help.hpp

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/*
    Copyright (C) 2003 - 2025
    by David White <dave@whitevine.net>
    Part of the Battle for Wesnoth Project https://www.wesnoth.org/
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
 
    See the COPYING file for more details.
*/
 
#pragma once
 
class terrain_type;
class unit;
class unit_type;
class game_config_view;
 
#include <memory>
#include <string>
 
namespace help {
 
/**
 * The help implementation caches data parsed from the game_config. This class
 * is used to control the lifecycle of that cache, so that the cache will be
 * cleared before the game_config itself changes.
 *
 * Note: it's okay to call any of the help::show_* functions without creating
 * an instance of help_manager - that will simply mean that the cache is
 * cleared before the show function returns.
 *
 * Creating two instances of this will cause an assert.
 */
struct help_manager {
    help_manager(const game_config_view *game_config);
    help_manager(const help_manager&) = delete;
    help_manager& operator=(const help_manager&) = delete;
    ~help_manager();
};
 
/**
 * Helper function for any of the show_help functions to control the cache's
 * lifecycle; can also be used by any other caller that wants to ensure the
 * cache is reused over multiple show_help calls.
 *
 * Treat the return type as opaque, it can return nullptr on success. Also
 * don't extend the cache lifecycle beyond the lifecycle of the
 * game_config_manager or over a reload of the game config.
 *
 *@pre game_config_manager has been initialised
 */
std::unique_ptr<help_manager> ensure_cache_lifecycle();
 
void init_help();
 
/**
 * Open the help browser. The help browser will have the topic with id
 * show_topic open if it is not the empty string. The default topic
 * will be shown if show_topic is the empty string.
 *
 *@pre game_config_manager has been initialised, or the instance of help_manager
 * has been created with an alternative config.
 */
void show_help(const std::string& show_topic = "");
 
/**
 * Given a unit type, find the corresponding help topic's id.
 */
std::string get_unit_type_help_id(const unit_type& t);
 
void show_unit_description(const unit_type &t);
void show_unit_description(const unit &u);
void show_terrain_description(const terrain_type& t);
 
} // End namespace help.