/*

* Copyright (c) 2002-2006 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:  Text scrolling functionality.

*

*/

#ifndef XNNEWSTICKERCONTROL_H

#define XNNEWSTICKERCONTROL_H

//  INCLUDES

#include <e32base.h>

// FORWARD DECLARATIONS

class CXnNewstickerAdapter;

// CLASS DECLARATION

/**

* @ingroup group_xnnewstickerfactory

* 

*  Newsticker control for XUIKON text scrolling functionality.

*

*  @lib xn3newstickerfactory.dll

*  @since Series 60 3.2

*/

class CXnNewstickerControl : public CBase

    {

    public:

        /**

         * Two-phased constructor.

         * @param aAdapter Parent control

         * @param aLoops Max number of loops to be executed

         * @param aScrollAmount The amount of pixels scrolled per iteration

         * @param aScrollDelay The interval between iterations

         * @param aStartDelay The delay before the animation starts

         * @return Pointer to this.

         */

        static CXnNewstickerControl* NewL( CXnNewstickerAdapter* aAdapter );

        // Routed from MXnNewstickerInterface.

        /**

         * Append new title to the end of the title list.

         * @param aTitle The new title to add.

         */

        void AppendTitleL( const TDesC& aTitle );

        /**

         * Insert new title to the end of the title list.

         * @param aTitle The new title to add.

         * @param aIndex The place to add the title.

         */

        void InsertTitleL( const TDesC& aTitle, TInt aIndex );

        /**

         * Update title in the title list.

         * @param aTitle The new title to add.

         * @param aIndex The place to add the title.

         */

        void UpdateTitleL( const TDesC& aTitle, TInt aIndex );

        /**

         * Delete the title.

         * @param aIndex The title index to delete.

         */

        void DeleteTitleL( TInt aIndex );

    	/**

    	 * Returns index of the currently selected title.

    	 * @return The index of the current title.

    	 */

        TInt CurrentTitleIndex() const;

    	/**

    	 * Return the title of the given index.

    	 * @param aIndex The index to return the title.

    	 * @return The title of the given index.

    	 */

        const TDesC& Title(TInt aIndex) const;

		/**

		 * Returns last index from iTitleTexts

		 * Which is not empty string

		 */

        /**

         * Delete all titles.

         */

        void ClearTitles();

        /**

         * Return the number of titles in the list.

         * @return The number of titles in the list.

         */

        TInt TitleCount() const;

        /** 

        * Destructor

        */

        virtual ~CXnNewstickerControl();

	    /**

        * Selects title to be shown

        */

        /**

        */

    private: 

        CXnNewstickerControl(CXnNewstickerAdapter* aAdapter);

        void ConstructL();

        /**

         * Get the index of the next title that has content

         * 

         * @param aStartSearch The index where to start search

         * @param aBackwards Search backwards

         * 

         * @return The next index that has content or -1 if nothing was found 

         */

        TInt GetNextTitleWithContent( TInt aStartSearch, TBool aBackwards = EFalse ) const;

    private:    // Data

        /**

        * The array for title texts

        * owned

        */

        RPointerArray<HBufC>        iTitleTexts;

        /**

        * The index of the title which is selected if user activates the

        * control.

        */

        TInt                        iCurrentTitleIndex;

        /**

         * Parent control adapter

         * Not own.

         */	            

        CXnNewstickerAdapter*       iAdapter;

    };

#endif // XNNEWSTICKERCONTROL_H

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