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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2012 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.swt.graphics;


/**
 * Implementers of Drawable can have a graphics context (GC)
 * created for them, and then they can be drawn on by sending messages to
 * their associated GC. SWT images, and device objects such as the Display
 * device and the Printer device, are drawables.
 * 
 * IMPORTANT: This interface is not part of the SWT
 * public API. It is marked public only so that it can be shared
 * within the packages provided by SWT. It should never be
 * referenced from application code.
 * 
 * 
 * @see Device
 * @see Image
 * @see GC
 */
public interface Drawable {

/**	 
 * Invokes platform specific functionality to allocate a new GC handle.
 * 
 * IMPORTANT: This method is not part of the public
 * API for Drawable. It is marked public only so that it
 * can be shared within the packages provided by SWT. It is not
 * available on all platforms, and should never be called from
 * application code.
 * 
 *
 * @param data the platform specific GC data 
 * @return the platform specific GC handle
 * 
 * @noreference This method is not intended to be referenced by clients.
 */
 
public int /*long*/ internal_new_GC (GCData data);

/**	 
 * Invokes platform specific functionality to dispose a GC handle.
 * 
 * IMPORTANT: This method is not part of the public
 * API for Drawable. It is marked public only so that it
 * can be shared within the packages provided by SWT. It is not
 * available on all platforms, and should never be called from
 * application code.
 * 
 *
 * @param handle the platform specific GC handle
 * @param data the platform specific GC data 
 * 
 * @noreference This method is not intended to be referenced by clients.
 */
public void internal_dispose_GC (int /*long*/ handle, GCData data);

}