/******************************************************
 *
 * zexy - implementation file
 *
 * copyleft (c) IOhannes m zmölnig
 *
 *   1999:forum::für::umläute:2004
 *
 *   institute of electronic music and acoustics (iem)
 *
 ******************************************************
 *
 * license: GNU General Public License v.2
 *
 ******************************************************/

#include "zexy.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

/*
 * list2symbol: convert a list into a single symbol
*/

/* ------------------------- list2symbol ------------------------------- */

static t_class *list2symbol_class;

typedef struct _list2symbol
{
  t_object x_obj;
  int       ac;
  t_atom   *ap;
  t_symbol *s,*connector;
} t_list2symbol;

static void list2symbol_connector(t_list2symbol *x, t_symbol *s){
  x->connector = s;
}

static void list2symbol_bang(t_list2symbol *x)
{
  t_atom *argv=x->ap;
  int     argc=x->ac;
  char *result = 0;
  int length = 0, len=0;
  int i= argc;
  char *connector=0;
  char connlen=0;
  char*buffer = (char*)getbytes(MAXPDSTRING*sizeof(char));
  if(x->connector)connector=x->connector->s_name;
  if(connector)connlen=strlen(connector);

  /* 1st get the length of the symbol */
  if(x->s)length+=strlen(x->s->s_name);
  else length-=connlen;

  length+=i*connlen;

  while(i--){
    int len=0;
    if(A_SYMBOL==argv->a_type){
      len=strlen(argv->a_w.w_symbol->s_name);
    } else {
      atom_string(argv, buffer, MAXPDSTRING);
      len=strlen(buffer);
    }
    length+=len;
    argv++;
  }

  if (length<=0){
    outlet_symbol(x->x_obj.ob_outlet, gensym(""));
    return;
  }

  result = (char*)getbytes((length+1)*sizeof(char));

  /* 2nd create the symbol */
  if (x->s){
    char *buf = x->s->s_name;
    strcpy(result+len, buf);
    len+=strlen(buf);
    if(i && connector){
      strcpy(result+len, connector);
      len += connlen;
    }
  }
  i=argc;
  argv=x->ap;
  while(i--){
    if(A_SYMBOL==argv->a_type){
      strcpy(result+len, argv->a_w.w_symbol->s_name);
      len+= strlen(argv->a_w.w_symbol->s_name);
    } else {
      atom_string(argv, buffer, MAXPDSTRING);
      strcpy(result+len, buffer);
      len += strlen(buffer);
    }
    argv++;
    if(i && connector){
      strcpy(result+len, connector);
      len += connlen;
    }
  }
  freebytes(buffer, MAXPDSTRING*sizeof(char));

  result[length]=0;
  outlet_symbol(x->x_obj.ob_outlet, gensym(result));
  freebytes(result, (length+1)*sizeof(char));
}

static void list2symbol_anything(t_list2symbol *x, t_symbol *s, int argc, t_atom *argv)
{
  x->s =s;
  x->ac=argc;
  x->ap=argv;
  
  list2symbol_bang(x);
}

static void list2symbol_list(t_list2symbol *x, t_symbol *s, int argc, t_atom *argv)
{
  list2symbol_anything(x, 0, argc, argv);
}
static void *list2symbol_new(t_symbol *s, int argc, t_atom *argv)
{
  t_list2symbol *x = (t_list2symbol *)pd_new(list2symbol_class);

  outlet_new(&x->x_obj, 0);
  inlet_new(&x->x_obj, &x->x_obj.ob_pd, gensym("symbol"), gensym(""));
  x->connector = gensym(" ");
  list2symbol_anything(x, 0, argc, argv);

  return (x);
}

static void list2symbol_free(t_list2symbol *x)
{}


void list2symbol_setup(void)
{
  list2symbol_class = class_new(gensym("list2symbol"), (t_newmethod)list2symbol_new, 
			 (t_method)list2symbol_free, sizeof(t_list2symbol), 0, A_GIMME, 0);

  class_addcreator((t_newmethod)list2symbol_new, gensym("l2s"), A_GIMME, 0);
  class_addbang    (list2symbol_class, list2symbol_bang);
  class_addlist    (list2symbol_class, list2symbol_list);
  class_addanything(list2symbol_class, list2symbol_anything);
  class_addmethod  (list2symbol_class, (t_method)list2symbol_connector, gensym(""), A_SYMBOL, 0);

  class_sethelpsymbol(list2symbol_class, gensym("zexy/list2symbol"));
  zexy_register("list2symbol");
}
void l2s_setup(void)
{
  list2symbol_setup();
}