indexing
	description: 
		"EiffelVision textable. Implementation interface."
	status: "See notice at end of class"
	keywords: "text, label, font, name, property"
	date: "$Date$"
	revision: "$Revision$"
	
deferred class
	EV_TEXTABLE_I

inherit
	EV_ANY_I
		redefine
			interface
		end
	
feature -- Access

	text: STRING is
			-- Text displayed in label.
		deferred
		ensure
			not_void: Result /= Void
			cloned: Result /= text
		end

feature -- Element change

	set_text (a_text: STRING) is
			-- Assign `a_text' to `text'.
		require
			a_text_not_void: a_text /= Void
			no_carriage_returns: not a_text.has ('%R')
		deferred
		ensure
			text_cloned: text.is_equal (a_text) and then text /= a_text
		end

feature {NONE} -- Implementation

	interface: EV_TEXTABLE
            -- Provides a common user interface to platform dependent
			-- functionality implemented by `Current'

end -- class EV_TEXTABLE_I

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