The EnumLColor patch, free of macros.

[features.git] / src / LColor.h

diff --git a/src/LColor.h b/src/LColor.h
index 1cb2f8322a951e7d7d8d7d81cafff434318a8115..6e481cf6744272c0031bc82f7b69441902431e50 100644 (file)
--- a/src/LColor.h
+++ b/src/LColor.h
@@ -238,6 +238,23 @@ private:
        boost::scoped_ptr<Pimpl> pimpl_;
 };
 
+
+/** \c EnumLColor is a wrapper for LColor::color. It can be forward-declared and
+ *  passed as a function argument without having to expose LColor.h.
+ */
+class EnumLColor {
+        LColor::color val_;
+public:
+        /** The default constructor is nasty,
+        *  but allows us to use EnumLColor in STL containers.
+        */
+       EnumLColor() : val_(static_cast<LColor::color>(-1)) {}
+
+       EnumLColor(LColor::color val) : val_(val) {}
+        operator LColor::color() const{ return val_; }
+};
+
+
 /// the current color definitions
 extern LColor lcolor;
 /// the system color definitions