Graphical Representation of data - Using Java Swing

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

I would like to have graphical/diagramatic representation of data and not the tree view of the data. It should look more like the data (flow charts) that you see in MS-VISIO. To give some links where some diagramatic representations are provided

http://www.sourceinsight.com/features.html
http://www.smartdraw.com/examples/flowchart-quality/iso.htm

Kindly let me know if you need information.

Thanks and Regards
H.Sindhu

Hi Oraelbis,

Good Day!

Example looks good, But Since I am a newbie trying to learn, I am unable to understand the language that is provided in the HTML documentation. Can you please suggest any english version of documentation ?

Any other inputs from other members also would be valuable.

Thanks and Regards
H Sindhu

I'm sorry, but Russian is my native language and I have not time to translate this article to English. This example includes source code, and may be It is can help you.

At current time I'm working with eclipse SWT GUI java library.
And as for me there is a very good tool for your task, but this is not SWING.
For example you can read some articles:
http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-GEF-EMF/gef-emf.html
http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-Using%20EMF/using-emf.html
http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-GEF-diagram-editor/shape.html

End you can find flow diagram chart in EMF/GEF examples package too.
Best regards :)

Hello actonwang and oraelbis,

Thanks for the response.

actonwang,

Could you please help me with some Swing code for my example so that I can start working from that point.I appologize for asking too much. But I am absolutely in need of some code to move forward.

Thanks and Warm Regards
H.Sindhu

This is the quick get arround with that but it doesnt have arrows you can add arrows by using labels and do like this
by adjusting the gridlayout and use setvisible(boolean) on the component:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;

public class DemoApp extends JFrame {

      private JPanel jContentPane = null;
      private JPanel jPanel = null;
      private JButton jButton = null;
      private JButton jButton1 = null;
      private JButton jButton2 = null;
      private JButton jButton3 = null;
      private JButton jButton4 = null;
      private JButton jButton5 = null;
      private JButton jButton6 = null;
      private JButton jButton7 = null;
      private JButton jButton8 = null;
      private JPanel jPanel1 = null;
      private JLabel jLabel = null;
      
      public DemoApp()  {
            super();
            initialize();
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jPanel      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JPanel      
       */    
      private JPanel getJPanel() {
            if (jPanel == null) {
                  GridLayout gridLayout2 = new GridLayout();
                  gridLayout2.setRows(3);
                  gridLayout2.setColumns(3);
                  jPanel = new JPanel();
                  jPanel.setLayout(gridLayout2);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton(), null);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton2(), null);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton3(), null);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton7(), null);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton4(), null);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton8(), null);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton6(), null);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton5(), null);
                  jPanel.add(getJButton1(), null);
            }
            return jPanel;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton() {
            if (jButton == null) {
                  jButton = new JButton();
                  jButton.setText("");
                  jButton.setVisible(false);
            }
            return jButton;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton1      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton1() {
            if (jButton1 == null) {
                  jButton1 = new JButton();
                  jButton1.setText("4");
                  jButton1.setVisible(false);
                  jButton1.setContentAreaFilled(false);
            }
            return jButton1;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton2      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton2() {
            if (jButton2 == null) {
                  jButton2 = new JButton();
                  jButton2.setText("");
                  jButton2.setVisible(false);
            }
            return jButton2;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton3      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton3() {
            if (jButton3 == null) {
                  jButton3 = new JButton();
                  jButton3.setText("3");
                  jButton3.setVisible(false);
                  jButton3.setContentAreaFilled(false);
            }
            return jButton3;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton4      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton4() {
            if (jButton4 == null) {
                  jButton4 = new JButton();
                  jButton4.setText("2");
                  jButton4.setContentAreaFilled(false);
                  jButton4.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
                        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e) {    
                              jButton1.setVisible(true);
                              jButton3.setVisible(true);
                        }
                  });
                  jButton4.setVisible(false);
            }
            return jButton4;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton5      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton5() {
            if (jButton5 == null) {
                  jButton5 = new JButton();
                  jButton5.setText("");
                  jButton5.setVisible(false);
            }
            return jButton5;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton6      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton6() {
            if (jButton6 == null) {
                  jButton6 = new JButton();
                  jButton6.setText("");
                  jButton6.setVisible(false);
            }
            return jButton6;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton7      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton7() {
            if (jButton7 == null) {
                  jButton7 = new JButton();
                  jButton7.setText("1");
                  jButton7.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
                        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e) {    
                              jButton4.setVisible(true);
                        }
                  });
                  jButton7.setContentAreaFilled(false);
            }
            return jButton7;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jButton8      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JButton      
       */    
      private JButton getJButton8() {
            if (jButton8 == null) {
                  jButton8 = new JButton();
                  jButton8.setText("");
                  jButton8.setVisible(false);
            }
            return jButton8;
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jPanel1      
       *       
       * @return javax.swing.JPanel      
       */    
      private JPanel getJPanel1() {
            if (jPanel1 == null) {
                  FlowLayout flowLayout3 = new FlowLayout();
                  flowLayout3.setAlignment(java.awt.FlowLayout.LEFT);
                  jLabel = new JLabel();
                  jLabel.setText("Click on the number and it will show the next buttons !");
                  jLabel.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Arial", java.awt.Font.PLAIN, 11));
                  jPanel1 = new JPanel();
                  jPanel1.setBorder(javax.swing.BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder.LOWERED));
                  jPanel1.setLayout(flowLayout3);
                  jPanel1.add(jLabel, null);
            }
            return jPanel1;
      }

      /**
       * @param args
       */
      public static void main(String[] args) {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            DemoApp x = new DemoApp();
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes this
       *
       * @return void
       */
      private void initialize() {
            this.setSize(489, 382);
            this.setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
            this.setContentPane(getJContentPane());
            this.setTitle("DemoApp . . .");
            this.setVisible(true);
      }

      /**
       * This method initializes jContentPane
       *
       * @return javax.swing.JPanel
       */
      private JPanel getJContentPane() {
            if (jContentPane == null) {
                  jContentPane = new JPanel();
                  jContentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
                  jContentPane.add(getJPanel(), java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
                  jContentPane.add(getJPanel1(), java.awt.BorderLayout.SOUTH);
            }
            return jContentPane;
      }
}

I'm changed sample. Try this http://forjava.dev.juga.ru/downloads/samplegef.zip

Javatm sort of implemented my idea, sth like that and you can adjust it as you like.

Hello Javatm and Actonwang,

Thanks a lot for the response and support. The code that you have sent was abssolutely useful. But I heard that JApplet concept would be useful in getting better graphical views. Can you help me in getting pointers or code for JApplets and generating graphical views using JApplets?

Thanks!