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   Program: ParaView
   Module:    pqSGWritersMenuManager.h

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#ifndef pqSGWritersMenuManager_h
#define pqSGWritersMenuManager_h

#include "pqComponentsModule.h"
#include <QObject>
#include <QTimer>

class QMenu;
class QAction;

/// pqSGWritersMenuManager is responsible for managing the menu for "Writers".
/// pqSGPluginManager calls createMenu() when the plugin is initialized, then
/// pqSGWritersMenuManager creates and setups up the co-processing writers menu.
/// If another plugin is loaded after this one is then it rechecks to see
/// if any writers were added with the CoProcessing hint in the XML file
/// and if they were then the writers get added to the Writers menu.  See
/// Resources/servermanager.xml for an example of how to do that.
class PQCOMPONENTS_EXPORT pqSGWritersMenuManager : public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT
  typedef QObject Superclass;
public:
  pqSGWritersMenuManager(const char* writersMenuName, const char* objectMenuName,
                         QObject* parent=0);
  ~pqSGWritersMenuManager();

public slots:
  /// Creates a new writers menu and adds the writers to it.
  /// The name of the Qt menu object will be ObjectMenuName
  /// and the the name of GUI menu will be WritersMenuName.
  void createMenu();

protected slots:
  /// Updates the enable state for the writers menu.
  void updateEnableState();

  /// Called when user requests to create a writer.
  void onActionTriggered(QAction*);
protected:
  void createWriter(const QString& xmlgroup, const QString& xmlname);

private:
  QMenu* Menu;
  /// The name of the Qt writers menu object will be ObjectMenuName
  /// and the the name of GUI menu will be WritersMenuName.
  QString WritersMenuName;
  QString ObjectMenuName;

  Q_DISABLE_COPY(pqSGWritersMenuManager)

  QTimer Timer;
};

#endif
