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/* Copyright (C) 2005 to 2011 and 2013 Chris Vine
 
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*/
 
#ifndef CGU_WIDGET_H
#define CGU_WIDGET_H
 
#include <c++-gtk-utils/cgu_config.h>
 
#ifdef CGU_USE_GTK
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#endif
 
namespace Cgu {
 
#if defined(DOXYGEN_PARSING) || defined(CGU_USE_GTK)
 
/**
 * @class MainWidgetBase widget.h c++-gtk-utils/widget.h
 * @brief This is a class to manage the lifetime of widgets which are
 * not top-level widgets (ie which are not derived from GtkWindow).
 * @sa WinBase GobjHandle
 *
 * Normally you will not need this class, because the GObject
 * reference counting system coupled with the WinBase class will
 * provide for lifetime management and exception safety, provided that
 * widgets are placed in their containers on a "top-down" basis and
 * the top-level window is managed by a WinBase object.
 *
 * However, sometimes it is convenient for a class to encapsulate only
 * part of the implementation of a top level window, and for there to
 * be automatic lifetime management of a widget before it is placed in
 * a GTK+ container.
 *
 * The MainWidgetBase class is intended to achieve this, by managing
 * references with g_object_ref_sink() such that the widget managed by
 * the class and its children are correctly destroyed when the
 * MainWidgetBase class goes out of scope or is deleted even if they
 * are not subsequently placed in another GTK+ container object which
 * calls g_object_ref_sink() on the widget.
 *
 * This class therefore represents a safety feature which can be used
 * simply by inheriting from it.  It also enables a widget to be
 * placed in and removed from a GTK+ container without it being
 * destroyed by the removal, since it is owned by the MainWidgetBase
 * class object.
 *
 * A similar effect could be achieved by managing a widget with
 * GobjHandle, but MainWidgetBase enables, by inheritance,
 * encapsulation of supplementary operations on the contained widget.
 *
 * See @ref Threading for particulars about GTK+ thread safety (and so
 * MainWidgetBase thread safety).
 *
 * MainWidgetBase objects can be used with widget heirarchies created
 * using GtkBuilder.  See @ref GtkBuilder for particulars about that.
 *
 * This class is not compiled into the library if the library is built
 * with the \--without-gtk configuration option.
 */
 
class MainWidgetBase {
  // main widget object
  GtkWidget* g_widget_p;
 
  // MainWidgetBase cannot be copied
  MainWidgetBase(const MainWidgetBase&);
  MainWidgetBase& operator=(const MainWidgetBase&);
public:
  /**
   * Returns the GtkWidget object managed by this class.  This method
   * will not throw.
   * @return The managed GtkWidget object.
   */
  GtkWidget* get_main_widget() const {return g_widget_p;}
 
  /**
   * The constructor will not throw.  It calls g_object_ref_sink() to
   * take ownership of the object to be managed.
   * @param widget The GtkWidget object to be managed by this class.
   */
  MainWidgetBase(GtkWidget* widget);
 
  /**
   * The destructor will not throw.  It calls g_object_unref() to
   * relinquish ownership of the managed object.
   */
  virtual ~MainWidgetBase();
 
/* Only has effect if --with-glib-memory-slices-compat or
 * --with-glib-memory-slices-no-compat option picked */
  CGU_GLIB_MEMORY_SLICES_FUNCS
};
 
#endif // CGU_USE_GTK
 
} // namespace Cgu
 
#endif // CGU_WIDGET_H