001 /* AccessibleExtendedComponent.java -- aids in extended component access 002 Copyright (C) 2002, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 package javax.accessibility; 039 040 /** 041 * Objects which present graphical components with extensions such as key 042 * bindings or tool-tips should implement this interface. Accessibility 043 * software can use the implementations of this interface to display the 044 * extended information of the component. 045 * 046 * <p>The <code>AccessibleContext.getAccessibleComponent()</code> method 047 * should return an instance of this interface only when it is supported. 048 * 049 * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu) 050 * @see Accessible 051 * @see AccessibleContext 052 * @see AccessibleContext#getAccessibleComponent() 053 * @since 1.2 054 * @status updated to 1.4 055 */ 056 public interface AccessibleExtendedComponent extends AccessibleComponent 057 { 058 /** 059 * Returns the tool-tip text for this component. 060 * 061 * @return the tool-tip, or null if not supported 062 */ 063 String getToolTipText(); 064 065 /** 066 * Returns the title border text for this component. 067 * 068 * @return the titled border text, or null if not supported 069 */ 070 String getTitledBorderText(); 071 072 /** 073 * Returns the accessible key bindings for this component. 074 * 075 * @return the key bindings, or null if not supported 076 */ 077 AccessibleKeyBinding getAccessibleKeyBinding(); 078 } // interface AccessibleExtendedComponent