Rogue Wave JViews Charts features a point-and-click editor called Designer for defining most of visual and behavioral aspects of your chart display. In addition, it allows developers to connect the chart being constructed to a variety of data sources and then test the display and interaction of the display. Designer helps developers ensure that their chart display reacts as expected under a variety of conditions and with a variety of data sets.

The output of Designer is a Charts Designer project file (identified by its .icpr extension) that defines the static configuration and dynamic behavior of the chart display. Static configuration includes type of chart (line, bar, pie, and so on), axes and labeling options, and many more. Dynamic behavior includes interactors (behaviors such as selection) and visual changes that occur upon some data changes (for example, how a chart value is drawn when it exceeds a particular threshold). The Charts Designer project file will be loaded by the Java application, where elements of it can be accessed by the SDK, and enhanced and extended.