org.netbeans.editor

Interface TokenCategory

All Known Subinterfaces:

ImageTokenID, TokenID

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseImageTokenID, BaseTokenCategory, BaseTokenID

public interface TokenCategory

Token category enables dividing the tokens into groups. Each token by default can be contained in zero or one group. If a coloring for the token can't be found and it has non-null token-group then the coloring for the group is attempted.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getName() Get the name of the category.
int	getNumericID() Get the optional numeric identification of this token-category.

Method Detail

getName

String getName()

Get the name of the category.

getNumericID

int getNumericID()

Get the optional numeric identification of this token-category. It can help to use the category in switch-case statements. It should default to a zero if no numeric-id should be used.