| Rotatable Connection Label [message #226944] |
Mon, 27 November 2006 09:21 |
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Originally posted by: remo.ferrari.gmail.com
Hi
I need to implement a connection text label that is painted
parallel to the connection it is assigned to. So if i have a
connection with a 45° angle i also need to paint the text label
with a 45° angle.
So far i have been experimenting with the PolylineConnection and
the MidPointLocator which helps me with the placement of the text
label that i add as a child to the connection.
To rotate the text label i implemented a class RotatableLabel
(does not extend Label) which in its paintFigure method calls rotate()
on the graphics object, before drawing the labels text.
Here two code snipplets to clarify:
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/* in constructor of TestFigure.java */
....
PolylineConnection p = new PolylineConnection();
// define connection
p.setStart(new Point(50, 50));
p.setEnd(new Point(150, 50));
// make label rotated by 45°
RotatableLabel label = new RotatableLabel("12345 987", 45);
// determine connections mid point
MidpointLocator locator = new MidpointLocator(p, 0);
// add label to connection
p.add(label, locator);
add(p);
....
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/* in paintFigure of RotatableLabel.java */
....
// define rotation for drawing operations
graphics.rotate(rotation);
// paint rotated text (offsetX, offsetY depends on rotation angle,
algorithm unclear)
graphics.drawText(text, new Point(offsetX, offsetY));
....
I am not at all satisfied with this approach, as for one, the
positioning of the text label depending on the current angle is very
tricky and the text i'm drawing on the rotated graphics object looks
terrible (enabling antialias through the method setTextAntialias changes
nothing).
Has anyone of you encountered similar problems? Would you take a
different approach?
Any feedback is welcome.
Remo Ferrari 8-)
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