Package ilog.views.customizer.styling

Contains the base class of component CSS adapters, and the rule customizer logic interface.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
IlvRuleCustomizerLogic	This interface represents a logical customizer that can customize one CSS rule, or a logical group of CSS rules that represent one unit.

Class Summary

Class	Description
IlvComponentCSSAdapter	This class is the base class of all component CSS adapters.

Package ilog.views.customizer.styling Description

Contains the base class of component CSS adapters, and the rule customizer logic interface. Usually, you allocate a subclass of IlvComponentCSSAdapter, for instance a IlvChartCSSAdapter. From the adapter, you can query the rule customizer logics (IlvRuleCustomizerLogic) of the IlvChart in order to use them in your application.

An example:

IlvChart chart = ...
IlvChartCSSAdapter adapter = new IlvChartCSSAdapter(chart);
IlvChartCSSCustomizerPanel chartCSSCustomizerPanel = new IlvChartCSSCustomizerPanel(adapter);

try {
  // retrieve the rule customizer logic that matches the "chartArea" rule and
  // initialize the customizer logic with that rule
  IlvRuleCustomizerLogic customizerLogic = adapter.getRuleCustomizerLogic("chartArea", true);

  // pass this customizer logic as target to the chart CSS customizer
  if (customizerLogic != null) {
    chartCSSCustomizer.setRuleCustomizerLogic(customizerLogic);
  }
} catch (IlvCustomizerException ex1) {
  ...
} catch (IlvStylingException ex2) {
  ...
}

However, usually, you will work with the internally created CSS adapter of the chart CSS customizer. The code above can be shorter written by

IlvChart chart = ...
IlvChartCSSCustomizerPanel chartCSSCustomizerPanel = new IlvChartCSSCustomizerPanel(chart);
try {
  chartCSSCustomizer.setRule("chartArea");
} catch (IlvCustomizerException ex1) {
  ...
} catch (IlvStylingException ex2) {
  ...
}

With the adapter, you can also examine the rules that currently exist in the component:

IlvChart chart = ...
IlvChartCSSAdapter adapter = new IlvChartCSSAdapter(chart);

// retrieve the rules that are currently stored in the chart
IlvCSSRule[] rules = adapter.getRules(false);

// do something with these rules, for instance, print them to System.out
for (int i = 0; i << rules.length; i++) {
  rules[i].printCSS(new java.io.PrintWriter(System.out, true));
}