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 */
 
/**
    @file
    @brief Definition of the QuestHint class.
*/

#ifndef _QuestHint_H__
#define _QuestHint_H__

#include "OrxonoxPrereqs.h"

#include <map>

#include "core/XMLPort.h"
#include "QuestItem.h"

namespace orxonox
{
    namespace questHintStatus
    {

        //! The state of the hint.
        enum Enum
        {
            inactive,
            active
        };

    }

    /**
    @brief
        Represents a hint in the game towards completing a Quest.
        Consists of title and description (which is stored in a QuestDescription object) in textual form and must belong to a quest.
        A QuestHint has a defined status (inactive or active, where inactive is default) for each player, which means each a QuestHint exists only once for all players, it doesn't belong to a player, it just has different states for each of them.
        
        Creating a QuestHint through XML goes as follows:
        
        <QuestHint id="hintId">  //Where hintId is a GUID, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_Unique_Identifier#Basic_structure for more information
            <QuestDesctription title="" description="" />
        </QuestHint>
    @author
        Damian 'Mozork' Frick
    */
    class _OrxonoxExport QuestHint : public QuestItem
    {

        public:
            QuestHint(BaseObject* creator);
            virtual ~QuestHint();

            virtual void XMLPort(Element& xmlelement, XMLPort::Mode mode); //!< Method for creating a QuestHint object through XML.

            bool isActive(const PlayerInfo* player) const; //!< Returns true if the QuestHint is active for the input player.

            bool setActive(PlayerInfo* player); //!< Activates the QuestHint for the input player.
            bool setQuest(Quest* quest); //!< Sets the Quest the QuestHint belongs to.

            /**
            @brief Returns the Quest the QuestHint is attached to.
            @return  Returns a pointer to the Quest the QuestHint is attached to.
            */
            inline Quest* getQuest(void)
               { return this->quest_; }

        private:
            Quest* quest_; //!< The Quest the QuestHint belongs to.
            std::map<const PlayerInfo*, questHintStatus::Enum> playerStatus_; //!< List of the states for each player, with the Player-pointer as key.

    };

}

#endif /* _QuestHint_H__ */