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+/* This file is part of the KDE project
+ Copyright (C) 1999 Simon Hausmann <hausmann@kde.org>
+
+ This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Library General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+ along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to
+ the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+ Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+*/
+#ifndef __kdcopactionproxy_h__
+#define __kdcopactionproxy_h__
+
+#include <dcopobject.h>
+#include <dcopref.h>
+#include <kdelibs_export.h>
+
+class KActionCollection;
+class KAction;
+
+/**
+ * @short A proxy class publishing a DCOP interface for actions.
+ *
+ * The KDCOPActionProxy class provides an easy way to publish a collection of KAction objects
+ * through DCOP. For the DCOP client the exported actions behave like full-fledged DCOP objects,
+ * providing full access to the KAction object functionality in the server.
+ *
+ * This class can generate DCOP object ids for given action objects, which it automatically
+ * processes, as being a DCOPObjectProxy .
+ */
+class KDEUI_EXPORT KDCOPActionProxy : public DCOPObjectProxy
+{
+public:
+ /**
+ * Constructs a dcop action proxy, being able to export the actions of the provided
+ * KActionCollection through DCOP, using the parent DCOPObject's object id to
+ * generate unique object ids for the actions.
+ */
+ KDCOPActionProxy( KActionCollection *actionCollection, DCOPObject *parent );
+ /**
+ * Use this constructor if do not want to provide the exportable actions through a
+ * KActionCollection . You have to reimplement the virtual actions() and
+ * action() methods if you use this constructor.
+ */
+ KDCOPActionProxy( DCOPObject *parent );
+ /**
+ * Destructor.
+ */
+ ~KDCOPActionProxy();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a list of exportable actions. The default implementation returns a list of actions
+ * provided by a KActionCollection, if the first constructor has been used.
+ */
+ virtual QValueList<KAction *> actions() const;
+ /**
+ * Returns an action object with the given name. The default implementation queries the action object
+ * from the KActionCollection, if the first constructor has been used.
+ */
+ virtual KAction *action( const char *name ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Use this method to retrieve a DCOP object id for an action with the given name.
+ * This class automatically takes care of processing DCOP object requests for the returned
+ * object id.
+ *
+ * You can construct a global DCOP object referenence using DCOPRef. For example like
+ * DCOPRef( kapp->dcopClient()->appId, actionProxy->actionObjectId( actionName ) );
+ *
+ * The action with the given name has to be available through the #action method.
+ */
+ virtual QCString actionObjectId( const QCString &name ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a map of all exported actions, with the action name as keys and a global DCOP reference
+ * as data entries.
+ * The appId argument is used to specify the appid component of the DCOP reference. By default the
+ * global application id is used ( kapp->dcopClient()->appId() ) .
+ */
+ virtual QMap<QCString,DCOPRef> actionMap( const QCString &appId = QCString() ) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Internal reimplementation of DCOPObjectProxy::process .
+ */
+ virtual bool process( const QCString &obj, const QCString &fun, const QByteArray &data,
+ QCString &replyType, QByteArray &replyData );
+
+ /**
+ * Called by the #process method and takes care of processing the object request for an
+ * action object.
+ */
+ virtual bool processAction( const QCString &obj, const QCString &fun, const QByteArray &data,
+ QCString &replyType, QByteArray &replyData, KAction *action );
+private:
+ void init( KActionCollection *collection, DCOPObject *parent );
+
+protected:
+ virtual void virtual_hook( int id, void* data );
+private:
+ class KDCOPActionProxyPrivate;
+ KDCOPActionProxyPrivate *d;
+};
+
+#endif