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SciJava Common is a shared library for SciJava software. It provides a plugin framework, with an extensible mechanism for service discovery, backed by its own annotation processor, so that plugins can be loaded dynamically. It is used by both ImageJ and SCIFIO.

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package org.scijava.ui.viewer;

import org.scijava.Disposable;
import org.scijava.display.Display;
import org.scijava.display.event.DisplayActivatedEvent;
import org.scijava.display.event.DisplayDeletedEvent;
import org.scijava.display.event.DisplayUpdatedEvent;
import org.scijava.plugin.Plugin;
import org.scijava.plugin.RichPlugin;
import org.scijava.ui.UserInterface;

/**
 * A display viewer is a UI widget that shows a display to a user.
 * 
 * Display viewers discoverable at runtime must implement this interface and be
 * annotated with @{@link Plugin} with attribute {@link Plugin#type()} =
 * {@link DisplayViewer}.class. While it possible to create a display viewer
 * merely by implementing this interface, it is encouraged to instead extend
 * {@link AbstractDisplayViewer}, for convenience.
 * 
 * 
 * @author Lee Kamentsky
 * @author Curtis Rueden
 * @see Plugin
 */
public interface DisplayViewer extends RichPlugin, Disposable {

	/** Returns true if this display viewer can be used with the given UI. */
	boolean isCompatible(final UserInterface ui);

	/**
	 * Returns true if an instance of this display viewer can view the given
	 * display.
	 */
	boolean canView(Display d);

	/**
	 * Begins viewing the given display.
	 * 
	 * @param w The frame / window that will contain the GUI elements
	 * @param d the model for the display to show.
	 */
	void view(DisplayWindow w, Display d);

	/** Gets the display being viewed. */
	Display getDisplay();

	/** Gets the window in which the view is displayed. */
	DisplayWindow getWindow();

	/**
	 * Installs the display panel.
	 * 
	 * @param panel the panel used to host the gui
	 */
	void setPanel(DisplayPanel panel);

	/** Gets the display panel that hosts the gui elements. */
	DisplayPanel getPanel();

	/** Synchronizes the user interface appearance with the display model. */
	void onDisplayUpdatedEvent(DisplayUpdatedEvent e);

	/** Removes the user interface when the display is deleted. */
	void onDisplayDeletedEvent(DisplayDeletedEvent e);

	/**
	 * Handles a display activated event directed at this viewer's display. Note
	 * that the event's display may not be the viewer's display, but the active
	 * display will always be the viewer's display.
	 */
	void onDisplayActivatedEvent(DisplayActivatedEvent e);
	
}