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| All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0 |
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| |
| Contributors: |
| IBM Corporation - Initial implementation |
| **********************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.jface.text; |
| |
| /** |
| * Extension interface to <code>IWidgetTokenOwner</code>. Replaces the original |
| * <code>requestWidgetToken</code> functionality with a new priority based approach. |
| * |
| * @since 3.0 |
| */ |
| public interface IWidgetTokenOwnerExtension { |
| |
| /** |
| * Requests the widget token from this token owner. Returns |
| * <code>true</code> if the token has been aquired or is |
| * already owned by the requester. This method is non-blocking. |
| * |
| * <p><code>priority</code> is forwarded to any existing token keeper |
| * to give it an estimate on whether the request has higher priority than |
| * the current keeper's. There is, however, no guarantee that another keeper |
| * will release the token even if it has a high priority.</p> |
| * |
| * @param requester the token requester |
| * @param priority the priority of the request |
| * @return <code>true</code> if requester aquires the token, |
| * <code>false</code> otherwise |
| */ |
| boolean requestWidgetToken(IWidgetTokenKeeper requester, int priority); |
| } |
