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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2010 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.draw2d;
/**
* The base class for accessible objects which provides accesibilty clients with
* a unique ID.
*/
public class AccessibleBase {
/**
* Returns the id of this accessible object using {@link Object#hashCode()}.
*
* @return the id
*/
public final int getAccessibleID() {
/*
* This assumes that the native implementation of hashCode in Object is
* to return the pointer to the Object, which should be U-unique.
*/
int value = super.hashCode();
/*
* Values -3, -2, and -1 are reserved by SWT's ACC class to have special
* meaning. Therefore, a child cannot have this value.
*/
if (value < 0)
value -= 4;
return value;
}
}