You can use the FlowChart.Add() method to add instances of your custom class, without having to inherit from the FlowChart class too. JDiagram does not yet provide any easy way to let users draw items from a custom class. If you need that, you could use the standard item types, and append the custom data via their setTag() method.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Currently that's not possible. Our .NET component provides CustomNodeType and CustomLinkType properties that let you specify what type of items should be created when the user draws with the mouse. We can port them to Java later this week and upload here an updated .jar for you.

Stoyan

https://mindfusion.org/_temp/customtypes.zip

Now there are two methods you could use to let the user draw custom items.

1. Using the CustomNodeType and CustomLinkType properties, e.g.

fc.setBehavior(BehaviorType.Custom);
fc.setCustomNodeType(MyNode.class);

2. Inherit from the NodeLinkBehavior class, implement its createLink() and createNode() methods, and call

fc.setCustomBehavior(new YourBehaviorClass());

The custom type could look like

public class MyNode extends Box
{
     public MyNode(FlowChart fc)
     {
           super(fc);
     }

     protected void draw(Graphics2D g, boolean shadow)
     {
           super.draw(g, shadow);

           if (!shadow)
           {
                 g.setFont(getFont());
                 g.drawString(test, (float)bounds.getX(), (float)bounds.getY());
           }
     }

     private String test = "test";
}

Note that in the first case the control uses the reflection API to create item instances, and in that case you should always provide a constructor that a single parameter of type FlowChart. In addition, you cannot use nested classes, since the compiler implicitly inserts an additional parameter to nested class constructors.

We haven't ported everything related to custom classes yet. For example you cannot yet derive directly from the base Node class (as possible in Flowchart.NET), but will have to derive from either Box or Table.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi Alex,

We are just releasing a new version with this functionality included. It should be available next week.

Now you can get a newer "mainstream" version of the jar file from our ASP.NET package, where the JDiagram's applet is used to implement the client side functionality:
https://www.mindfusion.eu/NetDiagramTrial.zip

Stoyan