package tesseract.menuitems;

import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.vecmath.Vector3f;

import tesseract.World;

/**
 * Abstract class for menu items.
 * 
 * @author Jesse Morgan
 */
public abstract class TesseractMenuItem 
	extends JMenuItem implements ActionListener {

	/**
	 * Serial ID.
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1839955501629795920L;
	
	/**
	 * The reference to the world.
	 */
	protected World myWorld;
	
	/**
	 * Constructor.
	 * 
	 * @param theWorld The world in which to add.
	 * @param theLabel The label for the menu item.
	 */
	public TesseractMenuItem(final World theWorld, final String theLabel) {
		super(theLabel);
		
		myWorld = theWorld;
		
		addActionListener(this);
	}
	
	/**
	 * Utility method to parse a string formatted as x,y,z into a vector3f.
	 * 
	 * @param input A string to parse.
	 * @return A vector3f.
	 */
	protected Vector3f parseVector(final String input)  {
		String[] split = input.split(",");
		
		float x = Float.parseFloat(split[0]);
		float y = Float.parseFloat(split[1]);
		float z = Float.parseFloat(split[2]);

		return new Vector3f(x, y, z);
	}
}