/usr/include/marble/MarbleDirs.h

//
// This file is part of the Marble Virtual Globe.
//
// This program is free software licensed under the GNU LGPL. You can
// find a copy of this license in LICENSE.txt in the top directory of
// the source code.
//
// Copyright 2006-2007 Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
// Copyright 2007      Inge Wallin  <ingwa@kde.org>
//

#ifndef MARBLE_MARBLEDIRS_H
#define MARBLE_MARBLEDIRS_H

#include "marble_export.h"

#include <QtCore/QDir>

class QString;
class QStringList;

namespace Marble
{

/**
 * @short A class that manages data look-up for Marble.
 *
 * The class basically does for Marble what KStandardDirs does for KDE.
 * Given that the MarbleWidget is a Qt4-only library and given that it 
 * comes with its own model and data we need this class.
 *
 * The class needs to respect the requirements of the different plattforms,
 * so to avoid very different implementations for each plattform we 
 * specify how data should get looked up:
 * 
 * Generally there are two places of which Marble will draw it's data from:
 * 
 * "localPath" and "systemPath".
 * 
 * look-up of the data should happen in the localPath first.
 * Only if the look-up in the localPath failed then MarbleDirs should 
 * look up the data in the systemPath.
 * 
 * localPath:
 * The place for localPath should match space that is fully accessible to 
 * the user. On Unix-like plattforms this matches 
 * QDir::homePath() + "/.marble/data"
 * 
 * systemPath:
 * Ideally the systemPath should match the place where cmake installed the 
 * data for marble. However this doesn't work for all plattforms:
 * 
 * - For Linux and Mac non-bundle deployment the location can be 
 *   chosen using the cmake MARBLE_DATA_PATH option at compile time.
 * - For Mac bundle deployment the location inside the bundle gets
 *   chosen as the default location.
 * - For Windows a path relative to the application binary can be chosen
 *   as this should usually work without problems.
 * 
 * To allow kiosk-like setups and for custom setups in general
 * it should be possible to change the place of the systemPath at runtime. 
 * Therefore we introduce a global variable "MarbleDataPath" in the 
 * MarbleDirs.h source code.
 * Initially MarbleDataPath is empty. The systemPath will point to 
 * MarbleDataPath as soon as it gets changed to a valid non-empty path. So 
 * as soon as MarbleDataPath contains a valid path the path specified by 
 * cmake will get ignored.
 *
 * ( Possible future extension: if the MarbleDataPath contains several
 * valid paths separated by a colon then each of these paths should be
 * used for look up in the same order as for the KDE kiosk framework. ) 
 * 
 * It's the duty of each application that uses the MarbleWidget to retrieve 
 * the value of the MarbleDataPath from the MarbleWidget and to save it 
 * in its settings and restore it on start-up of the application.
 * 
 */

class MARBLE_EXPORT MarbleDirs
{
 public:
    MarbleDirs();

    static QString path( const QString& relativePath );

    static QString pluginPath( const QString& relativePath );


    static QStringList entryList( const QString& relativePath, QDir::Filters filters = QDir::NoFilter  );

    static QStringList pluginEntryList( const QString& relativePath, QDir::Filters filters = QDir::NoFilter  );


    static QString systemPath(); 

    static QString pluginSystemPath(); 


    static QString localPath();

    static QStringList oldLocalPaths();

    static QString pluginLocalPath(); 


    static QString marbleDataPath();

    static QString marblePluginPath();


    static void setMarbleDataPath( const QString& adaptedPath);

    static void setMarblePluginPath( const QString& adaptedPath);


    static void debug();

 private:
    Q_DISABLE_COPY( MarbleDirs )
    class Private;
    Private  * const d;
};

}

#endif
libmarble-dev 4:4.8.2-0ubuntu2 / usr / include / marble / MarbleDirs.h
