Positioning and connections

[sholtomaud]

I've produced an IoT diagram from one of the AWS IoT Blog and I think I need a syntax to tell cdk-dia where to position things. Incomming to the left, outgoing to the right.

Is this possible or something that could be added as a feature?

[pistazie]

Hi @sholtomaud,

It's not currently possible :(

• Workaround: latest versions added an additional renderer (Cytoscape). with this renderer you get a dynamic HTML so you can manually move the icons.
• If one wants to implement this they should look into the .dot file generated aside the .png. this is a Graphviz file and maybe there are layout instructions.
  • Infrastructure exists to mark a construct with some property. that property could then be taken into account when producing the .dot file.

[sholtomaud]

Hmmmm.

But it kind of is possible, I mean we do it in our heads and have this pseudo standard syntax of putting inputs on the left of a diagram and outputs to the right.

Why can't we weight the different elements of the diagram as such?