/*=============================================================================
  
  NOTE: THIS FILE IS A HANDMADE WRAPPER FOR THE ManagedITK PROJECT.

  Project:   ManagedITK
  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    itkManagedINativePointer.cxx
  Language:  C++/CLI
  Author:    Dan Mueller
  Date:      $Date: 2007-09-01 06:17:25 +1000 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) $
  Revision:  $Revision: 2 $

  Copyright (c) Queensland University of Technology (QUT) 2007.
  All rights reserved.
  
  Portions of this code are covered under the ITK and VTK copyright.
  See ITKCopyright.txt or http://www.itk.org/HTML/Copyright.htm for details.
  See VTKCopyright.txt or http://www.kitware.com/VTKCopyright.htm for details.

  This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
  the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.
  
=============================================================================*/

#pragma once
#pragma warning( disable : 4635 ) // Disable warnings about XML doc comments

#ifndef __itkManagedINativePointer_cxx
#define __itkManagedINativePointer_cxx

// Use some managed namespaces
#using <mscorlib.dll>
#using <System.dll>
using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Reflection;
using namespace System::ComponentModel;
using namespace System::Diagnostics;

namespace itk
{

///<summary>
///This interface is implemented by any objects which wrap a native ITK object.
///</summary>
///<remarks>
///The INativePointer interface exposes two properties: MangledTypeString and NativePointer.
///</remarks>
public interface class INativePointer
{

public:
	///<summary>Get a string representing the type instance of this INativePointer.</summary>
	///<example>"IUC2", "IF3", "IVF22".</example>
	property String^ MangledTypeString { String^ get(); }
	
	///<summary>
	///Get/set the pointer to the native ITK object associated with
	///this instance.
	///</summary>
	///<returns>The pointer to the native ITK object.</returns>
	property void* NativePointer { void* get(); void set(void* ptr); }

}; // end interface class

} // end namespace itk

#endif