The Symbol Compiler is a tool that allows you to translate
the CSS symbols created with the Symbol Editor into Java™
classes.
The symbols that you create in the Symbol Editor use a CSS file to
store the information necessary to their graphical representation.
A compiled symbol provides improvements in terms of performance,
as it is created in Java code instead of CSS, and flexibility, as
its features can be extended through the JViews Framework API.
You can run the Symbol Compiler under the Windows®
or UNIX®
operating systems. The
startup conditions are the same in both cases.
To run the Symbol Compiler under Windows:
In the Start menu,
select All Programs>Rogue Wave JViews Diagrammer 8.9>Symbol Compiler.
Rogue Wave® is the default
program group and may be different if you have installed JViews Diagrammer
into a different program group.
—or—
Go to the directory <installdir>/jviews-diagrammer89/bin/symbolcompiler.
You need to have a JDK version 1.5 or higher installed
on your system and to set its base directory to the JAVA_HOME environment
variable.
Double-click run.bat.
To run the Symbol Compiler under UNIX:
Go to the directory <installdir>/jviews-diagrammer89/bin/symbolcompiler.
You need to have a JDK version 1.5 or higher installed
on your system and to set its base directory to the JAVA_HOME environment
variable.
Enter run.sh.
The following figure illustrates the Symbol Compiler
interface.