NodePressingEventListener.java

/*
Copyright 2008-2010 Gephi
Authors : Mathieu Bastian <mathieu.bastian@gephi.org>
Website : http://www.gephi.org

This file is part of Gephi.

Gephi is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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*/

package org.gephi.tools.spi;

import org.gephi.graph.api.Node;

/**
 * Tool mouse pressing listener. Listen to continuous mouse pressing on the
 * visualization window and trigger selected nodes.
 * <p>
 * A tool which declares this listener is notified at a certain rate, up to
 * multiple times per second, the selected nodes.
 *
 * @author Mathieu Bastian
 * @see Tool
 */
public interface NodePressingEventListener extends ToolEventListener {

    /**
     * Notify <code>nodes</code> are currently pressed.
     * @param nodes the pressed nodes array
     */
    public void pressingNodes(Node[] nodes);

    /**
     * Notify mouse has been released.
     */
    public void released();
}