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package org.eclipse.jface.text;
/*
* (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2001.
* All Rights Reserved.
*/
/**
* Provides a hover popup which appears on top of the text viewer with relevant
* display information. If the text hover does not provide information no
* hover popup is shown.<p>
* Clients may implement this interface.
*
* @see ITextViewer
*/
public interface ITextHover {
/**
* Returns the text which should be presented if a hover popup is shown
* for the specified hover region. The hover region has the same semantics
* as the region returned by <code>getHoverRegion</code>. If the returned
* string is <code>null</code> or empty no hover popup will be shown.
*
* @param textViewer the viewer on which the hover popup should be shown
* @param hoverRegion the text range in the viewer which is used to determine
* the hover display information
* @return the hover popup display information
*/
String getHoverInfo(ITextViewer textViewer, IRegion hoverRegion);
/**
* Returns the text region which should serve as the source of information
* to compute the hover popup display information. The popup has been requested
* for the given offset.<p>
* For example, if hover information can be provided on a per method basis in a
* source viewer, the offset should be used to find the enclosing method and the
* source range of the method should be returned.
*
* @param textViewer the viewer on which the hover popup should be shown
* @param offset the offset for which the hover request has been issued
* @return the hover region used to compute the hover display information
*/
IRegion getHoverRegion(ITextViewer textViewer, int offset);
}