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| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 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; |
| |
| /** |
| * Extension interface for {@link org.eclipse.jface.text.IInformationControlCreator}<p> |
| * Introduces tests whether information controls can be reused and whether information |
| * control creators can replace each other. |
| * |
| * @see org.eclipse.jface.text.IInformationControlCreator |
| * @see org.eclipse.jface.text.IInformationControl |
| * @since 3.0 |
| */ |
| public interface IInformationControlCreatorExtension { |
| |
| /** |
| * Tests if an existing information control can be reused. |
| * |
| * @param control the information control to test |
| * @return <code>true</code> if the control can be reused |
| */ |
| boolean canReuse(IInformationControl control); |
| |
| /** |
| * Tests whether this information control creator can replace the given |
| * information control creator. This is the case if the two creators create |
| * the same kind of information controls. |
| * |
| * @param creator the creator to be checked |
| * @return <code>true</code> if the given creator can be replaced, |
| * <code>false</code> otherwise |
| */ |
| boolean canReplace(IInformationControlCreator creator); |
| } |
