001/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 002 The Kiwi Toolkit - A Java Class Library 003 Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Mark A. Lindner 004 005 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 006 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 007 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 008 License, or (at your option) any later version. 009 010 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 011 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 012 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 013 General Public License for more details. 014 015 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 016 along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software 017 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 018 02111-1307, USA. 019 020 The author may be contacted at: mark_a_lindner@yahoo.com 021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 022 $Log: UIElementViewer.java,v $ 023 Revision 1.4 2004/05/12 18:53:25 markl 024 comment block updates 025 026 Revision 1.3 2003/01/19 09:50:54 markl 027 Javadoc & comment header updates. 028 029 Revision 1.2 2001/03/12 09:28:01 markl 030 Source code and Javadoc cleanup. 031 032 Revision 1.1 1999/05/10 09:14:39 markl 033 Initial revision 034 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 035*/ 036 037package kiwi.ui; 038 039import javax.swing.*; 040 041/** An interface that describes the behavior of a viewer for 042 * <code>UIElement</code>s. 043 * 044 * @see kiwi.ui.UIElementChooser 045 * 046 * @author Mark Lindner 047 */ 048 049public interface UIElementViewer 050 { 051 /** Get a reference to the viewer component. 052 * 053 * @return The viewer component itself. 054 */ 055 056 public JComponent getViewerComponent(); 057 058 /** Display the given element in the viewer. 059 * 060 * @param element The element to display. 061 * 062 */ 063 064 public void showElement(UIElement element); 065 } 066 067/* end of source file */