Major cleanup of Utils class.
[trakem2.git] / ini / trakem2 / tree / Thing.java
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1 /**
3 TrakEM2 plugin for ImageJ(C).
4 Copyright (C) 2005,2006 Albert Cardona and Rodney Douglas.
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
8 as published by the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt )
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
17 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
19 You may contact Albert Cardona at acardona at ini.phys.ethz.ch
20 Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich / ETH, Switzerland.
21 **/
23 package ini.trakem2.tree;
25 import java.util.ArrayList;
26 import java.util.HashMap;
28 public interface Thing {
30 public boolean canHaveAsChild(Thing thing);
32 public boolean canHaveAsAttribute(String type);
34 public String getType();
36 public String getTitle();
38 public String toString();
40 public HashMap getAttributes();
42 public ArrayList getChildren();
44 public Object getObject();
46 public boolean addChild(Thing thing);
48 public void setParent(Thing thing);
50 public Thing getParent();
52 public Thing findChild(Object ob);
54 public void debug(String indent);
56 public boolean isExpanded();
58 public String getInfo();
60 public Thing shallowCopy();