/* This file is part of Kiten, a KDE Japanese Reference Tool...
   Copyright (C) 2006 Joseph Kerian <jkerian@gmail.com>
			  (C) 2006  Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com>

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

   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   Library General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
   along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
   the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
   Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/

#ifndef KITEN_HISTORYPTRLIST_H
#define KITEN_HISTORYPTRLIST_H

#include <QtCore/QStringList>
#include "libkitenexport.h"

class EntryList;

class KITEN_EXPORT HistoryPtrList {
	public:
		/** Construct a HistoryPtrList, this should be done early on */
		HistoryPtrList();
		/** Destructor... kill all lists before going */
		virtual ~HistoryPtrList();
		/** Add an item to the end of the history list and set it as
		  the current displayed item */
		void addItem(EntryList*);
		/** Return a list of the entries. Note that this is usually
		  just a QStringList of all of the EntryList's DictQuery->toString()
		  calls. */
		QStringList toStringList();
		/** Return a list of the entries prior to the current one (not including
		  the current entry */
		QStringList toStringListPrev();
		/** Return a summary list that only includes those after the current */
		QStringList toStringListNext();
		/** Add one to the current location, convenient for 'forward' buttons */
		void next(int distance = 1);
		/** Sub one from the current location, the counterpart to next() */
		void prev(int distance = 1);
		/** Return the current numerican 0-based location */
		int index();
		/** Return the item at the location given by the param, and set it
		  to be the current history list item */
		/** Return the current item */
		EntryList *current();
		/** Set the current item */
		void setCurrent(int i);
		/** Return the total number of items in the list */
		int count();
	private:
		class Private;
		Private * const d;
};

#endif