/***************************************************************************
       PlayBackDevice.h  -  abstract base class for playback devices
                             -------------------
    begin                : Sat May 19 2001
    copyright            : (C) 2001 by Thomas Eschenbacher
    email                : Thomas.Eschenbacher@gmx.de
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/***************************************************************************
 *                                                                         *
 *   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.                                   *
 *                                                                         *
 ***************************************************************************/

#ifndef PLAY_BACK_DEVICE_H
#define PLAY_BACK_DEVICE_H

#include "config.h"

#include <QList>
#include <QString>
#include <QStringList>

#include "libkwave/Sample.h"
#include "libkwave/String.h"

namespace Kwave
{
    class SampleArray;

    /**
     * Abstract base class for all kinds of playback devices.
     * It provides only a minimum of necessary functions, like
     * opening/closing and writing samples.
     *
     * @note this class is not threadsafe on its own, it relies on the
     *       threadsafe implementation of the PlayBack plugin.
     * @note there are no checks for avoiding close without open,
     *       opening twice or similar
     * @note there are no precautions to prevent duplicate instances
     *
     */
    class PlayBackDevice
    {
    public:

        /** Destructor */
        virtual ~PlayBackDevice() {}

        /**
         * Opens the device for playback.
         * @param device name of the output device, this might be a
         *               file name of a device or any user-defined
         *               string that tells the playback device where
         *               to write data.
         * @param rate playback rate [samples/second]
         * @param channels number of playback channels [1=mono, 2=stereo,...]
         * @param bits resolution for output [bits/sample]
         * @param bufbase exponent of the buffer size. The real buffer
         *                size will be (2 ^ bufbase) bytes.
         * @return zero-length string if successful, or an error
         *         message if failed
         */
        virtual QString open(const QString &device, double rate,
                             unsigned int channels, unsigned int bits,
                             unsigned int bufbase) = 0;

        /**
         * Writes an array of samples to the output device. Each sample
         * in the array is designated to one output channel.
         * @param samples array of samples for output
         * @return 0 if successful, or an error code if failed
         */
        virtual int write(const Kwave::SampleArray &samples) = 0;

        /**
         * Closes the output device.
         */
        virtual int close() = 0;

        /** return a string list with supported device names */
        virtual QStringList supportedDevices() {
            return QStringList();
        }

        /** return a string suitable for a "File Open..." dialog */
        virtual QString fileFilter() { return _(""); }

        /**
         * returns a list of supported bits per sample resolutions
         * of a given device.
         *
         * @param device filename of the device
         * @return list of supported bits per sample, or empty on errors
         */
        virtual QList<unsigned int> supportedBits(const QString &device) = 0;

        /**
         * Detect the minimum and maximum number of channels.
         * If the detection fails, minimum and maximum are set to zero.
         *
         * @param device filename of the device
         * @param min receives the lowest supported number of channels
         * @param max receives the highest supported number of channels
         * @return zero or positive number if ok,
         *         negative error number if failed
         */
        virtual int detectChannels(const QString &device,
                                   unsigned int &min, unsigned int &max)
        {
            Q_UNUSED(device)
            return min = max = 0;
        }

    };
}

#endif /* PLAY_BACK_DEVICE_H */

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