How do I automatically position the joints in a connection?

[midrare]

My graph is a left-to-right flowchart style digraph, and I am trying to get my joints to automatically lay themselves out whenever the nodes are moved. What is the recommended approach?

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Overriding GNodeSkin::layoutConnectors() seems like the way to go, but I've had trouble getting it to work; there seems to be no way to derive the position of a connector relative to the entire graph from either a GConnection object or a GJoint object. What am I doing wrong?

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[eckig]

This sounds more like some sort of automatic layout (with collision detection)?

Somewhere I have a prototype of doing just this with the help of the eclipse layout kernel (https://github.com/eclipse/elk).. but it is not ready for prime time.

[midrare]

I've played around with elk for a while and it seems perfect for my needs. Thanks for the recommendation.