microsoft / microsoft/automatic-graph-layout

Editing Sample, with Edge insertion crashes in a particular case

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Description

In the Editing sample, I modified the position of the "How It Works" button, so that I could see the "Edge insertion" button.

I clicked on that, selected the "ter1B" node as the starting point, dragged the edge down below the bottom of the "white area" and then to the right. When the new edge was almost touching both "prot_H1-Q1b" and "prot_Q2b-H2" I got a NullReferenceException in:

Routing\InteractiveEdgeRouter.cs
static RelaxedPolylinePoint CreateRelaxedPolylinePoints(Polyline polyline)
"polyline was null"

This happens both maximized and non-maximized (on a 4K monitor if it makes a difference).

Rob

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Research direction

Start by running the Editing sample and following the reported Edge insertion steps with the "ter1B" node, dragging the new edge below and then rightward near "prot_H1-Q1b" and "prot_Q2b-H2". Read Routing/InteractiveEdgeRouter.cs, especially CreateRelaxedPolylinePoints(Polyline polyline), and investigate the null polyline reported there. Done means this case no longer raises a NullReferenceException.

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Tech stack
csharp
Domain
computer-graphics
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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