libqtgstreamer-dev 0.10.1-2ubuntu4 / usr / include / QtGStreamer / QGlib / signal.h

/*
    Copyright (C) 2010 George Kiagiadakis <kiagiadakis.george@gmail.com>
    Copyright (C) 2010 Collabora Ltd.
      @author George Kiagiadakis <george.kiagiadakis@collabora.co.uk>

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
    by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
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    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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*/
#ifndef QGLIB_SIGNAL_H
#define QGLIB_SIGNAL_H

#include "global.h"
#include <QtCore/QString>
#include <QtCore/QFlags>
#include <QtCore/QSharedData>

//Qt's emit will clash
#if defined(emit)
# if !defined(QGLIB_NO_EMIT_WARNING) //define that to get rid of the warning
#  if defined(Q_CC_GNU)
#   warning "The emit keyword is defined and will be undefined here to compile QGlib::emit."
#   warning "It is recommended to compile your project with QT_NO_KEYWORDS defined."
#  elif defined(Q_CC_MSVC)
#   pragma message("Warning: The emit keyword is defined and will be undefined here to compile QGlib::emit.")
#   pragma message("Warning: It is recommended to compile your project with QT_NO_KEYWORDS defined.")
#  endif
# endif
# undef emit
# define QT_NO_EMIT //undocumented Qt macro that skips "#define emit" in qglobal.h
#endif

namespace QGlib {

/*! \headerfile signal.h <QGlib/Signal>
 * \brief Helper class providing introspection of GObject signals
 *
 * Signals are a generic notification mechanism. Each signal is bound to a
 * certain instantiatable Type and can be emitted on any instance of this type.
 *
 * This class allows you to inspect these signals. You can use the lookup() and
 * listSignals() methods to get a Signal instance. You can then use one of the
 * accessor methods to retrieve information about this signal.
 *
 * This class does not offer methods to emit or connect to signals.
 * To emit or connect a signal, use the QGlib::emit() and QGlib::connect()
 * methods, respectively.
 *
 * For more information, please read the relevant Glib documentation.
 *
 * \sa connect(), emit()
 */
class QTGLIB_EXPORT Signal
{
public:
    enum SignalFlag {
        RunFirst = 1<<0,
        RunLast = 1<<1,
        RunCleanup = 1<<2,
        NoRecurse = 1<<3,
        Detailed = 1<<4,
        Action = 1<<5,
        NoHooks = 1<<6
    };
    Q_DECLARE_FLAGS(SignalFlags, SignalFlag);

    Signal(const Signal & other);
    Signal & operator=(const Signal & other);
    virtual ~Signal();

    /*! Returns true if this Signal instance represents
     * an existing signal, or false otherwise. */
    bool isValid() const;

    uint id() const; ///< Returns the signal's id.
    QString name() const; ///< Returns the signal's name.
    SignalFlags flags() const; ///< Returns the signal's flags.

    /*! Returns the interface/instance Type that this signal can be emitted for. */
    Type instanceType() const;
    Type returnType() const; ///< Returns the return Type of the signal.
    QList<Type> paramTypes() const; ///< Returns the types of the signal parameters.

    /*! Finds and returns a Signal with the specified \a name
     * on the specified interface/instance \a type. */
    static Signal lookup(const char *name, Type type);

    /*! Returns a list with all the signals that an interface/instance \a type has. */
    static QList<Signal> listSignals(Type type);

private:
    QTGLIB_NO_EXPORT Signal(uint id);

    struct Private;
    QSharedDataPointer<Private> d;
};

Q_DECLARE_OPERATORS_FOR_FLAGS(Signal::SignalFlags)

#if defined(DOXYGEN_RUN)

/*! Emits a signal on a specified \a instance with the specified arguments.
 *
 * This method will convert all the specified arguments to GValues using Value::set()
 * and will then emit the signal using g_signal_emitv(). The returned value from the signal
 * (if the signal returns a value) will be converted from GValue to the type R using
 * Value::get() and will be returned. If some argument is not of the type that the signal
 * expects and a conversion is not possible, a warning will be printed to stderr at runtime
 * and the signal will not be emitted. On the contrary, if the return value is not of the type
 * that the signal returns and a conversion is not possible, the signal \em will be emitted,
 * but a default-constructed value for the type R will be returned and a warning will be
 * printed to stderr.
 *
 * Note that since the implementation uses Value::set() to convert the GValues into the
 * specified types, the same rules that apply to Value::set() apply here (i.e. you should
 * only use the types of the bindings and not the C types, which means QGst::ObjectPtr instead
 * of GstObject*, etc...).
 *
 * Emitting a signal is useful for the so-called Action signals. These are meant to be emitted
 * from the application and not connected to. They are more like dynamic methods that can be
 * identified with a string.
 *
 * \note
 * \li This method makes use of C++0x features (namely, variadic templates and rvalue
 * references). If your compiler does not support them, a hacky implementation using boost's
 * preprocessor, function and bind libraries will be compiled instead. That version has a
 * limit of 9 arguments by default. Define QGLIB_SIGNAL_MAX_ARGS to a greater value before
 * including QGlib/Signal if you want to support more arguments.
 * \li This function's name clashes with Qt's emit keyword. To compile it successfully,
 * the headers will undefine Qt's emit and print a warning at compile time. It is recommended
 * that you compile your project with QT_NO_KEYWORDS to avoid this, however note that this
 * means that the "signals", "slots" and "foreach" keywords will also be unavailable under these
 * names (you can use "Q_SIGNALS", "Q_SLOTS" and "Q_FOREACH" respectively). If you do not wish
 * to do that, you can also define QT_NO_EMIT or QGLIB_NO_EMIT_WARNING. The first one undefines
 * Qt's emit completely and the second one supresses the warning and undefines Qt's emit in all
 * the code files that include the QGlib/Signal header. In all cases, to emit Qt signals you
 * will have to use "Q_EMIT" instead of "emit".
 *
 * \param instance The instance of the object on which the signal will be emitted. You can pass
 * a RefPointer as an instance without any problems; it will automatically cast to void*.
 * \param detailedSignal The name of the signal that you want to emit, with an optional
 * detail if the signal is detailed. The detail may be specified with the following syntax:
 * "signal::detail".
 * \param args The arguments that will be passed to the signal.
 * \returns The return value of the signal.
 */
template <typename R, typename... Args>
R emit(void *instance, const char *detailedSignal, const Args & ... args);

/*! \overload
 * This method takes the detail argument as a quark, separated from the signal name.
 * It may be useful if you already have the quark of the detail that you want to specify.
 */
template <typename R, typename... Args>
R emitWithDetail(void *instance, const char *signal, Quark detail, const Args & ... args);

#endif //DOXYGEN_RUN

} //namespace QGlib

#if !QGLIB_HAVE_CXX0X && !defined(QGLIB_SIGNAL_MAX_ARGS)
# define QGLIB_SIGNAL_MAX_ARGS 9
#endif

#define IN_QGLIB_SIGNAL_H
# include "emitimpl.h"
#undef IN_QGLIB_SIGNAL_H

#if defined(QGLIB_SIGNAL_MAX_ARGS)
# undef QGLIB_SIGNAL_MAX_ARGS
#endif

#endif