package org.newdawn.slick.imageout;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import org.newdawn.slick.Image;
/**
* The description of any class that can produce data to an output stream reprsenting
* some image in memory.
*
* @author Jon
*/
public interface ImageWriter {
/**
* Save an Image to an given location
*
* @param image The image to be written
* @param format The format that this writer is expected to be produced in
* @param out The output stream to which the image data should be written
* @param writeAlpha True if we should write alpha information to the file
* @throws IOException Indicates a failure to write out the image to the specified location
*/
void saveImage(Image image, String format, OutputStream out, boolean writeAlpha) throws IOException;
}