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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsISVGRectangleSink;


/**
 * \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 region object.
 */
[uuid(9356e1c6-66e6-49a0-8c67-7e910270ed1e)]
interface nsISVGRendererRegion : nsISupports
{
  /**
   * Return union of this region with another region.
   *
   * @param other Region to combine with.
   * @return Union region.
   */
  nsISVGRendererRegion combine(in nsISVGRendererRegion other);

  /**
   * Write a sequence of rectangles approximating this region to the
   * sink object. The approximation can be crude but should fully
   * contain the actual region area.
   *
   * @param sink Rectangle sink to write to.
   */
  void getRectangleScans(in nsISVGRectangleSink sink);
};

/** @} */
