/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 David Orme <djo@coconut-palm-software.com>
*
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* David Orme - Initial API and implementation
*/
package org.eclipse.swt.nebula.widgets.compositetable.internal;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWTException;
/**
* A duck interface for controls that can select a specific range according to SWT
* range selection semantics.
*
* @author djo
*/
public interface ISelectableRegionControl {
/**
* Sets the selection to the range specified
* by the given start and end indices.
* <p>
* Indexing is zero based. The range of
* a selection is from 0..N where N is
* the number of characters in the widget.
* </p><p>
* Text selections are specified in terms of
* caret positions. In a text widget that
* contains N characters, there are N+1 caret
* positions, ranging from 0..N. This differs
* from other functions that address character
* position such as getText () that use the
* usual array indexing rules.
* </p>
*
* @param start the start of the range
* @param end the end of the range
*
* @exception SWTException <ul>
* <li>ERROR_WIDGET_DISPOSED - if the receiver has been disposed</li>
* <li>ERROR_THREAD_INVALID_ACCESS - if not called from the thread that created the receiver</li>
* </ul>
*/
public void setSelection (int start, int end);
}