#region PDFsharp Charting - A .NET charting library based on PDFsharp
//
// Authors:
//   Niklas Schneider (mailto:Niklas.Schneider@pdfsharp.com)
//
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//
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#endregion

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using PdfSharp.Drawing;

namespace PdfSharp.Charting.Renderers
{
  /// <summary>
  /// Base class of all renderers.
  /// </summary>
  internal abstract class Renderer
  {
    /// <summary>
    /// Initializes a new instance of the Renderer class with the specified renderer parameters.
    /// </summary>
    internal Renderer(RendererParameters rendererParms)
    {
      this.rendererParms = rendererParms;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Derived renderer should return an initialized and renderer specific rendererInfo,
    /// e. g. XAxisRenderer returns an new instance of AxisRendererInfo class.
    /// </summary>
    internal virtual RendererInfo Init()
    {
      return null;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Layouts and calculates the space used by the renderer's drawing item.
    /// </summary>
    internal virtual void Format()
    {
      // nothing to do
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Draws the item.
    /// </summary>
    internal abstract void Draw();

    /// <summary>
    /// Holds all necessary rendering information.
    /// </summary>
    protected RendererParameters rendererParms;
  }
}
