jview
Interface EclecticPropertyListener

All Superinterfaces:

EventListener, PropertyChangeListener

All Known Implementing Classes:

JAnalyserToFit, JDataModelDisplay, JExtremaSelect, UserDrivenFitting

public interface EclecticPropertyListener
extends PropertyChangeListener

Extends the property change listener interface with a method that let a property change caster decide, if the listener should wants to register to a certain type of property change, defined by the property name. This can circumvent unnecassary passing of property change events to listeners that to not want to receive them.

Method Summary

boolean

isInterested(String name) If the listener returns true on this method, it announces interest in receiving properties of the given name.

Methods inherited from interface java.beans.PropertyChangeListener

propertyChange

Method Detail

isInterested

boolean isInterested(String name)

If the listener returns true on this method, it announces interest in receiving properties of the given name. Normally this is used in a scenary, where a property change caster fires a huge number of different event to circument unneccassary invocations of the listener.

Parameters:

name - The property name to query.

Returns:

True, if this listener would like to listen to this property.