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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004, 2015 IBM Corporation and others.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.ui.internal.layout;

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control;

/**
 * Layouts that implement this interface are capable of caching the sizes of
 * child controls in a manner that allows the information for a single control
 * to be flushed without affecting the remaining controls. These layouts will
 * ignore the "changed" arguments to layout(...) and computeSize(...), however
 * they will flush their cache for individual controls when the flush(...)
 * method is called.
 * <p>
 * This allows for much more efficient layouts, since most of the cache can be
 * reused when a child control changes.
 * </p>
 *
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface ICachingLayout {
	/**
	 * Flushes cached data for the given control
	 */
	void flush(Control dirtyControl);
}

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