gate
Interface VisualResource

All Superinterfaces:

FeatureBearer, NameBearer, Resource, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

AnnotationVisualResource, DocumentView, OntologyEditor, ResizableVisualResource

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDocumentView, AbstractVisualResource, AnnotationDiff, AnnotationListView, AnnotationSetsView, CorefEditor, CorpusAnnotationDiff, CorpusEditor, CorpusImporter, DocumentEditor, DocumentEditor, FeaturesEditor, FeaturesSchemaEditor, Gaze, JapeViewer, NLGLexiconVR, OntoLexEditorVR, OntologyEditor, OntologyEditorImpl, OracleDatastoreViewer, ProtegeWrapper, PRViewer, SchemaAnnotationEditor, SearchPRViewer, SerialControllerEditor, SerialDatastoreViewer, SyntaxTreeViewer, TextualDocumentView, UnrestrictedAnnotationEditor, WordNetViewer

public interface VisualResource
extends Resource

Models all sorts of visual resources.

Method Summary

void	setHandle(Handle handle) Used by the main GUI to tell this VR what handle created it.
void	setTarget(Object target) Called by the GUI when this viewer/editor has to initialise itself for a specific object.

Methods inherited from interface gate.Resource

cleanup, getParameterValue, init, setParameterValue, setParameterValues

Methods inherited from interface gate.util.FeatureBearer

getFeatures, setFeatures

Methods inherited from interface gate.util.NameBearer

getName, setName

Method Detail

setTarget

void setTarget(Object target)

Called by the GUI when this viewer/editor has to initialise itself for a specific object.

Parameters:

target - the object (be it a Resource, DataStore or whatever) this viewer has to display

setHandle

void setHandle(Handle handle)

Used by the main GUI to tell this VR what handle created it. The VRs can use this information e.g. to add items to the popup for the resource.