/*
    Rosegarden
    A MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor.

    This program is Copyright 2000-2008
        Guillaume Laurent   <glaurent@telegraph-road.org>,
        Chris Cannam        <cannam@all-day-breakfast.com>,
        Richard Bown        <richard.bown@ferventsoftware.com>

    The moral rights of Guillaume Laurent, Chris Cannam, and Richard
    Bown to claim authorship of this work have been asserted.

    Other copyrights also apply to some parts of this work.  Please
    see the AUTHORS file and individual file headers for details.

    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 _RG_BASETOOLBOX_H_
#define _RG_BASETOOLBOX_H_

#include <tqdict.h>
#include <tqobject.h>


class TQWidget;
class TQString;


namespace Rosegarden
{

class BaseTool;


/**
 * BaseToolBox : maintains a single instance of each registered tool
 *
 * Tools are fetched from a name
 */
class BaseToolBox : public TQObject
{
    TQ_OBJECT
  

public:
    BaseToolBox(TQWidget* parent);

    virtual BaseTool* getTool(const TQString& toolName);

signals:
    void showContextHelp(const TQString &);

protected:
    virtual BaseTool* createTool(const TQString& toolName) = 0;

    TQDict<BaseTool> m_tools;
};


}

#endif