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package javax.media.opengl;

/**
 * An animator control interface, 
 * which implementation may drive a {@link javax.media.opengl.GLAutoDrawable} animation.
 */
public interface GLAnimatorControl extends FPSCounter {

    /**
     * Indicates whether this animator is running, ie. has been started and not stopped.
     *
     * @see #start()
     * @see #stop()
     * @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.
     *
     * @see #start()
     * @see #stop()
     * @see #pause()
     * @see #resume()
     */
    boolean isAnimating();

    /**
     * Indicates whether this animator is running and paused.
     *
     * @see #start()
     * @see #stop()
     * @see #pause()
     * @see #resume()
     */
    boolean isPaused();

    /**
     * @return The animation thread if running, otherwise null.
     *
     * @see #start()
     * @see #stop()
     */
    Thread getThread();

    /**
     * Starts this animator, if not running.
     * <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>
     * If started, all counters (time, frames, ..) are reset to zero.
     *
     * @return true is started due to this call,
     *         otherwise false, ie started already or unable to start.
     *
     * @see #stop()
     * @see #isAnimating()
     * @see #getThread()
     */
    boolean start();

    /**
     * Stops this animator.
     * <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.
     *
     * @return true is stopped due to this call,
     *         otherwise false, ie not started or unable to stop.
     *
     * @see #start()
     * @see #isAnimating()
     * @see #getThread()
     */
    boolean stop();

    /**
     * Pauses this animator.
     * <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.
     *
     * @return  false if if not started or already paused, otherwise true
     *
     * @see #resume()
     * @see #isAnimating()
     */
    boolean pause();

    /**
     * Resumes animation if paused.
     * <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>
     * If resumed, all counters (time, frames, ..) are reset to zero.
     *
     * @return false if if not started or not paused, otherwise true
     *
     * @see #pause()
     * @see #isAnimating()
     */
    boolean resume();

    /**
     * Removes a drawable from the animator's list of rendering drawables.<br>
     * 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 in case the last drawable
     * has reached it's end of life.<br>
     * 
     * @param drawable the to be removed drawable
     */
    void remove(GLAutoDrawable drawable);
}