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/// (C)opyright 2004
/// 
/// Institute of Computer Science V
/// Prof. Männer
/// University of Mannheim, Germany
/// 
/// *******************************************************************
/// 
/// Designer(s):   Steinle / Gläß
/// 
/// *******************************************************************
/// 
/// Project:     Trackfinder for CBM-Project at GSI-Darmstadt, Germany
/// 
/// *******************************************************************
/// 
/// Description:
///
///   class:
///     - consists of the hits and a special addon for the special memory
///
/// *******************************************************************
///
/// $Author: csteinle $
/// $Date: 2006/07/17 11:27:34 $
/// $Revision: 1.1 $
///
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#ifndef _INPUTHITSTLVECTOR_H
#define _INPUTHITSTLVECTOR_H


#include "../include/trackfinderInputHit.h"
#include <list>


/* **************************************************************
 * CLASS inputHitStlList						 				*
 * **************************************************************/

class inputHitStlList {

protected:

	std::list<trackfinderInputHit*>           stlList;				/**< Memory to store the added pointers to the hits. */
	std::list<trackfinderInputHit*>::iterator activeObjectPointer;	/**< Iterator to access the memory. */

public:

/**
 * Default constructor
 */

	inputHitStlList();

/**
 * Constructor
 */

	inputHitStlList(const inputHitStlList& value);

/**
 * Destructor
 */

	virtual ~inputHitStlList();

/**
 * operator = ()
 */

	const inputHitStlList& operator = (const inputHitStlList& value);

/**
 * sets the activeObject to the initial value
 */

	void resetActiveObject();

/**
 * method clears the memory
 */

	void clear();

/**
 * method returns the number of entries
 */

	unsigned short getNumberOfEntries();

/**
 * method pushes the element at the end of the memory.
 */

	bool push(trackfinderInputHit* hit);

/**
 * returns a reference of the activeObject and set the next one
 * to the active object.
 */

	trackfinderInputHit* readActiveObjectAndMakeNextOneActive();

};

#endif