//C++ header - Open Scene Graph - Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Robert Osfield
//Distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL)
//as published by the Free Software Foundation.
//osgParticle - Copyright (C) 2002 Marco Jez

#ifndef OSGPARTICLE_RANGE_
#define OSGPARTICLE_RANGE_ 1

// include Export simply to disable Visual Studio silly warnings.
#include <osgParticle/Export>

#ifndef __sgi
#include <cstdlib>
#else
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif

#include <osg/Vec2>
#include <osg/Vec3>
#include <osg/Vec4>

//using std::rand;

namespace osgParticle
{

    /**
        A simple struct template useful to store ranges of values as min/max pairs.
        This struct template helps storing min/max ranges for values of any kind; class <CODE>T_</CODE> is
        the type of values to be stored, and it must support operations <CODE>T_ + T_</CODE>, <CODE>T_ - T_</CODE>, 
        and <CODE>T_ * float</CODE>, otherwise the <CODE>get_random()</CODE> method will not compile.
        This struct could be extended to customize the random number generator (now it uses only 
        <CODE>std::rand()</CODE>).
    */
    template<class T_> struct range {
    
        /// Lower bound.
        T_ min;
        
        /// Higher bound.
        T_ max;

        /// Construct the object by calling default constructors for min and max.
        range() : min(T_()), max(T_()) {}
        
        /// Construct and initialize min and max directly.
        range(const T_ &mn, const T_ &mx) : min(mn), max(mx) {}

        /// Set min and max.
        void set(const T_ &mn, const T_ &mx) { min = mn; max = mx; }

        /// Get a random value between min and max.
        T_ get_random() const
        {
            return min + (max - min) * rand() / RAND_MAX;
        }

    };

    /// Range of floats.
    typedef range<float> rangef;
    
    /// Range of osg::Vec2s.
    typedef range<osg::Vec2> rangev2;
    
    /// Range of osg::Vec3s.
    typedef range<osg::Vec3> rangev3;
    
    /// Range of osg::Vec4s.
    typedef range<osg::Vec4> rangev4;

}

#endif