/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 * Port to the D programming language:
 *     Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
 *******************************************************************************/
module dwtx.jface.text.IRegion;

import dwt.dwthelper.utils;


/**
 * A region describes a certain range in an indexed text store. Text stores are
 * for example documents or strings. A region is defined by its offset into the
 * text store and its length.
 * <p>
 * A region is considered a value object. Its offset and length do not change
 * over time.
 * <p>
 * Clients may implement this interface or use the standard implementation
 * {@link dwtx.jface.text.Region}.
 * </p>
 */
public interface IRegion {

    /**
     * Returns the length of the region.
     *
     * @return the length of the region
     */
    int getLength();

    /**
     * Returns the offset of the region.
     *
     * @return the offset of the region
     */
    int getOffset();
}