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The ObjectInspector itself does not know anything about the object it is inspecting, all information is obtained via XPropertyHandlers. Also, property handlers are responsible for describing the user interface which should be used to interact with the user, with respect to a given aspect of the inspected component.

@see ObjectInspector @see LineDescriptor @since OOo 2.0.3 */ published interface XPropertyHandler { /** used for controlling resources acquired by the handler

XComponent::dispose is invoked when the property handler is not needed by the object inspector anymore. Handler implementations should clean up any resources here.

*/ interface com::sun::star::lang::XComponent; /** binds the property handler to a new component @param Component the component to inspect. Must not be @throws com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException if the component is */ void inspect( [in] com::sun::star::uno::XInterface Component ) raises( com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException ); /** retrieves the current value of a property @param PropertyName the name of the property whose value is to be retrieved @throws com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException if the given property is not supported by the property handler */ any getPropertyValue( [in] string PropertyName ) raises (::com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException); /** sets the value of a property @param PropertyName the name of the property whose value is to be set @param Value the property value to set @throws com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException if the given property is not supported by the property handler */ void setPropertyValue( [in] string PropertyName, [in] any Value ) raises (::com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException); /** returns the state of a property @param PropertyName the name of the property whose state is to be retrieved @throws com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException if the given property is not supported by the property handler */ com::sun::star::beans::PropertyState getPropertyState( [in] string PropertyName ) raises (::com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException); /** describes the UI to be used to represent the property @param PropertyName the name of the property whose user interface is to be described implementation @param ControlFactory a factory for creating XPropertyControl instances. Must not be . @return the descriptor of the property line. @throws com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException if the given property is not supported by this handler @throws com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException if ControlFactory is . @see PropertyControlType @see LineDescriptor */ LineDescriptor describePropertyLine( [in] string PropertyName, [in] XPropertyControlFactory ControlFactory ) raises (::com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException, ::com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException); /** converts a given control-compatible value to a property value

In describePropertyLine, a property handler declared which type of control should be used to display the value of a certain property. To allow to use the same control type for different properties, and in particular, for properties of different type, conversions between controls values and property values are needed.

This method converts a control value into a property value, which subsequently can be used in conjunction with setPropertyValue.

@param PropertyName The name of the conversion's target property. @param ControlValue The to-be-converted control value. This value has been obtained from an XPropertyControl, using its Value attribute. @throws com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException if the given property is not supported by the property handler @see convertToControlValue @see describePropertyLine @see XPropertyControl @see getPropertyValue */ any convertToPropertyValue( [in] string PropertyName, [in] any ControlValue ) raises (::com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException); /** converts a given property value to a control-compatible value

In describePropertyLine, a property handler declared which type of control should be used to display the value of a certain property. To allow to use the same control type for different properties, and in particular, for properties of different type, conversions between controls values and property values are needed.

This method converts a property value, which has previously been obtained using getPropertyValue, into a control-compatible value, which can be used with XPropertyControl's XPropertyControl::Value attribute.

A usual application of this method are list boxes: There is a generic list box implementation, which is able to display a simple list of strings. Usually, every string represents one possible property value. To translate between those property values and the displayed strings, convertToControlValue and convertToPropertyValue are used.

The method is not invoked if the control's value type (XPropertyControl::ValueType equals the property's value type.

@param PropertyName The name of the property whose value is to be converted. @param PropertyValue The to-be-converted property value. @param ControlValueType The target type of the conversion. This type is determined by the control which is used to display the property, which in turn is determined by the handler itself in describePropertyLine.
Speaking strictly, this is passed for convenience only, since every XPropertyHandler implementation should know exactly which type to expect, since it implicitly determined this type in describePropertyLine by creating an appropriate XPropertyControl. @throws com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException if the given property is not supported by the property handler @see convertToPropertyValue @see describePropertyLine @see XPropertyControl @see getPropertyValue */ any convertToControlValue( [in] string PropertyName, [in] any PropertyValue, [in] type ControlValueType ) raises (::com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException); /** registers a listener for notification about property value changes

An XPropertyHandler implementation might decide to ignore this call. However, in this case property value changes made by third party components are not reflected in the object inspector.

If a handler implementation supports property change listeners, it must be able to cope with a call to addPropertyChangeListener even if currently no component is being inspected. In this case, the listener must become active as soon as a new introspectee is set in the next inspect call.

@param Listener the listener to notify about property changes @throws com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException if the listener is @see removePropertyChangeListener */ void addPropertyChangeListener( [in] com::sun::star::beans::XPropertyChangeListener Listener ) raises ( com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException ); /** revokes a listener for notification about property value changes @see addPropertyChangeListener */ void removePropertyChangeListener( [in] com::sun::star::beans::XPropertyChangeListener Listener ); /** returns the properties which the handler can handle

A handler is allowed to return an empty sequence here, indicating that for the given introspectee, no properties handling can be provided. This might happen when a fixed set of property handlers is used for a variety of components to inspect, where not all handlers can really cope with all components.

In the case of returning an empty sequence here, the property handler is ignored by all further processing in the object inspector.

*/ sequence< com::sun::star::beans::Property > getSupportedProperties(); /** returns the properties which are to be superseded by this handler

Besides defining an own set of properties (see getSupportedProperties), a property handler can also declare that foreign properties (which it is not responsible for) are superseded by its own properties.

This is usually used if your handler is used with another, more generic one, which should continue to be responsible for all properties, except a few which your handler handles more elegantly.

In such a case, simply return those properties here.

There is a precedence in the property handlers used by an ObjectInspector, which also is important for the superseded properties. This precendence is implied by the precendence of factories to create the property handlers, as denoted in the XObjectInspectorModel::HandlerFactories attribute.

With this in mind, property handlers can only supersede properties which are supported by a handler preceding them, but not properties of handlers succeeding them.

For instance, imaging an XObjectInspectorModel which provides three factories, for handler A, B, and C - in this order. Now if A supports the property Foo, C supports Bar, and B supersedes both Foo and Bar, them the result is Bar is still present. This is because B precedes C, so it cannot, by definition, supersede properties which are supported by C.

If getSupportedProperties returned an empty sequence, this method will not be called.

@see XObjectInspectorModel::HandlerFactories */ sequence< string > getSupersededProperties( ); /** retrieve the actuating properties which this handler is interested in

In general, properties can be declared as "actuating", that is, when their value changes, the UI for other properties needs to be updated (e.g. enabled or disabled).

With this method, a handler can declare that it feels responsible for some/all of the depending properties of certain actuating properties.

Whenever the value of an actuating property changes, all handlers which expressed their interest in this particular actuating properties are called with their actuatingPropertyChanged method.

If getSupportedProperties returned an empty sequence, this method will not be called

*/ sequence< string > getActuatingProperties( ); /** determines whether a given property, which the handler is responsible for, is composable.

An object inspector can inspect multiple components at once, displaying the intersection of their properties. For this, all components are examined for their properties, and all properties which exist for all components, and are declared to be composable by their respective handler, are displayed in the inspector UI.

@param PropertyName the name of the property whose composability is to be determined @throws com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException if the given property is not supported by the property handler */ boolean isComposable( [in] string PropertyName ) raises (::com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException); /** called when a browse button belonging to a property UI represenation has been clicked

Property handlers can raise a dedicated UI for entering or somehow changing a property value. Usually, this will be a modal dialog, but it can also be a non-modal user interface component.

Availability of this feature is indicated by the LineDescriptor::HasPrimaryButton and LineDescriptor::HasSecondaryButton members of a LineDescriptor, which the XPropertyHandler fills in its describePropertyLine method.

When this method is called, the property handler should raise the UI needed to enter the property value, and return the result of this (see InteractiveSelectionResult).

It is recommended that property handlers do not directly set the property value which has been obatined from the user, but store it in the output-parameter Data, and return InteractiveSelectionResult::ObtainedValue.

If a handler sets the new property value directly, and returns InteractiveSelectionResult::ObtainedValue, this implies that the property cannot properly be handled in case the object inspector is inspecting an intersection of multiple components, since in this case onInteractivePropertySelection will be called at one handler only, however the new property would have to be forwarded to all handlers.

If a property is not composeable, directly setting the new property value does not yield any problem, as long as property listeners are properly notified of the change.

@param PropertyName The name of the property whose browse button has been clicked @param Primary if and only if the primary button has been clicked, otherwise @param out_Data If the method returns InteractiveSelectionResult::ObtainedValue, then out_Data contains the value which has been interactively obtained from the user, and which still needs to be set at the inspected component. @param InspectorUI provides access to the object inspector UI. Implementations should use this if the property selection requires non-modal user input. In those cases, onInteractivePropertySelection should return InteractiveSelectionResult::Pending, and the UI for (at least) the property whose input is still pending should be disabled. @return the result of the interactive property value selection. @throws com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException if the given property is not supported by the property handler @throws com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException if InspectorUI is @see describePropertyLine @see addPropertyChangeListener @see isComposable */ ::com::sun::star::inspection::InteractiveSelectionResult onInteractivePropertySelection( [in] string PropertyName, [in] boolean Primary, [out] any out_Data, [in] XObjectInspectorUI InspectorUI ) raises (::com::sun::star::beans::UnknownPropertyException, ::com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException); /** updates the UI of dependent properties when the value of a certain actuating property changed

This method is called whenever a property value changes, limited to those properties whose changes the handler expressed interest in (see getActuatingProperties).

@param ActuatingPropertyName the id of the actuating property. @param NewValue the new value of the property @param OldValue the old value of the property @param InspectorUI a callback for updating the object inspector UI @param FirstTimeInit If , the method is called for the first-time update of the respective property, that is, when the property browser is just initializing with the properties of the introspected object.
If , there was a real XPropertyChangeListener::propertyChange event which triggered the call.

In some cases it may be necessary to differentiate between both situations. For instance, if you want to set the value of another property when an actuating property's value changed, you should definately not do this when FirstTimeInit is . @throws com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException if InspectorUI is */ void actuatingPropertyChanged( [in] string ActuatingPropertyName, [in] any NewValue, [in] any OldValue, [in] XObjectInspectorUI InspectorUI, [in] boolean FirstTimeInit ) raises (::com::sun::star::lang::NullPointerException); /** suspends the handler

A XPropertyHandler is used by a XObjectInspector instance, which implements the XController interface. By definition, a XObjectInspector always forwards all suspend requests (XController::suspend) to all it's handlers.

The usual use case for this method are non-modal user interface components used for property value input. Such a component might have been opened during onInteractivePropertySelection. If a property handler receives a suspend call, it should forward the suspension request to the UI component, and veto suspension of the XObjectInspector as appropriate.

If suspension is not to be vetoed, then all non-modal UI components opened by the handler should have been closed when it returns from the suspend call.

@param Suspend Whether the handler is to be suspended or reactivated (). The latter happens if a handler was successfully suspended, but an external instance vetoed the whole suspension process. @return if the handler does allow suspension, if it vetoes it. */ boolean suspend( [in] boolean Suspend ); }; //============================================================================= }; }; }; }; #endif