org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render.awt/src/org/eclipse/gmf/runtime/draw2d/ui/render/awt/internal/svg/metafile/IRenderableObject.java

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 *    IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation 
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package org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render.awt.internal.svg.metafile;

import java.awt.Graphics2D;

import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderException;
import org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render.awt.internal.svg.metafile.DeviceContext;

/**
 * This class must be implemented by all metafile record handlers.  Generally, classes
 * will inherit from IEmf2SvgConverter or IWmf2SvgConverter, which extends this
 * interface.
 *   
 * @author dhabib
 */
public interface IRenderableObject 
{
	/**
	 * Draws the data from a metafile record into a Graphics2D object.  When converting to SVG, 
	 * g will actually be a SVGGraphics2D object which translates the drawing into SVG XML.
	 * @param g Graphics2D object to draw into.
	 * @param context Device context containing the current device settings.
	 * @throws TranscoderException if there was an error rendering the data.
	 */
	public void render( Graphics2D g, DeviceContext context ) throws TranscoderException;

}