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#include "nsISupports.idl"


%{C++
struct nsRect;
%}

[ref] native nsRectRef(nsRect);

typedef PRUint32 nscolor;

interface nsIRenderingContext;
interface nsIPresContext;

/**
 * \addtogroup renderer_interfaces Rendering Engine Interfaces
 * @{
 */

/**
 * One of a number of interfaces (all starting with nsISVGRenderer*)
 * to be implemented by an SVG rendering engine. See nsISVGRenderer
 * for more details.
 *
 * This interface abstracts a rendering engine-native canvas object
 * onto which path and glyph geometries can be painted.
 *
 * A canvas object is instantiated by the backend for a given
 * Mozilla-native rendering object with a call to
 * nsISVGRenderer::createCanvas().
 */
[scriptable, uuid(a1d9f15e-ee63-4ce1-9fe7-b6cdb09a48a0)]
interface nsISVGRendererCanvas : nsISupports
{
  /**
   * Lock a portion of the canvas and obtain a rendering context onto
   * which Mozilla can paint non-svg content. This is needed for
   * (partial) foreignObject support.
   *
   * lockRenderingContext() calls are paired with
   * unlockRenderingContext() calls.
   *
   * @param rect Area to be locked.
   * @return Mozilla-native rendering context for the locked area.
   */
  [noscript] nsIRenderingContext lockRenderingContext([const] in nsRectRef rect);

  /**
   * Unlock the canvas portion locked with a previous call to
   * lockRenderingContext(). 
   */
  void unlockRenderingContext();

  // XXX do we need this?
  nsIPresContext getPresContext();

  /**
   * Fill the canvas with the given color.
   *
   * @param color Fill color.
   */
  void clear(in nscolor color);

  /**
   * Ensure that all renderings on the canvas have been flushed to the
   * Mozilla-native rendering context.
   */
  void flush();
};

/** @} */