include/core/SkDrawLooper.h

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#ifndef SkDrawLooper_DEFINED
#define SkDrawLooper_DEFINED

#include "SkFlattenable.h"

class SkCanvas;
class SkPaint;

/** \class SkDrawLooper
    Subclasses of SkDrawLooper can be attached to a SkPaint. Where they are,
    and something is drawn to a canvas with that paint, the looper subclass will
    be called, allowing it to modify the canvas and/or paint for that draw call.
    More than that, via the next() method, the looper can modify the draw to be
    invoked multiple times (hence the name loop-er), allow it to perform effects
    like shadows or frame/fills, that require more than one pass.
*/
class SK_API SkDrawLooper : public SkFlattenable {
public:
    /**
     *  Called right before something is being drawn. This will be followed by
     *  calls to next() until next() returns false.
     */
    virtual void init(SkCanvas*) = 0;

    /**
     *  Called in a loop (after init()). Each time true is returned, the object
     *  is drawn (possibly with a modified canvas and/or paint). When false is
     *  finally returned, drawing for the object stops.
     *
     *  On each call, the paint will be in its original state, but the canvas
     *  will be as it was following the previous call to next() or init().
     *
     *  The implementation must ensure that, when next() finally returns false,
     *  that the canvas has been restored to the state it was initially, before
     *  init() was first called.
     */
    virtual bool next(SkCanvas*, SkPaint* paint) = 0;
    
protected:
    SkDrawLooper() {}
    SkDrawLooper(SkFlattenableReadBuffer& buffer) : INHERITED(buffer) {}

private:
    typedef SkFlattenable INHERITED;
};

#endif