source: code/archive/map/src/modules/pickup/PickupCollection.h @ 12412

/*
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 *      Damian 'Mozork' Frick
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 */

/**
    @file PickupCollection.h
    @brief Declaration of PickupCollection.
*/

#ifndef _PickupCollection_H__
#define _PickupCollection_H__

#include "PickupPrereqs.h"

#include "interfaces/Pickupable.h"
#include "core/BaseObject.h"

#include <list>

namespace orxonox
{

    /**
    @brief
        The PickupCollection combines different Pickupables to a coherent, single pickup and makes the seem (from the outside looking in) just as if they were just one Pickupable.
    @author
        Damian 'Mozork' Frick
    */
    class _PickupExport PickupCollection : public Pickupable, public BaseObject
    {
        
        public:
            
            PickupCollection(BaseObject* creator); //!< Default Constructor.
            virtual ~PickupCollection(); //!< Destructor.
            
            virtual void XMLPort(Element& xmlelement, XMLPort::Mode mode); //!< Creates an instance of this Class through XML.

            virtual void changedUsed(void); //!< Is called when the pickup has transited from used to unused or the other way around.
            virtual void changedCarrier(void); //!< Is called when the pickup has changed its PickupCarrier.
            virtual void changedPickedUp(void); //!< Is called when the pickup has transited from picked up to dropped or the other way around.
            
            virtual void clone(OrxonoxClass*& item); //!< Creates a duplicate of the input OrxonoxClass.
            
            virtual bool isTarget(Identifier* identifier) const; //!< Get whether a given class, represented by the input Identifier, is a target of this PickupCollection.
            
            virtual const PickupIdentifier* getPickupIdentifier(void); //!< Get the PickupIdentifier of this PickupCollection.
            
            bool addPickupable(Pickupable* pickup); //!< Add the input Pickupable to list of Pickupables combined by this PickupCollection.
            const Pickupable* getPickupable(unsigned int index); //!< Get the Pickupable at the given index.
            
        protected:
            void initializeIdentifier(void); //!< Initializes the PickupIdentifier for this pickup.
            
            virtual bool createSpawner(void); //!< Facilitates the creation of a PickupSpawner upon dropping of the Pickupable.
            
            PickupCollectionIdentifier* pickupCollectionIdentifier_; //!< The PickupCollectionIdentifier of this PickupCollection. Is used to distinguish different PickupCollections amongst themselves.
            
        private:
            
            std::vector<WeakPtr<Pickupable> > pickups_; //!< The list of the pointers of all the Pickupables this PickupCollection consists of. They are weak pointers to facilitate testing, whether the pointers are still valid.
        
    };
    
}

#endif /* _PickupCollection_H__ */