then function checkBoundary is called and data about the shift key and cursor position are passed. Then for each shape the first check is to see if the cursor is within the boundary of the shape and if so then a more refined check is carried out. For a closed shape the check is if the cursor in inside the shape and for an open shape if the cursor is close to the path.
There are further complications depending whether the shift key is held down or not and which group the shape belongs to. However the basics are there.
Functions to check out
in index.html
shiftdown
getPosition
in scripts/drawboundary.js
checkBoundary
isIn
isOn
in scripts/shape.js
shape
A working online version of the application is at http://canvimation.github.com/ but this uses the older code in the master branch and there are some bugs but it will give you some idea of what the application does.
Hope this is of some help
There is a library called kinetic.js, with it you can keep track of the shapes you draw on the canvas with the select feature.
Here is the link: https://github.com/ericdrowell/KineticJS
I'm trying to make a shape available for duplicating. Here's an explanation of what I've done, what I'm trying to do, and where I'm stuck:
Drew a shape manually in the Flash IDE (paintbrush).
Created a new movieclip containing the shape; exports as a class.
Instantiate the class (var mc:MovieClip = new shapeMovieClip()).
Add a reference to the shape in mc that I want (var myShape:Shape = mc.getChildAt(0) as Shape;
This works perfect and I now have my shape, but how can I duplicate it without instantiating the parent MovieClip class - is it possible?
I've tried creating a new shape and using the copyFrom() graphics method with no avail, I believe this method just copies draw calls when they're made on the referenced graphics and instead I just have a reference of a shape that's already been drawn.
Right now I'm extending the movieclip as a sprite instead, instantiating, pulling the shape from the parent and saving its reference, and then nulling the sprite. Does anyone know of a better, more lightweight, strategy for duplicating Shapes in this manner?
Basically depends on whether you need to scale your shapes. If you don't, and you can work it out with a fixed sized bitmap representation of the shape, then you will get much better performance drawing your shape to a BitmapData (it's called rasterisation) and instanciating Bitmap objects (as other commenters have pointed out). The code would go something like this:
var base:Sprite = new shapeMovieClip();
var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(base.width, base.height, true, 0);
bmd.draw(base);
var clip1:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd);
var clip2:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd);
If you do need to scale the clips, you will get pixelation using bitmaps. When scaling down Bitmap.smoothing can help to some extent (also when rotating), but if you need to scale up, you will probably have to use some kind of mip-mapping. This is basically creating a few bitmaps of the shape at different scale levels, and then swap them depending on the current scale. Coding this has some complexity (using a helper parent to adjust the scale can help) but it will definitely perform better than using many shape symbols (with or without a sprite parent).
This is very old, but it still comes up high in Google, so I just wanted to share a true shape duplicating method:
var shapeonstage:Shape = shapeMadeInIDE;
var g:Vector.<IGraphicsData> = shapeonstage.graphics.readGraphicsData();
var shapecopy:Shape = new Shape();
shapecopy.graphics.drawGraphicsData(g)
And boom. It works. Had to share this because it would have helped me a looooong time ago and in so many ways.
UPDATE:
There is some clarification I'd like to add why you would want to use this method, for duplicating AND for storing references to Shapes that are within an swf.
If you target a Shape object on the stage or in a movie clip, the Flash Rendering engine does something strange. It will RECYCLE Shape objects to render new graphics thus making your Shape reference point to a COMPLETELY different rendering.
For example:
Create an fla with a movieclip.
Inside the movie clip make 10 frames.
On each frame, draw a different shape
In your code, get a reference to the shape (The Shape on Frame 1)
Draw and verify your shape (draw to a bitmap then put the bmp on stage)
Now let the flash engine play for 5 frames
Draw and verify your shape again
The second time you draw your shape without EVER reassigning your shape reference, will SOMETIMES yield a completely different shape.
Just know, this little quirk can leave you pulling your hair out if you don't know what you're looking for :)