/***************************************************************************
                          filesource.h  -  description
                             -------------------
    begin                : Son Feb 10 2002
    copyright            : (C) 2002 by Thomas Kabelmann
    email                : tk78@gmx.de
 ***************************************************************************/

/***************************************************************************
 *                                                                         *
 *   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 FILESOURCE_H
#define FILESOURCE_H

/**@class FileSource
	*FileSource is an asynchronous class for reloading star data while running
	*the program. It's basing on TQDataSource class and implements the function
	*for reading a file step by step and send these data to an TQDataSink object.
	*KStarsData uses this class for asynchronous io.
	*@author Thomas Kabelmann
	*@version 1.0
	*/

#include <tqasyncio.h>
#include <tqstring.h>

class KStarsData;
class KSFileReader;

class FileSource : public TQDataSource  {

	public:
	/**constructor needs an KStarsData object, a file name and the new magnitude
		*/
		FileSource( KStarsData *ksdata, float magnitude );

	/** destructor */
		~FileSource();
  	
	/**send a value indicating whether the object is ready to send data.
		*@return 1 if data is ready to send; return -1 if the stream is finished.
		*/
		int readyToSend();

	/**Is this object rewindable?
		*@return false, because it's not needed to rewind.
		*/
		bool rewindable() { return false; }
		
	/**The function for sending data to an TQDataSink object. Here will all data
		*operations defined. Because this function is virtual, we need a second int
		*parameter, but we don't use it, so it's unnamed.
		*@p sink pointer to the TQDataSink object which will receive the data stream
		*/
		void sendTo( TQDataSink *sink, int );

	/**@return current magnitude to load (always returns maxMagnitude)
		*/
		float magnitude() { return maxMagnitude; }
		
	private:

		bool readingData;

		KSFileReader *fileReader;

		// which sao file should be opened and which line
		int fileNumber, lineNumber;

		// counts blocksize
		int counter;

		// new magnitude to load
		float maxMagnitude;

		KStarsData *data;

	/**maxLines defines how many lines in data file should be read and
		*send to TQDataSink. This is only needed if a data block is longer
		*than the max defined lines. I figured out this value of 500
		*on a fast system, so if it is to high the value might be decreased.
		*A high value means faster reloading but perhaps on slow systems this
		*might interrupt the main event loop.
		*A low value needs longer to reload data, but it doesn't interrupt the
		*main event loop (it's smoother).
		*But it's important to know that 500 lines to read is very fast, but
		*appending to TQList in StarDataSink will take the most time and this
		*will also defined with this value.
		*/
		#define maxLines 500
	
	/**The loaded data will stored in a string array and a pointer to first
		*object in array will send to StarDataSink.
		*/
		TQString stringArray[ maxLines ];

};

#endif
