Detailed Description

A Inventory assigns serial-numbers (of type Number) to Inventoried, and it records a pointer to these objects.

The pointers can be recovered from their 'number' in constant time.

Author: Nedelec, August 2003. EMBL Heidelberg. nedel.nosp@m.ec@e.nosp@m.mbl.d.nosp@m.e

Public Member Functions
	Inventory ()
	Constructor.

	~Inventory ()
	Destructor.

Number	available ()
	the smallest number that is not used in this list

Number	first () const
	the smallest number that is used

Number	next (Number) const
	next number that is used

Number	last () const
	the largest number that is used

Number	capacity () const
	current size of array (allocated)

void	store (Inventoried *obj)
	remember obj, assign a new Number if necessary More...

void	forget (const Inventoried *obj)
	forget the object and release its serial number

Inventoried *	find (Number number) const
	return the object with given serial number, or 0 if not found

Inventoried *	operator[] (Number n) const
	return object with given number

unsigned int	count ()
	number of non-zero entries in the registry

void	reorder ()
	reattribute all serial numbers consecutively

unsigned int	clear ()
	clear all entries

Member Function Documentation

void store ( Inventoried * obj )

This will assign a new number of obj, if it does not have one.