Package ilog.views.symbology.palettes.swing

Contains the Swing version of the graphical user interface (GUI) components for displaying and managing the content of palettes.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
IlvPaletteManagerViewer	Interface implemented by classes which provide GUI to display and manage the content of a palette manager.
IlvPaletteViewer	Interface implemented by classes which are palette viewer; classes creating JComponent to display palette's content.

Class Summary

Class	Description
IlvPaletteDockTreeViewer	This viewer is based on the IlvPaletteTreeViewer but it's look and feel has been changed in order to look like a set of collapsible/expandable panels docked into a container.Each "panel" corresponds to a category and displays symbols of this category.
IlvPaletteDocumentationDialog	This dialog provides a user interface to generate the documentation of a palette or of a set of symbols.
IlvPaletteDragAndDropData	This class is used to transfer data during a drag and drop operation between palette viewers, or object allowed to receive dropped objects.
IlvPaletteManagerCollapsibleTreeViewer	This class provides a GUI used to display and manage the palettes contained in a palette manager.
IlvPaletteManagerComboboxViewer	This class provides a GUI to display and manage the palettes contained into a palette manager.
IlvPaletteManagerTabbedViewer	This class provides a GUI to display and manage the palettes contained into a palette manager.
IlvPaletteObjectTransferable	A class to handle palette objects that can be dragged and dropped from a palette viewer to an other, or to a another kind of of component allowed to received dropped object
IlvPaletteToolbarViewer	This viewer displays the content of the first level of a palette: symbols directly children of root.
IlvPaletteTreeViewer	This viewer creates a JTree that displays the associated palette as a nested hierarchy of nodes (categories, class IlvPaletteCategory) and leaves (symbols, class IlvPaletteSymbol).

Package ilog.views.symbology.palettes.swing Description

Contains the Swing version of the graphical user interface (GUI) components for displaying and managing the content of palettes.
There is two kind of components:

• Palette viewers: display content of a palette
• Palette manager viewers: display the list of palettes and allows user to choose the palette he wants to see. Such component contains at least a palette viewer

Palette Viewers

A palette (see IlvPalette ) is not a graphical component; it is a organized collection of symbols. To have a graphical representation of the content of a palette you can use a viewer of palette.
A palette viewer is a class, linked to a palette and which creates a Swing component that will be able to display the content of a palette. This Swing component can be added into the GUI of your application. All viewers are based on IlvPaletteViewer interface that provides common services like connection to a palette or access to the Swing component.

• Tree viewer (IlvPaletteTreeViewer) displays the content of the palette in a standard Swing JTree. It may be used for displaying large palettes containing complex nested hierarchy of categories and symbols.
• Dock tree viewer (IlvPaletteDockTreeViewer) is a subclass of IlvPaletteTreeViewer but it implements his own tree cell renderer to provide a customized look-and-feel. Its aims is to display only the first level of categories (and their symbols) under the root category of the palette. It doesn't prevent from displaying nested categories but the look will not be nice.
• Toolbar viewer (IlvPaletteToolbarViewer) It is a horizontal panel with scrollable content which displays symbol like item in a toolbar. Note that only first level symbols (direct children of root) are displayed. There is no representation of categories. It can be used fo displaying small palettes.

Palette Manager Viewers

A palette manager is a kind of collection of palettes. A palette manager viewer is a GUI component which allows user to see the list of palette and to choose the one he wants to see. Such viewer could contains a component for the palette list (tabbed panes,combo box..) associated with one or several palette viewer. The API provides two kind of palette manager viewers:

• Tabbed viewer (IlvPaletteManagerTabbedViewer) uses a JTabbedPane and add a tab for each palette of the manager. Palettes are displayed in a instance of IlvPaletteTreeViewer
• Combobox viewer (IlvPaletteManagerComboboViewer) displays the list of palettes in a combobox. Selected paletted will be displayed in a palette tree viewer (IlvPaletteTreeViewer)