/* * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project * * Licensed under the Eclipse Public License, Version 1.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.php * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package com.android.ide.common.api; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; /** * An {@link IViewRule} describes the GLE rules that apply to a given Layout or View object * in the Graphical Layout Editor (GLE). *
* Such a rule is implemented by builtin layout helpers, or 3rd party layout rule implementations * provided with or for a given 3rd party widget. * * A 3rd party layout rule should use the same fully qualified class name as the layout it * represents, plus "Rule" as a suffix. For example, the layout rule for the * LinearLayout class is LinearLayoutRule, in the same package. * * Rule instances are stateless. They are created once per View class to handle and are shared * across platforms or editor instances. As such, rules methods should never cache editor-specific * arguments that they might receive. * * When rules are instantiated, a property "_rules_engine" is dynamically added which references * the {@link IClientRulesEngine} created for this rule. ** NOTE: This is not a public or final API; if you rely on this be prepared * to adjust your code for the next tools release. *
*/ public interface IViewRule { /** * The name of the property that returns a {@link IClientRulesEngine} created for this * rules. The instance lets rules use some methods from the rules engine, for example * for accessing other rules. */ final static String RULES_ENGINE = "_rules_engine"; /** * This method is called by the rule engine when the script is first loaded. * It gives the rule a chance to initialize itself. * * @param fqcn The fully qualified class name of the Layout or View that will be managed by * this rule. This can be cached as it will never change for the lifetime of this rule * instance. This may or may not match the script's filename as it may be the fqcn of a * class derived from the one this rule can handle. * @param engine The engine that is managing the rules. A rule can store a reference to * the engine during initialization and then use it later to invoke some of the * {@link IClientRulesEngine} methods for example to request user input. * @return True if this rule can handle the given FQCN. False if the rule can't handle the * given FQCN, in which case the rule engine will find another rule matching a parent clas. */ boolean onInitialize(String fqcn, IClientRulesEngine engine); /** * This method is called by the rules engine just before the script is unloaded. */ void onDispose(); /** * Returns the class name to display when an element is selected in the GLE. * * If null is returned, the GLE will automatically shorten the class name using its * own heuristic, which is to keep the first 2 package components and the class name. * The class name is thefqcn
argument that was given
* to {@link #onInitialize(String)}.
*
* @return Null for the default behavior or a shortened string.
*/
String getDisplayName();
/**
* Invoked by the Rules Engine to retrieve a set of actions to customize
* the context menu displayed for this view. The result is not cached and the
* method is invoked every time the context menu is about to be shown.
*
* Most rules should consider returning super.getContextMenu(node)
* and appending their own custom menu actions, if any.
*
* Menu actions are either toggles or fixed lists with one currently-selected
* item. It is expected that the rule will need to recreate the actions with
* different selections when a menu is going to shown, which is why the result
* is not cached. However rules are encouraged to cache some or all of the result
* to speed up following calls if it makes sense.
*
* @return Null for no context menu, or a new {@link MenuAction} describing one
* or more actions to display in the context menu.
*/
List* - onDropEnter(node1) => feedback1 * ...user moves to new view... * - onDropEnter(node2) => feedback2 * - onDropLeave(node1, feedback1) * ...user leaves canvas... * - onDropLeave(node2, feedback2) **/ void onDropLeave(INode targetNode, IDragElement[] elements, DropFeedback feedback); /** * Called when drop is released over the target to perform the actual drop. */ void onDropped(INode targetNode, IDragElement[] elements, DropFeedback feedback, Point where); /** * Called when pasting elements in an existing document on the selected target. * * @param targetNode The first node selected. * @param pastedElements The elements being pasted. */ void onPaste(INode targetNode, IDragElement[] pastedElements); }