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    created:    28/05/2009
    author:     Paul Turner
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#ifndef _CEGUIDefaultRenderedStringParser_h_
#define _CEGUIDefaultRenderedStringParser_h_

#include "CEGUI/RenderedStringParser.h"

// Start of CEGUI namespace section
namespace CEGUI
{
/*!
\brief
    Effectively a 'null' parser that returns a RenderedString representation
    that will draw the input text verbatim.
*/
class CEGUIEXPORT DefaultRenderedStringParser : public RenderedStringParser
{
public:
    // implement required interface
    RenderedString parse(const String& input_string,
                         const Font* initial_font,
                         const ColourRect* initial_colours);
};

} // End of  CEGUI namespace section

#endif // end of guard _CEGUIDefaultRenderedStringParser_h_
