Using the Designer > Getting Started > Running the Designer

You can run the Designer from Windows or UNIX operating systems. The startup conditions are the same in both cases.

Windows

The Designer is available in the Start menu under Start>All Programs>ILOG>JViews Diagrammer 8.1>Designer, where ILOG is the default program group and may be different if you have installed JViews Diagrammer into a different group.

The Designer software is also available in the <installdir>/jviews-diagrammer81/bin/designer directory. To run it from there, navigate to this directory and double-click run.bat.

UNIX

The Designer software is available in the <installdir>/jviews-diagrammer81/bin/designer directory. Make sure your PATH environment variable is set correctly to find this directory, then enter run.sh.

Startup Conditions

When you start the Designer, it opens with the New Diagram Wizard displayed as if you had chosen File>New from Wizard. You can close the wizard if you do not want to create a new diagram as proposed. You can also enable or disable the opening of the wizard on startup from its first page.

Outside the wizard, the way the Designer operates depends on the mode it is in. You can see the current mode in the title bar, and you can change the mode using the buttons in the vertical toolbar. For a discussion of modes, see Working in Different Modes.