Perforce JViews Diagrammer Sample: Web Viewer

Description

This sample explores the Web to discover relationships between pages and displays the resulting diagram using Perforce JViews Diagrammer.

How to Use the Sample

• The window is split into several areas: the main Web Viewer pane showing the diagram, a toolbar, a help pane, and a message console.
• The buttons and controls in the toolbar allow you to perform actions such as opening a URL, navigating to a new center node, zoom in, zoom out, and so on. Full explanations are provided in the help panel.

How to Run the Sample as an Application

This sample can be run as an application. The installation directory contains an executable JAR file, diagrammer-webviewer.jar, that allows you to execute the sample with a double click from a file browser. Note that if you are using Internet Explorer, you can open the installation directory and execute the JAR file from the browser. This technique may not work in other Web browsers.

Alternatively, you can run the sample application from the command line. First check that the Ant utility is properly configured. If not, see the instructions on how to configure Ant for Perforce JViews.

Then, go to the installation directory of the sample and type:

ant run

Topics Covered

• Navigation in infinite diagrams.

Detailed Description

This sample explores the Web to discover relationships between pages and displays the resulting diagram using Perforce JViews Diagrammer.

Installation Directory

The Web Viewer sample is installed here.

Classes Involved

• ilog.views.diagrammer.IlvDiagrammer

  The main class of the diagram component.

Source Files

• webviewer.WebViewer

  The entry point of the sample.