singlelinetextlayer.h

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#ifndef _uisinglelinetextlayer_h
#define _uisinglelinetextlayer_h

#include "UI/textlayer.h"
#include "UI/uienumerations.h"

namespace Mezzanine
{
    namespace UI
    {
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        /// @brief This is a render layer specializing in single-line text.
        /// @details
        ///////////////////////////////////////
        class MEZZ_LIB SingleLineTextLayer : public TextLayer
        {
        protected:
            /// @internal
            /// @brief The index at which this text layer will start rendering characters.
            UInt32 StartIndex;
            /// @copydoc TextLayer::PopulateTextLinesImpl()
            virtual void PopulateTextLinesImpl();
            /// @copydoc TextLayer::GetCharacterIndexAtPositionImpl(const Vector2& Offset)
            virtual CharIndexPair GetIndexAtOffsetImpl(const Vector2& Offset);
            /// @copydoc TextLayer::GetOffsetAtIndex(const Integer Index)
            virtual CharOffsetPair GetOffsetAtIndexImpl(const Integer Index);
            /// @brief Gets a pointer to the only textline in this layer.
            virtual TextLine* GetLine() const;
        public:
            /// @brief No-Font constructor.
            /// @param ParentRenderable The renderable that created this layer.
            SingleLineTextLayer(QuadRenderable* ParentRenderable);
            /// @brief Non-Scaling constructor.
            /// @param FontName The name of the font to use for this layer.
            /// @param ParentRenderable The renderable that created this layer.
            SingleLineTextLayer(const String& FontName, QuadRenderable* ParentRenderable);
            /// @brief Text-Scaling constructor.
            /// @note This constructor defaults to Screen Relative text, but this can be altered after construction.
            /// @param LineHeight The relative scalar to be used when determining the size of characters generated by this text layer.
            /// @param ParentRenderable The renderable that created this layer.
            SingleLineTextLayer(const Real& LineHeight, QuadRenderable* ParentRenderable);
            /// @brief Class destructor.
            virtual ~SingleLineTextLayer();

            ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
            // Utility

            /// @copydoc RenderLayer::GetLayerType() const
            virtual RenderLayer::RenderLayerType GetLayerType() const;

            ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
            // Text Methods

            /// @brief Aligns the text of the caption on the X axis.
            /// @details Default value for this is UI::Txt_Center.
            /// @param Align The enum value representing the vertical alignment to be set.
            virtual void HorizontallyAlign(const UI::LinearAlignment Align);
            /// @brief Aligns the text of the caption on the Y axis.
            /// @details Default value for this is UI::Txt_Center.
            /// @param Align The enum value representing the vertical alignment to be set.
            virtual void VerticallyAlign(const UI::LinearAlignment Align);

            /// @brief Sets the index from the beginning at which characters will start to be rendered.
            /// @param Index The index of the character to start rendering at.
            virtual void SetStartIndex(const UInt32& Index);
            /// @brief Gets the set index for the character that's at the start of the characters being rendered.
            /// @return Returns a UInt32 that is the index of the first character in the rendering sequence.
            virtual UInt32 GetStartIndex() const;

            ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
            // Serialization

            /// @copydoc SimpleRenderer::ProtoSerializeProperties(XML::Node&) const
            virtual void ProtoSerializeProperties(XML::Node& SelfRoot) const;
            /// @copydoc SimpleRenderer::ProtoDeSerializeProperties(const XML::Node&)
            virtual void ProtoDeSerializeProperties(const XML::Node& SelfRoot);

            /// @copydoc SimpleRenderer::GetDerivedSerializableName() const
            virtual String GetDerivedSerializableName() const;
            /// @copydoc SimpleRenderer::GetSerializableName()
            static String GetSerializableName();
        };//SingleLineTextLayer
    }//UI
}//Mezzanine

#endif