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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2010 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.draw2d;

import org.eclipse.draw2d.geometry.Dimension;
import org.eclipse.draw2d.geometry.Insets;
import org.eclipse.draw2d.geometry.Rectangle;

/**
 * A decoration on a Figure. A border may paint itself within the bounds of a
 * figure, and it may provide Insets which can affect how the figures children
 * are posiiton and painted.
 * 
 * A border instance may be used with multiple figure instances.
 */
public interface Border {

	/**
	 * Returns the Insets for this Border for the given Figure.
	 * 
	 * @param figure
	 *            The figure this border belongs to
	 * @return The insets
	 */
	Insets getInsets(IFigure figure);

	/**
	 * Returns the preferred width and height that this border would like to
	 * display itself properly.
	 * 
	 * @param figure
	 *            The figure
	 * @return The preferred size
	 */
	Dimension getPreferredSize(IFigure figure);

	/**
	 * Returns true if the Border completely fills the region
	 * defined in {@link #paint(IFigure, Graphics, Insets)}.
	 * 
	 * @return true if this border is opaque
	 */
	boolean isOpaque();

	/**
	 * Paints the border. The border should paint inside figure's
	 * {@link IFigure#getBounds()}, inset by the parameter insets. The
	 * border generally should not paint inside its own insets. More
	 * specifically, Border b should paint inside the rectangle:
	 * figure.getBounds().getCropped(insets) and outside of the rectangle:
	 * figure.getBounds().getCropped(insets).getCropped(getInsets()) where
	 * inside is defined as {@link Rectangle#contains(int, int)}.
	 * 
	 * @param figure
	 *            The figure this border belongs to
	 * @param graphics
	 *            The graphics object used for painting
	 * @param insets
	 *            The insets
	 */
	void paint(IFigure figure, Graphics graphics, Insets insets);

}