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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2007 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: Visual template class for alfred widget model.
+* This class creates and updates visual tree.
+*
+*/
+
+
+#ifndef I_ALFVISUALTEMPLATE_H
+#define I_ALFVISUALTEMPLATE_H
+
+#include <alf/ialfinterfacebase.h>
+#include <alf/alftypes.h>
+#include <osn/ustring.h>
+#include <alf/alflayout.h>
+
+class CAlfVisual;
+class CAlfControl;
+class CAlfBrush;
+class CAlfLayout;
+
+namespace duiuimodel
+ {
+ //FORWARD DECLARATIONS
+ class DuiNode;
+ }
+using namespace duiuimodel;
+using namespace osncore;
+
+namespace Alf
+ {
+// FORWARD DECLARATIONS
+class IAlfMap;
+class IAlfAttributeSetter;
+class IAlfElement;
+class AlfAttributeContainer;
+class AlfCustomInitDataBase;
+
+namespace alfvisualtemplate
+ {
+static const IfId ident =
+ {
+ 0, "alfvisualtemplate"
+ };
+ }
+
+//INTERFACE DECLARATIONS
+
+/**
+ * An interface for visual templates.
+ *
+ * A visual template hierarchy can be formed using visual template objects. From a visual template
+ * hierarchy a concrete visual tree can be constructed that composes of toolkit visuals.
+ * Produced concrete visual tree will match the visual template hierarchy constructed by
+ * adding visual templates as children of each other. User can create any number of identical
+ * visual trees from one visual template hierarchy. Each visual template object creates
+ * one visual in the produced concrete visual tree.
+ *
+ * A visual template can be owned by a widget element (Alf::IAlfElement).
+ * Only root visual templates of a visual template hierarchy can be owned by an element.
+ * As a consequence of this an owner element of a visual template and a parent visual template
+ * are mutually exclusive properties. That is, if a visual template is a child of
+ * another visual template it cannot be owned by an element. Also if an element
+ * owns a visual template it cannot be a child of another visual template.
+ *
+ * If a child visual template is set to an element the connection between child visual template
+ * and its parent is removed thus making the visual template a root of the visual template hierarchy
+ * below it. Similarly if a visual template owned by an element is set as a child to a visual template
+ * the ownership of that visual template by its element is removed leaving the element with no visual
+ * template.
+ *
+ * Concrete visual trees can be produced using createVisualTree() method. Existing concrete visual
+ * trees can be updated using the updateVisualTree() method. Attributes of the produced concrete
+ * visuals can be manipulated through attribute setters and containers assigned to visual template
+ * using method addAttributeSetter(). Data that is passed to the createVisualTree() and updateVisualTree()
+ * methods contain the attribute values that are set to the concrete visuals giving users a
+ * possibility to customize the produced concrete visual trees.
+ *
+ * @see Alf::IAlfElement
+ *
+ * @lib alfwidgetmodel.lib
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ * @status Draft
+ */
+class IAlfVisualTemplate : public IAlfInterfaceBase
+ {
+public:
+ /**
+ * Getter for the type identifier of this interface.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ * @return Identifier of this interface.
+ */
+ static inline const IfId& type()
+ {
+ return alfvisualtemplate::ident;
+ }
+
+ /** Virtual destructor. */
+ virtual ~IAlfVisualTemplate() {}
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the owner element. User should not call this method directly. It will
+ * be called implicitly by Alf::IAlfElement::setVisualTemplate() method.
+ * Call to this method cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @see Alf::IAlfElement::setVisualTemplate()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aOwner Element that owns this root visual template.
+ */
+ virtual void setOwner(IAlfElement* aElement) throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the owner element. Call to this method cannot
+ * throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @see Alf::IAlfElement::setVisualTemplate()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @return The owner element of a visual template, if this visual template is owned
+ * by an element. NULL if visual template is not owned by an element.
+ */
+ virtual IAlfElement* owner() const throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Set name of the visual. This name is used when creating
+ * concrete visual trees. Name is assigned to each of the produced concrete
+ * visuals as a tag. Note thus that all concrete visual
+ * trees produced from this visual template share the same tag.
+ *
+ * @see name()
+ *
+ * @exception std::bad_alloc thrown if heap memory allocation fails.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aName The name of the visual.
+ */
+ virtual void setName(const char* aName) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the name of the visual. Call to this method
+ * cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @see setName()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @return aName The name of the visual.
+ */
+ virtual const char* name() const throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the number of child visual templates.
+ * This returns the number of child visual templates directly
+ * under this visual template in the visual template
+ * hierarchy. Call to this method cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @return The number of direct child visual templates
+ * under this visual template in the visual template hierarchy.
+ */
+ virtual int numChildTemplates() const throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a child visual template at a given index.
+ *
+ * @exception osncore::AlfException thrown with error code osncore::EInvalidArrayIndex if
+ * the index is out of bounds.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aIndex The index of the child visual template.
+ *
+ * @return Reference to the child visual template object.
+ */
+ virtual IAlfVisualTemplate& childTemplate(int aIndex) const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Set the visual type. Every visual template maps to
+ * one concrete visual or layout type. Each visual template
+ * node in the visual template hierarchy can produce
+ * only visuals that match its type. Container nodes
+ * in the visual template hierarchy map to layouts
+ * and leaf visual template nodes map to visuals.
+ *
+ * Call to this method will make this visual template
+ * a visual type. The type can thus change from layout
+ * type to a visual type.
+ *
+ * @see setLayoutType()
+ * @see visualType()
+ * @see layoutType()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aType Type of visual
+ */
+ virtual void setVisualType(TAlfVisualType aType) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the visual type or a negative integer
+ * if this visual template is of layout type.
+ * Call to this method cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @see setVisualType()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @return Type of visual that this visual template produces
+ * or a negative integer if this visual template
+ * produces layouts.
+ */
+ virtual int visualType() const throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Set the layout type. Every visual template maps to
+ * one concrete visual or layout type. Each visual template
+ * node in the visual template hierarchy can produce
+ * only visuals that match its type. Container nodes
+ * in the visual template hierarchy map to layouts
+ * and leaf visual template nodes map to visuals.
+ *
+ * Call to this method will make this visual template
+ * a layout type. The type can thus change from visual
+ * producer to a layout producer.
+ *
+ * @see setVisualType()
+ * @see visualType()
+ * @see layoutType()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aType Type of layout
+ */
+ virtual void setLayoutType(TAlfLayoutType aType) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the layout type or a negative integer
+ * if this visual template is of visual type.
+ * Call to this method cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @return Type of layout that this visual template produces
+ * or a negative integer if this visual template
+ * produces visuals.
+ */
+ virtual int layoutType() const throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Adds brush to the brush array.
+ *
+ * All brushes added to a visual template will be applied to
+ * the produced concrete visual when one is produced. The same
+ * brush array is shared across all concrete visual instancies
+ * created from same visual template.
+ *
+ * @see brush()
+ * @see numBrushes()
+ *
+ * @exception std::bad_alloc thrown if a heap memory allocation fails.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aBrush Brush to be added
+ */
+ virtual void addBrush(CAlfBrush& aBrush) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the number of brushes in the brush array.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @return The number of brushes
+ */
+ virtual int numBrushes() const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a brush instance from the array of brushes.
+ *
+ * @see addBrush()
+ * @see numBrushes()
+ *
+ * @exception osncore::AlfException thrown with error code osncore::EInvalidArrayIndex if
+ * the given index is out of bounds.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aIndex The index into the array of brushes.
+ *
+ * @return Reference to the brush object instance at the given array index.
+ */
+ virtual CAlfBrush& brush(int aIndex) const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Enables or disables selected child mode. By default
+ * this is disabled and thus visual template creates or updates
+ * all its children when createVisualTree() or updateVisualTree()
+ * is called. If selected child mode is enabled the visual template
+ * will create or update only the selected child. The child which
+ * is affected in selected child mode is determined in the data passed
+ * in the createVisualTree() or updateVisualTree() method. In the
+ * passed data map a search is done to match the child index
+ * field name with the keys in the map. If an entry is found its value
+ * is used as an index to determine the child branch that is to be
+ * created or updated.
+ *
+ * @see createVisualTree()
+ * @see updateVisualTree()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aSelectChild Set to true to enable the child mode or false to disable the child mode.
+ * @param aChildIndFieldName Key in data map, from which entry the index of
+ * the selected child is fetched.
+ */
+ virtual void setSelectChildMode(bool aSelectChild, const UString& aChildIndFieldName) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Add a child visual template. The visual templates may form
+ * a tree structure to create and update a visual tree. The visuals
+ * created by children are added to the layout created by this
+ * visual template. This visual template acquires the ownership for the
+ * child visual template passed as an argument.
+ *
+ * If a visual template added as a child to this visual template is owned
+ * by an Alf::IAlfElement the connection between the child visual template
+ * and its owner element is implicitly removed in this call when a
+ * parent-child connection is created. Effectively having a parent visual
+ * template or being owned by an element are mutually exclusive properties
+ * for a visual template. Elements can own only root visual templates and
+ * if an owned root visual template becomes a child of another visual
+ * template the visual template will be removed from the associated owner
+ * element.
+ *
+ * @see insertChildTemplate()
+ *
+ * @exception std::bad_alloc Thrown if memory allocation fails in appending the child
+ * visual template to child array of this visual template.
+ * @exception osncore::AlfException thrown with error code osncore::EInvalidHierarchy if
+ * the call to this method would result in an invalid visual template hierarchy.
+ * This can occur if a child is added to a non-layout visual template or if a
+ * call would result in a parent becoming a descendant of it's child (a recursive
+ * tree).
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aChild Child visual template to be appended to the children of this visual template.
+ */
+ virtual void addChildTemplate(IAlfVisualTemplate& aChild) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Inserts a child visual template at given index. The visual templates may form
+ * a tree structure to create and update a concrete visual tree. The concrete visuals
+ * created by children are added to the layout created by this
+ * visual template. This visual template acquires the ownership of the inserted
+ * child visual template.
+ *
+ * @see addChildTemplate()
+ *
+ * @exception std::bad_alloc thrown if memory allocation fails in inserting the child visual
+ * template to the child list of this visual template.
+ * @exception osncore::AlfException thrown with error code osncore::EInvalidArrayIndex when
+ * index supplied is out of range for array of visual templates.
+ * @exception osncore::AlfException thrown with error code osncore::EInvalidHierarchy if
+ * the call to this method would result in an invalid visual template hierarchy.
+ * This can occur if a child is added to a non-layout visual template or if a
+ * call would result in a parent becoming a descendant of it's child (a recursive
+ * tree) or if the same child visual template is added to the hierarchy twice.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aChild The child visual template.
+ * @param aIndex Position at which child template is to be added.
+ */
+ virtual void insertChildTemplate(IAlfVisualTemplate& aChild, int aIndex) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Removes and destroyes a child visual template from an index in the child list
+ * of this visual template. This will recursively also destroy all child visual templates
+ * in the hierarchy below the destroyed child visual template. This call is silently
+ * ignored if the index is out of bounds. Call to this method cannot throw an
+ * exception.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aIndex Position from which child visual template is to be removed.
+ */
+ virtual void destroyChildTemplate(int aIndex) throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Destroyes a child visual template with the given name and removes it from the children
+ * of this visual template. This will recursively also destroy all child visual templates
+ * in the hierarchy below the destroyed child visual template. This call is silently
+ * ignored if a child visual template with the given name is not found. Call
+ * to this method cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aName Name of child visual template to be destroyed.
+ */
+ virtual void destroyChildTemplate(const char* aName) throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Update an existing concrete visual tree with new values. The existing visual tree
+ * should be produced from this visual template hierarchy using the createVisualTree() -
+ * method.
+ *
+ * @see createVisualTree()
+ * @see setSelectChildMode()
+ * @see addAttributeSetter()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aData A map containing new data for the visuals.
+ * @param aOldData Old data, that will be replaced. This is used to for instance tear down
+ * the old selected child branch before creating a new branch in the selected
+ * child mode.
+ * @param aVisual The root of the concrete visual tree that will be updated. This root visual
+ * needs to match this visual template and should have been created using this
+ * visual template.
+ * @return Root visual of the updated concrete visual tree.
+ */
+ virtual CAlfVisual* updateVisualTree(IAlfMap* aData, IAlfMap* aOldData, CAlfVisual& aVisual) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new concrete visual tree from this visual template hierarchy and initializes the visuals.
+ * Created visual tree matches the visual template hierarchy under this visual template.
+ *
+ * @see updateVisualTree()
+ * @see setSelectChildMode()
+ * @see addAttributeSetter()
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aControl The owner control of the new concrete visual hierarchy.
+ * @param aData A map containing data for the visuals. This is used to set the attributes of the
+ * produced concrete visuals using the attribute containers and attribute setters
+ * added through the addAttributeSetter() - method.
+ * @param aParentLayout Concrete layout visual to insert the created concrete visual tree into.
+ * Parent layout for a created visual.
+ * @param aLayoutIndex Ordinal index, into where the created visual should be placed in the parent layout.
+ *
+ * @return Pointer to the root visual object of the concrete visual hierarchy that was constructed.
+ */
+ virtual CAlfVisual* createVisualTree(CAlfControl& aControl,
+ IAlfMap* aData, CAlfLayout* aParentLayout, int aLayoutIndex) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Add a new attribute setter and associated attribute container to set visual attributes
+ * of the concrete visual hierarchies created or updated with this visual template hierarchy.
+ * This visual template object acquires ownership of both the passed attribute setter as well
+ * as the attribute container. Attribute containers in a visual template are iterated through
+ * whenever concrete visual trees are created or updated. Concrete visual tree attributes
+ * are set from the data passed in through the createVisualTree() and updateVisualTree() methods
+ * using the attribute setters and containers added into the visual template using this method.
+ *
+ * @see createVisualTree()
+ * @see updateVisualTree()
+ *
+ * @exception std::bad_alloc thrown if heap memory allocation fails.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aSetter Attribute setter that will be used to set the attributes in the passed in
+ * container to concrete visuals.
+ * @param aContainer Container holding the attribute value used by the attribute setter.
+ */
+ virtual void addAttributeSetter(IAlfAttributeSetter* aSetter, AlfAttributeContainer* aContainer) = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the number of the attribute setters and the corresponding attribute containers.
+ * Call to this method cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @return The number of the attribute setters and containers.
+ */
+ virtual int numAttributeSetters() const throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns an attribute setter maintained in this visual template from the given index.
+ *
+ * @exception osncore::AlfException thrown with error code osncore::EInvalidArrayIndex if
+ * the given index is out of bounds.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aIndex The index of the visual attribute setter.
+ * @return Reference to the attribute setter object.
+ */
+ virtual IAlfAttributeSetter& attributeSetter(int aIndex) const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns an attribute container maintained in this visual template from the given index.
+ *
+ * @exception osncore::AlfException thrown with error code osncore::EInvalidArrayIndex if
+ * the given index is out of bounds.
+ *
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ *
+ * @param aIndex The index of the visual attribute container.
+ * @return Reference to the attribute container object.
+ */
+ virtual AlfAttributeContainer& attributeContainer(int aIndex) const = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Retrieves pointer to the parent visual template.
+ * Returns NULL if this is a root visual template of a visual template
+ * hierarchy. Call to this method cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @see addChildTemplate()
+ * @see insertChildTemplate()
+ * @see Alf::IAlfElement::setVisualTemplate()
+ *
+ * @return Pointer to a Alf::IAlfVisualTemplate object that this visual template
+ * is a child of.
+ */
+ virtual IAlfVisualTemplate* parent() const throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Removes the given child visual template from this visual template.
+ * Call to this method is silently ignored if the given visual template
+ * is not found from children. The parent template of the removed child
+ * is set to null. Ownership of the removed child visual template is
+ * transferred to the caller of this method. Call to this method cannot
+ * throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @see setParent()
+ * @see parent()
+ *
+ * @param aChild Reference to the child visual template that is located
+ * and removed from this visual template.
+ */
+ virtual void removeChildTemplate(IAlfVisualTemplate& aChild) throw() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the parent visual template.
+ *
+ * User should not call this method directly. It will be called implicitly
+ * by addChildTemplate() or insertChildTemplate() methods of
+ * the parent visual template into which this visual template is
+ * added to.
+ *
+ * Parent visual template and owner element are mutually exclusive.
+ * If a visual template is added under another visual template
+ * in a visual template hierarchy the connection to owner element
+ * is implicitly removed. Alf::IAlfElement objects can thus own only
+ * roots of visual template hierarchies.
+ *
+ * Call to this method cannot throw an exception.
+ *
+ * @see addChildTemplate()
+ * @see insertChildTemplate()
+ * @see parent()
+ * @see Alf::IAlfElement::setVisualTemplate()
+ *
+ * @param aParent Pointer to a parent visual template under which this
+ * visual template is located in in the visual template
+ * hierarchy or null, if the visual template is removed from
+ * a visual template hierarchy.
+ */
+ virtual void setParent(IAlfVisualTemplate* aParent) throw() = 0;
+
+ };
+
+/**
+ * Placeholder for information required to instantiate a visual template
+ * via the widget factory mechanism.
+ * A pointer to this structure is casted to a void pointer and sent to the
+ * factory plugin.
+ * @lib alfwidgetmodel.lib
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ */
+struct AlfVisualTemplateInitData
+ {
+ /**
+ * Visual template instance ID.This uniquely identifies every visual template instance
+ */
+ char* mVisualTemplateId;
+
+ /**
+ * Pointer to node in declaration containing information for the widget.
+ */
+ DuiNode* mNode;
+
+ /**
+ * Pointer to custom data passed via factory mechanism
+ * Not Owned.
+ */
+ AlfCustomInitDataBase* mCustomData;
+ };
+
+ } // namespace Alf
+
+#endif // I_ALFVISUALTEMPLATE_H
+
+// End of File