JViews Diagrammer 8.6 Release Notes

This document describes the main changes that have been made to JViews Diagrammer since version 8.5.

New Interfaces and Classes

• ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardEditManager
• ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardLinkManager

Modified Classes

• ilog.views.animation.IlvManagerAnimator
• ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardEditor
• ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardPropertyPanel
• ilog.views.diagrammer.application.IlvDiagrammerOverview
• ilog.views.graphlayout.labellayout.annealing.IlvAnnealingLabelDescriptor
• ilog.views.sdm.renderer.animation.IlvAnimationRenderer

JavaScript API Changes

• IlvDiagrammerMakeObjectInteractorProxy.prototype.setClassName("IlvDiagrammerMakeObjectInteractorProxy"); The class name of this class has been changed to IlvDiagrammerMakeObjectInteractorProxy.

General Changes

• All products in the JViews suite are shipped with a large set of images, and icons, used in the samples and in the provided editing tools. These have all been upgraded to conform to the latest IBM standards.
• A configuration file has been added for CSS functions that are known by default in the CSS engine. The configuration file is in jviews-framework-all.jar and jviews-framework-lib.jar at the location ilog/views/util/css/cssfunctions.properties. Editing this configuration file allows you to make additional CSS functions available in all CSS-based tools, such as the JViews Diagrammer Symbol Editor and the JViews Diagrammer Symbol Compiler.
• The animation renderer now supports acceleration at the beginning and deceleration at the end of animations moving nodes and links.
• The Dashboard Editor API provides more notification methods and hooks to control editing operations. New methods are added to the IlvDashboardEditor class and two new editing hook classes are introduced: IlvDashboardEditManager and IlvDashboardLinkManager.

Library Changes

New Interfaces and Classes

ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardEditManager

Base class used by the IlvDashboardEditor to notify and control editing operations.

ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardLinkManager

Base class that controls link creation.

Modified Classes

ilog.views.animation.IlvManagerAnimator

• Overview of new features:
  • Acceleration at the beginning and deceleration at the end of animations are now supported.
• New methods:
  • getAnimationAccelerationRate(): Returns the acceleration rate.
  • setAnimationAccelerationRate(int): Sets the acceleration rate.

ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardEditor

• Overview of new features:
  • The IlvDashboardEditor provides you with more notification methods and lets you set your own IlvDashboardEditManager and IlvDashboardLinkManager subclasses.
• New methods:
  • createDashboardDiagram(): Creates an instance of IlvDashboardDiagram.
  • dashboardAdded(IlvDashboardDiagram): Invoked when a new dashboard diagram has been added to the Dashboard Editor.
  • dashboardRead(IlvDashboardDiagram): Invoked when a dashboard has read its contents.
  • dashboardRemoved(IlvDashboardDiagram): Invoked when a dashboard diagram is removed from the Dashboard Editor.
  • dashboardWritten(IlvDashboardDiagram): Invoked when a dashbaord has saved its contents.
  • getEditManager(): Returns the edit manager of the Dashboard Editor.
  • setEditManager(IlvDashboardEditManager): Sets the dashboard edit manager.
  • getLinkManager(): Returns the dashboard link manager.
  • setLinkManager(IlvDashboardLinkManager): Sets the link manager.

ilog.views.dashboard.IlvDashboardPropertyPanel

• Overview of new features:
  • The IlvDashboardPropertyPanel adds methods that let you access the table component used to edit symbol parameters or background object properties.
• New methods:
  • getParameterTable(): Returns the table component used to edit the symbol parameters when inspecting symbols.
  • getPropertyTable(): Returns the table component used when editing properties of background graphic objects.

ilog.views.diagrammer.application.IlvDiagrammerOverview

• New fields:
  • OVERVIEW_NAME: The name set to the overview window.

ilog.views.graphlayout.labellayout.annealing.IlvAnnealingLabelDescriptor

• New methods:
  • getActDistFromPath(): Returns the actual distance of the label from the location on the path that is given by the property actPathLocation.
  • setActDistFromPath(float): Sets the actual distance of the label from the location on the path that is given by the property actPathLocation.
  • getActPathLocation(): Returns the actual location on the path for the label.
  • setActPathLocation(double): Sets the actual location on the path for the label.
  • getMaxDistFromPath(): Returns the maximum distance from the location on the path.
  • setMaxDistFromPath(float): Sets the maximum distance from the location on the path.
  • getMaxPathLocation(): Returns the maximum location on the path for the label.
  • setMaxPathLocation(double): Sets the maximum location on the path for the label.
  • isFixed(): Returns whether the label can be moved or not.
  • setFixed(boolean): Sets whether the label can be moved or not.

ilog.views.sdm.renderer.animation.IlvAnimationRenderer

• Overview of new features:
  • Acceleration at the beginning and deceleration at the end of animations are now supported.
• New methods:
  • getAnimationAccelerationRate(): Returns the acceleration rate.
  • setAnimationAccelerationRate(int): Sets the acceleration rate.

Example Changes

• Many of the examples and code fragments are shipped with a set of data files, images, and icons. These have been upgraded to conform to the latest IBM standards.
• The code fragment Expand and collapse graph has been added. It shows how to expand and collapse a graph in the graphic framework without using CSS.

Known Limitations

• Dashboards with a large number of symbols currently have performance problems.