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+/*
+ *   Copyright 2008 by Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
+ *   Copyright 2008 Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com>
+ *
+ *   This program 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, or
+ *   (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *   This program 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 General Public License for more details
+ *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+ *   License along with this program; if not, write to the
+ *   Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ *   51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+#ifndef PLASMA_SVGPANEL_H
+#define PLASMA_SVGPANEL_H
+
+#include <QtCore/QObject>
+#include <QPixmap>
+
+#include <plasma/plasma_export.h>
+
+#include <plasma/svg.h>
+#include <plasma/layouts/layout.h>
+
+class QPainter;
+class QPoint;
+class QPointF;
+class QRect;
+class QRectF;
+class QSize;
+class QSizeF;
+class QMatrix;
+
+namespace Plasma
+{
+
+class PLASMA_EXPORT SvgPanel : public QObject
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+    public:
+        /**
+         * These flags represents what borders should be drawn
+         */
+        enum BorderFlag { DrawTop = 1,
+                          DrawBottom = 2,
+                          DrawLeft = 4,
+                          DrawRight = 8,
+                          ContentAtOrigin = 16
+                        };
+        Q_DECLARE_FLAGS(BorderFlags, BorderFlag)
+
+        /**
+         * Constructs a new SvgPanel that paints the proper named subelements
+         * as borders
+         *
+         * The size is initialized to be the SVG's native size.
+         *
+         * @arg imagePath the image to show. If a relative path is passed, then
+         *      Plasma::Theme is used to load the SVG.
+         * @arg parent options QObject to parent this to
+         *
+         * @related Plasma::Theme
+         */
+        explicit SvgPanel(const QString& imagePath = QString(), QObject* parent = 0);
+        ~SvgPanel();
+
+        /**
+         * Loads a new Svg
+         * @arg imagePath the new file
+         */
+        void setFile(const QString& imagePath);
+
+        /**
+         * Convenience method to get the svg filepath and name of svg.
+         * @return the svg's filepath including name of the svg.
+         */
+        QString file() const;
+
+        /**
+         * Sets what borders should be painted
+         * @arg flags borders we want to paint
+         */
+        void setBorderFlags(const BorderFlags flags);
+
+        /**
+         * Convenience method to get the border flags
+         * @return what borders are painted
+         */
+        BorderFlags borderFlags() const;
+
+        /**
+         * Resize the panel maintaining the same border size
+         * @arg size the new size of the panel
+         */
+        void resize(const QSizeF& size);
+
+        /**
+         * Returns the margin size given the margin edge we want
+         * @arg edge the margin edge we want, top, bottom, left or right
+         * @return the margin size
+         */
+        qreal marginSize(const Plasma::Layout::MarginEdge edge) const;
+
+        /**
+         * Paints the loaded SVG with the elements that represents the border
+         * @arg painter the QPainter to use
+         * @arg rect the exposed rect to draw into
+         */
+        Q_INVOKABLE void paint(QPainter* painter, const QRectF& rect);
+
+    private slots:
+        //update sizes of the svg elements
+        void updateSizes();
+
+    private:
+        BorderFlags bFlags;
+        QPixmap *cachedBackground;
+        Svg *m_background;
+        QSizeF panelSize;
+
+        //measures
+        int topHeight;
+        int topWidth;
+        int leftWidth;
+        int leftHeight;
+        int rightWidth;
+        int bottomHeight;
+
+        //size of the svg where the size of the "center"
+        //element is contentWidth x contentHeight
+        QSizeF scaledSize;
+        bool noBorderPadding : 1;
+        bool stretchBorders : 1;
+};
+
+} // Plasma namespace
+#endif // multiple inclusion guard