001/***************************************************************************** 002 * Copyright by The HDF Group. * 003 * Copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. * 004 * All rights reserved. * 005 * * 006 * This file is part of the HDF Java Products distribution. * 007 * The full copyright notice, including terms governing use, modification, * 008 * and redistribution, is contained in the files COPYING and Copyright.html. * 009 * COPYING can be found at the root of the source code distribution tree. * 010 * Or, see http://hdfgroup.org/products/hdf-java/doc/Copyright.html. * 011 * If you do not have access to either file, you may request a copy from * 012 * help@hdfgroup.org. * 013 ****************************************************************************/ 014 015package hdf.view; 016 017/** 018 * 019 * The text view interface for displaying text data 020 * 021 * @author Peter X. Cao 022 * @version 2.4 9/6/2007 023 */ 024public abstract interface TextView extends DataView { 025 /** 026 * Returns an array of the text in this textview 027 * 028 * @return An array of the text contained in this TextView 029 */ 030 public abstract String[] getText(); 031 032 /** Write the change of a dataset into file. */ 033 public abstract void updateValueInFile(); 034 035}