01 /*
02 * Copyright (c) 1995-2010, The University of Sheffield. See the file
03 * COPYRIGHT.txt in the software or at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/COPYRIGHT.txt
04 *
05 * This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
06 * software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
07 * Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
08 * and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
09 *
10 * Valentin Tablan 21/11/2002
11 *
12 * $Id: ActionsPublisher.java 12006 2009-12-01 17:24:28Z thomas_heitz $
13 *
14 */
15
16 package gate.gui;
17
18 import java.util.List;
19
20 /**
21 * This interface is used to mark resources that publish a list of actions
22 * that can be performed on them.
23 * Those actions will automatically be added to the appropriate menus when
24 * needed.
25 */
26
27 public interface ActionsPublisher {
28 /**
29 * Returns a list of Action objects. This method will be called everytime a
30 * menu for this resource needs to be built, thus allowing for dynamic updates
31 * to the list of actions.
32 * A <tt>null</tt> value in this list will cause a separator to be created.
33 * @return a {@link List} of {@link javax.swing.Action}s.
34 */
35 public List getActions();
36 }
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