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// $URL: svn+ssh://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/cgal/trunk/Kinetic_data_structures/include/CGAL/Kinetic/Simulator_objects_listener.h $
// $Id: Simulator_objects_listener.h 56668 2010-06-09 08:45:58Z sloriot $
// 
//
// Author(s)     : Daniel Russel <drussel@alumni.princeton.edu>

#ifndef CGAL_KINETIC_NOTIFICATION_HELPERS_H
#define CGAL_KINETIC_NOTIFICATION_HELPERS_H
#include <CGAL/Kinetic/basic.h>

namespace CGAL { namespace Kinetic {

//! A helper function to handle the simulator reversing time.
/*!  This helper is only useful if you are implementing a variant on a
  moving object table. It makes sure that the direct_of_time fields of
  the MOT and the Simulator agree.

  See CGAL::Listener for a description of what the Simulator_listener
  template paramenter should provide.
*/
template <class Simulator_listener, class MOT>
class Simulator_objects_listener: public Simulator_listener
{
    typedef Simulator_listener P;
    public:
//! THe only constructor
        Simulator_objects_listener(typename Simulator_listener::Notifier_handle sim,
				   MOT *kds): Simulator_listener(sim), t_(kds) {
            CGAL_precondition(kds != NULL);
            if (P::notifier()->direction_of_time() != t_->direction_of_time()) {
                t_->reverse_time();
            }
        }
//! Pass DIRECTION_OF_TIME notifications via the set_direction_of_time method
        void new_notification(typename Simulator_listener::Notification_type t) {
            if (t== Simulator_listener::DIRECTION_OF_TIME) {
                if (P::notifier()->direction_of_time() != t_->direction_of_time()) {
                    t_->reverse_time();
                    CGAL_postcondition(P::notifier()->direction_of_time() ==  t_->direction_of_time());
                }
                else {
                    std::cerr << "ndir= "<< P::notifier()->direction_of_time() << " dir = " << t_->direction_of_time() << std::endl;
                }
            }
        }
    protected:
        MOT *t_;
};

} } //namespace CGAL::Kinetic
#endif
