// XrmDatabaseHelper.hh
// Copyright (c) 2002 Henrik Kinnunen (fluxgen at fluxbox dot org)
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// $Id$


#ifndef FBTK_XRMDATABASEHELPER_HH
#define FBTK_XRMDATABASEHELPER_HH

#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xresource.h>

/**
  This is a helper for XrmDatabase
  when database goes out of scope
  the XrmDatabase variable will be destroyed.
*/
namespace FbTk {

class XrmDatabaseHelper
{
public:
    XrmDatabaseHelper(char const * filename=0)
        : m_database(0)
    { if (filename != 0) load(filename); }

    ~XrmDatabaseHelper() {
        close();
    }

    /// assignment operator
    XrmDatabaseHelper& operator=(const XrmDatabase& database) {
        if (m_database!=0)
            close();
        m_database = database; 
        return *this;
    }
    bool load(const char *filename) {
        if (filename == 0)
            return false;
        XrmDatabase db = XrmGetFileDatabase(filename);
        if (db == 0)
            return false;
        close(); // close old database 
        m_database = db; // set new and return true
        return true;
    }
    void close() {
        if (m_database != 0) {
            XrmDestroyDatabase(m_database);
            m_database = 0;
        }
    }

    bool operator == (const XrmDatabase& database) { return m_database == database; }
    XrmDatabase & operator*() { return m_database; }

private:
    XrmDatabase m_database;
};

} // namespace FbTk

#endif // FBTK_XRMDATABASEHELPER_HH
