selecteddatawriteable.h

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/*
    This file is part of the Kasten Framework, made within the KDE community.

    Copyright 2006-2007 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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#ifndef KASTEN_IF_SELECTEDDATAWRITEABLE_H
#define KASTEN_IF_SELECTEDDATAWRITEABLE_H

// Qt
#include <QtCore/QtPlugin>

class QMimeData;


namespace Kasten2
{

namespace If
{
// TODO: this interface is strongly related to the selection interface
// needs further thinking
// for now the mimedata is the write extension to the selection interface
// as "createCopyOfSelectedData()" got moved to selection
// rename both interfaces to Selection and SelectionWriteable?
// TODO: cut does not work on overwrite modus (for me), how to generalize this?
class SelectedDataWriteable
{
  public:
    virtual ~SelectedDataWriteable();

  public: // operate
    // TODO: inserting works on selection if available
    virtual void insertData( const QMimeData *data ) = 0;
    virtual QMimeData *cutSelectedData() = 0;
    virtual void deleteSelectedData() = 0;

  public: // 
    virtual bool canReadData( const QMimeData *data ) const = 0;
};

inline SelectedDataWriteable::~SelectedDataWriteable() {}

}
}

Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE( Kasten2::If::SelectedDataWriteable, "org.kde.kasten2.if.selecteddatawriteable/1.0" )

#endif