/* This file is part of KBabel
   Copyright (C) 2002 Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky@kde.org>

   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   Library General Public License for more details.

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   Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

  In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
  permission to link the code of this program with any edition of
  the TQt library by Trolltech AS, Norway (or with modified versions
  of TQt that use the same license as TQt), and distribute linked
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*/

#ifndef TOOLACTION_H
#define TOOLACTION_H

#include <tqobject.h>
#include <kaction.h>
#include <kdatatool.h>

class KShortcut;
class KActionCollection;

class KDE_EXPORT ToolAction : public KAction
{
    Q_OBJECT
  TQ_OBJECT
public:
    ToolAction( const TQString & text, const KShortcut& cut, const KDataToolInfo & info, const TQString & command, TQObject * parent = 0, const char * name = 0);

    /**
    * return the list of KActions created for a list of tools. @ref command
    * allows to specify rescriction of commands, for which the list should
    * or shouldn't be created according to the @ref excludeCommand flag.
    */
    static TQPtrList<KAction> dataToolActionList( const TQValueList<KDataToolInfo> & tools, const TQObject *receiver, const char* slot, const TQStringList& command, bool excludeCommand, KActionCollection* parent=0, const TQString& namePrefix=TQString() );
    
    /**
    * returns information about all available validation tools (KDataTools with support for CatalogItem
    * and the "validate" command.
    */
    static TQValueList<KDataToolInfo> validationTools();

signals:
    void toolActivated( const KDataToolInfo & info, const TQString & command );

protected:
    virtual void slotActivated();

private:
    TQString m_command;
    KDataToolInfo m_info;
};

#endif
