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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

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.