hydrolibs/hydroqgui/iguielementfactory.h

/*
 * Orca-Robotics Project: Components for robotics 
 *               http://orca-robotics.sf.net/
 * Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Alex Brooks, Alexei Makarenko, Tobias Kaupp, Ben Upcroft
 *
 * This copy of Orca is licensed to you under the terms described in
 * the LICENSE file included in this distribution.
 *
 */

#ifndef ORCAGUI_IGUIELEMENTFACTORY_H
#define ORCAGUI_IGUIELEMENTFACTORY_H

#include <QColor>
#include <vector>
#include <hydroqguielementutil/ihumanmanager.h>
#include <hydroqguielementutil/mouseeventmanager.h>
#include <hydroqguielementutil/shortcutkeymanager.h>
#include <hydroqgui/guielementset.h>
#include <hydroutil/uncopyable.h>

class QSplitter;

namespace hydroqgui
{
    
namespace hydroqguielementutil {
    class GuiElement;
    class GuiElementInfo;
}
        

//
// Authors: Tobias Kaupp, Alex Brooks, Ben Upcroft
//
class IGuiElementFactory : public hydroutil::Uncopyable
{                                 
public:
    
    virtual ~IGuiElementFactory() {};

    std::vector<QString> supportedElementTypes() const;

    std::vector<std::string> supportedElementTypesAsStdString() const;

    bool isSupported( const QString &elementType ) const;
    
    virtual bool lookupElementType( const QStringList &ids, QString &elementType ) const = 0;

    virtual ::hydroqguielementutil::GuiElement* create( const ::hydroqguielementutil::GuiElementInfo &guiElementInfo ) const = 0;
                                                                 
protected:

    void addSupportedType( const QString & elementType );


private:
    std::vector<QString> supportedElementTypes_;
    
};

} // namespace


// Function for instantiating plug-in factories.
// A plug-in library must have a function like so:
// extern "C" {
//     hydroqgui::IGuiElementFactory *createFactory();
// }
typedef hydroqgui::IGuiElementFactory *FactoryMakerFunc();

#endif