#ifndef _UMLITEM_H
#define _UMLITEM_H


#include "UmlBaseItem.h"
#include <qcstring.h>
#include "anItemKind.h"

class UmlClass;
class UmlState;

// This class is a mother class for all the other Uml* classes, this
// allows to generalize their management, declare virtual operations etc ...
//
// You can modify it as you want (except the constructor)
class UmlItem : public UmlBaseItem {
  public:
    UmlItem(void * id, const QCString & n) : UmlBaseItem(id, n) {};

    virtual ~UmlItem();

    UmlItem * getChild(anItemKind k, QCString s);

    //  return name modified to only contains a-ZA-Z0-9_
    
    QCString quotedName();

    //  initialization, does nothing at this level
    
    virtual void init(UmlClass * mother, QCString path, QCString pretty_path, UmlState * state);

    //  program entry point, correspond to a wrong Tools configuration
    
    virtual void generate();

    //  for state & transition, can't be called
    
    virtual void generate(UmlClass *, UmlClass *, UmlState *);

    //  if the target of a transition, can't be called
    
    virtual void generate(UmlClass * machine, UmlClass * anystate, UmlState * state, QCString & body, QCString indent);

    //  does nothing at this level
    
    virtual void setComment(QCString s);

    // if the element was produced by a previous use of the plug-out mark it useless to may delete it at end
    // iterate on children
    void setUseless();

    //  mark the element  is usefull
    virtual void setUsed();

    //delete useless classes, operations and attributes
    
    virtual void deleteUseless();

};

#endif