/*
 * cocos2d for iPhone: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org
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 * Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Ricardo Quesada
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#import "CCAtlasNode.h"
#import "CCTextureAtlas.h"

/** CCLabelAtlas is a subclass of CCAtlasNode.
 
 It can be as a replacement of CCLabel since it is MUCH faster.
 
 CCLabelAtlas versus CCLabel:
 - CCLabelAtlas is MUCH faster than CCLabel
 - CCLabelAtlas "characters" have a fixed height and width
 - CCLabelAtlas "characters" can be anything you want since they are taken from an image file
 
 A more flexible class is CCBitmapFontAtlas. It supports variable width characters and it also has a nice editor.
 */
@interface CCLabelAtlas : CCAtlasNode  <CCLabelProtocol> {
		
	// string to render
	NSString		*string_;
	
	// the first char in the charmap
	char			mapStartChar;
}

/** creates the CCLabelAtlas with a string, a char map file(the atlas), the width and height of each element and the starting char of the atlas */
+(id) labelAtlasWithString:(NSString*) string charMapFile: (NSString*) charmapfile itemWidth:(int)w itemHeight:(int)h startCharMap:(char)c;

/** initializes the CCLabelAtlas with a string, a char map file(the atlas), the width and height of each element and the starting char of the atlas */
-(id) initWithString:(NSString*) string charMapFile: (NSString*) charmapfile itemWidth:(int)w itemHeight:(int)h startCharMap:(char)c;
@end