Package com.bc.ceres.swing.selection

Interface SelectionManager

All Superinterfaces:

SelectionChangeEmitter, SelectionSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultSelectionManager

public interface SelectionManager
extends SelectionSource

A selection manager is a selection source which receives its current selection from a known selection context.

All changes in the current selection context are propagated to the selection change listeners registered with the selection manager.

This interface may be directly implemented by clients, although it is advised to use SelectionManagerImpl, since this interface may evolve in the future.

Since:

Ceres 0.10

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Clipboard	getClipboard()
SelectionContext	getSelectionContext()	Gets the current selection context.
void	setSelectionContext(SelectionContext selectionContext)	Sets a new selection context.

Methods inherited from interface com.bc.ceres.swing.selection.SelectionChangeEmitter

addSelectionChangeListener, getSelectionChangeListeners, removeSelectionChangeListener

Methods inherited from interface com.bc.ceres.swing.selection.SelectionSource

getSelection

Method Details

getClipboard

Clipboard getClipboard()

Returns:

The clipboard used by this selection manager.

See Also:

• Toolkit.getSystemClipboard()
• Toolkit.getSystemSelection()

getSelectionContext

SelectionContext getSelectionContext()

Gets the current selection context.

Returns:

The current selection context, or null.

setSelectionContext

void setSelectionContext(SelectionContext selectionContext)

Sets a new selection context.

Parameters:

selectionContext - The new selection context, or null.