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/**
 * Copyright 2010 JogAmp Community. All rights reserved.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
 * permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 *
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 *
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 *
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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 has been {@link #start() started}.
     *
     * @see #start()
     * @see #stop()
     * @see #isPaused()
     * @see #pause()
     * @see #resume()
     */
    boolean isStarted();

    /**
     * Indicates whether this animator {@link #isStarted() is started} and {@link #isPaused() is not paused}.
     *
     * @see #start()
     * @see #stop()
     * @see #pause()
     * @see #resume()
     */
    boolean isAnimating();

    /**
     * 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()
     * @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>
     * <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>
     * 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.
     *
     * @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.
     * </p>
     *
     * @return  false if not started, already paused or failed to pause, 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>
     * <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
     *
     * @see #pause()
     * @see #isAnimating()
     */
    boolean resume();

    /**
     * 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
     */
    void add(GLAutoDrawable drawable);

    /**
     * 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.
     * </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
     */
    void remove(GLAutoDrawable drawable);
}