/* StateEdit.java -- UndoableEdit for StateEditable implementations.
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package javax.swing.undo;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Iterator;
/**
* A helper class, making it easy to support undo and redo.
*
*
The following example shows how to use this class.
If Foo’s implementation of {@link
* StateEditable} considers the name as part of the editable state,
* the user can now choose “Undo Name Change” or
* “Redo Name Change” from the respective menu. No
* further undo support is needed from the application.
*
*
The following explains what happens in the example.
*
*
*
When a StateEdit is created, the associated
* {@link StateEditable} gets asked to store its state into a hash
* table, {@link #preState}.
*
The application will now perform some changes to the edited
* object. This typically happens by invoking methods on the edited
* object.
*
The editing phase is terminated by invoking the {@link #end()}
* method of the StateEdit. The end() method
* does two things.
*
*
*
The edited object receives a second request for storing
* its state. This time, it will use a different hash table, {@link
* #postState}.
*
To increase efficiency, the StateEdit now removes
* any entries from {@link #preState} and {@link #postState} that have
* the same key, and whose values are equal. Equality is determined
* by invoking the equals method inherited from
* {@link java.lang.Object}.
*
*
When the user later chooses to undo the StateEdit,
* the edited object is asked to {@linkplain StateEditable#restoreState
* restore its state} from the {@link #preState} table. Similarly,
* when the user chooses to redo the StateEdit,
* the edited object gets asked to restore its state from the {@link
* #postState}.
*
*
* @author Andrew Selkirk (aselkirk@sympatico.ca)
* @author Sascha Brawer (brawer@dandelis.ch)
*/
public class StateEdit
extends AbstractUndoableEdit
{
/**
* The ID of the Java source file in Sun’s Revision Control
* System (RCS). This certainly should not be part of the API
* specification. But in order to be API-compatible with
* Sun’s reference implementation, GNU Classpath also has to
* provide this field and match its value. The value used here has
* been in every JDK release at least from 1.2 to 1.5.
*/
protected static final String RCSID = "$" +
"Id: StateEdit.java,v 1.6 1997/10/01 20:05:51 sandipc Exp $";
/**
* The object which is being edited by this StateEdit.
*/
protected StateEditable object;
/**
* The state of object at the time of constructing
* this StateEdit.
*/
protected Hashtable