org.eclipse.swt.graphics
Class Resource

java.lang.Object
  org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Resource

Direct Known Subclasses:

Color, Cursor, Font, GC, Image

public abstract class Resource
extends java.lang.Object

This class is the abstract superclass of all graphics resource objects. Resources created by the application are shared across all sessions of the application.

IMPORTANT: This class is intended to be subclassed only within the RWT implementation. However, it has not been marked final to allow those outside of the RWT development team to implement patched versions of the class in order to get around specific limitations in advance of when those limitations can be addressed by the team. Any class built using subclassing to access the internals of this class will likely fail to compile or run between releases and may be strongly platform specific. Subclassing should not be attempted without an intimate and detailed understanding of the workings of the hierarchy. No support is provided for user-written classes which are implemented as subclasses of this class.

Since:

1.0

Method Summary

void	dispose() Disposes of the resource.
Device	getDevice() Returns the Device where this resource was created.
boolean	isDisposed() Returns true if the resource has been disposed, and false otherwise.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getDevice

public Device getDevice()

Returns the Device where this resource was created.

Returns:

Device the device of the receiver

Since:

1.3

dispose

public void dispose()

Disposes of the resource. Applications must dispose of all resources which they allocate. This method does nothing if the resource is already disposed.

Since:

1.3

isDisposed

public boolean isDisposed()

Returns true if the resource has been disposed, and false otherwise.

This method gets the dispose state for the resource. When a resource has been disposed, it is an error to invoke any other method (except dispose()) using the resource.

Returns:

true when the resource is disposed and false otherwise

Since:

1.3