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/*  This code generated by:
 *      Author : thomas
 *      Date   : Fri Aug 07 2003
 */

#ifndef OWNEDHIERARCHICALCODEBLOCK_H
#define OWNEDHIERARCHICALCODEBLOCK_H

#include "hierarchicalcodeblock.h"

class UMLObject;
class CodeDocument;

/**
  * class OwnedHierarchicalCodeBlock
  * A "chunk" of code within the code document that is "owned" by some
  * umlobject. This is an abstract class that should be inherited.
  */

class OwnedHierarchicalCodeBlock : public HierarchicalCodeBlock, public OwnedCodeBlock
{
    TQ_OBJECT
  
public:

    // Constructors/Destructors
    //

    /** constructor with TQString so we can create & populate it in
     * one step.
     */
    OwnedHierarchicalCodeBlock ( UMLObject * parent, CodeDocument * parentDoc, const TQString &start="", const TQString &end="", const TQString &comment="" );

    /**
     * Empty Destructor
     */
    virtual ~OwnedHierarchicalCodeBlock ( );

    // Public attributes
    //

    // Return the parent code document
    CodeDocument * getParentDocument();

    // these next 2 methods should be supplied by inheriting classes
    /**
     * Save the XMI representation of this object
     */
    virtual void saveToXMI ( TQDomDocument & doc, TQDomElement & root ) = 0;

    /**
     * load params from the appropriate XMI element node.
     */
    virtual void loadFromXMI ( TQDomElement & root ) = 0;

protected:

    /** causes the text block to release all of its connections
    * and any other text blocks that it 'owns'.
    * needed to be called prior to deletion of the textblock.
    */
    virtual void release ();

    /** set attributes of the node that represents this class
    * in the XMI document.
    */
    virtual void setAttributesOnNode ( TQDomDocument & doc, TQDomElement & blockElement);

    /** set the class attributes of this object from
     * the passed element node.
     */
    virtual void setAttributesFromNode ( TQDomElement & element);

    /** set the class attributes from a passed object
    */
    virtual void setAttributesFromObject (TextBlock * obj);

    virtual void updateContent ( ) = 0;

private:

public slots:

    void syncToParent ( );


};

#endif // OWNEDHIERARCHICALCODEBLOCK_H
