/*

* Copyright (c) 2005-2008 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:  A default dummy non-window owning control. Can be used to

*                draw skinned background in in area where not other

*                controls exists.

*

*/

#ifndef C_AKNEMPTYCONTROL_H

#define C_AKNEMPTYCONTROL_H

#include <bacntf.h>

#include <coecntrl.h>

#include <AknControl.h>

/**

* Empty control that draws background with skinning.

* This control also directs pointer events it receives to it's adjacent

* status pane sub-pane to enhance the touch responsivity.

* 

* This class is not intended for further derivation.

*

* @since 3.1

*

* @internal Used by the UI Framework.

*/

NONSHARABLE_CLASS( CAknEmptyControl ) : public CAknControl

	{

public:

    /**

    * Standard constructor.

    */

    CAknEmptyControl();

    /**

    * Destructor.

    */

    ~CAknEmptyControl();

    /** 

    * Constructs from resource.

    *

    * @param aReader resource reader.

    */

    void ConstructFromResourceL( TResourceReader& aReader );

public: // From @c CCoeControl.

    /**

    * Handles pointer events

    *

    * @param aPointerEvent The pointer event.

    */

    virtual void HandlePointerEventL( const TPointerEvent& aPointerEvent );

protected: // From @c CCoeControl.

    /**

    * Handles size change events.

    */

    void SizeChanged();

    /**

    * Handles a change to the control's resources of type aType

    * which are shared across the environment.

    * @param aType Event type.

    */

    void HandleResourceChange( TInt aType );

private: // From @c CCoeControl.

    /**

    * Draws the control.

    */

    void Draw( const TRect& aRect ) const;

private: // New methods.

    /**

    * Directs a pointer event received by this control to a pointer

    * responsive adjacent status pane sub-pane. In this method the

    * recipient of the pointer event is decided based on the layouts.

    *

    * @param aPointerEvent The pointer event.

    * 

    * @return  @c ETrue if the pointer event was passed on,

    *          @c EFalse otherwise.

    */

    TBool PassPointerEventToAdjacentControlL(

        const TPointerEvent& aPointerEvent );

private:

    TInt iSpare;

    TBool iIsActiveIdle;

    };

#endif // C_AKNEMPTYCONTROL_H