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package com.jogamp.opengl.util.texture.spi;

import java.io.*;

import com.jogamp.opengl.util.texture.*;

/** Plug-in interface to TextureIO to support writing OpenGL textures
    to new file formats. */

public interface TextureWriter {
    /** Writes the given TextureData to the passed file. Returns true if
        this TextureWriter successfully handled the writing of the file,
        otherwise false. May throw IOException if either this writer did
        not support certain parameters of the TextureData or if an I/O
        error occurred. */
    public boolean write(File file,
                         TextureData data) throws IOException;
}