Class StateEdit

public class StateEdit
extends AbstractUndoableEdit

StateEdit is a general edit for objects that change state. Objects being edited must conform to the StateEditable interface.

This edit class works by asking an object to store it's state in Hashtables before and after editing occurs. Upon undo or redo the object is told to restore it's state from these Hashtables.

A state edit is used as follows:

// Create the edit during the "before" state of the object
      StateEdit newEdit = new StateEdit(myObject);
      // Modify the object
      myObject.someStateModifyingMethod();
      // "end" the edit when you are done modifying the object
      newEdit.end();

Note that when a StateEdit ends, it removes redundant state from the Hashtables - A state Hashtable is not guaranteed to contain all keys/values placed into it when the state is stored!

Fields

RCSID

protected static final String RCSID

See Also:

Constant Field Values

object

protected StateEditable object

The object being edited

preState

protected Hashtable<Object,Object> preState

The state information prior to the edit

postState

protected Hashtable<Object,Object> postState

The state information after the edit

undoRedoName

protected String undoRedoName

The undo/redo presentation name

Constructors

StateEdit

public StateEdit(StateEditable anObject)

Create and return a new StateEdit.

Parameters:

anObject - The object to watch for changing state

See Also:

StateEdit

StateEdit

public StateEdit(StateEditable anObject,
                 String name)

Create and return a new StateEdit with a presentation name.

Parameters:

anObject - The object to watch for changing state

name - The presentation name to be used for this edit

See Also:

StateEdit

Methods

init

protected void init(StateEditable anObject,
                    String name)

end

public void end()

Gets the post-edit state of the StateEditable object and ends the edit.

undo

public void undo()

Tells the edited object to apply the state prior to the edit

Specified by:

undo in interface UndoableEdit

Overrides:

undo in class AbstractUndoableEdit

See Also:

AbstractUndoableEdit.canUndo()

redo

public void redo()

Tells the edited object to apply the state after the edit

Specified by:

redo in interface UndoableEdit

Overrides:

redo in class AbstractUndoableEdit

See Also:

AbstractUndoableEdit.canRedo()

getPresentationName

public String getPresentationName()

Gets the presentation name for this edit

Specified by:

getPresentationName in interface UndoableEdit

Overrides:

getPresentationName in class AbstractUndoableEdit

Returns:

the empty string ""

See Also:

AbstractUndoableEdit.getUndoPresentationName(), AbstractUndoableEdit.getRedoPresentationName()

removeRedundantState

protected void removeRedundantState()

Remove redundant key/values in state hashtables.