Adding further components

You can build more complex applications by adding further JViews Diagrammer beans to the Swing GUI of a basic application.

JViews Diagrammer beans are connected automatically to the currently active IlvDiagrammer instance of the GUI.

To add a bean:

Create the bean.
Add it to your Swing GUI.

No call is necessary to connect the bean to the IlvDiagrammer instance.

For example, you can make the basic application in A basic application that extends JFrame more complete by adding a menu bar to the frame, and an overview to the right of the panel, as shown in the following code example:

setJMenuBar(new IlvDiagrammerMenuBar());
getContentPane().add(new IlvDiagrammerOverview(), BorderLayout.EAST);

Current section

Creating a JViews Diagrammer application