- void inline DumpErrors(MsgType const &trashhold = WARNING) {
- DumpErrors(std::cerr, trashhold);
+ void inline DumpErrors(MsgType const &threshold) {
+ DumpErrors(std::cerr, threshold);
+ }
+
+ // mvo: we do this instead of using a default parameter in the
+ // previous declaration to avoid a (subtle) API break for
+ // e.g. sigc++ and mem_fun0
+ /** \brief dumps the messages of type WARNING or higher to std::cerr
+ *
+ * Note that all messages are discarded, displayed or not.
+ *
+ */
+ void inline DumpErrors() {
+ DumpErrors(WARNING);
+ }
+
+ /** \brief put the current Messages into the stack
+ *
+ * All "old" messages will be pushed into a stack to
+ * them later back, but for now the Message query will be
+ * empty and performs as no messages were present before.
+ *
+ * The stack can be as deep as you want - all stack operations
+ * will only operate on the last element in the stack.
+ */
+ void PushToStack();
+
+ /** \brief throw away all current messages */
+ void RevertToStack();
+
+ /** \brief merge current and stack together */
+ void MergeWithStack();
+
+ /** \brief return the deep of the stack */
+ size_t StackCount() const {
+ return Stacks.size();