Package org.eclipse.jface.text

Interface IEditingSupport

public interface IEditingSupport
Implemented by tools supporting the editing process.

Clients may ask an IEditingSupport whether it is currently displaying a shell that has focus, and whether it is the origin of a document event. Depending on the answers to these queries, clients may decide to react differently to incoming notifications about events. For example, a special editing mode, that usually deactivates when the main shell looses focus, may decide to not deactivate if the focus event was triggered by an IEditingSupport.

Clients may implement this interface.

Since:
3.1
See Also:

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    boolean
    isOriginator(DocumentEvent event, IRegion subjectRegion)
    Returns true if the receiver is the originator of a DocumentEvent and if that event is related to subjectRegion.
    boolean
    ownsFocusShell()
    Returns true if the receiver is showing a shell which has focus, false if it does not have focus or the helper has no shell.

  • Method Details

    • isOriginator

      boolean isOriginator(DocumentEvent event, IRegion subjectRegion)
      Returns true if the receiver is the originator of a DocumentEvent and if that event is related to subjectRegion.

      The relationship between event and subjectRegion is not always obvious. Often, the main editing area being monitored by the caller will be at subjectRegion, when the receiver modifies the underlying document at a different location without wanting to interrupt the normal typing flow of the user.

      An example would be an editor that automatically increments the section number of the next section when the user typed in a new section title. In this example, the subject region is the current typing location, while the increment results in a document change further down in the text.

      Parameters:
      event - the DocumentEvent in question
      subjectRegion - the region that the caller is interested in
      Returns:
      true if event was triggered by the receiver and relates to subjectRegion

    • ownsFocusShell

      boolean ownsFocusShell()
      Returns true if the receiver is showing a shell which has focus, false if it does not have focus or the helper has no shell.
      Returns:
      true if the support's shell has focus, false otherwise