diva.gui

Interface DocumentFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

GraphDocument.Factory, SketchDocument.Factory, TextDocument.Factory

public interface DocumentFactory

DocumentFactory is an factory interface that creates Document objects. It is used by the Open action to create a new document in response to user selection of a file or URL.

Version:

$Revision: 1.5 $

Author:

John Reekie (johnr@eecs.berkeley.edu)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Document	createDocument(Application app) Create a new empty document.
Document	createDocument(Application app, File file) Create a new document based on the given file path.
Document	createDocument(Application app, URL url) Create a new document based on the given URL.

Method Detail

createDocument

Document createDocument(Application app)

Create a new empty document.

createDocument

Document createDocument(Application app,
                        URL url)

Create a new document based on the given URL. Typically, this method will parse the contents of the URL and create a Document object containing the parsed form of those contents.

createDocument

Document createDocument(Application app,
                        File file)

Create a new document based on the given file path. Typically, this method will parse the contents of the file and create a Document object containing the parsed form of those contents.