File: System\Windows\Forms\Design\ISelectionUIService.cs
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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
using System.Drawing;
 
namespace System.Windows.Forms.Design;
 
/// <summary>
///  The selection UI service is used to provide a standard user interface for selection across designers.
///  Using this service is optional, but is recommended to provide a standard UI component selection.
/// </summary>
internal interface ISelectionUIService
{
    /// <summary>
    ///  Determines if the selection UI is shown or not.
    /// </summary>
    bool Visible { get; set; }
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Adds an event handler to the ContainerSelectorActive event. This event is fired whenever the user interacts
    ///  with the container selector in a manor that would indicate that the selector should continued to be displayed.
    ///  Since the container selector normally will vanish after a timeout, designers should listen to this event
    ///  and reset the timeout when this event occurs.
    /// </summary>
    event ContainerSelectorActiveEventHandler ContainerSelectorActive;
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Assigns a selection UI handler to a given component. The handler will be called when the UI service needs
    ///  information about the component. A single selection UI handler can be assigned to multiple components.
    ///  When multiple components are dragged, only a single handler may control the drag. Because of this,
    ///  only components that are assigned the same handler as the primary selection are included in drag operations.
    ///  A selection UI handler is automatically unassigned when the component is removed from the container or disposed.
    /// </summary>
    void AssignSelectionUIHandler(object component, ISelectionUIHandler handler);
 
    void ClearSelectionUIHandler(object component, ISelectionUIHandler handler);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  This can be called by an outside party to begin a drag of the currently selected set of components.
    ///  At least one designer must have added a UI handler or else this method will always return false.
    /// </summary>
    bool BeginDrag(SelectionRules rules, int initialX, int initialY);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  This can be used to determine if the user is in the middle of a drag operation.
    /// </summary>
    bool Dragging { get; }
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Called by an outside party to update drag information. This can only be called after a successful call to beginDrag.
    /// </summary>
    void DragMoved(Rectangle offset);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Called by an outside party to finish a drag operation. This can only be called after a successful call to beginDrag.
    /// </summary>
    void EndDrag(bool cancel);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Filters the set of selected components. The selection service will retrieve all components
    ///  that are currently selected. This method allows you to filter this set down to components
    ///  that match your criteria. The selectionRules parameter must contain one or more flags
    ///  from the SelectionRules class. These flags allow you to constrain the set of selected objects to visible,
    ///  movable, sizeable or all objects.
    /// </summary>
    object[] FilterSelection(object[] components, SelectionRules selectionRules);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Retrieves the width and height of a selection border grab handle. Designers may need this to properly
    ///  position their user interfaces.
    /// </summary>
    Size GetAdornmentDimensions(AdornmentType adornmentType);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Tests to determine if the given screen coordinate is over an adornment for the specified component.
    ///  This will only return true if the adornment, and selection UI, is visible.
    /// </summary>
    bool GetAdornmentHitTest(object component, Point pt);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Gets a value indicating whether the specified component is the currently selected container.
    /// </summary>
    bool GetContainerSelected([NotNullWhen(true)] object? component);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Retrieves a set of flags that define rules for the selection. Selection rules indicate if the given
    ///  component can be moved or sized, for example.
    /// </summary>
    SelectionRules GetSelectionRules(object component);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Allows you to configure the style of the selection frame that a component uses. This is useful
    ///  if your component supports different modes of operation
    ///  (such as an in-place editing mode and a static design mode). Where possible, you should leave the
    ///  selection style as is and use the design-time hit testing feature of the IDesigner interface to provide
    ///  features at design time. The value of style must be one of the SelectionStyle enum values.
    ///  The selection style is only valid for the duration that the component is selected.
    /// </summary>
    SelectionStyles GetSelectionStyle(object component);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Changes the container selection status of the specified component.
    /// </summary>
    void SetContainerSelected(object component, bool selected);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  Allows you to configure the style of the selection frame that a component uses.
    ///  This is useful if your component supports different modes of operation
    ///  (such as an in-place editing mode and a static design mode). Where possible, you should leave the
    ///  selection style as is and use the design-time hit testing feature of the IDesigner interface to provide
    ///  features at design time. The value of style must be one of the SelectionStyle enum values.
    ///  The selection style is only valid for the duration that the component is selected.
    /// </summary>
    void SetSelectionStyle(object component, SelectionStyles style);
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  This should be called when a component has been moved, sized or re-parented, but the change was not the
    ///  result of a property change. All property changes are monitored by the selection UI service, so this is
    ///  automatic most of the time. There are times, however, when a component may be moved without a property
    ///  change notification occurring. Scrolling an auto scroll Win32 form is an example of this. This method
    ///  simply re-queries all currently selected components for their bounds and updates the selection handles
    ///  for any that have changed.
    /// </summary>
    void SyncSelection();
 
    /// <summary>
    ///  This should be called when a component's property changed, that the designer thinks should result in
    ///  a selection UI change. This method simply re-queries all currently selected components for their bounds and
    ///  updates the selection handles for any that have changed.
    /// </summary>
    void SyncComponent(object? component);
}