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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: memory.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxDebugContext
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9
10 /**
11 @class wxDebugContext
12
13 A class for performing various debugging and memory tracing operations.
14
15 Full functionality (such as printing out objects currently allocated) is
16 only present in a debugging build of wxWidgets, i.e. if the __WXDEBUG__
17 symbol is defined. wxDebugContext and related functions and macros can be
18 compiled out by setting wxUSE_DEBUG_CONTEXT to 0 is setup.h
19
20 @library{wxbase}
21 @category{debugging}
22
23 @see @ref overview_debugging
24 */
25 class wxDebugContext
26 {
27 public:
28 /**
29 Checks the memory blocks for errors, starting from the currently set
30 checkpoint.
31
32 @return Returns the number of errors, so a value of zero represents
33 success. Returns -1 if an error was detected that prevents
34 further checking.
35 */
36 static int Check(bool checkAll = false);
37
38 /**
39 Performs a memory dump from the currently set checkpoint, writing to the
40 current debug stream. Calls the @b Dump member function for each wxObject
41 derived instance.
42
43 @return @true if the function succeeded, @false otherwise.
44 */
45 static bool Dump();
46
47 /**
48 Returns @true if the memory allocator checks all previous memory blocks for
49 errors.
50
51 By default, this is @false since it slows down execution considerably.
52
53 @see SetCheckPrevious()
54 */
55 static bool GetCheckPrevious();
56
57 /**
58 Returns @true if debug mode is on.
59
60 If debug mode is on, the wxObject new and delete operators store or use
61 information about memory allocation. Otherwise, a straight malloc and
62 free will be performed by these operators.
63
64 @see SetDebugMode()
65 */
66 static bool GetDebugMode();
67
68 /**
69 Gets the debug level (default 1).
70
71 The debug level is used by the wxTraceLevel function and the WXTRACELEVEL
72 macro to specify how detailed the trace information is; setting a
73 different level will only have an effect if trace statements in the
74 application specify a value other than one.
75
76 @deprecated
77 This is obsolete, replaced by wxLog functionality.
78
79 @see SetLevel()
80 */
81 static int GetLevel();
82
83 /**
84 Prints a list of the classes declared in this application, giving derivation
85 and whether instances of this class can be dynamically created.
86
87 @see PrintStatistics()
88 */
89 static bool PrintClasses();
90
91 /**
92 Performs a statistics analysis from the currently set checkpoint, writing
93 to the current debug stream. The number of object and non-object
94 allocations is printed, together with the total size.
95
96 @param detailed
97 If @true, the function will also print how many objects of each class
98 have been allocated, and the space taken by these class instances.
99
100 @see PrintStatistics()
101 */
102 static bool PrintStatistics(bool detailed = true);
103
104 /**
105 Tells the memory allocator to check all previous memory blocks for errors.
106 By default, this is @false since it slows down execution considerably.
107
108 @see GetCheckPrevious()
109 */
110 static void SetCheckPrevious(bool check);
111
112 /**
113 Sets the current checkpoint: Dump and PrintStatistics operations will
114 be performed from this point on. This allows you to ignore allocations
115 that have been performed up to this point.
116
117 @param all
118 If @true, the checkpoint is reset to include all memory allocations
119 since the program started.
120 */
121 static void SetCheckpoint(bool all = false);
122
123 /**
124 Sets the debug mode on or off.
125
126 If debug mode is on, the wxObject new and delete operators store or use
127 information about memory allocation. Otherwise, a straight malloc and free
128 will be performed by these operators.
129
130 By default, debug mode is on if __WXDEBUG__ is defined. If the application
131 uses this function, it should make sure that all object memory allocated
132 is deallocated with the same value of debug mode. Otherwise, the delete
133 operator might try to look for memory information that does not exist.
134
135 @see GetDebugMode()
136 */
137 static void SetDebugMode(bool debug);
138
139 /**
140 Sets the debug level (default 1).
141
142 The debug level is used by the wxTraceLevel function and the WXTRACELEVEL
143 macro to specify how detailed the trace information is; setting
144 a different level will only have an effect if trace statements in the
145 application specify a value other than one.
146
147 @deprecated
148 This is obsolete, replaced by wxLog functionality.
149
150 @see GetLevel()
151 */
152 static void SetLevel(int level);
153
154 /**
155 Installs a function to be called at the end of wxWidgets shutdown.
156 It will be called after all files with global instances of
157 wxDebugContextDumpDelayCounter have run their destructors.
158
159 The shutdown function must be take no parameters and return nothing.
160 */
161 static void SetShutdownNotifyFunction(wxShutdownNotifyFunction func);
162 };
163
164
165
166 // ============================================================================
167 // Global functions/macros
168 // ============================================================================
169
170 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */
171 //@{
172
173 /**
174 @deprecated Use one of the wxLogTrace() functions or one of the
175 wxVLogTrace() functions instead.
176
177 Calls wxTrace() with printf-style variable argument syntax. Output is
178 directed to the current output stream (see wxDebugContext).
179
180 @header{wx/memory.h}
181 */
182 #define WXTRACE(format, ...)
183
184 /**
185 @deprecated Use one of the wxLogTrace() functions or one of the
186 wxVLogTrace() functions instead.
187
188 Calls wxTraceLevel with printf-style variable argument syntax. Output is
189 directed to the current output stream (see wxDebugContext). The first
190 argument should be the level at which this information is appropriate. It
191 will only be output if the level returned by wxDebugContext::GetLevel is
192 equal to or greater than this value.
193
194 @header{wx/memory.h}
195 */
196 #define WXTRACELEVEL(level, format, ...)
197
198 /**
199 @deprecated Use one of the wxLogTrace() functions or one of the
200 wxVLogTrace() functions instead.
201
202 Takes printf-style variable argument syntax. Output is directed to the
203 current output stream (see wxDebugContext).
204
205 @header{wx/memory.h}
206 */
207 void wxTrace(const wxString& format, ...);
208
209 /**
210 @deprecated Use one of the wxLogTrace() functions or one of the
211 wxVLogTrace() functions instead.
212
213 Takes @e printf() style variable argument syntax. Output is directed to the
214 current output stream (see wxDebugContext). The first argument should be
215 the level at which this information is appropriate. It will only be output
216 if the level returned by wxDebugContext::GetLevel() is equal to or greater
217 than this value.
218
219 @header{wx/memory.h}
220 */
221 void wxTraceLevel(int level, const wxString& format, ...);
222
223 //@}
224