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-rw-r--r--src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/GLAnimatorControl.java53
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/GLAnimatorControl.java b/src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/GLAnimatorControl.java
index 3052b924e..a72403eae 100644
--- a/src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/GLAnimatorControl.java
+++ b/src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/GLAnimatorControl.java
@@ -35,18 +35,18 @@ package javax.media.opengl;
public interface GLAnimatorControl extends FPSCounter {
/**
- * Indicates whether this animator is running, ie. has been started and not stopped.
+ * Indicates whether this animator has been {@link #start() started}.
*
* @see #start()
* @see #stop()
+ * @see #isPaused()
* @see #pause()
* @see #resume()
*/
boolean isStarted();
/**
- * Indicates whether this animator is running and animating,<br>
- * the latter is true if it has {@link GLAutoDrawable}s to render and is not paused.
+ * Indicates whether this animator {@link #isStarted() is started} and {@link #isPaused() is not paused}.
*
* @see #start()
* @see #stop()
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ public interface GLAnimatorControl extends FPSCounter {
boolean isAnimating();
/**
- * Indicates whether this animator is running and paused.
+ * Indicates whether this animator {@link #isStarted() is started}
+ * and either {@link #pause() manually paused} or paused
+ * automatically due to no {@link #add(GLAutoDrawable) added} {@link GLAutoDrawable}s.
*
* @see #start()
* @see #stop()
@@ -75,30 +77,38 @@ public interface GLAnimatorControl extends FPSCounter {
/**
* Starts this animator, if not running.
- * <P>
+ * <p>
* In most situations this method blocks until
* completion, except when called from the animation thread itself
* or in some cases from an implementation-internal thread like the
* AWT event queue thread.
- * <P>
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Note that an animator w/o {@link #add(GLAutoDrawable) added drawables}
+ * will be paused automatically.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
* If started, all counters (time, frames, ..) are reset to zero.
+ * </p>
*
* @return true is started due to this call,
* otherwise false, ie started already or unable to start.
*
* @see #stop()
* @see #isAnimating()
+ * @see #isPaused()
* @see #getThread()
*/
boolean start();
/**
* Stops this animator.
- * <P>
+ * <p>
* In most situations this method blocks until
* completion, except when called from the animation thread itself
* or in some cases from an implementation-internal thread like the
* AWT event queue thread.
+ * </p>
*
* @return true is stopped due to this call,
* otherwise false, ie not started or unable to stop.
@@ -111,11 +121,12 @@ public interface GLAnimatorControl extends FPSCounter {
/**
* Pauses this animator.
- * <P>
+ * <p>
* In most situations this method blocks until
* completion, except when called from the animation thread itself
* or in some cases from an implementation-internal thread like the
* AWT event queue thread.
+ * </p>
*
* @return false if not started, already paused or failed to pause, otherwise true
*
@@ -126,13 +137,15 @@ public interface GLAnimatorControl extends FPSCounter {
/**
* Resumes animation if paused.
- * <P>
+ * <p>
* In most situations this method blocks until
* completion, except when called from the animation thread itself
* or in some cases from an implementation-internal thread like the
* AWT event queue thread.
- * <P>
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
* If resumed, all counters (time, frames, ..) are reset to zero.
+ * </p>
*
* @return false if not started, not paused or unable to resume, otherwise true
*
@@ -142,9 +155,11 @@ public interface GLAnimatorControl extends FPSCounter {
boolean resume();
/**
- * Adds a drawable to this animator's list of rendering drawables.<br>
- * This allows the animator thread to become active, i.e. {@link #isAnimating()}==true,
- * in case the first drawable is added and {@link #isStarted()} and not {@link #isPaused()}.<br>
+ * Adds a drawable to this animator's list of rendering drawables.
+ * <p>
+ * This allows the animator thread to become {@link #isAnimating() animating},
+ * in case the first drawable is added and the animator {@link #isStarted() is started}.
+ * </p>
*
* @param drawable the drawable to be added
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if drawable was already added to this animator
@@ -152,11 +167,15 @@ public interface GLAnimatorControl extends FPSCounter {
void add(GLAutoDrawable drawable);
/**
- * Removes a drawable from the animator's list of rendering drawables.<br>
+ * Removes a drawable from the animator's list of rendering drawables.
+ * <p>
* This method should get called in case a drawable becomes invalid,
- * and will not be recovered.<br>
- * This allows the animator thread to become idle, i.e. {@link #isAnimating()}==false,
- * in case the last drawable has reached it's end of life.<br>
+ * and will not be recovered.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * This allows the animator thread to become {@link #isAnimating() not animating},
+ * in case the last drawable has been removed.
+ * </p>
*
* @param drawable the drawable to be removed
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if drawable was not added to this animator