Visual Library 2.0 - Documentation

Index

• Index
• Abstract
• Installation
• Documentation
• Change Integration
• Examples
• Bugs and Enhancements

Abstract

This is a documentation for the Visual Library 2.0 API. The library is a successor of the Graph Library 1.0. Its provides general-purpose (not graph-oriented only) visualization.

WWW: http://graph.netbeans.org
CVS: :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.netbeans.org:/cvs checkout graph
Issues: NetBeans Issuezilla - graph

Installation

The library become a part of the NetBeans Platform. You can download a build of NetBeans Platform and the library should be there. To setup your project, it is enough to set a dependency on org.netbeans.api.visual module.

If you would like to use the library standalone: Download the latest builds of the library from the Project Files. In the distribution package, there is a dist which contains org-openide-util.jar and org-netbeans-api-visual.jar files.
Put these two jar files to the classpath of your project.

If you want to compile your library yourself, see setup document. The source code of Visual Library API is located at graph/lib directory. For running examples execute ant in graph/examples directory.

Documentation

Since the library become a part of the NetBeans Platform, you can see javadoc and documentation listed at NetBeans API list.

For javadoc, see the Visual Library API Javadoc.
For documentation, see the Visual Library API Documentation.
If links above are broken, you can use this documentation directly from the CVS.

Change Integration

Since the library is a part of a stable release (since NetBeans 6.0), it is considered as stable. Therefore there integration of new features or changes has to follow Change Integration Process.

Bugs and Enhancements

The list of currently known issues is tracked by Issuezilla.

If you find a bug, please, enter an issue on graph module into Issuezilla. Click here to get there directly.

If you have a request for an enhancement, please, enter an issue on graph module into Issuezilla. Click here to get there directly.

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If you have any comments, suggestions, or missing feature or documentation, please, send an email to users@graph.netbeans.org.