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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:  message utils class
+*
+*/
+
+
+#ifndef IMCVENGINEMESSAGEUTILS_H
+#define IMCVENGINEMESSAGEUTILS_H
+#include <e32base.h>
+// FORWARD DECLARATIONS
+class TTime;
+class MIMCVEngineMessage;
+class MIMCVEngineMessageCreator;
+class MIMCVEngineMessageWriteInterface;
+
+/**
+ *  General message handling methods.
+ *
+ *  General message handling methods which are to be used in both 
+ *  messagehandler and chatgroupmanager, to avoid duplicate code.
+ *
+ *  @lib imcvengine.dll
+ *  @since S60 v5.0
+ */
+class IMCVEngineMessageUtils 
+    {
+public:
+
+    /**
+     * Appends a datestamp to writeinterface if needed.
+     * New time is compared to the previous message in the interface.
+     * If the time values are from different date then datestamp is created
+     * Otherwise this does nothing.
+     *
+     * @since S60 v5.
+     * @param aNewTime Time of the new message
+     * @param aWriteInterface Interface to write the date message
+     * @param aMessageCreator for creating the date message
+     * @param aSettingsAPI Settings interface to determine if datestamps
+     *                     are required.
+     */
+    static void AppendDateStampL( TTime aNewTime,
+                                  MIMCVEngineMessageWriteInterface& aWriteInterface,
+                                  MIMCVEngineMessageCreator& aMessageCreator );
+
+
+    /**
+     * Appends a datestamp and message to interface. Datestamp is added only 
+     * if the date has changed between previous and current message.
+     * Ownership of the message is transferred or shared, so it doesn't 
+     * need to be in cleanupstack.
+     *
+     * @since S60 v5.0
+     * @param aNewMessage New message
+     * @param aWriteInterface Interface to write the date message
+     * @param aMessageCreator for creating the date message
+     * @param aSettingsAPI Settings interface to determine if datestamps
+     *                     are required.
+     * @param aSharedOwnership EFalse - ownership is transferred
+     *                         ETrue - ownership is shared
+     */
+    static void AppendMessageWithDateStampL( 
+                              MIMCVEngineMessage& aNewMessage,
+                              MIMCVEngineMessageWriteInterface& aWriteInterface,
+                              MIMCVEngineMessageCreator& aMessageCreator,
+                              TBool aSharedOwnership = EFalse );
+                              
+	/**
+	 * used to load the resource
+	 * @param aResourceId The id to read
+	 * @return The string for given resource id 
+	 */
+     static HBufC* LoadResourceL( TInt aResourceId ,  const TDesC& aText );     
+    };
+
+
+#endif // IMCVENGINEMESSAGEUTILS_H