/*
 Copyright (C) 2003 Nizar N. Batada, Morten O. Alver

 All programs in this directory and
 subdirectories are published under the GNU General Public License as
 described below.

 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 */

package net.sf.jabref;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Container;

import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JLabel;


/**
 * FieldEditors is a common interface between the FieldTextField and FieldTextArea.
 * 
 * @author $Author: mortenalver $
 * @version $Revision: 1938 $ ($Date: 2007-02-16 23:03:17 +0100 (Fri, 16 Feb 2007) $)
 *
 */
public interface FieldEditor {

	public String getFieldName();

	/*
	 * Returns the component to be added to a container. Might be a JScrollPane
	 * or the component itself.
	 */
	public JComponent getPane();

	/*
	 * Returns the text component itself.
	 */
	public JComponent getTextComponent();

	public JLabel getLabel();

	public void setLabelColor(Color c);

	public void setBackground(Color c);

	public String getText();

	/**
	 * Sets the given text on the current field editor and marks this text
	 * editor as modified.
	 * 
	 * @param newText
	 */
	public void setText(String newText);

	public void append(String text);

	public Container getParent();

	public void requestFocus();

	public void setEnabled(boolean enabled);

    public void updateFont();
    /**
	 * paste text into component, it should also take some selected text into
	 * account
	 */
	public void paste(String textToInsert);

	/**
	 * normally implemented in JTextArea and JTextField
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getSelectedText();
}
