blob: 6097dd7d2ccff9fda449b8a482c96f5c3e4ed153 (
plain) (
blame)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
|
/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 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
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jface.text;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
/**
* Interface of a factory for information controls (
* {@link org.eclipse.jface.text.IInformationControl}).
*
* In order to provide backward compatibility for clients of
* <code>IInformationControlCreator</code>, extension interfaces are used as
* a means of evolution. The following extension interfaces exist:
* <ul>
* <li>{@link org.eclipse.jface.text.IInformationControlCreatorExtension}since
* version 3.0 introducing checks of whether existing information control can
* be reused and whether information control creators can replace each other.
* </li>
* </ul>
*
* @see org.eclipse.jface.text.IInformationControlCreatorExtension
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface IInformationControlCreator {
/**
* Creates a new information control with the given shell as the control's parent.
*
* @param parent the parent shell
* @return the created information control
*/
IInformationControl createInformationControl(Shell parent);
}
|
