/* This file is part of the KDE Project
   Copyright (C) 2000 Klaas Freitag <freitag@suse.de>  

   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   Library General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
   along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
   the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
   Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/

#ifndef DEVSELECTOR_H
#define DEVSELECTOR_H


#include <kdialogbase.h>

class TQButtonGroup;
class TQStrList;
class TQStringList;
class TQCheckBox;

/**
  *@author Klaas Freitag
  */

/* Configuration-file definitions */
#define GROUP_STARTUP    "Scan Settings"
#define STARTUP_SCANDEV  "ScanDevice"
#define STARTUP_SKIP_ASK "SkipStartupAsk"
#define STARTUP_ONLY_LOCAL "QueryLocalOnly"


/**
 *  A utitlity class that lets the user select a scan device.
 *
 *  This class provides functions to get the scan device to use for an 
 *  application with scan support.
 *
 *  Its main purpose is to display a selection dialog, but it also reads
 *  and writes config entries to store the users selection and handles
 *  a field 'do not ask me again'.
 *
 */

class DeviceSelector: public KDialogBase
{
   Q_OBJECT
  
public:
   /**
    *  constructs the dialog class
    *  @param TQWidget *parent - the parent
    *  @param TQStrList backends - a list of device names retrieved from the scan device
    *  @param TQStrList scannerNames - a list of corresponding human readable sanner names.
    */
   DeviceSelector( TQWidget *parent, TQStrList&, const TQStringList& );
   ~DeviceSelector();

   /**
    *  returns the device the user selected.
    *  @return a CString containing the technical name of the selected device (taken from
    *          the backends-list from the constructor)
    */
   TQCString getSelectedDevice( void ) const;

   /**
    *  returns the users selection if the dialog should be skipped in future.
    *  @return true for should be skipped.
    */
   bool     getShouldSkip( void ) const;

   /**
    *  retrieval to get the device from the config file. The function reads the applications
    *  config file, cares for the 'do not ask me again'-settings and checks if the scandevice
    *  specified in the config file is present at the current configuration.
    *  If this function returns null, the DeviceSelector should be opened for a user selection.
    *  @return a string containing the device to open or null if no device is specified or the
    *  one specified is not valid.
    */
   TQCString getDeviceFromConfig( void ) const;

public slots:
   void setScanSources( const TQStrList&, const TQStringList& );

private:
   TQButtonGroup *selectBox;
   mutable TQStrList devices;
   TQCheckBox   *cbSkipDialog;
   bool        configDevValid;
   
   class DeviceSelectorPrivate;
   DeviceSelectorPrivate *d;
   
};

#endif
