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//
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// agreement.
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//      Copyright (c) 1996-2007 Emergent Game Technologies.
//      All Rights Reserved.
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// Emergent Game Technologies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517
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#ifndef NISHADERDESCBASE_H
#define NISHADERDESCBASE_H

// These classes and functions are used for DLL-based shader libraries
#include "NiRefObject.h"
#include "NiSmartPointer.h"

class NiBinaryStream;

// Description of a shader implementation
class NIMAIN_ENTRY NiShaderDescBase : public NiRefObject
{
public:
    NiShaderDescBase();
    virtual ~NiShaderDescBase();

    virtual const char* GetName() const;
    virtual const char* GetDescription() const;

    // *** begin Emergent internal use only ***
    virtual void SetName(const char* pcName);
    virtual void SetDescription(const char* pcDesc);
    // *** end Emergent internal use only ***

protected:
    char* m_pcName;
    char* m_pcDesc;
};

typedef NiPointer<NiShaderDescBase> NiShaderDescBasePtr;

#endif  //#ifndef NISHADERDESCBASE_H