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package org.eclipse.ui.internal.layout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control;
/**
* Layouts that implement this interface are capable of caching the
* sizes of child controls in a manner that allows the information
* for a single control to be flushed without affecting the remaining
* controls. These layouts will ignore the "changed" arguments to layout(...)
* and computeSize(...), however they will flush their cache for individual
* controls when the flush(...) method is called.
* <p>
* This allows for much more efficient layouts, since most of the cache
* can be reused when a child control changes.
* </p>
*
* @since 3.0
*/
public interface ICachingLayout {
/**
* Flushes cached data for the given control
*/
public void flush(Control dirtyControl);
}