/**
 * PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
 * Copyright (c) Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * All use of this software is subject to the terms of the revised BSD
 * license.  You should have received a copy of this license along
 * with this source code in a file named "LICENSE."
 *
 * @file configurable.h
 * @author mike
 * @date 1997-01-09
 */

#ifndef CONFIGURABLE_H
#define CONFIGURABLE_H

// Includes

#include "pandabase.h"

#include "typedObject.h"

// Defines

/**
 * An object that has data or parameters that are set less frequently (at
 * least occasionally) than every frame.  We can cache the configuration info
 * by by using the "dirty" flag.
 */
class EXPCL_PANDA_PUTIL Configurable : public TypedObject {
public:

  Configurable( void ) { make_dirty(); }
  virtual void config( void ) { _dirty = false; }
  INLINE void check_config() const {
    if (_dirty) {
      // This is a sneaky trick to allow check_config() to be called from a
      // const member function.  Even though we will be calling config(), a
      // non-const function that modifies the class object, in some sense it's
      // not really modifying the class object--it's just updating a few
      // internal settings for consistency.
      ((Configurable *)this)->config();
    }
  }

  INLINE bool is_dirty() const { return _dirty; }
  INLINE void make_dirty() { _dirty = true; }

private:

  bool _dirty;


public:
  static TypeHandle get_class_type() {
    return _type_handle;
  }
  static void init_type() {
    TypedObject::init_type();
    register_type(_type_handle, "Configurable",
                  TypedObject::get_class_type());
  }
  virtual TypeHandle get_type() const {
    return get_class_type();
  }
  virtual TypeHandle force_init_type() {init_type(); return get_class_type();}


private:
  static TypeHandle _type_handle;
};

#endif