Class LayoutManager

Represents a class which manages the node and connector arrangement.

Inheritance

System.Object

LayoutManager

Namespace: Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.Diagram.Layout

Assembly: Syncfusion.SfDiagram.WPF.dll

Syntax

public class LayoutManager : Object

Examples

Below code shows how to create DirectedTreeLayout using LayoutManager

Model.cs
MainWindow.xaml

public class Employee
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string EmpId { get; set; }
    public string ParentId { get; set; }
    public string Designation { get; set; }
}

    public class Employees : ObservableCollection<Employee>
{
}

<!-- Initializes the employee collection-->
<local:Employees x:Key="employees">
    <local:Employee Name = "Steve" EmpId="1" ParentId="" Designation="CEO"/>
    <local:Employee Name = "Kevin" EmpId="2" ParentId="1" Designation="Manager"/>
    <local:Employee Name = "John" EmpId="3" ParentId="1" Designation="Manager"/>
    <local:Employee Name = "Raj" EmpId="4" ParentId="2" Designation="Team Lead"/>
    <local:Employee Name = "Will" EmpId="5" ParentId="2" Designation="S/w Developer"/>
    <local:Employee Name = "Sarah" EmpId="6" ParentId="3" Designation="TeamLead"/>
    <local:Employee Name = "Mike" EmpId="7" ParentId="3" Designation="Testing Engineer"/>
</local:Employees>    
<!--Initializes the DataSourceSettings -->
<Syncfusion:DataSourceSettings x:Key="dataSourceSettings" Id="EmpId"                               
 ParentId="ParentId" DataSource="{StaticResource employees}" />     
<!--Initialize the Layout-->
<Syncfusion:DirectedTreeLayout x:Name="DirectedTreeLayout"                               
                               x:Key="treeLayout"                                
                               HorizontalSpacing="30" 
                               VerticalSpacing="50" 
                               Orientation="TopToBottom" 
                               Type="Hierarchical" 
                               SpaceBetweenSubTrees="20" />
<!--Initialize the Layout Manager-->
<Syncfusion:LayoutManager x:Key="layoutManager" 
                     Layout="{StaticResource treeLayout}"/> 
<!--Initializes the SfDiagram --> 
<Syncfusion:SfDiagram x:Name="diagram" Grid.Column="0" 
                     LayoutManager="{StaticResource layoutManager}" 
                    DataSourceSettings="{StaticResource dataSourceSettings}">   
</Syncfusion:SfDiagram>

Constructors

LayoutManager()

Declaration

public LayoutManager()

Properties

Layout

Gets or sets the type of layout either directed tree or radial tree.

Declaration

public LayoutBase Layout { get; set; }

Property Value

Type
LayoutBase

RefreshFrequency

Gets or sets the value when to update the current layout.

Declaration

public RefreshFrequency RefreshFrequency { get; set; }

Property Value

Type
RefreshFrequency

Methods

OnLayoutChanged(LayoutBase, LayoutBase)

Method to set the graph value when layoutbase value gets changed.

Declaration

protected virtual void OnLayoutChanged(LayoutBase oldValue, LayoutBase newValue)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
LayoutBase	oldValue
LayoutBase	newValue