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 * Copyright (c) 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
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 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.views.memory;

/**
 * This interface is for capturing functions that are only applicable
 * for memory being displayed in table format.
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface ITableMemoryViewTab extends IMemoryViewTab {

	/**
	 * View tab will be formatted based on the parameters provided.  
	 * Possible value for bytesPerLine is:  16.  
	 * Although bytesPerLine is limited to 16, this function should still take this argument 
	 * for future extension when other values are to be supported.  
	 * Possible values for columnSize:  1, 2, 4, 8, 16.
	 * @param bytesPerLine
	 * @param columnSize
	 * @return true if formatting is successful, false otherwise
	 */
	public boolean format (int bytesPerLine, int columnSize);
	
	/**
	 * @return number of bytes per line from the view tab.
	 */
	public int getBytesPerLine();
	
	
	/**
	 * @return number of bytes per column from the view tab.
	 */
	public int getColumnSize();
	
	
	/**
	 * @return number of visible lines from the view tab.
	 */
	public int getNumberOfVisibleLines();
	
}
