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+/*******************************************************************************
+        This file is Part of the ZEngine Library for 2D game development.
+                   Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 James Turk
+
+                     Licensed under a BSD-style license.
+
+    The maintainer of this library is James Turk (james@conceptofzero.net) 
+     and the home of this Library is http://www.zengine.sourceforge.net
+*******************************************************************************/
+
+/*!
+\par File Header: 
+File: ZE_Utility.h <br>
+Description: Header file for ZEngine Utilities. <br>
+Author(s): James Turk <br>
+$Id: ZE_Utility.h,v 1.1 2003/01/15 05:31:51 cozman Exp $<br>
+
+    \file ZE_Utility.h
+    \brief Definition file for ZEngine Utilities.
+
+    Definition file for ZEngine Utilities which are used throughout the engine and can be used in
+    conjunction with ZEngine.
+**/
+
+#ifndef __ze_utility_h__
+#define __ze_utility_h__
+
+#include "ZE_Includes.h"
+
+namespace ZE
+{
+
+/*! 
+    \brief Parses a string and interprets variable arguments, similar to sprintf.
+
+    Takes % identifiers out of fmtstr and parses them, replacing them with cooresponding values 
+    in the variable arguments list.  For more detail view stdarg documentation.
+    \param fmtstr defines format of resulting string
+    \param ... variable number of arguments after fmtstr
+    \return string of parsed and combined string
+**/
+string FormatStr(const char *fmtstr, ...);
+
+//////////
+//Macros//
+//////////
+
+/*!
+    Safely free an SDL_Surface* and set it to NULL.
+**/
+#define FreeImage(image) if(image){SDL_FreeSurface(image); image = NULL;}
+
+#ifdef USE_SDL_MIXER
+/*!
+    Safely free a Mix_Chunk* and set it to NULL.
+**/
+#define FreeSound(sound) if(sound){Mix_FreeChunk(sound); sound = NULL;}
+/*!
+    Safely free a Mix_Music* and set it to NULL.
+**/
+#define FreeMusic(music) if(music){Mix_FreeMusic(music); music = NULL;}
+#endif
+
+#ifdef USE_SDL_TTF
+/*!
+    Safely free a TTF_Font and set it to NULL.
+**/
+#define FreeFont(font) if(font){TTF_CloseFont(font); font = NULL;}
+#endif
+
+
+}
+
+#endif //__ze_utility_h__
+