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#ifndef __FrameListener_H__
#define __FrameListener_H__


#include "OgrePrerequisites.h"

namespace Ogre {

        /** \addtogroup Core
        *  @{
        */
        /** \addtogroup General
        *  @{
        */
        /** Struct containing information about a frame event.
    */
    struct FrameEvent
    {
        /** Elapsed time in seconds since the last event.
            This gives you time between frame start & frame end,
            and between frame end and next frame start.
            @remarks
                This may not be the elapsed time but the average
                elapsed time between recently fired events.
        */
        Real timeSinceLastEvent;
        /** Elapsed time in seconds since the last event of the same type,
            i.e. time for a complete frame.
            @remarks
                This may not be the elapsed time but the average
                elapsed time between recently fired events of the same type.
        */
        Real timeSinceLastFrame;
    };


    /** A interface class defining a listener which can be used to receive
        notifications of frame events.
        @remarks
            A 'listener' is an interface designed to be called back when
            particular events are called. This class defines the
            interface relating to frame events. In order to receive
            notifications of frame events, you should create a subclass of
            FrameListener and override the methods for which you would like
            to customise the resulting processing. You should then call
            Root::addFrameListener passing an instance of this class.
            There is no limit to the number of frame listeners you can register,
            allowing you to register multiple listeners for different purposes.
            Note that a frame event occurs once for all rendering targets,
            not once per target.
    */
    class _OgreExport FrameListener
    {
        /*
        Note that this could have been an abstract class, but I made
        the explicit choice not to do this, because I wanted to give
        people the option of only implementing the methods they wanted,
        rather than having to create 'do nothing' implementations for
        those they weren't interested in. As such this class follows
        the 'Adapter' classes in Java rather than pure interfaces.
        */
    public:
        /** Called when a frame is about to begin rendering.
                @remarks
                        This event happens before any render targets have begun updating. 
            @return
                True to go ahead, false to abort rendering and drop
                out of the rendering loop.
        */
        virtual bool frameStarted(const FrameEvent& evt)
        { (void)evt; return true; }
                
                /** Called after all render targets have had their rendering commands 
                        issued, but before render windows have been asked to flip their 
                        buffers over.
                @remarks
                        The usefulness of this event comes from the fact that rendering 
                        commands are queued for the GPU to process. These can take a little
                        while to finish, and so while that is happening the CPU can be doing
                        useful things. Once the request to 'flip buffers' happens, the thread
                        requesting it will block until the GPU is ready, which can waste CPU
                        cycles. Therefore, it is often a good idea to use this callback to 
                        perform per-frame processing. Of course because the frame's rendering
                        commands have already been issued, any changes you make will only
                        take effect from the next frame, but in most cases that's not noticeable.
                @return
                        True to continue rendering, false to drop out of the rendering loop.
                */
                virtual bool frameRenderingQueued(const FrameEvent& evt)
                { (void)evt; return true; }

        /** Called just after a frame has been rendered.
                @remarks
                        This event happens after all render targets have been fully updated
                        and the buffers switched.
            @return
                True to continue with the next frame, false to drop
                out of the rendering loop.
        */
        virtual bool frameEnded(const FrameEvent& evt)
        { (void)evt; return true; }

                virtual ~FrameListener() {}
                
    };
        /** @} */
        /** @} */
}

#endif