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/*
* JasperReports - Free Java Reporting Library.
* Copyright (C) 2001 - 2014 TIBCO Software Inc. All rights reserved.
* http://www.jaspersoft.com
*
* Unless you have purchased a commercial license agreement from Jaspersoft,
* the following license terms apply:
*
* This program is part of JasperReports.
*
* JasperReports is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* JasperReports is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with JasperReports. If not, see
* Viewing Reports
* The JasperReports library comes with built-in viewers for viewing the generated reports in its
* proprietary format or in the proprietary XML format produced by the internal XML
* exporter. It is a Swing-based component. Other Java applications can easily integrate this
* component without having to export the documents into more popular formats in order to
* be viewed or printed. The {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRViewer} class represents
* this visual component. It can be customized to respond to a particular application's needs
* by subclassing it. For example, you could add or remove buttons from the existing
* toolbar.
*
* JasperReports also comes with a simple Swing application that uses the visual
* component for viewing the reports. This application helps view reports stored on disk in
* the JasperReports *.jrprint proprietary format or in the JRPXML format produced by
* the default XML exporter.
*
* This simple Java Swing application is implemented in the
* {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JasperViewer} class and is used in almost all the
* provided samples for viewing the generated reports.
*
* To view a sample report if you have the Ant build tool installed on your system, go to the
* desired sample directory and launch the following from the command line:
*
* >ant view
* or
* >ant viewXml
* Customizing Viewers
* Built-in viewers are represented by the following two classes:
*
* - {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JasperViewer} - use this class to view generated reports,
* either as in-memory objects or serialized objects on disk or even stored in XML format.
* - {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JasperDesignViewer} - use this class to preview report templates,
* either in JRXML or compiled form.
*
* However, these default viewers might not suit everybody's needs. You may want to
* customize them to adapt to certain application requirements. If you need to do this, be
* aware that these viewers actually use other, more basic visual components that come
* with the JasperReports library.
*
* The report viewers mentioned previously use the visual component represented by the
* {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRViewer} class and its companions. It is in fact a
* special javax.swing.JPanel component that is capable of displaying generated
* reports. It can be easily incorporated into other Java Swing-based applications or
* applets.
*
* If the functionality of this basic visual component is not sufficient, one can
* adapt it by subclassing it. For example, to create an extra button on the toolbar of this
* viewer, extend the component and add that button in the new visual component
* obtained by subclassing.
*
* Another very important issue is that the default report viewer that comes with the library
* does not know how to deal with document hyperlinks that point to external resources. It
* deals only with local references by redirecting the viewer to the corresponding local
* anchor.
*
* However, JasperReports lets users handle the clicks made on document hyperlinks that
* point to external documents. To do this, simply implement the
* {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRHyperlinkListener} interface and add an instance
* of this listener class to register with the viewer component, using the
* {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRViewer#addHyperlinkListener(JRHyperlinkListener) addHyperlinkListener(JRHyperlinkListener)} method exposed by the
* {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRViewer} class. By doing this, you ensure that the
* viewer will also call the implementation of the
* {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRViewer#gotoHyperlink(net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRPrintHyperlink) gotoHyperlink(JRPrintHyperlink)} method in which
* the external references are handled.
*
* There are two ways of rendering the current document page on the viewer component:
*
* - Creating an in-memory buffered image and displaying that image
* - Rendering the page content directly to the Graphics2D context of the viewer component
*
* The first approach has the advantage of smoother scroll operations, since the page
* content is rendered only once as an image, after which the scroll operations occur within
* the view port of that image. The drawback is that at high zoom ratios, the image could
* become so large that an out-of-memory error might occur.
*
* The second approach avoids any potential memory problems at high zoom ratios by
* rendering page content directly onto the view component, but this results in a drop of
* performance that can be seen when scrolling the page.
*
* Switching between the two rendering methods can be controlled by setting the
* {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRViewer#VIEWER_RENDER_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE net.sf.jasperreports.viewer.render.buffer.max.size} configuration property.
* The value of this property represents the maximum size (in pixels) of a buffered image
* that would be used by the {@link net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRViewer} component to render
* a report page (the first rendering technique). If rendering a report page requires an
* image larger than this threshold (that is, image width x image height > maximum size),
* then the report page will be rendered directly on the viewer component.
*
* By default, this configuration property is set to 0, which means that only direct rendering
* is performed, no matter what the zoom ratio.
*
*
Related Documentation
* JasperReports Tutorial
*
* @see net.sf.jasperreports.view.JRHyperlinkListener
*/
package net.sf.jasperreports.view;