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 * in Industry THTH ry.
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 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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 * Contributors:
 *     VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
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package org.simantics.scenegraph.utils;

import java.awt.GraphicsConfiguration;
import java.awt.image.VolatileImage;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

/**
 * @author Antti Villberg
 */
public interface VolatileImageProvider {

    /**
     * @param gc
     * @param createdNew set to <code>true</code> if the provider created a new
     *        VolatileImage or <code>false</code> if a previously cached image
     *        is returned. A <code>null</code> value will simply be ignored.
     * @return
     */
    VolatileImage get(GraphicsConfiguration gc, AtomicInteger validateResult);

    void dispose();

}