/* This file is part of the KDE project
   Copyright (C) 2000 Simon Hausmann <hausmann@kde.org>
                      David Faure <faure@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 KXMLGUIBUILDER_H
#define KXMLGUIBUILDER_H

#include <kdeui_export.h>

class KComponentData;
class KXMLGUIBuilderPrivate;
class KXMLGUIClient;

#include <QAction>
#include <QDomElement>
#include <QStringList>
#include <QWidget>

/**
 * Implements the creation of the GUI (menubar, menus and toolbars)
 * as requested by the GUI factory.
 *
 * The virtual methods are mostly for historical reasons, there isn't really
 * a need to derive from KXMLGUIBuilder anymore.
 */
class KDEUI_EXPORT KXMLGUIBuilder
{
 public:

  explicit KXMLGUIBuilder( QWidget *widget );
  virtual ~KXMLGUIBuilder();

  /* @internal */
  KXMLGUIClient *builderClient() const;
  /* @internal */
  void setBuilderClient( KXMLGUIClient *client );
  /* @internal */
  KComponentData builderComponentData() const;
  /* @internal */
  void setBuilderComponentData(const KComponentData &componentData);
  /* @internal */
  QWidget *widget();

  virtual QStringList containerTags() const;

  /**
   * Creates a container (menubar/menu/toolbar/statusbar/separator/...)
   * from an element in the XML file
   *
   * @param parent The parent for the container
   * @param index The index where the container should be inserted
   *              into the parent container/widget
   * @param element The element from the DOM tree describing the
   *                container (use it to access container specified
   *                attributes or child elements)
   * @param action The action created for this container; used for e.g. passing to removeContainer.
   */
  virtual QWidget *createContainer( QWidget *parent, int index,
          const QDomElement &element, QAction* &containerAction );

  /**
   * Removes the given (and previously via createContainer )
   * created container.
   *
   */
  virtual void removeContainer( QWidget *container, QWidget *parent,
				QDomElement &element, QAction* containerAction );

  virtual QStringList customTags() const;

  virtual QAction* createCustomElement( QWidget *parent, int index, const QDomElement &element );

  virtual void removeCustomElement( QWidget *parent, QAction* action );

  virtual void finalizeGUI( KXMLGUIClient *client );

private:
  KXMLGUIBuilderPrivate * const d;
};

#endif