| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2004, 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.ui.internal.layout; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control; |
| |
| /** |
| * Layouts that implement this interface are capable of caching the |
| * sizes of child controls in a manner that allows the information |
| * for a single control to be flushed without affecting the remaining |
| * controls. These layouts will ignore the "changed" arguments to layout(...) |
| * and computeSize(...), however they will flush their cache for individual |
| * controls when the flush(...) method is called. |
| * <p> |
| * This allows for much more efficient layouts, since most of the cache |
| * can be reused when a child control changes. |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * @since 3.0 |
| */ |
| public interface ICachingLayout { |
| /** |
| * Flushes cached data for the given control |
| */ |
| public void flush(Control dirtyControl); |
| } |
