source: orxonox.OLD/orxonox/trunk/src/lib/lang/base_object.cc @ 4438

/* 
   orxonox - the future of 3D-vertical-scrollers

   Copyright (C) 2004 orx

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

   ### File Specific:
   main-programmer: Patrick Boenzli
   co-programmer: ...
*/


#include "base_object.h"
#include "load_param.h"

using namespace std;


/**
   \brief sets the name from a LoadXML-Element
   \param root the element to load from
*/
BaseObject::BaseObject(const TiXmlElement* root)
{
  this->className = NULL;
  this->id = -1;
  this->finalized = false;

  this->objectName = NULL;

  if (root)
    this->loadParams(root);
}

/**
   \brief standard deconstructor
*/
BaseObject::~BaseObject () 
{
  //  delete []this->className;
  if (this->objectName)
    delete []this->objectName;
}

/**
   \brief loads parameters
   \param root the element to load from
*/
void BaseObject::loadParams(const TiXmlElement* root)
{
  // name setup
  LoadParam<BaseObject>(root, "name", this, &BaseObject::setName)
    .describe("the name of the Object at hand");
}

/**
   \brief sets the class identifiers
   \param a number for the class from class_list.h enumeration
   \param the class name
*/
void BaseObject::setClassID(int id, const char* className)
{
  this->id = id;
  this->className = className;
}


/**
   \brief sets the class identifier
   \param a number for the class from class_list.h enumeration
*/
void BaseObject::setClassID (int id)
{
  this->id = id;
}


/**
   \brief sets the class identifiers
   \param the class name
*/
void BaseObject::setClassName(const char* className)
{
  this->className = className;
}


/**
   \brief sets the class identifiers
   \param a number for the class from class_list.h enumeration
   \param the class name
*/
bool BaseObject::isA (char* className)
{
  if( this->className == className)
    return false;
  return true;
}


/*
  \brief this finalizes an object and makes it ready to be garbage collected
*/
void BaseObject::finalize()
{
  this->finalized = true;
}


/**
  \brief set the name of the node

  for debug purposes realy usefull, not used to work properly
*/
void BaseObject::setName (const char* newName)
{
  if (this->objectName)
    delete []this->objectName;
  if (newName)
    {
      this->objectName = new char[strlen(newName)+1];
      strcpy(this->objectName, newName);
    }
  else 
    this->objectName = NULL;
}