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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
 * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
 * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
 * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
 * PURPOSE. See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more
 * details.
 */

package org.w3c.dom.smil;

import org.w3c.dom.events.Event;
import org.w3c.dom.views.AbstractView;

/**
 *  The <code>TimeEvent</code> interface provides specific contextual
 * information associated with Time events.
 */
public interface TimeEvent extends Event {
    /**
     *  The <code>view</code> attribute identifies the
     * <code>AbstractView</code> from which the event was generated.
     */
    public AbstractView getView();

    /**
     *  Specifies some detail information about the <code>Event</code> ,
     * depending on the type of event.
     */
    public int getDetail();

    /**
     *  The <code>initTimeEvent</code> method is used to initialize the value
     * of a <code>TimeEvent</code> created through the
     * <code>DocumentEvent</code> interface.  This method may only be called
     * before the <code>TimeEvent</code> has been dispatched via the
     * <code>dispatchEvent</code> method, though it may be called multiple
     * times during that phase if necessary.  If called multiple times, the
     * final invocation takes precedence.
     * @param typeArg  Specifies the event type.
     * @param viewArg  Specifies the <code>Event</code> 's
     *   <code>AbstractView</code> .
     * @param detailArg  Specifies the <code>Event</code> 's detail.
     */
    public void initTimeEvent(String typeArg,
                              AbstractView viewArg,
                              int detailArg);

}