Adding to the Style Sheet

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Adding to the Style Sheet

ILOG JViews Diagrammer uses cascading style sheets as a powerful tool to create and customize graphic objects that represent the objects in your data model.

When you start a diagram through the wizard and load data from an XML file, default styling is applied.

The default theme gives a plain appearance and does not show all the data, see Figure 1.8. You can change this by defining your own style rules.

The graph layout used is Hierarchical, from left to right. This is governed by the Graph Layout option in the Options section of the Style Rules. You can see the Styling Customizer if you select Graph Layout, see Figure 1.8.

Figure 1.8 Initial Diagram and Graph Layout Customizer

You can see all the default style rules in a tree structure. You can add a new rule, modify an existing rule, delete an existing rule, and change the priority of a rule (its level in the list) using the Rule menu which is available when you right-click a rule in the tree.

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