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// REMADE THIS CLASS 2005-12-17 /AF

/*! 
* \file syntaxhighlighter.h
* \author Anders Fernström
* \date 2005-12-17
*
* \brief Had to remake the class to be compatible with the richtext 
* system that is used in QT4. The old file have been renamed to 
* 'syntaxhighlighter.h.old' /AF
*/


#ifndef SYNTAXHIGHLIGHTER_H
#define SYNTAXHIGHLIGHTER_H

//forwars declaration
class QTextDocument;


namespace IAEX
{
	/*! 
	* \interface SyntaxHighlighter
	* \brief Interface that syntaxhighlighters needs to obey to.
	*
	* updated file 2006-01-09 to represent the new highlighter that have 
	* been made to run in an new thread.
	*/
	class SyntaxHighlighter
	{
	public:
		virtual void highlight(QTextDocument *) = 0;
	};
}

#endif
