sporritt
commented
11 years ago yes so as i probably said in that discussion, the reason this occurs is that overlays and connectors are independent. but it's definitely a problem. i quite like the idea of an overlay at location 0 or 1 ignoring the connector's gap, although it still leaves a little manual work for the user to do. In the ideal world the connector would figure out where it needed to stop in order to not mess with the arrow overlay. But since overlays can be of any form, in theory any code that attempted to do this calculation would have to take the shape of the overlay into account, which sounds like a lot of maths and probably not awesome for performance.
how about i make overlays ignore the gap if their location is 1 or 0, and then add an ignoreGap property to overlays, whose default value is true? would that work for you? it seems to me this would probably mean that the most common case was also the one that required the least configuration, which is kind of what a good API should offer, really...
adding a gap property to Bezier is something I plan to do but haven't got around to it yet.
pandalion
4leem
promiseMIMI
garmin21
I want to make a bezier connector with an arrow on the end, with the point of the arrow touching the target window and a relatively thick line. This is a fairly common thing in box-and-arrow figures.
Currently, the connector line goes all the way to the edge of the window it's connected to, which means that it's visible underneath the tip of the arrow, where it's narrower than the line. What should happen instead, is that the connector's line stops somewhere underneath the thick section of the arrow, giving it a sharp point.
The flowchart connector type has a "gap" option which almost (but doesn't quite) solve this problem. (It would if the overlay ignored the gap, but it doesn't). Currently there's no similar option for bezier. So one fix would be to add a similar option that only affects the paint style, like "drawGap", to both connector types. A solution that's slightly more confusing, but which would save people from having to override those defaults, would be to make it a property of the overlay: when location is 0 or 1, it adds a gap to that side.
Discussions of this issue on the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/jsplumb/PiEyVbqUwRc https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/jsplumb/gpPI2plnZKw