Building Applications with the SharpDevelop Core

// Copyright (c) 2005 Daniel Grunwald
// Licensed under the terms of the "BSD License", see doc/license.txt

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Base
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Interface for content displayed in the application.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IViewContent
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Gets the control used to display this view content.
		/// </summary>
		Control Control {
			get;
		}
		
		string Title {
			get;
		}
		
		event EventHandler TitleChanged;
		
		/// <summary>
		/// Closes the view content. Returns true when the content was closed successfully,
		/// false when closing the content was aborted (e.g. by the user)
		/// </summary>
		bool Close();
		
		/// <summary>
		/// Saves the content, e.g. to a file. Returns true when the content has been saved successfully.
		/// </summary>
		bool Save();
		/// <summary>
		/// Asks the user to specify the file location/name and saves the content using the new name.
		/// Returns true when the content has been saved successfully.
		/// </summary>
		bool SaveAs();
	}
}