* Test/TestAllEntryVerify.cxx minor fix and added comments.

[gdcm.git] / src / gdcmValEntry.h

diff --git a/src/gdcmValEntry.h b/src/gdcmValEntry.h
index 164b910f77c16421bb23aaa544bf0757c8564411..79570c2578d257c1fcb92f3a4b87900df5e7fcac 100644 (file)
--- a/src/gdcmValEntry.h
+++ b/src/gdcmValEntry.h
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
   Program:   gdcm
   Module:    $RCSfile: gdcmValEntry.h,v $
   Language:  C++
-  Date:      $Date: 2004/06/20 18:08:48 $
-  Version:   $Revision: 1.10 $
+  Date:      $Date: 2004/08/01 00:59:22 $
+  Version:   $Revision: 1.19 $
                                                                                 
   Copyright (c) CREATIS (Centre de Recherche et d'Applications en Traitement de
   l'Image). All rights reserved. See Doc/License.txt or
@@ -30,38 +30,38 @@
  * \brief   The dicom header of a Dicom file contains a set of such entries
  *          (when successfuly parsed against a given Dicom dictionary)
  */
-class GDCM_EXPORT gdcmValEntry  : public gdcmDocEntry {
-
+class GDCM_EXPORT gdcmValEntry  : public gdcmDocEntry
+{
 public:
-
    gdcmValEntry(gdcmDictEntry* e);
    gdcmValEntry(gdcmDocEntry* d); 
-   ~gdcmValEntry(void);
+   virtual ~gdcmValEntry();
 
    /// \brief Returns the 'Value' (e.g. "Dupond Marcel") converted into a
    /// 'string', if it's stored as an integer in the header of the
    /// current Dicom Document Entry
-   inline std::string  GetValue(void)     { return value; };
+   std::string GetValue() { return value; };
     
    /// Sets the value (string) of the current Dicom Document Entry
-   inline void SetValue(std::string val)  { value = val;  };
-   
+   void SetValue(std::string const & val) { value = val; };
+
+   /// Sets the value (void *) of the current Dicom Document Entry
+   void SetVoidArea(void * val) { voidArea = val; };
+
    virtual void Print(std::ostream &os = std::cout); 
-           
-protected:
+   virtual void Write(FILE *fp, FileType filetype);
 
+protected:
    /// \brief for 'non string' values. Will be move to gdcmBinEntry, later
    void* voidArea;  // clean it out later
    
 private:
-
-// Variables
+// Members :
   
-   /// \brief Document Entry value, stored as a std::string (VR will be used,
-   /// later, to decode)
-   
+   /// \brief Document Entry value, internaly represented as a std::string
+   ///        The Value Representation (\ref gdcmVR) is independently used
+   ///        in order to interpret (decode) this field.
    std::string  value;
-
 };
 
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