org.esa.beam.framework.ui.product
Interface ProductNodeView

All Known Implementing Classes:

ProductMetadataView, ProductPlacemarkView, ProductSceneView

public interface ProductNodeView

An interface which can be used to mark a visible component as a view displaying a product node. Applications can ask a component whether it implements this interface in order to find out which product node is currently displayed.

Method Summary

void	dispose() Releases all of the resources used by this view and all of its owned children.
Rectangle	getBounds() Gets the bounds of this view in the form of a Rectangle object.
ProductNode	getVisibleProductNode()

Method Detail

getVisibleProductNode

ProductNode getVisibleProductNode()

Returns:

The currently visible product node.

dispose

void dispose()

Releases all of the resources used by this view and all of its owned children. Its primary use is to allow the garbage collector to perform a vanilla job.

This method should be called only if it is for sure that this object instance will never be used again. The results of referencing an instance of this class after a call to dispose() are undefined.

getBounds

Rectangle getBounds()

Gets the bounds of this view in the form of a Rectangle object. The bounds specify this view's width, height, and location relative to its parent GUI widget.

Returns:

a rectangle indicating this view's bounds