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author | Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de> |
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date | Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:23:29 +0100 |
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/******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 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 org.eclipse.jface.text.IWidgetTokenOwner; import org.eclipse.jface.text.IWidgetTokenKeeper; // packageimport import java.lang.all; /** * In order to display information in a temporary window, a widget token must be * acquired. The intent behind this concept is that only one temporary window * should be presented at any moment in time and also to avoid overlapping * temporary windows. This concept is used by the * {@link org.eclipse.jface.text.ITextViewer}. * <p> * In order to provide backward compatibility for clients of * <code>IWidgetTokenOwner</code>, extension interfaces are used as a means * of evolution. The following extension interfaces exist: * <ul> * <li>{@link org.eclipse.jface.text.IWidgetTokenOwnerExtension} since version * 3.0 introducing priorities when requesting a widget token and thus replacing * the non-prioritized scheme.</li> * </ul> * * @see org.eclipse.jface.text.IWidgetTokenOwnerExtension * @since 2.0 */ public interface IWidgetTokenOwner { /** * Requests the widget token from this token owner. Returns * <code>true</code> if the token has been acquired or is already owned by * the requester. This method is non-blocking. * <p> * Replaced by * {@link IWidgetTokenOwnerExtension#requestWidgetToken(IWidgetTokenKeeper, int)}. * * @param requester the token requester * @return <code>true</code> if requester acquires the token, * <code>false</code> otherwise */ bool requestWidgetToken(IWidgetTokenKeeper requester); /** * The given token keeper releases the token to this * token owner. If the token has previously not been held * by the given token keeper, nothing happens. This * method is non-blocking. * * @param tokenKeeper the token keeper */ void releaseWidgetToken(IWidgetTokenKeeper tokenKeeper); }