org.argouml.ui.explorer
Class PerspectiveManager

java.lang.Object
  org.argouml.ui.explorer.PerspectiveManager

public final class PerspectiveManager
extends java.lang.Object

Provides a model and event management for perspectives(views) of the Explorer.

This class defines the complete list of perspective rules, and knows the default perspectives and their contents.

Since:

0.15.2

getInstance

public static PerspectiveManager getInstance()

Returns:

the instance (singleton)

addListener

public void addListener(PerspectiveManagerListener listener)

Parameters:

listener - the listener to be added

removeListener

public void removeListener(PerspectiveManagerListener listener)

Parameters:

listener - the listener to be removed

addPerspective

public void addPerspective(ExplorerPerspective perspective)

Parameters:

perspective - the perspective to be added

addAllPerspectives

public void addAllPerspectives(java.util.Collection<ExplorerPerspective> newPerspectives)

Parameters:

newPerspectives - the collection of perspectives to be added

removePerspective

public void removePerspective(ExplorerPerspective perspective)

Parameters:

perspective - the perspective to be removed

removeAllPerspectives

public void removeAllPerspectives()

Remove all perspectives.

getPerspectives

public java.util.List<ExplorerPerspective> getPerspectives()

Returns:

the list of all perspectives

loadUserPerspectives

public void loadUserPerspectives()

Tries to load user defined perspectives, if it can't it loads the (predefined) default perspectives.

loadDefaultPerspectives

public void loadDefaultPerspectives()

Loads a pre-defined default set of perspectives.

getDefaultPerspectives

public java.util.Collection<ExplorerPerspective> getDefaultPerspectives()

Returns:

a collection of default perspectives (i.e. the predefined ones)

loadRules

public void loadRules()

Get the predefined rules.

This is a hard coded rules library for now, since it is quite a lot of work to get all possible rule names in "org.argouml.ui.explorer.rules" from the classpath (which would also not allow adding rules from other locations).

addRule

public void addRule(org.argouml.ui.explorer.rules.PerspectiveRule rule)

Add a rule to the list of rules.

Parameters:

rule - the PerspectiveRule to be added

removeRule

public void removeRule(org.argouml.ui.explorer.rules.PerspectiveRule rule)

Remove a rule from the list.

Parameters:

rule - the PerspectiveRule to be removed

getRules

public java.util.Collection<org.argouml.ui.explorer.rules.PerspectiveRule> getRules()

Returns:

the collection of rules

saveUserPerspectives

public void saveUserPerspectives()

Save the user perspectives in the ArgoUML configuration.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

string representation of the perspectives in the same format as saved in the user properties.

See Also:

Object.toString()