To add a chart to a dashboard, use the predefined charts
palette. This palette includes bar charts, area charts, pie charts,
polyline charts, scatter charts, bubble charts, and variants of all
these chart types.
The charts palette is available only when you have Rogue Wave® JViews Charts installed. If you do not have JViews Charts installed, chart symbols that you
add to a dashboard are displayed as a text error message.
The chart symbols contained in the charts palette have
names that indicate the type of input data required. For example:
The Polyline3 symbol represents three
series of y values. Each series is given as an array of double values.
The PolylineXY symbol represents a series
of (x,y) points. The x and y values are given as separate arrays of double values.
Each series of y values or of (x,y) points can be accompanied
with a list of labels. This list is specified as an array of String objects.
When you create and deploy an application that uses the
charts palette, the main JViews Charts JAR file, jviews-chart.jar, must
be added to the CLASSPATH. If this is not done, Dashboard Editor
cannot display the chart symbols.
Note
In JViews Diagrammer, the charts palette is available
in Dashboard Editor only. It is not supported in the Symbol Editor
nor in the Designer. You can use the predefined chart symbols in Dashboard Editor,
however, you cannot create new chart symbols.