| /******************************************************************************* |
| * 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.compare; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer; |
| |
| /** |
| * A factory object for <code>Viewer</code>. |
| * <p> |
| * This interface is only required when creating a <code>Viewer</code> from a plugin.xml file. |
| * Since <code>Viewer</code>s have no default constructor they cannot be |
| * instantiated directly with <code>Class.forName</code>. |
| */ |
| public interface IViewerCreator { |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates a new viewer under the given SWT parent control. |
| * |
| * @param parent the SWT parent control under which to create the viewer's SWT control |
| * @param config a compare configuration the newly created viewer might want to use |
| * @return a new viewer |
| */ |
| Viewer createViewer(Composite parent, CompareConfiguration config); |
| } |
