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#ifndef __pqRenderViewBase_h 
#define __pqRenderViewBase_h

#include "pqView.h"
#include "pqSMProxy.h" //needed for pqSMProxy.

class pqTimer;

/// pqRenderViewBase is an abstract base class for all render-view based views.
/// It encapuslates some of the commonly needed functionality for all such
/// views.
class PQCORE_EXPORT pqRenderViewBase : public pqView
{
  Q_OBJECT
  typedef pqView Superclass;

protected:
  // Constructor:
  // \c type  :- view type.
  // \c group :- SManager registration group name.
  // \c name  :- SManager registration name.
  // \c view  :- RenderView proxy.
  // \c server:- server on which the proxy is created.
  // \c parent:- QObject parent.
  pqRenderViewBase(const QString& type,
                   const QString& group,
                   const QString& name, 
                   vtkSMViewProxy* renModule, 
                   pqServer* server, 
                   QObject* parent=NULL);

public:
  // Destructor.
  virtual ~pqRenderViewBase();

  /// Returns the QVTKWidget for this render Window.
  virtual QWidget* getWidget();

  /// Resets the camera to include all visible data.
  /// It is essential to call this resetCamera, to ensure that the reset camera
  /// action gets pushed on the interaction undo stack.
  virtual void resetCamera()=0;

  /// Called to reset the view's display.  This method calls resetCamera().
  virtual void resetDisplay();

  /// Sets default values for the underlying proxy. 
  /// This is during the initialization stage of the pqProxy 
  /// for proxies created by the GUI itself i.e.
  /// for proxies loaded through state or created by python client
  /// this method won't be called. 
  virtual void setDefaultPropertyValues();

  /// restore the default background color
  virtual const int* defaultBackgroundColor() const;
  
  /// Save the settings of this render module with QSettings.
  /// We  only save non-global settings in this method.
  /// Global settings are saved by the dialog itself.
  virtual void saveSettings();

  /// Apply the settings from QSettings to this render module
  virtual void restoreSettings(bool only_global);

  /// Returns whether a source can be displayed in this view module.
  /// The default implementation returns true is the connection ID for the port
  /// and the view are the same.
  virtual bool canDisplay(pqOutputPort* opPort) const;

  /// Get/set the camera manipulators: ["Camera2DManipulator", "Camera3DManipulator"]
  QList<vtkSMProxy*> getCameraManipulators(const QString &cameraManipulatorName) const;
  virtual bool setCameraManipulators(const QString &cameraManipulatorName,
                                     const QList<pqSMProxy> &manipulators);

  /// restore the default light parameters
  virtual void restoreDefaultLightSettings();

  /// Save a screenshot for the render module. If width or height ==0,
  /// the current window size is used.
  virtual bool saveImage(int width, int height, const QString& filename);

  /// Convenience method to enable stereo rendering on all views that support
  /// stereo rendering. If mode==0, stereo rendering is disabled. mode is same
  /// that used for vtkRenderWindow::SetStereoType.
  /// This does not request a render, the caller must explicitly call render on
  /// the views.
  static void setStereo(int mode);

public:

  struct ManipulatorType
    {
    int Mouse;
    int Shift;
    int Control;
    QByteArray Name;
    QByteArray CameraManipulatorName;
    };

  /// Subclass must fill some static structure and provide an implementation
  /// of that method which should returns a set of camera manipulators used
  /// by this type of view.
  virtual ManipulatorType* getManipulatorTypes(int &numberOfManipulatorType) = 0;

protected slots:
  virtual void initializeAfterObjectsCreated();

  /// Setups up RenderModule and QVTKWidget binding.
  /// This method is called for all pqRenderView objects irrespective
  /// of whether it is created from state/undo-redo/python or by the GUI. Hence
  /// don't change any render module properties here.
  virtual void initializeWidgets()=0;

  /// Triggered by DelayNonInteractiveRenderEvent
  void beginDelayInteractiveRender();
  void endDelayInteractiveRender();

  /// Triggered by internal timer to update the status bar message
  void updateStatusMessage();

protected:
  /// Overridden to popup the context menu, if some actions have been added
  /// using addMenuAction.
  virtual bool eventFilter(QObject* caller, QEvent* e);

  /// This method is called during initialize() to initialize the interactors.
  /// Interactor (interactor style, manipulators etc). Eventually, all the code
  /// that deals with interactor/interactor styles must be removed from the
  /// server manager (rather vtkSMRenderViewProxy). It's the application's
  /// responsibility to set up the interaction capabilities as per the domain.
  virtual void initializeInteractors(); 

  /// Create a CameraManipulatorProxy given the mouse, key and name.
  /// Whoever calling this is reponsible for deleting the new proxy.
  virtual vtkSMProxy* createCameraManipulator(
    int mouse, int shift, int control, QString name);
  
  /// Creates a new instance of the QWidget subclass to be used to show this
  /// view. Default implementation creates a QVTKWidget.
  virtual QWidget* createWidget();

  /// Use this method to initialize the pqObject state using the
  /// underlying vtkSMProxy. This needs to be done only once,
  /// after the object has been created. 
  virtual void initialize();

  /// Return the name of the group used for global settings (except interactor
  /// style).
  virtual const char* globalSettingsGroup() const=0;

  /// Return the name of the group used for view-sepecific settings such as
  /// background color, lighting.
  virtual const char* viewSettingsGroup() const=0;

  /// Returns the name of the group in which to save the interactor style
  /// settings that map to a given CameraManipulator name.
  virtual QMap<QString, QString> interactorStyleSettingsGroupToCameraManipulatorName() const=0;

  /// On Mac, we usually try to cache the front buffer to avoid unecessary
  //  updates.
  bool AllowCaching;

private: 
  pqRenderViewBase(const pqRenderViewBase&); // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const pqRenderViewBase&); // Not implemented.

  class pqInternal;
  pqInternal* Internal;
  pqTimer* InteractiveDelayUpdateTimer;
};

#endif