001/* 002 * Copyright 2006 - 2013 003 * Stefan Balev <stefan.balev@graphstream-project.org> 004 * Julien Baudry <julien.baudry@graphstream-project.org> 005 * Antoine Dutot <antoine.dutot@graphstream-project.org> 006 * Yoann Pigné <yoann.pigne@graphstream-project.org> 007 * Guilhelm Savin <guilhelm.savin@graphstream-project.org> 008 * 009 * This file is part of GraphStream <http://graphstream-project.org>. 010 * 011 * GraphStream is a library whose purpose is to handle static or dynamic 012 * graph, create them from scratch, file or any source and display them. 013 * 014 * This program is free software distributed under the terms of two licenses, the 015 * CeCILL-C license that fits European law, and the GNU Lesser General Public 016 * License. You can use, modify and/ or redistribute the software under the terms 017 * of the CeCILL-C license as circulated by CEA, CNRS and INRIA at the following 018 * URL <http://www.cecill.info> or under the terms of the GNU LGPL as published by 019 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your 020 * option) any later version. 021 * 022 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY 023 * WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 024 * PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. 025 * 026 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 027 * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 028 * 029 * The fact that you are presently reading this means that you have had 030 * knowledge of the CeCILL-C and LGPL licenses and that you accept their terms. 031 */ 032package org.graphstream.ui.swingViewer.util; 033 034import java.awt.Graphics2D; 035import java.io.IOException; 036 037/** 038 * A special interface for renderers that allows to replace the Graphics2D. 039 * 040 * <p> 041 * Several external libraries use to replace the {@link Graphics2D} of AWT in 042 * order to produce a file or on a printer in a given format. However it is not possible to 043 * link such libraries in the gs-core module of GraphStream. To avoid this 044 * problem, this interface defines a plug-in that must implement be able to 045 * yield a {@link Graphics2D} usable instead of the default one. 046 * </p> 047 */ 048public interface Graphics2DOutput { 049 /** 050 * The graphics to use instead of the default {@link Graphics2D} of AWT. 051 */ 052 Graphics2D getGraphics(); 053 054 /** 055 * Output (if needed) the results of the last painting done with the {@link Graphics2D}. 056 * @param outputName The name of the output to use, for some renderers it is a file, 057 * for others it is an URL, a string description of the output, etc. 058 */ 059 void outputTo(String outputName) throws IOException; 060}