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/*
 * This file is part of lanterna (http://code.google.com/p/lanterna/).
 *
 * lanterna is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 *
 * Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Martin
 */
package com.googlecode.lanterna.graphics;

/**
 * A ThemeDefinition contains a collection of ThemeStyle:s, which defines on a lower level which colors and SGRs to
 * apply if you want to draw according to the theme. The different style names are directly inspired from GTK 2. You can
 * also fetch character definitions which are stored inside of the theme, for example if you want to draw a border and
 * make the characters that make up the border customizable.
 *
 * @author Martin
 */
public interface ThemeDefinition {
    /**
     * The normal style of the definition, which can be considered the default to be used.
     * @return ThemeStyle representation for the normal style
     */
    ThemeStyle getNormal();

    /**
     * The pre-light style of this definition, which can be used when a component has input focus but isn't active or
     * selected, similar to mouse-hoovering in modern GUIs
     * @return ThemeStyle representation for the pre-light style
     */
    ThemeStyle getPreLight();

    /**
     * The "selected" style of this definition, which can used when a component has been actively selected in some way.
     * @return ThemeStyle representation for the selected style
     */
    ThemeStyle getSelected();

    /**
     * The "active" style of this definition, which can be used when a component is being directly interacted with
     * @return ThemeStyle representation for the active style
     */
    ThemeStyle getActive();

    /**
     * The insensitive style of this definition, which can be used when a component has been disabled or in some other
     * way isn't able to be interacted with.
     * @return ThemeStyle representation for the insensitive style
     */
    ThemeStyle getInsensitive();

    /**
     * Retrieves a custom ThemeStyle, if one is available by this name. Will return null if no such style could be found
     * within this ThemeDefinition. You can use this if you need more categories than the ones available above.
     * @param name Name of the style to look up
     * @return The ThemeStyle associated with the name, or {@code null} if there was no such style
     */
    ThemeStyle getCustom(String name);

    /**
     * Retrieves a character from this theme definition by the specified name. This method cannot return {@code null} so
     * you need to give a fallback in case the definition didn't have any character by this name.
     * @param name Name of the character to look up
     * @param fallback Character to return if there was no character by the name supplied in this definition
     * @return The character from this definition by the name entered, or {@code fallback} if the definition didn't have
     * any character defined with this name
     */
    char getCharacter(String name, char fallback);

    /**
     * Returns the class name of the ComponentRenderer attached to this definition. If none is declared, it will return
     * {@code null} instead of going up in the hierarchy, unlike the other methods of this interface.
     * @return Full name of the renderer class or {@code null}
     */
    String getRenderer();
}