view transform/Transform.h @ 88:51be0daa1386

Several changes related to referring to remote URLs for sessions and files:
* Pull file dialog wrapper functions out from MainWindow into FileFinder
* If a file referred to in a session is not found at its expected location,
  try a few other alternatives (same location as the session file or same
  location as the last audio file) before asking the user to locate it
* Allow user to give a URL when locating an audio file, not just locate on
  the filesystem
* Make wave file models remember the "original" location (e.g. URL) of
  the audio file, not just the actual location from which the data was
  loaded (e.g. local copy of that URL) -- when saving a session, use the
  original location so as not to refer to a temporary file
* Clean up incompletely-downloaded local copies of files

/* -*- c-basic-offset: 4 indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-  vi:set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4: */

/*
    Sonic Visualiser
    An audio file viewer and annotation editor.
    Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.
    This file copyright 2006 Chris Cannam.
   
    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.  See the file
    COPYING included with this distribution for more information.
*/

#ifndef _TRANSFORM_H_
#define _TRANSFORM_H_

#include "base/Thread.h"

#include "data/model/Model.h"

typedef QString TransformName;

/**
 * A Transform turns one data model into another.
 *
 * Typically in this application, a Transform might have a
 * DenseTimeValueModel as its input (e.g. an audio waveform) and a
 * SparseOneDimensionalModel (e.g. detected beats) as its output.
 *
 * The Transform typically runs in the background, as a separate
 * thread populating the output model.  The model is available to the
 * user of the Transform immediately, but may be initially empty until
 * the background thread has populated it.
 */

class Transform : public Thread
{
public:
    virtual ~Transform();

    Model *getInputModel()  { return m_input; }
    Model *getOutputModel() { return m_output; }
    Model *detachOutputModel() { m_detached = true; return m_output; }

protected:
    Transform(Model *m);

    Model *m_input; // I don't own this
    Model *m_output; // I own this, unless...
    bool m_detached; // ... this is true.
    bool m_deleting;
};

#endif