This is exactly like the Logic Circuit sample but also makes use of the PortShiftingTool, which is defined in PortShiftingTool.js

When the user wants to shift the position of a port on a node, the user can hold down the Shift key during a mouse-down on a port element. Dragging then will move the port within the node.

Note how the relative position of the port within the node is maintained as you resize the node.

If you want to persist the port's spot, you should add a TwoWay Binding of the GraphObject.alignment property with a property that you define on the node data for each port.

This sample does not constrain the position of the port within the node, but you could adapt the PortShiftingTool.updateAlignment method to do so. For example if you wanted, you could keep a port stuck along one edge of the node.


GoJS Features in this sample

Ports in Nodes

Specific elements of a Node at which links may connect are called ports. There may be any number of ports in a node. By default there is just one port, the whole node, which results in the effect of having the whole node act as the port. Port-like GraphObjects can only be in Nodes or Groups, not in Links or Adornments or simple Parts.

More information can be found in the GoJS Intro.

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ToolTips

A tooltip is an Adornment that is shown when the mouse hovers over an object that has its GraphObject.toolTip set. The tooltip part is bound to the same data as the part itself.

It is typical to implement a tooltip as a "ToolTip" Panel holding a TextBlock or a Panel of TextBlocks and other objects. Each "ToolTip" is just an "Auto" Panel Adornment that is shadowed, and where the border is a rectangular Shape with a light gray fill. However you can implement the tooltip as any arbitrarily complicated Adornment.

More information can be found in the GoJS Intro.

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Tools

Tools handle all input events, such as mouse and keyboard interactions, in a Diagram. There are many kinds of predefined Tool classes that implement all of the common operations that users do.

For flexibility and simplicity, all input events are canonicalized as InputEvents and redirected by the diagram to go to the Diagram.currentTool. By default the Diagram.currentTool is an instance of ToolManager held as the Diagram.toolManager. The ToolManager implements support for all mode-less tools. The ToolManager is responsible for finding another tool that is ready to run and then making it the new current tool. This causes the new tool to process all of the input events (mouse, keyboard, and touch) until the tool decides that it is finished, at which time the diagram's current tool reverts back to the Diagram.defaultTool, which is normally the ToolManager, again.

More information can be found in the GoJS Intro.

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Palette

A Palette is a subclass of Diagram that is used to display a number of Parts that can be dragged into the diagram that is being modified by the user. The initialization of a Palette is just like the initialization of any Diagram. Like Diagrams, you can have more than one Palette on the page at the same time.

More information can be found in the GoJS Intro.

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GoJS Extensions

GoJS can be extended in a variety of ways. The most common way to change the standard behavior is to set properties on the GraphObject, Diagram, CommandHandler, Tool, or Layout. But when the desired property does not exist, you might need to override methods of CommandHandler, Tool, Layout, Link, or Node. Methods that you can override are documented in the API reference. Various features of GoJS can be overriden, either by replacing a method on an instance (a feature of JavaScript) or by defining a subclass. You should not modify the prototypes of any of the GoJS classes.

In addition to our samples, GoJS provides an extensions gallery, showcasing the creation of custom tools and layouts. Those classes and samples are written in TypeScript, available at ../extensionsJSM/, as ECMAScript/JavaScript modules -- these use the ../release/go-module.js library. We recommend that you copy the files that you need into your project, so that you can adjust how they refer to the GoJS library that you choose and so that you can include them into your own building and packaging procedures.

More information can be found in the GoJS Intro.

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Grid Patterns

GoJS provides functionality to display a grid of lines drawn at regular intervals. Grid Panels can also force dragged parts to be aligned on grid points, and resize parts to be multiples of the grid cell size.

Grids are implemented using a type of Panel, Panel.Grid. Grid Panels, like most other types of Panels, can be used within Nodes or any other kind of Part. However when they are used as the Diagram.grid, they are effectively infinite in extent.

More information can be found in the GoJS Intro.

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