A basic Dashboard Editor

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The ilog.views.dashboard package is used to create dashboard diagram applications based on Rogue Wave® JViews symbols and composite graphics. Extended from JViews Diagrammer code, the dashboard diagram package uses standard Swing components to make GUI applications.

The following example shows how to program a basic Dashboard Editor application.

A basic dashboard editor application

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;

import java.net.URL;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

import ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardEditBar;

import ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardEditor;

import ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardSymbolPalette;

import ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardDiagram;

import ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardTabbedPane;

import ilog.views.diagrammer.application.IlvDiagrammerOverview;

public class DashEditorExample extends JFrame

{

private IlvDashboardEditor dashEd;

private IlvDashboardEditBar editToolBar;

private IlvDashboardSymbolPalette palettePanel;

private IlvDashboardDiagram dashDiag;

public DashEditorExample(String[] args)

{

// Set up the application frame.

super("Basic Diagrammer Application");

setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

setLocation(100, 100);

setSize(700, 700);

// Create the editor with a single diagram.

dashEd = new IlvDashboardEditor();

dashEd.init(args);

IlvDashboardTabbedPane tabPane = new IlvDashboardTabbedPane(dashEd);

dashEd.setDashboardContainer(tabPane);

// Add the Edit toolbar.

editToolBar = new IlvDashboardEditBar();

// Add the Symbol palette

palettePanel = new IlvDashboardSymbolPalette(dashEd);

// Add the Dashboard components into the JFrame

getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());

getContentPane().add(tabPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);

getContentPane().add(editToolBar, BorderLayout.NORTH);

getContentPane().add(palettePanel, BorderLayout.EAST);

dashEd.loadPalette("ilog/views/palettes/controls/");

dashEd.loadPalette("ilog/views/palettes/shared/");

dashEd.run();

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

DashEditorExample basicEditor = new DashEditorExample(args);

basicEditor.setVisible(true);

}