annotate base/RecentFiles.h @ 537:3cc4b7cd2aa5

* Merge from one-fftdataserver-per-fftmodel branch.  This bit of
reworking (which is not described very accurately by the title of
the branch) turns the MatrixFile object into something that either
reads or writes, but not both, and separates the FFT file cache
reader and writer implementations separately.  This allows the
FFT data server to have a single thread owning writers and one reader
per "customer" thread, and for all locking to be vastly simplified
and concentrated in the data server alone (because none of the
classes it makes use of is used in more than one thread at a time).
The result is faster and more trustworthy code.

/* -*- 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 _RECENT_FILES_H_
#define _RECENT_FILES_H_

#include <QObject>
#include <QString>
#include <vector>
#include <deque>

/**
 * RecentFiles manages a list of the names of recently-used objects,
 * saving and restoring that list via QSettings.  The names do not
 * actually have to refer to files.
 */

class RecentFiles : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    /**
     * Construct a RecentFiles object that saves and restores in the
     * given QSettings group and truncates when the given count of
     * strings is reached.
     */
    RecentFiles(QString settingsGroup = "RecentFiles", size_t maxCount = 10);

    virtual ~RecentFiles();

    QString getSettingsGroup() const { return m_settingsGroup; }

    int getMaxCount() const { return m_maxCount; }

    std::vector<QString> getRecent() const;

    /**
     * Add a name that should be treated as a literal string.
     */
    void add(QString name);
    
    /**
     * Add a name that is known to be either a file path or a URL.  If
     * it looks like a URL, add it literally; otherwise treat it as a
     * file path and canonicalise it appropriately.  Also takes into
     * account the user preference for whether to include temporary
     * files in the recent files menu: the file will not be added if
     * the preference is set and the file appears to be a temporary
     * one.
     */
    void addFile(QString name);

signals:
    void recentChanged();

protected:
    QString m_settingsGroup;
    size_t m_maxCount;

    std::deque<QString> m_names;

    void read();
    void write();
    void truncateAndWrite();
};

#endif