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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.jface.text.source;


import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control;


/**
 * A vertical ruler is a visual component which may serve
 * text viewers as an annotation presentation 
 * area. The vertical ruler info provides interested clients with the
 * mapping and interaction aspect of the vertical ruler. This
 * covers the mapping between coordinates of the ruler's
 * control and line numbers based on the connected text viewer's
 * document.
 * 
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface IVerticalRulerInfo {

	/**
	 * Returns the ruler's SWT control.
	 *
	 * @return the ruler's SWT control
	 */
	Control getControl();

	/**
	 * Returns the line number of the last mouse button activity.
	 * Based on the input document of the connected text viewer.
	 * The smallest possible line number is <code>0</code>.
	 *
	 * @return the line number of the last mouse button activity
	 */
	int getLineOfLastMouseButtonActivity();
	
	/**
	 * Translates a y-coordinate of the ruler's SWT control into
	 * the according line number of the document of the connected text viewer.
	 *
	 * @param y_coordinate a y-coordinate of the ruler's SWT control
	 * @return the line number of that coordinate or <code>-1</code> if that
	 * 			coordinate does not correspond to a valid document line
	 */
	int toDocumentLineNumber(int y_coordinate);
	
	/**
	 * Returns the width of this ruler's control.
	 *
	 * @return the width of this ruler's control
	 */
	int getWidth();
}

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