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#ifndef __BLI_DIAL_H__
#define __BLI_DIAL_H__

/** \file BLI_dial.h
 *  \ingroup bli
 *
 * \note dials act similar to old rotation based phones and output an angle.
 * 
 * They just are initialized with the center of the dial and a threshold value as input.
 * 
 * When the distance of the current position of the dial from the center 
 * exceeds the threshold, this position is used to calculate the initial direction. 
 * After that, the angle from the initial direction is calculated based on
 * current and previous directions of the digit, and returned to the user.
 * 
 * Usage examples:
 * \code
 * float start_position[2] = {0.0f, 0.0f};
 * float current_position[2];
 * float threshold = 0.5f;
 * float angle;
 * Dial *dial;
 * 
 * dial = BLI_dial_initialize(start_position, threshold);
 *
 * angle = BLI_dial_angle(dial, curent_position);
 * 
 * MEM_freeN(dial);
 *
 * \endcode
 */

typedef struct Dial Dial;

Dial *BLI_dial_initialize(float start_position[2], float threshold);

float BLI_dial_angle(Dial *dial, float current_position[2]);

#endif /* __BLI_DIAL_H__ */
