How can I define the containable ElementTypeIds for the root plane?

[rsoika]

I am using the method BaseDiagramConfiguration.getShapeTypeHints() to define the ShapeTypeHint for the different elements I have in my diagram.

For example some elements can contain only specific other elements. I can define this by calling the setContainableElementTypeIds method for a specific element ShapeTypeHint:

    ShapeTypeHint shapeTypeHint = new ShapeTypeHint("Container", true, true, false, true);
    shapeTypeHint.setContainableElementTypeIds(Arrays.asList(new String[] { "StartType","EndType" }););

But what I can't figure out is, how to define which of my elements are containable in the root plane? Currently every element can be placed to the root diagram, but I want to restrict the list to a subset. Is this possible?

Thanks for any hints.

[tortmayr]

Hi @rsoika,
you can also use a ShapeTypeHint to restrict the containable elements of the root plane (i.e. the graph element):

ShapeTypeHint rootTypeHint = new ShapeTypeHint(DefaultTypes.GRAPH, false, false, false, false);
      rootTypeHint.setContainableElementTypeIds(...);

[rsoika]

Thanks a lot! This works fine. I was not aware of the DefaultTypes.GRAPH and tried it first with my own DiagramType.