Module raytracer

Package de.grogra.ray2

Interface ProgressMonitor

public interface ProgressMonitor

This interface is used by a Renderer to monitor the progress of rendering and to show messages. To ease the usage of the raytracer in groimp, it is now depending on Utility. The ProgressMonitor used is the one from there.

Author:

Ole Kniemeyer

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final float	DONE_PROGRESS	Value for setProgress(java.lang.String, float) indicating that the renderer has done its job.
static final float	INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS	Value for setProgress(java.lang.String, float) indicating that the current state of progress is indetermined.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	setProgress(String text, float progress)	This method is invoked by the renderer to monitor its progress.
void	showMessage(String message)	This method is invoked by the renderer to show a message, e.g., the statistics after rendering has completed.

Field Details

INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS

static final float INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS

Value for setProgress(java.lang.String, float) indicating that the current state of progress is indetermined.

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

DONE_PROGRESS

static final float DONE_PROGRESS

Value for setProgress(java.lang.String, float) indicating that the renderer has done its job.

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

Method Details

setProgress

void setProgress(String text,
 float progress)

This method is invoked by the renderer to monitor its progress.

Parameters:

text - short text to display

progress - state of progress from 0 to 1, or one of the constants INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS, DONE_PROGRESS

showMessage

void showMessage(String message)

This method is invoked by the renderer to show a message, e.g., the statistics after rendering has completed.

Parameters:

message - message to display