BaseWindowController.h

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 File: BaseWindowController.h
 
 Abstract: Base class of all window controller.
 
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#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@class CategoryDataInfo;
 
/*! 
 * @abstract Super class to all window controllers used by this app.
 *
 * Both EvalWindowController and TrainingWindowController share some common 
 * controls and functionalities. So we put those in this super class.
 */
@interface BaseWindowController : NSObject {
    IBOutlet NSTextField* trainStatusText; /**< status text field. */
    IBOutlet NSTextView * logTextView; /**< log text view. */
    IBOutlet NSOutlineView* outlineView; /**< outline view that display categorized data */
    CategoryDataInfo* topLevelDataInfo; /**< Outline view data source. */
    
    //
    // These two variables are used by the availability bind of several controls,
    // such as buttons and progress indicators.
    //
    // busy: indicate if there some task is running, some buttons are disabled during tasks.
    // cancelEnabled: indicate if the cancel button is enabled. The cancellation of
    //                some tasks is very hard to implement. For those tasks, even
    //                cancel button is diabled.
    //
    BOOL busy; 
    BOOL cancelEnabled;
}
 
/*!
 * @abstract Set busy.
 */
- (void)setBusy:(BOOL)yn;
 
/*!
 * @abstract Set cancelEnabled.
 */
- (void)setCancelEnabled:(BOOL)yn;
 
/*!
 * @abstract Return whether the root of outline view data source contains any category.
 */
- (BOOL)hasCategories;
@end
 
/*!
 * @abstract Private routines.
 */
@interface BaseWindowController(Private)
/*!
 * @abstract Set the user interface (UI) to busy that does not allow cancellation.
 * @input statusText Test to be displayed on status text field.
 */
- (void) setUIAllBusy:(NSString*)statusText;
 
/*!
 * @abstract Set the user interface (UI) to busy that allows cancellation.
 * @input statusText Test to be displayed on status text field.
 */
- (void) setUICancellableBusy:(NSString*)statusText;
 
/*!
 * @abstract Set the user interface (UI) to idle.
 */
- (void) setUIIdle;
 
/*!
 * @abstract Append msg to log textView.
 */
- (void) log:(NSString*) msg;
 
/*!
 * @abstract Make the outline view to reload data source.
 */
- (void) reloadOutlineView;
@end