Package javax.ide.view

IDE view support classes and interfaces.

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Description

Interface Summary

IDEDialogs	The IDEDialogs provides the interface through which extension writers can invoke standard IDE dialogs, such as: information, warning, error, file and directory selection dialogs.
ProgressMonitor	Use to Monitor the progress of time consuming operations.
URISelectionDialog	This interface gives clients a portable interface to control basic file and directory selection dialogs.
URISelectionDialog.Validator	Clients of the URISelectionDialog implement a Validator when they need to validate the selected URI(s) before the selection dialog is dismissed.
Viewable	Viewables are objects that map directly to visible GUI elements that users can select.
WaitCursor	WaitCursor interface.

Class Summary

DefaultViewable	DefaultViewables are objects that map directly to visible GUI elements that users can select such as a menu items, nodes in the project explorer, etc..
GUIPanel	A GUIPanel opaquely encapsulates the gui panel that is to be hosted by an IDE's service such as: the IDE preferences panel, the editor's panel, etc..
GUIUtilities	The GUIUtilities provide access to the IDEDialogs, a WaitCursor and a ProgressMonitor objects that extension writers use for * time consuming tasks.
View	View components display information to the user.

Package javax.ide.view Description

IDE view support classes and interfaces. These classes and interfaces hide platform specific graphical user interface components.

For example, the GUIPanel encapsulates a graphical panel that IDEs can host on IDE provided windows.

The Viewable interface is an abstraction for data objects that can be displayed inside graphical user interfaces, and that users can select and perform operations on.