//-*-c++-*-
/**
 Authors: David Auber, Patrick Mary, Morgan Mathiaut
 from the LaBRI Visualization Team
 Email : auber@tulip-software.org
 Last modification : 22/01/2009 
 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 of the License, or     
 (at your option) any later version.
*/

#ifndef Tulip_VIEWPLUGINSMANAGER_H
#define Tulip_VIEWPLUGINSMANAGER_H

#include <string>
#include <cassert>

#include <tulip/tulipconf.h>
#include <tulip/MutableContainer.h>
#include <tulip/PluginLoader.h>

#include "tulip/View.h"

namespace tlp {

  /** \brief Manager of view's plugins
   *
   * Class to manage view's plugins
   */
  class TLP_QT_SCOPE ViewPluginsManager {

  public:

    /**
     * Singleton system
     */
    static ViewPluginsManager &getInst() {
      if(!inst)
	inst=new ViewPluginsManager();
      return *inst;
    }


    /**
     * Load all view's plugins available
     * \param plug : Use this plugin loader
     */
    void loadPlugins(PluginLoader *plug=0);

    /**
     * Get available plugins list
     */
    void initViewPluginsList(MutableContainer<View *> &views);
    /**
     * Create view with given name
     * \return The view
     */
    View *createView(const std::string &name);

  private:

    /**
     * Singleton system
     */
    ViewPluginsManager();

    static ViewPluginsManager* inst;

  };

}

#endif // Tulip_VIEWPLUGINSMANAGER_H