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#ifndef GCN_IMAGELOADER_HPP
#define GCN_IMAGELOADER_HPP
#include <string>
#include "guichan/platform.hpp"
namespace gcn
{
class Image;
/**
* Abstract class for providing functions for loading images.
*
* Guichan contains implementations of ImageLoader for common
* libraries like the Allegro library, the HGE library,
* he OpenLayer library, and the SDL library.
* To make Guichan usable with other libraries, an ImageLoader
* class must be implemented.
*
* To make Guichan use an image loader, the image loader needs
* to be passed to the Image class using the static method
* Image::setImageLoader.
*
* @see Image::setImageLoader, Image::getImageLoader,
* AllegroImageLoader, HGEImageLoader, OpenLayerImageLoader,
* OpenGLAllegroImageLoader, OpenGLSDLImageLoader,
* SDLImageLoader
* @since 0.1.0
*/
class GCN_CORE_DECLSPEC ImageLoader
{
public:
/**
* Destructor.
*/
virtual ~ImageLoader() { }
/**
* Loads an image.
*
* NOTE: The functions Image::getPixel and Image::putPixel
* are only guaranteed to work before an image has
* been converted to display format.
*
* @param filename The filename of the image to load.
* @param convertToDisplayFormat True if the image should be converted
* to display, false otherwise.
*/
virtual Image* load(const std::string& filename, bool convertToDisplayFormat = true) = 0;
};
}
#endif // end GCN_IMAGELOADER_HPP
