1   /*
2    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2005, The University of Sheffield.
3    *
4    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
5    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
6    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
7    *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
8    *
9    *  Valentin Tablan 08/03/2001
10   *
11   *  $Id: GateEvent.java,v 1.5 2005/01/11 13:51:34 ian Exp $
12   */
13  package gate.event;
14  
15  import java.util.EventObject;
16  
17  /**
18   * The top level event class for all the event types fired by the Gate system.
19   */
20  public class GateEvent extends EventObject {
21  
22    public static final int FEATURES_UPDATED = 701;
23  
24    /**
25     * Constructor from source and type.
26     * @param source the object that initiated this event
27     * @param type the type on the event.
28     */
29    public GateEvent(Object source, int type) {
30      super(source);
31      this.type = type;
32    }
33  
34  
35    /**
36     * Gets the type of the event.
37     */
38    public int getType() {
39      return type;
40    }
41  
42    protected int type;
43  }