summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/offapi/com/sun/star/inspection/XObjectInspectorModel.idl
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'offapi/com/sun/star/inspection/XObjectInspectorModel.idl')
-rw-r--r--offapi/com/sun/star/inspection/XObjectInspectorModel.idl178
1 files changed, 178 insertions, 0 deletions
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: */