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+/* This file is part of the KDE libraries
+ Copyright (C) 2004 Joseph Wenninger <jowenn@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 version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+ 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 __tdetexteditor_templateinterface_h__
+#define __tdetexteditor_templateinterface_h__
+
+#include <tqstring.h>
+#include <tqmap.h>
+#include <tqwidget.h>
+
+#include <tdelibs_export.h>
+
+namespace KTextEditor
+{
+
+class Document;
+
+/**
+ * This is an interface for inserting template strings with user editable
+ * fields into a document.
+ */
+class KTEXTEDITOR_EXPORT TemplateInterface //should be named AbstractTemplateInterface, but for consistency with the other classes it is not (for the 3.x release series)
+{
+ friend class PrivateTemplateInterface;
+
+ public:
+ TemplateInterface();
+ virtual ~TemplateInterface();
+
+ /**
+ * Parses @p templateString for macros in the form [$%]{NAME} and finds
+ * the value corresponding to NAME if any. The NAME string may contain
+ * any non-whitespace character execpt '}'
+ * @param initialValues a map with the keys for the macros to expand.
+ * keys with a value are ignored.
+ * @param parentWindow is used if dialogs have to be shown
+ * @return true if all macros was sucessfully expanded
+ * @see insertTemplateText for a list of supported macros
+ */
+ static bool expandMacros( TQMap<TQString, TQString> &initialValues, TQWidget *parentWindow );
+
+ uint templateInterfaceNumber () const;
+
+ protected:
+ void setTemplateInterfaceDCOPSuffix (const TQCString &suffix);
+
+ public:
+
+ /**
+ * Inserts an interactive ediable template text at line "line", column "col".
+ * @p parentWindow is used if dialogs have to be shown
+ * @return true if inserting the string succeeded
+ *
+ * Use insertTemplateText(numLines(), ...) to append text at end of document
+ * Template strings look like
+ * "for( int ${index}=0;${index}<10;${index}++) { ${cursor} };"
+ * or "%{date}"
+ *
+ * This syntax is somewhat similiar to the one found in the Eclipse editor.
+ *
+ * There are certain common placeholders (macros), which get assigned a
+ * default initialValue, If the second parameter does not a given value.
+ * For all others the initial value is the name of the placeholder.
+ *
+ * Placeholder names may only consist of a-zA-Z0-9_
+ * Common placeholders and values are
+ *
+ * - index: "i"
+ * - loginname: The current users's loginname
+ * - firstname: The current user's first name retrieved from kabc
+ * - lastname: The current user's last name retrieved from kabc
+ * - fullname: The current user's first and last name retrieved from kabc
+ * - email: The current user's primary email adress retrieved from kabc
+ * - date: current date
+ * - time: current time
+ * - year: current year
+ * - month: current month
+ * - day: current day
+ * - hostname: hostname of the computer
+ * - cursor: at this position the cursor will be after editing of the
+ * template has finished, this has to be taken care of by the actual
+ * implementation. The placeholder gets a value of "|" assigned.
+ *
+ * If a macro is started with a % (persent sign) like "%{date}" it isn't added
+ * to the list editable strings ( for example TAB key navigation) if a value
+ * differing from the macro name is found.
+ *
+ * If the editor supports some kind of smart indentation, the inserted code
+ * should be layouted by the indenter.
+ */
+ bool insertTemplateText ( uint line, uint column, const TQString &templateString, const TQMap<TQString,TQString> &initialValues, TQWidget *parentWindow=0);
+
+protected:
+ /**
+ * You must implement this, it is called by insertTemplateText, after all
+ * default values are inserted. If you are implementing this interface,
+ * this method should work as described in the documentation for
+ * insertTemplateText above.
+ * @return true if any text was inserted.
+ */
+ virtual bool insertTemplateTextImplementation ( uint line, uint column, const TQString &templateString, const TQMap<TQString,TQString> &initialValues, TQWidget *parentWindow=0 )=0;
+
+ /**
+ * only for the interface itself - REAL PRIVATE
+ */
+ private:
+ class PrivateTemplateInterface *d;
+ static uint globalTemplateInterfaceNumber;
+ uint myTemplateInterfaceNumber;
+};
+
+KTEXTEDITOR_EXPORT TemplateInterface *templateInterface (Document *doc);
+
+}
+
+#endif