Package vrml.eai

Interface VrmlComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

VRMLBrowserAWTPanel, VRMLBrowserJPanel

public interface VrmlComponent

Provides for implementation of a VRML browser than runs as a component and able to extract a Browser reference from it.

Generally this is used to provide a definition of an AWT component with a VRML display capability. There is no reason why this could not be used for other browser representations such as off screen renderers or file savers.

Version:

2.0 29 August 1998

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Browser	getBrowser()	Get a browser reference from this component that represents the internals of this browser.
Object	getImplementation()	Get a reference to the component implementation.
void	shutdown()	Shutdown the component because it will no longer be needed.

Method Details

getBrowser

Browser getBrowser()

Get a browser reference from this component that represents the internals of this browser.

Returns:

A reference to the browser object represented by this component.

getImplementation

Object getImplementation()

Get a reference to the component implementation. For example, if this is an AWT component, it would return an instance of Component.

Returns:

a reference to the component implementation

shutdown

void shutdown()

Shutdown the component because it will no longer be needed. If the component has already had this method called, it will silently ignore any further requests.