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Java library for creating text-based terminal GUIs
/*
* This file is part of lanterna (http://code.google.com/p/lanterna/).
*
* lanterna is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see .
*
* Copyright (C) 2010-2020 Martin Berglund
*/
package com.googlecode.lanterna.terminal;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* This interface is for abstracting the creation of your Terminal object. The bundled implementation is
* DefaultTerminalFactory, which will use a simple auto-detection mechanism for figuring out which terminal
* implementation to create based on characteristics of the system the program is running on.
*
* @author martin
*/
@SuppressWarnings("WeakerAccess")
public interface TerminalFactory {
/**
* Instantiates a Terminal according to the factory implementation.
* @return Terminal implementation
* @throws IOException If there was an I/O error with the underlying input/output system
*/
Terminal createTerminal() throws IOException;
}