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** $Id:  qt/qasyncimageio.h   3.0.5   edited Oct 12 2001 $
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** Definition of asynchronous image/movie loading classes
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#ifndef QASYNCIMAGEIO_H
#define QASYNCIMAGEIO_H

#ifndef QT_H
#include "qimage.h"
#endif // QT_H

#ifndef QT_NO_ASYNC_IMAGE_IO


class Q_EXPORT QImageConsumer {
public:
    virtual void end()=0;

    // Change transfer type 1.
    virtual void changed( const QRect& ) = 0;
    virtual void frameDone() = 0;

    // Change transfer type 2.
    virtual void frameDone( const QPoint&, const QRect& ) = 0;

    virtual void setLooping( int ) = 0;
    virtual void setFramePeriod( int ) = 0;
    virtual void setSize( int, int ) = 0;
};

class Q_EXPORT QImageFormat {
public:
    virtual ~QImageFormat();
    virtual int decode( QImage& img, QImageConsumer* consumer,
			const uchar* buffer, int length ) = 0;
};

class Q_EXPORT QImageFormatType {
public:
    virtual ~QImageFormatType();
    virtual QImageFormat* decoderFor( const uchar* buffer, int length ) = 0;
    virtual const char* formatName() const = 0;
protected:
    QImageFormatType();
};

class QImageDecoderPrivate;
class Q_EXPORT QImageDecoder {
public:
    QImageDecoder( QImageConsumer* c );
    ~QImageDecoder();

    const QImage& image() { return img; }
    int decode( const uchar* buffer, int length );

    static const char* formatName( const uchar* buffer, int length );
    static QImageFormatType* format( const char* name ); // direct use - no decode()

    static QStrList inputFormats();
    static void registerDecoderFactory( QImageFormatType* );
    static void unregisterDecoderFactory( QImageFormatType* );

private:
    QImageFormat* actual_decoder;
    QImageConsumer* consumer;
    QImage img;
    QImageDecoderPrivate *d;
};

#endif // QT_NO_ASYNC_IMAGE_IO

#endif // QASYNCIMAGEIO_H