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Permit setting the default alignment preference

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#ifndef SV_ALIGN_H
#define SV_ALIGN_H

#include <QString>
#include <QObject>
#include <QProcess>
#include <QMutex>
#include <set>

#include "Aligner.h"

#include "transform/Transform.h"

class AlignmentModel;
class Document;

class Align : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
    
public:
    Align() { }

    enum AlignmentType {
        NoAlignment,
        LinearAlignment,
        TrimmedLinearAlignment,
        MATCHAlignment,
        MATCHAlignmentWithPitchCompare,
        SungNoteContourAlignment,
        TransformDrivenDTWAlignment,
        ExternalProgramAlignment,

        LastAlignmentType = ExternalProgramAlignment
    };

    /**
     * Convert an alignment type to a stable machine-readable string.
     */
    static QString getAlignmentTypeTag(AlignmentType type);

    /**
     * Convert an alignment type back from a stable machine-readable
     * string.
     */
    static AlignmentType getAlignmentTypeForTag(QString tag);

    /**
     * Get the currently set alignment preference from the global
     * application settings. If the returned preference is
     * TransformDrivenDTWAlignment or ExternalProgramAlignment, then
     * it will also be necessary to query
     * getPreferredAlignmentTransform() or
     * getPreferredAlignmentProgram() respectively in order to get the
     * information needed to perform an alignment.
     */
    static AlignmentType getAlignmentPreference();
    
    /**
     * Set the alignment preference to the global application
     * settings. If the preference is TransformDrivenDTWAlignment or
     * ExternalProgramAlignment, you may also wish to call
     * setPreferredAlignmentTransform() or
     * setPreferredAlignmentProgram() respectively.
     */
    static void setAlignmentPreference(AlignmentType type);

    /**
     * Set the default alignment preference. That is, if no alignment
     * preference has been set by the user yet, set it to this.
     */
    static void setDefaultAlignmentPreference(AlignmentType type);
    
    /**
     * Get the external program associated with the
     * ExternalProgramAlignment type, if any is set (an empty string
     * otherwise). Note that this will return a value if any has ever
     * been set, regardless of whether ExternalProgramAlignment is the
     * currently chosen alignment type or not.
     */
    static QString getPreferredAlignmentProgram();

    /**
     * Set the external program associated with the
     * ExternalProgramAlignment type. It is not necessary for the
     * current preferred alignment type actually to be
     * ExternalProgramAlignment in order to change this setting.  No
     * validation is carried out on the argument - we don't verify
     * that it actually is the path of a program, or anything else.
     */
    static void setPreferredAlignmentProgram(QString program);
    
    /**
     * Get the transform associated with the
     * TransformDrivenDTWAlignment type, if any is set (a default
     * constructed Transform otherwise). Note that this will return a
     * value if any has ever been set, regardless of whether
     * TransformDrivenDTWAlignment is the currently chosen alignment
     * type or not.
     */
    static Transform getPreferredAlignmentTransform();

    /**
     * Set the transform associated with the
     * TransformDrivenDTWAlignment type. It is not necessary for the
     * current preferred alignment type actually to be
     * TransformDrivenDTWAlignment in order to change this setting.
     */ 
    static void setPreferredAlignmentTransform(Transform transform);

    /**
     * Return true if subsequence alignment is preferred. In this case
     * the toAlign model is aligned to the best-matching subsequence
     * of the reference model rather than to the whole reference. This
     * is only possible for the true built-in alignment types - it's
     * meaningless for linear or trimmed linear alignment, and for
     * external program alignment. The default is false.
     */
    static bool getUseSubsequenceAlignment();

    /**
     * Set whether subsequence alignment is to be preferred.
     */
    static void setUseSubsequenceAlignment(bool subsequence);
    
    /**
     * Align the "other" model to the reference, attaching an
     * AlignmentModel to it. Alignment is carried out by the method
     * configured in the user preferences (see
     * getAlignmentPreference() etc) and is done asynchronously.
     *
     * Any errors are reported by firing the alignmentFailed
     * signal. Note that the signal may be fired during the call to
     * this function, if the aligner fails to start at all.
     *
     * If alignment starts successfully, then an AlignmentModel has
     * been constructed and attached to the toAlign model, and you can
     * query that model to discover the alignment progress, eventual
     * outcome, and also (separately from the alignmentFailed signal
     * here) any error message generated during alignment.
     *
     * A single Align object may carry out many simultanous alignment
     * calls -- you do not need to create a new Align object each
     * time, nor to wait for an alignment to be complete before
     * starting a new one.
     * 
     * The Align object must survive after this call, for at least as
     * long as the alignment takes. The usual expectation is that the
     * Align object will simply share the process or document
     * lifespan.
     */
    void alignModel(Document *doc,
                    ModelId reference,
                    ModelId toAlign);

    /**
     * As alignModel, except that the alignment does not begin
     * immediately, but is instead placed behind an event callback
     * with a small delay. Useful to avoid an unresponsive GUI when
     * firing off alignments while doing something else as well. Any
     * error is reported by firing the alignmentFailed signal.
     *
     * Scheduled alignments are not queued or serialised - many could
     * happen at once. They are just delayed a little for UI
     * responsiveness.
     */
    void scheduleAlignment(Document *doc,
                           ModelId reference,
                           ModelId toAlign);
    
    /**
     * Return true if the preferred alignment facility is available
     * (relevant plugin installed, etc).
     */
    static bool canAlign();

signals:
    /**
     * Emitted when an alignment is successfully completed. The
     * reference and other models can be queried from the alignment
     * model.
     */
    void alignmentComplete(ModelId alignmentModel); // an AlignmentModel

    /**
     * Emitted when an alignment fails. The model is the toAlign model
     * that was passed to the call to alignModel or scheduleAlignment.
     */
    void alignmentFailed(ModelId toAlign, QString errorText);

private slots:
    void alignerComplete(ModelId alignmentModel); // an AlignmentModel
    void alignerFailed(ModelId toAlign, QString errorText);
    
private:
    QMutex m_mutex;

    // maps toAlign -> aligner for ongoing alignment - note that
    // although we can calculate alignments with different references,
    // we can only have one alignment on any given toAlign model, so
    // we don't key this on the whole (reference, toAlign) pair
    std::map<ModelId, std::shared_ptr<Aligner>> m_aligners;

    bool addAligner(Document *doc, ModelId reference, ModelId toAlign);
    void removeAligner(QObject *);
};

#endif