/**
 * SystemInfo is the parent of all of the system info providers.
 *
 * Copyright &copy; 1996-1998 Martin Minow. All Rights Reserved.<p>
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, and redistribute this software and its
 * documentation for personal, non-commercial use is hereby granted provided that
 * this copyright notice and appropriate documentation appears in all copies. This
 * software may not be distributed for fee or as part of commercial, "shareware,"
 * and/or not-for-profit endevors including, but not limited to, CD-ROM collections,
 * online databases, and subscription services without specific license.<p>
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:minow@apple.com">Martin Minow</a>
 * @version 1.0
 * Set tabs every 4 characters.
 */
import java.awt.*;

/**
 * SystemInfo is a simple wrapper for StringBuffer, which cannot
 * be subclassed directly. It is never used by itself, but only
 * as the parent of a concrete class, such as SystemPropertyInfo.
 * A subclass that needs to modify the enclosing border label
 * may do so by calling setBorderText(). Classes must provide
 * a no-parameter constructor.
 */
public abstract class SystemInfo
{
	protected StringBuffer	text	= new StringBuffer();
	protected EtchedBorder	border	= null;
	
	public SystemInfo()
	{
	}
	public SystemInfo(
			EtchedBorder	border
		)
	{
		this();
		setBorder(border);
	}
	/**
	 * Border accessors.
	 */
	public EtchedBorder getBorder()
	{
		return (border);
	}
	public void setBorder(
			EtchedBorder	border
		)
	{
		this.border		= border;
	}
	public void setBorderText(
			String			text
		)
	{
		if (border != null) {
			border.setLabelText(text);
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Subclasses will call append to add data to the StringBuffer()
	 */
	public void append(
			String			someText
		)
	{
		text.append(someText);
	}
	/**
	 * Return the StringBuffer itself.
	 */
	public StringBuffer	getText()
	{
		return (text);
	}
	/**
	 * Return the contents of the StringBuffer.
	 */
	public String			toString()
	{
		return (text.toString());
	}
}