yFiles Tutorial View Rendering Demos

The following tutorial demos center around advanced rendering aspects of the graph view. It is shown how to use auxiliary rendering classes Drawable, BackgroundRenderer, and BridgeCalculator.

Class Description
demo.view.rendering.BridgeDemoDemonstrates how to utilize BridgeCalculator to draw bridges or gaps for crossing edges.
demo.view.rendering.BackgroundDemoDemonstrates how to use background images in the view
demo.view.rendering.DrawablesDemoThis demo shows how to add objects of type Drawable to a Graph2DView
demo.view.rendering.LevelOfDetailDemoDemonstrates how to control the level of detail for graph visualization using rendering hints

Running the Demos

From Within an IDE

Set <yFilesDir>/src as your source directory. Then add <yFilesDir>/lib/y.jar and the source folder <yFilesDir>/src to your classpath. Now you should be ready to compile and run all executable demo classes.

With Ant

First make sure you have the build tool Ant installed on your system. Now you can use the demo build script build.xml located in <yFilesDir>/src/demo to launch each demo by specifying its simple class name as a target. Alternatively, launch the interactive demo driver by specifying run as target to conveniently access all demos.