edu.washington.cs.supple.render
Interface Renderer

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractRenderer

public interface Renderer

Author:

kgajos The common interface for all renderers

Method Summary

void	dismissAllOpenViews() Dismiss all open views.
boolean	hasOpenViews() Get open views for renderer.
RenderedView	renderView(RenderedView parent, UiObject object) Creates a new view (potentially something like a "dialog box" if parent is specified)
RenderedView	renderView(UiObject object) Creates a top-level view from the given UI description

Method Detail

renderView

public RenderedView renderView(UiObject object)

Creates a top-level view from the given UI description

Parameters:

object - UI description

Returns:

the view or null if view could not be rendered

renderView

public RenderedView renderView(RenderedView parent,
                               UiObject object)

Creates a new view (potentially something like a "dialog box" if parent is specified)

Parameters:

parent - the parent view

object - UI description

Returns:

the view or null if view could not be rendered

hasOpenViews

public boolean hasOpenViews()

Get open views for renderer.

Returns:

dismissAllOpenViews

public void dismissAllOpenViews()

Dismiss all open views.