Using the Palettes pane

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The class IlvDashboardSymbolPalette is a Swing JPanel that displays the symbols contained in the open palettes. Use the Palettes pane to:

View symbols in open palettes.
Drag symbols from the Palettes pane into a dashboard diagram.

An IlvDashboardSymbolPalette

The following code example shows how to add an IlvDashboardSymbolPalette to a dashboard application.

Adding a symbol palette to a dashboard application

url = IlvDiagrammerPropertySheet.class.getResource("images/psheet.gif");
icon = new ImageIcon(url);

IlvDashboardSymbolPalette palettePanel = new IlvDashboardSymbolPalette(this);
IlvDashboardExpandablePane paletteFrame = 
      new IlvDashboardExpandablePane("Palette", icon, palettePanel);
try {
      loadPalette(new URL("file:data/palettes/palette-example.jar"));
      loadPalette(new URL("file:data/palettes/link.jar"));
      loadPalette(new URL("file:data/palettes/gauge.jar"));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    
IlvDashboardExpandableSplitPane split = new IlvDashboardExpandableSplitPane(overviewFrame, paletteFrame);
split.setResizeWeight(0.75);
split.setDividerLocation(150);
return split;

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