due to reasons I am working with undocumented java library code that I cannot alter in any way or write into. Im using eclipse 2020-06 and I would like to leaves some notes for myself to make things easier. Is there a way to do that? or maybe an eclipse extension?
You can use bookmarks. They work somewhat similarly to breakpoints, without pausing execution when you're debugging.
You can add them via the context menu.
If I recall, you're a bit limited by the amount of information you can add. It's basically just a single text box.
See the help section on bookmarks
Maybe there's some plugins which extend the functionality (e.g. this one for adding keyboard shortcuts)
I am working with Vaadin for a long period of time, but one thing really annoys me: The colorless ComboBox. As I found out, it is not possible to set the items via HTML or to add a color style attribute via ItemStyleGenerators. The last option to do this is implementing extensions as mentioned here: Question-link
But I have really no idea how to do this. Implementing extensions is really not as clear as possible and there are not that many easy tutorials on how to do this.
Has anyone an idea for how to do this or a good link to any detailed tutorial site?
To realize what extensions are, you must to read about client side Vaadin development. I suggest to start with: Client-Side Development
After that you can start to think about extensions.
I'm working on a game editor with SWT/JFACE. I'm looking for something like PropertyEditor or PropertyGrid (like PropertyGrid in C#) in SWT, to provide modification of objects in the editor. Does anyone know something like that? Thanks
If you are going to develop standalone SWT application (without Eclipse RCP) you could use this open source library.
Using data bindings might be what you're looking for.
https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/wbpro/features/swt/data_binding/example
I've copied all the code from here but instead of looking like the sample it looks like the below screenshot. Obviously I'm missing something fundamental but being completely green in Java, GXT, and web development I'm unsure where to start. Any pointers gratefully received.
Are you using GXT 2 or 3?
Check to ensure the gxt-all.css file is loading correctly. I'm assuming you copied the gxt resources in to your project, and you're referencing their CSS file in your host/entry point page.
for a gxt development i sugest to use eclipse. i dont know which editor you are using. did you delete some image.
Ext Gwt 2.0: Beginner's Guide the best bookk for beginers please follow each steps. it is really easy to learn. cheerssssss
Having seen some suggestions for graphs, I wonder what's the optimum for my problem.
I want to render a directed graph to a servlet/picture that is displayed in the browser. There should be some kind of optimization of position. No dependency to Swing would be preferred. Algorithms are not important, since the structure of the graph is determined by business logic. It would be desired to be able add labels to edges as well.
it would be optimal if i can serve this as png/svg.
Which library/service would you recommend?
clarifications:
1) The question is all about Graphs - like Directed Acyclic Graph - NOT - Charts.
2) flot, Google Charts - cannot plot graphs, only charts, or have i missed something?
3) no i do not need interactivity
4) graphviz would be nice, but the grappa java library is quite outdated and is built upon swing/awt. while it may be theoretically possible to render swing to images, it would not be my favorite way to to so in a server-app.
5) it would be fine to use an online service where the images are not hosted locally.
edit: added links to Wikipedia to clarify graph/chart term
Take a look at graphviz
yFiles might be useful for this.
How about the dot component of Graphviz? It produces graphs (not charts), outputs to PNG and SVG, and supports labeling edges. You can shell out to dot to generate the image you need, and return an img tag that references that. Alternatively, you can return an img tag that references a URL that will generate the requisite graph (or retrieve a cached copy). Here's the dot info:
http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf
You might also take a look at WebDot, which is apparently designed for this purpose:
http://www.graphviz.org/webdot/
As well as waiting weeks to hear about the Magic Framework that's going to solve all your problems in one line of code, there is also the other option of just Writing Some Code yourself to do exactly what you want... (I'm not saying it's 10 minutes' work, but it's probably one or two days, and you posted your question over two weeks ago...)
Have you had a look, for example, at the Wikipedia entry on Force-based algorithms-- it has pseudocode and a few links that might be helpful.
I'm assuming it is the layout algorithm that's the issue, and not the matter of creating a BufferedImage, drawing to its graphics context, PNG-encoding it and sending it down the socket. You really don't need a framework for that bit, I don't think.
Try aiSee. It is used by all kinds of web-based applications for data mining, static program analysis, matrix visualization, network analysis, and whatnot. It is also used by some MediaWikis as their graph-layout backend.
They have a huge database of sample graphs over at aiSee.com. Check it out. It supports edge labels, export to mapped SVG and HTML, and is not dependent on Swing.
We create mxGraph for such requirements. We did actually release it in 2006, but took a while to notice this question...
For serverside, try JUNG, you can run it against Batik and produce beautiful SVG or PNG files. JUNG has a nice design and very powerful layout algorithms...
Also, since you mention that "it would be fine to use an online service", graphviz provide a service called webdot to render graphs.
There are others along this line as well... e.g. http://graph.gafol.net/ (seems to be down)
Client side:
Try http://arborjs.org/ for a minimal(ish) library it is dedicated to layout, use this is you like to prefer your own rendering routines (div, canvas, svg, paper.js, processing... etc).
I also like http://sigmajs.org/ for a more complete approach, build in touch support, plugins, file formats, etc.
Interestingly, the Eclipse project has an SWT/JFace component/framework capable of displaying and generating (import/export) Graphviz's 'DOT' format, in pure Java:
ZEST (home page & download links)
See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Graphviz_DOT_as_a_DSL_for_Zest for usage examples.
Although ZEST is touted as an Eclipse plugin, it does seem that the DOT-manipulation API's can be used standalone and external to an Eclipse installation.
Cheers
Rich
You may try sigma.js: http://sigmajs.org/
It is a lightweight, open source library in Javascript to display large graphs on the Web.
JPGD is a Graphviz parser in Java. It's a little abandoned, but the code is nice and clear, and if you find bugs I'm sure the author would accept contributed fixes.
Although advertised as a parser, it is also a generator. You can build Graphs as collections of Node and Edge objects, then get .dot using Graph.toString(). Getting this as a graphic would be a simple shell out to the Graphviz dot executable.
Alternatively, dot is very easy to generate yourself. In the simplest case, it's just a matter of writing a potted header
digraph myGraph {
... followed by one edge definition per edge
node1 -> node2 ;
... followed by a closing brace
}
so i took alook at all the given answers and links, it looks like Prefuse/Flare will by the optimal choice.
they have very appealing visialisations, plus they have built in support for graphs.
Maybe check out Google Charts?
You can use SVG in combination with Batik. I have used this several times for displaying graphics. Batik with Java 1.5 is very fast. With this solution you can program your graph in Java with no dependency on Swing. You can add labels where you want, host it as a Servlet and display it as png or svg.
You can create the graphs in SVG (this is an XML document).
You use Batik to transform the SVG-document to a PNG/JPG image.
You can use a Servlet to stream this image back to the browser.
In java you build an SVG(=XML) document. Samples for SVG graphs can be found here:
Directed graph and here: Simple directed graph
See this question, especially Stephan's answer about prefuse. I read that you do not need interactivity, but prefuse still may be useful.
I can whole-heartedly recommend flot - excellent!
See examples here.
JFreeChart might be the way you want to go, but you make a distinction between Charts and Graphs. Maybe you can explain what you mean by that. I've usually used these terms synonymously. :)
JFreeChart has good scatter, bar and line graphs as well as fun ones like Pie and Dial so maybe it will work for you.