Source: fun/Describable.h

//  Describable - thing with a text description
//  Copyright (C) 2002-2003 bozo & sgbeal @users.sourceforge.net
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#ifndef _FUN_DESCRIBABLE_H
#define _FUN_DESCRIBABLE_H

#include 

namespace fun
{

/**
*  This is just a simple interface for objects which have some sort of
*  description string which can be set and retrieved.  I wanted it to be a
*  QObject so that it could emit a signal when its description changed;
*  see Nameable.h for why it isn't.
*/
class Describable : /*public QObject,*/ public virtual Serializable
{
//	Q_ O B J E C T;
	public:
	/**
	*  Returns this object's description.
	*/
	virtual QString getDescription() const { return descr; }

//	public slots:
	/**
	*  Sets this object's description & emits the descrChanged() signal.
	*/
	virtual void setDescription(const QString &newDescr);

//	signals:
//	virtual void descrChanged(QString);

	public:
	virtual void serialize(Serializer &ser) const;
	/**
	*  Note that this does not emit the descrChanged() signal.
	*/
	virtual void deserialize(const Deserializer &ser);

	private:
	QString descr;
};

}  //  namespace fun

#endif  //  _FUN_DESCRIBABLE_H