/*

* Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

* which accompanies this distribution, and is available

* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

*

* Initial Contributors:

* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

*

* Contributors:

*

* Description:

*

*/

package org.w3c.dom.events;

import java.lang.String;

/**

 * The Event interface is used to provide contextual information about an event to the handler

 * processing the event. An object which implements the Event interface is passed as the first

 * parameter to the {@link org.w3c.dom.events.EventListener#handleEvent handleEvent} call. If

 * an event target is an element instance (see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#InterfaceSVGElementInstance">SVGElementInstance</a>), the currentTarget is an implementation of EventTarget

 * that does not implement the Node interface.

 */

public interface Event

{

    /**

     * This method is used to get the current target of this event.

     * In SVG Tiny, this is always an object to which event listener was attached.

     *

     * @return the event's <code>EventTarget</code>.

     */

    public EventTarget getCurrentTarget();

    /**

     * This method returns the event type information. The name of the event is case-sensitive.

     * The following event types are supported:

     * <br>

     * <b>click</b>, <b>DOMActivate</b>, <b>DOMFocusIn</b>, <b>DOMFocusOut</b> (defined DOM Events);

     * @return the event's type.

     */

    public String getType();

}