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diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/inspection/XObjectInspectorModel.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/inspection/XObjectInspectorModel.idl new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4906c43cc --- /dev/null +++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/inspection/XObjectInspectorModel.idl @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ +/* + * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. + * + * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public + * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this + * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. + * + * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: + * + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed + * with this work for additional information regarding copyright + * ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache + * License, Version 2.0 (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.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . + */ + +#ifndef __com_sun_star_inspection_XObjectInspectorModel_idl__ +#define __com_sun_star_inspection_XObjectInspectorModel_idl__ + +#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl> +#include <com/sun/star/inspection/PropertyCategoryDescriptor.idl> + +module com { module sun { module star { module inspection { + +interface XPropertyHandler; + +/** describes the model of an ObjectInspector + + @see ObjectInspector + + @since OOo 2.0.3 +*/ +interface XObjectInspectorModel +{ + /** describes a set of factories for creating XPropertyHandlers + + <p>Every element of the sequence must contain information to create a + XPropertyHandler instance. Two ways are currently supported: + <ul> + <li>A service name:<br> + If a sequence element contains a string, this string is interpreted + as service name, and a com::sun::star::lang::XMultiComponentFactory + is asked to create an instance of this service.</li> + <li>A factory:<br> + If a sequence element contains an instance implementing the + com::sun::star::lang::XSingleComponentFactory interface, this factory + is used to create a property handler.</li> + </ul></p> + + <p>This attribute is usually only evaluated by the ObjectInspector instance + which the model is currently bound to.</p> + + <p>The order of factories is important: If two property handlers declare themselves responsible + for the same property, the one whose factory is listed <strong>last</strong> wins. Also, + if a handler <code>B</code> wants to supersede a property of another handler <code>A</code>, + <code>A</code>'s factory must precede the factory of <code>B</code>.</p> + + @see XPropertyHandler::getSupportedProperties + @see XPropertyHandler::getSupersededProperties + */ + [attribute, readonly] sequence< any > HandlerFactories; + + /** describes the property categories used by the property handlers. + + <p>Properties can be sorted into different categories, described by the LineDescriptor::Category + attribute, which is filled in XPropertyHandler::describePropertyLine() + method of your property handler.<br> + Those names provided by the handlers are programmatic names. All other information + about categories is part of the PropertyCategoryDescriptor, and + describeCategories() assembles information about all categories which + all property handlers provided by the model use.</p> + + @return + a sequence of category descriptors. Their relative ordering also describes + the relative ordering of the categories in the ObjectInspector's + user interface.<br> + The sequence must not contain two entries with the same programmatic name.<br> + <br> + The model implementation might return an empty sequence here, in this case, the ObjectInspector + automatically builds its category information from the categories provided by the + property handlers. + @see PropertyCategoryDescriptor + @see LineDescriptor::Category + */ + sequence< PropertyCategoryDescriptor > describeCategories(); + + /** retrieves an index in a global property ordering, for a given property name + + <p>In the user interface of an ObjectInspector, single properties are represented by + single lines, and those lines are displayed successively. To determine an order of + the property lines, the inspector model can associate an "order index" with each property. + The ObjectInspector will then sort the property lines in a way that they + have the same relative ordering as the "order indexes" of their properties.</p> + + <p>Note that the concrete value the model returns for a given property does not + matter. All what matters is that if you want a certain property <code>Foo</code> + to be displayed after another property <code>Bar</code>, then the order index + of <code>Foo</code> should be greater than the order index of <code>Bar</code>. + + <p>If for two different properties the same order index is returned, the + ObjectInspector will assume the order in which those properties + were provided by the respective property handler + (XPropertyHandler::getSupportedProperties()).<br> + If two such properties originate from different handlers, they will be ordered according + to the order of the handlers, as provided in the #HandlerFactories attribute.</p> + + @param PropertyName + the property whose global order index should be retrieved + @return + the global order index of PropertyName. + */ + long getPropertyOrderIndex( [in] string PropertyName ); + + /** indicates that the object inspector should have a help section. + + <p>The object inspector displays lines of property/values, optionally grouped + into categories, as described by the property handlers.<br> + Additionally, the inspector can optionally display a section dedicated to help + texts. Clients could use this section to display context-sensitive help, for + instance short texts explaining the currently selected property.</p> + + @since OOo 2.2 + */ + [attribute, readonly] boolean HasHelpSection; + + /** denotes the minimum number of lines of text to be reserved for the help + section. + + <p>This property is ignored by the ObjectInspector if + #HasHelpSection is `FALSE`.</p> + + <p>The layout of the ObjectInspector is undefined if + #MinHelpTextLines is larger than + #MaxHelpTextLines.</p> + + @since OOo 2.2 + */ + [attribute, readonly] long MinHelpTextLines; + + /** denotes the maximum number of lines of text to be reserved for the help + section. + + <p>This property is ignored by the ObjectInspector if + #HasHelpSection is `FALSE`.</p> + + <p>The layout of the ObjectInspector is undefined if + #MaxHelpTextLines is smaller than + #MinHelpTextLines.</p> + + @since OOo 2.2 + */ + [attribute, readonly] long MaxHelpTextLines; + + /** determines whether the object inspector's UI should be read-only. + + <p>In this case, the user is able to browse through all properties, but cannot + change any of them.</p> + + <p>In a read-only object inspector, the property controls are readonly or + disabled themselves, and the primary and secondary buttons of a property line + are both disabled.</p> + + @see XPropertyControl + @see LineDescriptor + */ + [attribute, bound] boolean IsReadOnly; +}; + + +}; }; }; }; + +#endif + + +/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */ |