The Designer is used with sample data that
contains only enough information to specify the drawing style.
The class IlvDiagrammerApplication is a ready-to-use
application to display or edit diagrams in diagram components
(instances of IlvDiagrammer.).
To create an instance of an application, the CLASSPATH environment
variable must contain the JViews
Diagrammer JAR files, as well as the palette JAR files that
contain the symbols used in the projects.
To create an IlvDiagrammerApplication
instance:
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Launch the application from the command line, passing it the style sheet created in the Designer as the
styleargument, as in the following example.java ilog.views.diagrammer.application.IlvDiagrammerApplication -style example.css
You can pass further command-line arguments to control which components are visible, to allow editing of the diagram, and so on. See the reference documentation for IlvDiagrammerApplication for a list of the possible command-line arguments.
To modify the data source of the
application in order to display your own data:
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Retrieve the current diagrammer,
IlvDiagrammerApplication.getCurrentDiagrammer()
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Modify its data source as explained in the section 'Specifying a different data source' of Next steps after the Designer.