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dcchrstr.h

00001 /*
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00004  *
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00017  *
00018  *  Module:  dcmdata
00019  *
00020  *  Author:  Andreas Barth
00021  *
00022  *  Purpose: Interface of class DcmCharString
00023  *
00024  *  Last Update:      $Author: joergr $
00025  *  Update Date:      $Date: 2002/12/06 12:49:08 $
00026  *  Source File:      $Source: /share/dicom/cvs-depot/dcmtk/dcmdata/include/dcchrstr.h,v $
00027  *  CVS/RCS Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $
00028  *  Status:           $State: Exp $
00029  *
00030  *  CVS/RCS Log at end of file
00031  *
00032  */
00033 
00034 
00035 #ifndef DCCHRSTR_H
00036 #define DCCHRSTR_H
00037 
00038 #include "osconfig.h"    /* make sure OS specific configuration is included first */
00039 
00040 //
00041 // This implementation does not support 16 bit character sets. Since 8 bit
00042 // character sets are supported by the class DcmByteString the class
00043 // DcmCharString is derived from DcmByteString without any extensions.
00044 //
00045 // If the extension for 16 bit character sets will be implemented this class
00046 // must be derived directly from DcmElement. This class is designed to support
00047 // the value representations (LO, LT, PN, SH, ST, UT). They are a problem because
00048 // their value width (1, 2, .. Bytes) is specified by the element
00049 // SpecificCharacterSet (0008, 0005) and an implementation must support
00050 // different value widths that cannot be derived from the value representation.
00051 //
00052 
00053 #include "dcbytstr.h"
00054 
00055 
00058 class DcmCharString
00059   : public DcmByteString
00060 {
00061 
00062   public:
00063 
00069     DcmCharString(const DcmTag &tag,
00070                   const Uint32 len);
00071 
00075     DcmCharString(const DcmCharString &old);
00076 
00079     virtual ~DcmCharString();
00080 
00085     DcmCharString &operator=(const DcmCharString &obj);
00086 };
00087 
00088 
00089 #endif // DCCHRSTR_H
00090 
00091 
00092 /*
00093  * CVS/RCS Log:
00094  * $Log: dcchrstr.h,v $
00095  * Revision 1.8  2002/12/06 12:49:08  joergr
00096  * Enhanced "print()" function by re-working the implementation and replacing
00097  * the boolean "showFullData" parameter by a more general integer flag.
00098  * Added doc++ documentation.
00099  * Made source code formatting more consistent with other modules/files.
00100  *
00101  * Revision 1.7  2001/06/01 15:48:33  meichel
00102  * Updated copyright header
00103  *
00104  * Revision 1.6  2000/03/08 16:26:11  meichel
00105  * Updated copyright header.
00106  *
00107  * Revision 1.5  1999/03/31 09:24:30  meichel
00108  * Updated copyright header in module dcmdata
00109  *
00110  *
00111  */


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