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    /*
    Copyright (c) 2000 Waldo Bastian

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
    of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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    */

    #ifndef DCOPSIGNALS_H
    #define DCOPSIGNALS_H "$Id: dcopsignals.h,v 1.5 2002/09/29 13:05:01 tjansen Exp $"

    #include
    #include
    #include

    class DCOPConnection;

    //
    // This requires:
    // DCOPSignalConnectionList * DCOPConnection::signalConnectionList()
    /// @internal
    class DCOPSignalConnection
    {
    public:
       QCString sender;      // Sender client, empty means any client
       DCOPConnection *senderConn; //Sender client.
       QCString senderObj;   // Object that sends the signal.
       QCString signal;      // Signal name. Connections are sorted on signal name.

       DCOPConnection *recvConn; // Client that wants to receive the signal
       QCString recvObj;     // Object that wants to receive the signal
       QCString slot;        // Function to send to in the object.
    };

    /// @internal
    class DCOPSignalConnectionList : public QPtrList
    {
    public:
       DCOPSignalConnectionList() { };
    };

    /**
     * @internal
     */
    class DCOPSignals
    {
    public:
       DCOPSignals();

       /**
        * Client "conn" emits the signal "fun" with "data" as arguments.
        * conn is 0L if the dcopserver sends the signal itself
        *
        * The emitting object is encoded in "fun".
        *
        * If "excludeSelf" is true, signal is never send to "conn" itself.
        */
       void emitSignal( DCOPConnection *conn, const QCString &fun, const QByteArray &data, bool excludeSelf);

       /**
        * Connects "signal" of the client named "sender" with the "slot" of
        * "receiverObj" in the "conn" client.
        *
        * If "Volatile" is true the connection will be removed when either
        * "sender" or "conn" unregisters.
        *
        * If "Volatile" is false the connection will only be removed when
        * "conn" unregisters.
        *
        * Returns true if succesfull. False on failure.
        * An attempt to create a Volatile connection to a non-existing client
        * results in a failure.
        */
       bool connectSignal( const QCString &sender, const QCString &senderObj,
                           const QCString &signal,
                           DCOPConnection *conn, const QCString &receiverObj,
                           const QCString &slot, bool Volatile);

       /**
        * Disconnects "signal" of the client named "sender" from the "slot" of
        * "receiverObj" in the "conn" client.
        *
        * If "receiverObj" is empty, every object is disconnected.
        * If "slot" is empty, every slot is disconnected.
        *
        * Returns true if successfull, false if no connection was found.
        */
       bool disconnectSignal( const QCString &sender, const QCString &senderObj,
                           const QCString &signal,
                           DCOPConnection *conn, const QCString &receiverObj,
                           const QCString &slot);

       /**
        * Removes all connections related to the "conn" client.
        * This means:
        *   All connections for which "conn" is the receiver.
        *   All volatile connections for which "conn" is the sender.
        */
       void removeConnections(DCOPConnection *conn, const QCString &obj=0);

       /*
        * The administration.
        *
        * All connections are sorted by "signal" and then inserted in the
        * administration as a list.
        *
        * connections[signal] gives a list of all connections related to
        * a given signal. The connections in this list may specify different
        * senders and receiving clients/objects.
        */
       QAsciiDict connections;
    };

    //
    // connectSignal:
    //
    // Check whether signal and slot match wrt arguments.
    // A slot may ignore arguments from the signal.
    //
    // If volatile
    //    then lookup senderConn...
    //         If not found?
    //            then return false
    // Create DCOPSignalConnection.
    // Add DCOPSignalConnection to "connections".
    // Add DCOPSignalConnection to conn->connectionList()
    // If volatile
    //    then Add DCOPSignalConnection to senderConn->connectionList()
    // Return true

    // removeConnections:
    //
    // For each DCOPSignalConnection in conn->connectionList
    //    if DCOPSignalConnection->sender == conn->appId
    //        then remove DCOPSignalConnection from DCOPSIgnalConnection->conn
    //    if DCOPSignalConnection->conn == conn
    //       then.. this is ugly.. remove DCOPSignalConnection from DCOPSignalConnection->sender
    //    WARNING: Take care when sender and conn are the same client!
    //    Remove DCOPSignalConnection from connections[DCOPSignalConnection->signal]

    #endif

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