package greenfoot.importer.scratch;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Properties;




| A Scratch object.  This can be a user-object (which includes sprites, stages, images, etc)
| or it can be a primitive (byte array, colour, etc); this is taken care of by various
| sub-classes.
| @author neil
|
public class ScratchObject
{       



| Resolves all ScratchObjectReferences inside this object.
|
| Because Scratch objects stored in the file may have circular references,
| they are stored in a long table, and any pointers to objects in the table
| are stored as ScratchObjectReference.  Once everything is loaded,
| we invoke this method everywhere, passing the object table,
| so that the references can get resolved.
|
| @param objects
| @return The resolved object.  Returns "this" by default,
|*   but ScratchObjectReferences will return a different object.
   */
   
   public ScratchObject resolve(ArrayList<ScratchObject> objects)
   {        
      return this;     
      }
|
|/**
| Gets the value for this object.  You will mainly want to call this
| and cast the result when you have an expectation of the inner class.
| For example, you may expect a colour, so you call getValue() and cast
| to java.awt.Color.
| @return The value represented by this object; by default returns "this",
|*   but ScratchPrimitive will return the primitive value inside.
   */
   
   public Object getValue()
   {        
      return this;     
      }

   
   /**
   * Saves the item (e.g. image, sound, class) in the given project


   
   public File saveInto(File destDir, Properties props, String prefix) throws IOException
   {        
      return null;     
      } 
   }