bibliothek.gui.dock.common.intern
Interface CommonElement

All Superinterfaces:

DockComponentRoot, DockElement

All Known Subinterfaces:

CommonDockable, CommonDockStation<S,C>

All Known Implementing Classes:

CFlapDockStation, CScreenDockStation, CSplitDockStation, DefaultCommonDockable

public interface CommonElement
extends DockElement

Root interface for CommonDockable and for CommonDockStation.

Author:

Benjamin Sigg

Method Summary

CommonDockable	asDockable() Returns this if this is an instance of Dockable.
CommonDockStation<?,?>	asDockStation() Returns this if this is an instance of DockStation.

Methods inherited from interface bibliothek.gui.dock.DockElement

getController, getFactoryID

Methods inherited from interface bibliothek.gui.dock.component.DockComponentRoot

getComponentConfiguration, setComponentConfiguration

Method Detail

asDockable

CommonDockable asDockable()

Description copied from interface: DockElement

Returns this if this is an instance of Dockable. Otherwise null is returned.

Specified by:

asDockable in interface DockElement

Returns:

this or null. Must not return null if DockElement.asDockable() already returns null.

asDockStation

CommonDockStation<?,?> asDockStation()

Description copied from interface: DockElement

Returns this if this is an instance of DockStation. Otherwise null is returned.

Specified by:

asDockStation in interface DockElement

Returns:

this or null. Must not return null if DockElement.asDockable() already returns null