blame: source/code/common.h

/*

Block Attack - Rise of the Blocks, SDL game, besed on Nintendo's Tetris Attack

Copyright (C) 2008 Poul Sander

    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.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

    Poul Sander

    R�vehjvej 36, V. 1111

    2800 Kgs. Lyngby

    DENMARK

    blockattack@poulsander.com

    http://blockattack.sf.net

*/

/*

 *This is the common.h

 *It contains some basic functions that nearly all multiplatform games are going

 *to need.

 */

#ifndef _COMMON_H

#define	_COMMON_H

/*

 *Files will be saved in:

 * HOME/.gamesaves/"+GAMENAME (unix)

 *or DOCUMENTS/My Games/GAMENAME (Windows)

 */

#define GAMENAME "blockattack"

#include <string>

#include <iostream>

#include <fstream>

#include <map>

#include <stdlib.h>

#ifdef WIN32

#include "windows.h"

#include "shlobj.h"

#endif

using namespace std;

struct commonTime{

    unsigned int days;

    unsigned int hours;

    unsigned int minutes;

    unsigned int seconds;

};

string itoa(int num);

string getPathToSaveFiles();

/**

 * str2int parses a string and returns an int with the value of the string.

 * if the string is not an int then 0 is returned instead of throing an error

 * in that way this function will always return a useable value.

 */

int str2int(string str2parse);

#ifdef WIN32

string getMyDocumentsPath();

#endif

class TimeHandler

{

public:

	static commonTime ms2ct(unsigned int milliseconds);

	static commonTime getTime(string name);

	static commonTime peekTime(string name, commonTime toAdd);

	static commonTime addTime(string name, commonTime toAdd);

};

#define MAX_VAR_LENGTH 1024

/*This is the Config class it is a map to hold config variables.

 *It is inspired by Quake 3's CVAR system although a lot simpler.

 *All variables have keys "varName" that is used to access a variable.

 *

 *This class is a singleton

 */

class Config

{

private: 

    map<string,string> configMap;

    static Config *instance;

    void load();

protected:

    Config();

public:

    /*Config is a singleton.

     *It is accessed like this:

     *Config::getInstance()->method2call(paramters);

     */

    static Config* getInstance();

    /*save()

     *forces the config to be written to disk. This will also happened if the

     *program terminates normally.

     */

    void save();

    /*getString(varName)

     *Looks in the config file and returns the string that matches the key "varName"

     *Returns an empty string if varName does not exist.

     */

    string getString(string varName);

    /*getInt(varName)

     *Looks in the config file and returns the int that matches the key "varName"

     *Returns "0" if varName does not exist or cannot be parsed.

     */

    int getInt(string varName);

    /*getValue(varName)

     *Looks in the config file and returns the double that matches the key "varName"

     *Returns "0.0" if varName does not exist or cannot be parsed.

     */

    double getValue(string varName);

    /*setString(varName,content)

     *Sets the config variable with key "varName" to the value of "content"

     */

    void setString(string varName,string content);

    /*setInt(varName,content)

     *Sets the config variable with key "varName" to the value of "content"

     */

    void setInt(string varName,int content);

    /*setValue(varName,content)

     *Sets the config variable with key "varName" to the value of "content"

     */

    void setValue(string varName,double content);

    /*exists(varName)

     *returns true if the key varName exists. This is used the first time 1.4.0

     *starts so that it can see that it has to import configs from an earlier 

     *version.

     */

    bool exists(string varName);

    /*setDefault(varName,value)

     *if the variable "varName" does not exist it will be created with value "value"

     *if varName exists then this will have no effect

     */

    void setDefault(string varName, string content);

};

#endif	/* _COMMON_H */