Hi,

It's available, to a certain extent. There are undocumented SaveToStream and LoadFromStream methods that save the currently selected flowchart items, and respectively load items into the flowchart. The control uses these methods internally for the implementation of clipboard and OLE drag-and-drop features. Now in order to implement what you need, you would have to load the file or string into a hidden FlowChart instance, select all items, and call hidden.SaveToStream, then call LoadFromStream on the main flowchart. This would require that your programming language has some support for creating IStreams; for a VB6 example, check this link:
http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/83111-Writing-Large-XML-files-in-VB6-ISt...

If you can't create a stream, you might use CopyToClipboard and PasteFromClipboard to transfer the items between the two flowcharts, but this is rude because it would destroy the user's clipboard content 8)

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi Hatem,

If you are using VB6, you could implement clipboard backup via the GetText/SetText ad GetData/SetData methods of the Clipboard object. You can see an example here

I hope that helps,
Stoyan