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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
-