CTK/Libs/Core/ctkUtils.h

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#ifndef __ctkUtils_h
#define __ctkUtils_h

// Qt includes
#include <QStringList>
#include <QDateTime>

// STD includes
#include <vector>

#include "ctkCoreExport.h"

namespace ctk {
///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Convert a QStringList to Vector of char*
/// Caller will be responsible to delete the content of the vector
void CTK_CORE_EXPORT qListToSTLVector(const QStringList& list, std::vector<char*>& vector);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Convert a QStringList to a Vector of string
void CTK_CORE_EXPORT qListToSTLVector(const QStringList& list, std::vector<std::string>& vector);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Convert a Vector of string to QStringList
void CTK_CORE_EXPORT stlVectorToQList(const std::vector<std::string>& vector, QStringList& list);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Convert a nameFilter to a list of file extensions:
/// "Images (*.png *.jpg *.tiff)" -> "*.png", "*.jpg", "*.tiff"
/// Note: the nameFilter can be a simple wildcard "*.jpg" in that case, it
/// will simply return it.
/// \sa nameFiltersToExtensions
QStringList CTK_CORE_EXPORT nameFilterToExtensions(const QString& nameFilter);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Convert a nameFilter to a list of file extensions:
/// "Images (*.png *.jpg *.tiff)", "Text (*.txt)" -> "*.png", "*.jpg", "*.tiff", "*.txt"
QStringList CTK_CORE_EXPORT nameFiltersToExtensions(const QStringList& nameFilters);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Convert a wildcar extension filter ("*.jpg") into a regular expression string
/// "*.jpg" -> ".*\\.jpg?$"
QString CTK_CORE_EXPORT extensionToRegExp(const QString& extension);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Convert a list of wildcar extension filters ("*.jpg")
/// into a regular expression string
/// "*.jpg", "*.txt" -> "(.*\\.jpg?$|.*\\.txt?$)"
QRegExp CTK_CORE_EXPORT nameFiltersToRegExp(const QStringList& nameFilters);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Return a "smart" number of decimals needed to display (in a gui) a floating
/// number.
/// e.g. significantDecimals(120.01) returns 2
///      significantDecimals(123456.1333333) returns 3
///      significantDecimals(123456.26999999999999996) returns 2
/// See more cases in the test ctkUtilsSignificantDecimalsTest1
int CTK_CORE_EXPORT significantDecimals(double value);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Return the order of magnitude of a number.
/// e.g.: orderOfMagnitude(1) returns 0
///       orderOfMagnitude(10) returns 1
///       orderOfMagnitude(99) returns 1
///       orderOfMagnitude(101) returns 2
///       orderOfMagnitude(0.1) returns -1
///       orderOfMagnitude(0.15) returns -1
///       orderOfMagnitude(0.) returns NaN
/// See more cases in the test ctkUtilsOrderOfMagnitudeTest1
int CTK_CORE_EXPORT orderOfMagnitude(double value);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Return the order of magnitude of a number.
/// e.g.: closestPowerOfTen(11) returns 10
///       closestPowerOfTen(-40) returns -10
///       closestPowerOfTen(99) returns 100
///       closestPowerOfTen(0.012) returns 0.010
///       closestPowerOfTen(0.)  returns 0
/// See more cases in the test ctkUtilsClosestPowerOfTenTest1
double CTK_CORE_EXPORT closestPowerOfTen(double value);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Remove a directory recursively.
/// \param dirName The directory to remove
/// \return <code>true</code> on success, <code>false</code> otherwise.
/// \sa QDir::rmdir
bool CTK_CORE_EXPORT removeDirRecursively(const QString & dirName);

///
/// \ingroup Core
/// Convert Qt::HANDLE to string
/// \sa Qt::HANDLE
QString CTK_CORE_EXPORT qtHandleToString(Qt::HANDLE handle);


///
/// \ingroup Core
/// \brief Compute the milli seconds from one QDateTime to an other.
///
/// This function can be used to correctly compute the amount of milli
/// seconds from <code>t1</code> to <code>t2</code>. The QDateTime objects
/// are converted to Qt::UTC to take daylight saving time into account. This is for
/// back-wards compatibility with Qt 4.6. Since Qt 4.7 there exists
/// a QDateTime::msecsTo() method which should be used instead, after
/// bumping the minimum required Qt version for CTK.
qint64 CTK_CORE_EXPORT msecsTo(const QDateTime& t1, const QDateTime& t2);

}

#endif