com.mucommander.ui.viewer
Class EditorRegistrar

java.lang.Object
  com.mucommander.ui.viewer.EditorRegistrar

public class EditorRegistrar
extends java.lang.Object

EditorRegistrar maintains a list of registered file editors and provides methods to dynamically register file editors and create appropriate FileEditor (Panel) and EditorFrame (Window) instances for a given AbstractFile.

Author:

Maxence Bernard

Constructor Summary

EditorRegistrar()

Method Summary

static EditorFrame	createEditorFrame(MainFrame mainFrame, AbstractFile file, java.awt.Image icon) Creates and returns an EditorFrame to start viewing the given file.
static FileEditor	createFileEditor(AbstractFile file) Creates and returns an appropriate FileEditor for the given file type.
static void	registerFileEditor(EditorFactory factory) Registers a FileEditor.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EditorRegistrar

public EditorRegistrar()

Method Detail

registerFileEditor

public static void registerFileEditor(EditorFactory factory)

Registers a FileEditor.

Parameters:

factory - file editor factory to register.

createEditorFrame

public static EditorFrame createEditorFrame(MainFrame mainFrame,
                                            AbstractFile file,
                                            java.awt.Image icon)

Creates and returns an EditorFrame to start viewing the given file. The EditorFrame will be monitored so that if it is the last window on screen when it is closed by the user, it will trigger the shutdown sequence.

Parameters:

mainFrame - the parent MainFrame instance

file - the file that will be displayed by the returned EditorFrame

icon - editor frame's icon.

Returns:

the created EditorFrame

createFileEditor

public static FileEditor createFileEditor(AbstractFile file)
                                   throws UserCancelledException

Creates and returns an appropriate FileEditor for the given file type.

Parameters:

file - the file that will be displayed by the returned FileEditor

Returns:

the created FileEditor

Throws:

UserCancelledException - if the user has been asked to confirm the operation and cancelled