buoy.internal
Class EventLinkRecord

java.lang.Object
  buoy.internal.EventLinkRecord

public class EventLinkRecord
extends java.lang.Object

This class stores a list of methods to be invoked whenever an Event of a particular class is generated by a Widget.

Author:

Peter Eastman

Constructor Summary

EventLinkRecord(java.lang.Class eventType)
Create an EventLinkRecord for storing links for a particular event class.

Method Summary

void	addLink(java.lang.Object target, java.lang.reflect.Method method) Add a new target to be notified of events of this type.
void	dispatchEvent(java.lang.Object event) Send an event to every target which has been added to this record.
java.lang.Class	getEventType() Get the event class for this record.
void	removeLink(java.lang.Object target) Remove an object from the list of targets to be notified of events of this type.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EventLinkRecord

public EventLinkRecord(java.lang.Class eventType)

Create an EventLinkRecord for storing links for a particular event class.

Method Detail

getEventType

public java.lang.Class getEventType()

Get the event class for this record.

addLink

public void addLink(java.lang.Object target,
                    java.lang.reflect.Method method)

Add a new target to be notified of events of this type.

Parameters:

target - the target object to be notified of events

method - the method to be invoked on the target when events occur

removeLink

public void removeLink(java.lang.Object target)

Remove an object from the list of targets to be notified of events of this type.

Parameters:

target - the target object to remove

dispatchEvent

public void dispatchEvent(java.lang.Object event)

Send an event to every target which has been added to this record.