/*
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Contact: astra@ua.ac.be
Website: http://astra.ua.ac.be


This file is part of the
All Scale Tomographic Reconstruction Antwerp Toolbox ("ASTRA Toolbox").

The ASTRA Toolbox is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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$Id$
*/

#ifndef _INC_ASTRA_FLOAT32DATA
#define _INC_ASTRA_FLOAT32DATA

#include "Globals.h"

namespace astra {

/**
 * This is a virtual base class for floating point data classes.
 */
class _AstraExport CFloat32Data {

protected:
	
	// Protected Member Variables
	bool m_bInitialized;	///< has the object been initialized? 
	int m_iDimensions;		///< the number of dimensions

public:

	/** 
	 * Default constructor. 
	 */
	CFloat32Data();

	/** 
	 * Destructor. Free allocated memory
	 */
	virtual ~CFloat32Data();

    /**
	 * Get the initialization state of the object.
	 *
	 * @return true iff the object has been initialized
	 */
	bool isInitialized() const;

    /**
	 * Get the number of dimensions of this object.
	 *
	 * @return number of dimensions
	 */
	virtual int getDimensionCount() const = 0;
	
};

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Inline member functions
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Get the initialization state of the object.
inline bool CFloat32Data::isInitialized() const
{
	return m_bInitialized;
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

} // end namespace

#endif