Instead of, or as well as, using the
high-level JViews Diagrammer API, you can make use of the
lower-level API of JViews Framework.
A lower-level approach is appropriate only if you need to access
low-level features directly or to create objects as subclasses of
existing ones. In general, you should not need to use lower-level JavaBeans™ for GUI components or
interactors; instead you are recommended to use the supplied
JViews Diagrammer JavaBeans, see JViews Diagrammer classes available as beans
in Using the Designer.
This section points you to the documentation
available on each of the following lower-level features:
- Basic graphic objects (rectangles, arcs, ellipses, and so on)
- Managers and their layers, for storing graphic objects and determining the display priority (which objects appear in front of others)
- Composite graphics, for building more complex graphical representations than those available with basic graphic objects
If you would like to read an introduction to JViews Framework in
general or make use of a tutorial, see Introducing Rogue Wave JViews Framework in The Essential JViews Framework and Getting started with JViews Framework in The Essential JViews Framework
respectively.
More advanced lower-level features, such as nested managers and
graphers, and link shapes and crossings, are described in Advanced features of JViews Framework.