MapView is a silverlight user interface control that displays hierachy as mind map.

DLL: comapping.silverlight.controls.mapview.dll

Namespace: comapping.silverlight.controls.mapview

Depends on several DLL's:

haxe.dll
comapping.silverlight.controls.common.dll

MapView is singleton

At the moment MapView is singleton. So there can be only one instance of MapView. This instance is MapView.instance

UIDispatcher

MapView uses UIDispatcher for invoking code in UI thread. So it is needed to initialize UIDispathcer like below

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UIDispatcher.instance = Application.Current.RootVisual.Dispatcher;

Data source

MapView visualize data provided by its data source. MapView's data source has to be subclass of MapViewDataSource. It is required to overload function setMapView. MapView gets MapModel from data source. The better place to put MapModel to MapView is setMapView. It may look like below.

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public override void setMapView(MapView mapView) {
    this.mapView = mapView;
    if (null != model) {
        mapView.controller.model = model;
    }
}

A topic is an hierarchy element

MapView displays data from MapModel. Elementary element of data is Topic. By default Topic controls only its position in hierarchy. So to control and display any content it needs new class derived from Topic. Minimally new class should overload:

MapModel creating

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Topic root = new Topic(null);
Topic firstChild = new Topic(root);
Topic secondChild = new Topic(null);
root.insertChild(secondChild);
model = new MapModel(root);
model.readOnly = true;

Topic's content

Topic's content should be a FrameworkElement. For example, like below.

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<UserControl xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:comapping_silverlight_controls_mapview_view="clr-namespace:comapping.silverlight.controls.mapview.view;assembly=comapping.silverlight.controls.mapview" mc:Ignorable="d" x:Class="comapping.silverlight.xmlViewer.XmlContentView" d:DesignWidth="640" d:DesignHeight="480">

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
        <comapping_silverlight_controls_mapview_view:TopicTextView x:Name="textView" />
    </Grid>
</UserControl>

Connect MapView and data source

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MapView.instance.dataSource = ds;

Sample

On our site there is an example of MapView's using. It is xmlViewer