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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: log.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxLogWindow
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9 /**
10 @class wxLogWindow
11
12 This class represents a background log window: to be precise, it collects all
13 log messages in the log frame which it manages but also passes them on to the
14 log target which was active at the moment of its creation. This allows you, for
15 example, to show all the log messages in a frame but still continue to process
16 them normally by showing the standard log dialog.
17
18 @library{wxbase}
19 @category{logging}
20
21 @see wxLogTextCtrl
22 */
23 class wxLogWindow : public wxLogInterposer
24 {
25 public:
26 /**
27 Creates the log frame window and starts collecting the messages in it.
28
29 @param parent
30 The parent window for the log frame, may be @NULL
31 @param title
32 The title for the log frame
33 @param show
34 @true to show the frame initially (default), otherwise
35 Show() must be called later.
36 @param passToOld
37 @true to process the log messages normally in addition to
38 logging them in the log frame (default), @false to only log them in the
39 log frame.
40 */
41 wxLogWindow(wxWindow* pParent, const wxString& szTitle, bool show = true,
42 bool passToOld = true);
43
44 /**
45 Returns the associated log frame window. This may be used to position or resize
46 it but use Show() to show or hide it.
47 */
48 wxFrame* GetFrame() const;
49
50 /**
51 Called if the user closes the window interactively, will not be
52 called if it is destroyed for another reason (such as when program
53 exits).
54
55 Return @true from here to allow the frame to close, @false to
56 prevent this from happening.
57
58 @see OnFrameDelete()
59 */
60 virtual bool OnFrameClose(wxFrame* frame);
61
62 /**
63 Called immediately after the log frame creation allowing for
64 any extra initializations.
65 */
66 virtual void OnFrameCreate(wxFrame* frame);
67
68 /**
69 Called right before the log frame is going to be deleted: will
70 always be called unlike OnFrameClose().
71 */
72 virtual void OnFrameDelete(wxFrame* frame);
73
74 /**
75 Shows or hides the frame.
76 */
77 void Show(bool show = true);
78 };
79
80
81
82 /**
83 @class wxLogInterposerTemp
84
85 A special version of wxLogChain which uses itself as the new log target.
86 It forwards log messages to the previously installed one in addition to
87 processing them itself. Unlike wxLogInterposer, it doesn't delete the old
88 target which means it can be used to temporarily redirect log output.
89
90 As per wxLogInterposer, this class must be derived from to implement
91 wxLog::DoLog and/or wxLog::DoLogString methods.
92
93 @library{wxbase}
94 @category{logging}
95 */
96 class wxLogInterposerTemp : public wxLogChain
97 {
98 public:
99 /**
100 The default constructor installs this object as the current active log target.
101 */
102 wxLogInterposerTemp();
103 };
104
105
106
107 /**
108 @class wxLogChain
109
110 This simple class allows you to chain log sinks, that is to install a new sink but
111 keep passing log messages to the old one instead of replacing it completely as
112 wxLog::SetActiveTarget does.
113
114 It is especially useful when you want to divert the logs somewhere (for
115 example to a file or a log window) but also keep showing the error messages
116 using the standard dialogs as wxLogGui does by default.
117
118 Example of usage:
119
120 @code
121 wxLogChain *logChain = new wxLogChain(new wxLogStderr);
122
123 // all the log messages are sent to stderr and also processed as usually
124 ...
125
126 // don't delete logChain directly as this would leave a dangling
127 // pointer as active log target, use SetActiveTarget() instead
128 delete wxLog::SetActiveTarget(...something else or NULL...);
129 @endcode
130
131 @library{wxbase}
132 @category{logging}
133 */
134 class wxLogChain : public wxLog
135 {
136 public:
137 /**
138 Sets the specified @c logger (which may be @NULL) as the default log
139 target but the log messages are also passed to the previous log target if any.
140 */
141 wxLogChain(wxLog* logger);
142
143 /**
144 Destroys the previous log target.
145 */
146 virtual ~wxLogChain();
147
148 /**
149 Detaches the old log target so it won't be destroyed when the wxLogChain object
150 is destroyed.
151 */
152 void DetachOldLog();
153
154 /**
155 Returns the pointer to the previously active log target (which may be @NULL).
156 */
157 wxLog* GetOldLog() const;
158
159 /**
160 Returns @true if the messages are passed to the previously active log
161 target (default) or @false if PassMessages() had been called.
162 */
163 bool IsPassingMessages() const;
164
165 /**
166 By default, the log messages are passed to the previously active log target.
167 Calling this function with @false parameter disables this behaviour
168 (presumably temporarily, as you shouldn't use wxLogChain at all otherwise) and
169 it can be reenabled by calling it again with @a passMessages set to @true.
170 */
171 void PassMessages(bool passMessages);
172
173 /**
174 Sets another log target to use (may be @NULL).
175
176 The log target specified in the wxLogChain(wxLog*) constructor or in a
177 previous call to this function is deleted.
178 This doesn't change the old log target value (the one the messages are
179 forwarded to) which still remains the same as was active when wxLogChain
180 object was created.
181 */
182 void SetLog(wxLog* logger);
183 };
184
185
186
187 /**
188 @class wxLogGui
189
190 This is the default log target for the GUI wxWidgets applications.
191
192 Please see @ref overview_log_customize for explanation of how to change the
193 default log target.
194
195 An object of this class is used by default to show the log messages created
196 by using wxLogMessage(), wxLogError() and other logging functions. It
197 doesn't display the messages logged by them immediately however but
198 accumulates all messages logged during an event handler execution and then
199 shows them all at once when its Flush() method is called during the idle
200 time processing. This has the important advantage of showing only a single
201 dialog to the user even if several messages were logged because of a single
202 error as it often happens (e.g. a low level function could log a message
203 because it failed to open a file resulting in its caller logging another
204 message due to the failure of higher level operation requiring the use of
205 this file). If you need to force the display of all previously logged
206 messages immediately you can use wxLog::FlushActive() to force the dialog
207 display.
208
209 Also notice that if an error message is logged when several informative
210 messages had been already logged before, the informative messages are
211 discarded on the assumption that they are not useful -- and may be
212 confusing and hence harmful -- any more after the error. The warning
213 and error messages are never discarded however and any informational
214 messages logged after the first error one are also kept (as they may
215 contain information about the error recovery). You may override DoLog()
216 method to change this behaviour.
217
218 At any rate, it is possible that that several messages were accumulated
219 before this class Flush() method is called. If this is the case, Flush()
220 uses a custom dialog which shows the last message directly and allows the
221 user to view the previously logged ones by expanding the "Details"
222 wxCollapsiblePane inside it. This custom dialog also provides the buttons
223 for copying the log messages to the clipboard and saving them to a file.
224
225 However if only a single message is present when Flush() is called, just a
226 wxMessageBox() is used to show it. This has the advantage of being closer
227 to the native behaviour but it doesn't give the user any possibility to
228 copy or save the message (except for the recent Windows versions where @c
229 Ctrl-C may be pressed in the message box to copy its contents to the
230 clipboard) so you may want to override DoShowSingleMessage() to customize
231 wxLogGui -- the dialogs sample shows how to do this.
232
233 @library{wxcore}
234 @category{logging}
235 */
236 class wxLogGui : public wxLog
237 {
238 public:
239 /**
240 Default constructor.
241 */
242 wxLogGui();
243
244 /**
245 Presents the accumulated log messages, if any, to the user.
246
247 This method is called during the idle time and should show any messages
248 accumulated in wxLogGui#m_aMessages field to the user.
249 */
250 virtual void Flush();
251
252 protected:
253 /**
254 Returns the appropriate title for the dialog.
255
256 The title is constructed from wxApp::GetAppDisplayName() and the
257 severity string (e.g. "error" or "warning") appropriate for the current
258 wxLogGui#m_bErrors and wxLogGui#m_bWarnings values.
259 */
260 wxString GetTitle() const;
261
262 /**
263 Returns wxICON_ERROR, wxICON_WARNING or wxICON_INFORMATION depending on
264 the current maximal severity.
265
266 This value is suitable to be used in the style parameter of
267 wxMessageBox() function.
268 */
269 int GetSeverityIcon() const;
270
271 /**
272 Forgets all the currently stored messages.
273
274 If you override Flush() (and don't call the base class version), you
275 must call this method to avoid messages being logged over and over
276 again.
277 */
278 void Clear();
279
280
281 /**
282 Method called by Flush() to show a single log message.
283
284 This function can be overridden to show the message in a different way.
285 By default a simple wxMessageBox() call is used.
286
287 @param message
288 The message to show (it can contain multiple lines).
289 @param title
290 The suggested title for the dialog showing the message, see
291 GetTitle().
292 @param style
293 One of @c wxICON_XXX constants, see GetSeverityIcon().
294 */
295 virtual void DoShowSingleLogMessage(const wxString& message,
296 const wxString& title,
297 int style);
298
299 /**
300 Method called by Flush() to show multiple log messages.
301
302 This function can be overridden to show the messages in a different way.
303 By default a special log dialog showing the most recent message and
304 allowing the user to expand it to view the previously logged ones is
305 used.
306
307 @param messages
308 Array of messages to show; it contains more than one element.
309 @param severities
310 Array of message severities containing @c wxLOG_XXX values.
311 @param times
312 Array of time_t values indicating when each message was logged.
313 @param title
314 The suggested title for the dialog showing the message, see
315 GetTitle().
316 @param style
317 One of @c wxICON_XXX constants, see GetSeverityIcon().
318 */
319 virtual void DoShowMultipleLogMessages(const wxArrayString& messages,
320 const wxArrayInt& severities,
321 const wxArrayLong& times,
322 const wxString& title,
323 int style);
324
325
326 /**
327 All currently accumulated messages.
328
329 This array may be empty if no messages were logged.
330
331 @see m_aSeverity, m_aTimes
332 */
333 wxArrayString m_aMessages;
334
335 /**
336 The severities of each logged message.
337
338 This array is synchronized with wxLogGui#m_aMessages, i.e. the n-th
339 element of this array corresponds to the severity of the n-th message.
340 The possible severity values are @c wxLOG_XXX constants, e.g.
341 wxLOG_Error, wxLOG_Warning, wxLOG_Message etc.
342 */
343 wxArrayInt m_aSeverity;
344
345 /**
346 The time stamps of each logged message.
347
348 The elements of this array are time_t values corresponding to the time
349 when the message was logged.
350 */
351 wxArrayLong m_aTimes;
352
353 /**
354 True if there any error messages.
355 */
356 bool m_bErrors;
357
358 /**
359 True if there any warning messages.
360
361 If both wxLogGui#m_bErrors and this member are false, there are only
362 informational messages to be shown.
363 */
364 bool m_bWarnings;
365
366 /**
367 True if there any messages to be shown to the user.
368
369 This variable is used instead of simply checking whether
370 wxLogGui#m_aMessages array is empty to allow blocking further calls to
371 Flush() while a log dialog is already being shown, even if the messages
372 array hasn't been emptied yet.
373 */
374 bool m_bHasMessages;
375 };
376
377
378
379 /**
380 @class wxLogStream
381
382 This class can be used to redirect the log messages to a C++ stream.
383
384 Please note that this class is only available if wxWidgets was compiled with
385 the standard iostream library support (@c wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM must be on).
386
387 @library{wxbase}
388 @category{logging}
389
390 @see wxLogStderr, wxStreamToTextRedirector
391 */
392 class wxLogStream : public wxLog
393 {
394 public:
395 /**
396 Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given
397 output stream. If it is @NULL, the messages are sent to @c cerr.
398 */
399 wxLogStream(std::ostream ostr = NULL);
400 };
401
402
403
404 /**
405 @class wxLogStderr
406
407 This class can be used to redirect the log messages to a C file stream (not to
408 be confused with C++ streams). It is the default log target for the non-GUI
409 wxWidgets applications which send all the output to @c stderr.
410
411 @library{wxbase}
412 @category{logging}
413
414 @see wxLogStream
415 */
416 class wxLogStderr : public wxLog
417 {
418 public:
419 /**
420 Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given
421 @c FILE. If it is @NULL, the messages are sent to @c stderr.
422 */
423 wxLogStderr(FILE* fp = NULL);
424 };
425
426
427
428 /**
429 @class wxLogBuffer
430
431 wxLogBuffer is a very simple implementation of log sink which simply collects
432 all the logged messages in a string (except the debug messages which are output
433 in the usual way immediately as we're presumably not interested in collecting
434 them for later). The messages from different log function calls are separated
435 by the new lines.
436
437 All the messages collected so far can be shown to the user (and the current
438 buffer cleared) by calling the overloaded wxLogBuffer::Flush method.
439
440 @library{wxbase}
441 @category{logging}
442 */
443 class wxLogBuffer : public wxLog
444 {
445 public:
446 /**
447 Shows all the messages collected so far to the user (using a message box in the
448 GUI applications or by printing them out to the console in text mode) and
449 clears the internal buffer.
450 */
451 virtual void Flush();
452
453 /**
454 Returns the current buffer contains. Messages from different log function calls
455 are separated with the new lines in the buffer.
456 The buffer can be cleared by Flush() which will also show the current
457 contents to the user.
458 */
459 const wxString& GetBuffer() const;
460 };
461
462
463
464 /**
465 @class wxLogInterposer
466
467 A special version of wxLogChain which uses itself as the new log target.
468 It forwards log messages to the previously installed one in addition to
469 processing them itself.
470
471 Unlike wxLogChain which is usually used directly as is, this class must be
472 derived from to implement wxLog::DoLog and/or wxLog::DoLogString methods.
473
474 wxLogInterposer destroys the previous log target in its destructor.
475 If you don't want this to happen, use wxLogInterposerTemp instead.
476
477 @library{wxbase}
478 @category{logging}
479 */
480 class wxLogInterposer : public wxLogChain
481 {
482 public:
483 /**
484 The default constructor installs this object as the current active log target.
485 */
486 wxLogInterposer();
487 };
488
489
490
491 /**
492 @class wxLogTextCtrl
493
494 Using these target all the log messages can be redirected to a text control.
495 The text control must have been created with @c wxTE_MULTILINE style by the
496 caller previously.
497
498 @library{wxbase}
499 @category{logging}
500
501 @see wxTextCtrl, wxStreamToTextRedirector
502 */
503 class wxLogTextCtrl : public wxLog
504 {
505 public:
506 /**
507 Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given text
508 control. The @a textctrl parameter cannot be @NULL.
509 */
510 wxLogTextCtrl(wxTextCtrl* pTextCtrl);
511 };
512
513
514
515 /**
516 @class wxLog
517
518 wxLog class defines the interface for the @e log targets used by wxWidgets
519 logging functions as explained in the @ref overview_log.
520 The only situations when you need to directly use this class is when you want
521 to derive your own log target because the existing ones don't satisfy your
522 needs. Another case is if you wish to customize the behaviour of the standard
523 logging classes (all of which respect the wxLog settings): for example, set
524 which trace messages are logged and which are not or change (or even remove
525 completely) the timestamp on the messages.
526
527 Otherwise, it is completely hidden behind the @e wxLogXXX() functions and
528 you may not even know about its existence.
529
530
531 @section log_derivingyours Deriving your own log target
532
533 There are two functions which must be implemented by any derived class to
534 actually process the log messages: DoLog() and DoLogString().
535 The second function receives a string which just has to be output in some way
536 and the easiest way to write a new log target is to override just this function
537 in the derived class.
538
539 If more control over the output format is needed, then the first function must
540 be overridden which allows to construct custom messages depending on the log level
541 or even do completely different things depending on the message severity
542 (for example, throw away all messages except warnings and errors, show warnings
543 on the screen and forward the error messages to the user's (or programmer's) cell
544 phone - maybe depending on whether the timestamp tells us if it is day or
545 night in the current time zone).
546
547 There also functions to support message buffering. Why are they needed?
548 Some of wxLog implementations, most notably the standard wxLogGui class,
549 buffer the messages (for example, to avoid showing the user a zillion of modal
550 message boxes one after another -- which would be really annoying).
551
552 Flush() shows them all and clears the buffer contents.
553 This function doesn't do anything if the buffer is already empty.
554
555 See also:
556 @li Flush()
557 @li FlushActive()
558
559
560 @section log_tracemasks Using trace masks
561
562 The functions below allow some limited customization of wxLog behaviour
563 without writing a new log target class (which, aside from being a matter of
564 several minutes, allows you to do anything you want).
565 The verbose messages are the trace messages which are not disabled in the
566 release mode and are generated by wxLogVerbose().
567 They are not normally shown to the user because they present little interest,
568 but may be activated, for example, in order to help the user find some program
569 problem.
570
571 As for the (real) trace messages, their handling depends on the settings of
572 the (application global) @e trace mask which can either be specified using
573 SetTraceMask(), GetTraceMask() and wxLogTrace() which takes an integer mask
574 or using AddTraceMask() for string trace masks.
575
576 The difference between bit-wise and string trace masks is that a message using
577 integer trace mask will only be logged if all bits of the mask are set in the
578 current mask while a message using string mask will be logged simply if the
579 mask had been added before to the list of allowed ones.
580 For example,
581
582 @code
583 wxLogTrace( wxTraceRefCount|wxTraceOleCalls, "Active object ref count: %d", nRef );
584 @endcode
585
586 will do something only if the current trace mask contains both @c wxTraceRefCount
587 and @c wxTraceOle, but:
588
589 @code
590 wxLogTrace( wxTRACE_OleCalls, "IFoo::Bar() called" );
591 @endcode
592
593 will log the message if it was preceded by:
594
595 @code
596 wxLog::AddTraceMask( wxTRACE_OleCalls);
597 @endcode
598
599 Using string masks is simpler and allows you to easily add custom ones, so this
600 is the preferred way of working with trace messages. The integer trace mask is
601 kept for compatibility and for additional (but very rarely needed) flexibility
602 only.
603
604 The standard trace masks are given in wxLogTrace() documentation.
605
606 Finally, the @e wxLog::DoLog() function automatically prepends a time stamp
607 to all the messages. The format of the time stamp may be changed: it can be
608 any string with % specifications fully described in the documentation of the
609 standard @e strftime() function. For example, the default format is
610 "[%d/%b/%y %H:%M:%S] " which gives something like "[17/Sep/98 22:10:16] "
611 (without quotes) for the current date. Setting an empty string as the time
612 format disables timestamping of the messages completely.
613
614 See also
615 @li AddTraceMask()
616 @li RemoveTraceMask()
617 @li ClearTraceMasks()
618 @li GetTraceMasks()
619 @li IsAllowedTraceMask()
620 @li SetVerbose()
621 @li GetVerbose()
622 @li SetTimestamp()
623 @li GetTimestamp()
624 @li SetTraceMask()
625 @li GetTraceMask()
626 @li SetRepetitionCounting()
627 @li GetRepetitionCounting()
628
629 @note Timestamping is disabled for Visual C++ users in debug builds by
630 default because otherwise it would be impossible to directly go to the line
631 from which the log message was generated by simply clicking in the debugger
632 window on the corresponding error message. If you wish to enable it, please
633 use SetTimestamp() explicitly.
634
635
636 @section log_target Manipulating the log target
637
638 The functions in this section work with and manipulate the active log
639 target. The OnLog() is called by the @e wxLogXXX() functions
640 and invokes the DoLog() of the active log target if any.
641
642 Get/Set methods are used to install/query the current active target and,
643 finally, DontCreateOnDemand() disables the automatic creation of a standard
644 log target if none actually exists. It is only useful when the application
645 is terminating and shouldn't be used in other situations because it may
646 easily lead to a loss of messages.
647
648 See also:
649 @li OnLog()
650 @li GetActiveTarget()
651 @li SetActiveTarget()
652 @li DontCreateOnDemand()
653 @li Suspend()
654 @li Resume()
655
656
657 @library{wxcore}
658 @category{logging}
659
660 @see @ref overview_log
661 */
662 class wxLog
663 {
664 public:
665 /**
666 Add the @a mask to the list of allowed masks for wxLogTrace().
667
668 @see RemoveTraceMask(), GetTraceMasks()
669 */
670 static void AddTraceMask(const wxString& mask);
671
672 /**
673 Removes all trace masks previously set with AddTraceMask().
674
675 @see RemoveTraceMask()
676 */
677 static void ClearTraceMasks();
678
679 /**
680 Disables time stamping of the log messages.
681
682 @since 2.9.0
683 */
684 static void SetTimestamp(const wxString& format);
685
686 /**
687 Called to process the message of the specified severity. @a msg is the text
688 of the message as specified in the call of @e wxLogXXX() function which
689 generated it and @a timestamp is the moment when the message was generated.
690
691 The base class version prepends the timestamp to the message, adds a prefix
692 corresponding to the log level and then calls
693 DoLogString() with the resulting string.
694 */
695 virtual void DoLog(wxLogLevel level, const wxString& msg, time_t timestamp);
696
697 /**
698 Called to log the specified string. The timestamp is already included in the
699 string but still passed to this function.
700
701 A simple implementation may just send the string to @c stdout or, better,
702 @c stderr.
703 */
704 virtual void DoLogString(const wxString& msg, time_t timestamp);
705
706 /**
707 Instructs wxLog to not create new log targets on the fly if there is none
708 currently. (Almost) for internal use only: it is supposed to be called by the
709 application shutdown code.
710
711 Note that this function also calls ClearTraceMasks().
712 */
713 static void DontCreateOnDemand();
714
715 /**
716 Shows all the messages currently in buffer and clears it.
717 If the buffer is already empty, nothing happens.
718 */
719 virtual void Flush();
720
721 /**
722 Flushes the current log target if any, does nothing if there is none.
723
724 @see Flush()
725 */
726 static void FlushActive();
727
728 /**
729 Returns the pointer to the active log target (may be @NULL).
730 */
731 static wxLog* GetActiveTarget();
732
733 /**
734 Returns the current log level limit.
735 */
736 static wxLogLevel GetLogLevel();
737
738 /**
739 Returns whether the repetition counting mode is enabled.
740 */
741 static bool GetRepetitionCounting();
742
743 /**
744 Returns the current timestamp format string.
745 */
746 static const wxString GetTimestamp();
747
748 /**
749 Returns the current trace mask, see Customization() section for details.
750 */
751 static wxTraceMask GetTraceMask();
752
753 /**
754 Returns the currently allowed list of string trace masks.
755
756 @see AddTraceMask().
757 */
758 static const wxArrayString GetTraceMasks();
759
760 /**
761 Returns whether the verbose mode is currently active.
762 */
763 static bool GetVerbose();
764
765 /**
766 Returns @true if the @a mask is one of allowed masks for wxLogTrace().
767
768 See also: AddTraceMask(), RemoveTraceMask()
769 */
770 static bool IsAllowedTraceMask(const wxString& mask);
771
772 /**
773 Forwards the message at specified level to the @e DoLog() function of the
774 active log target if there is any, does nothing otherwise.
775 */
776 static void OnLog(wxLogLevel level, const wxString& message);
777
778 /**
779 Remove the @a mask from the list of allowed masks for
780 wxLogTrace().
781
782 @see AddTraceMask()
783 */
784 static void RemoveTraceMask(const wxString& mask);
785
786 /**
787 Resumes logging previously suspended by a call to Suspend().
788 All messages logged in the meanwhile will be flushed soon.
789 */
790 static void Resume();
791
792 /**
793 Sets the specified log target as the active one.
794
795 Returns the pointer to the previous active log target (may be @NULL).
796 To suppress logging use a new instance of wxLogNull not @NULL. If the
797 active log target is set to @NULL a new default log target will be
798 created when logging occurs.
799 */
800 static wxLog* SetActiveTarget(wxLog* logtarget);
801
802 /**
803 Specifies that log messages with level logLevel should be ignored
804 and not sent to the active log target.
805 */
806 static void SetLogLevel(wxLogLevel logLevel);
807
808 /**
809 Enables logging mode in which a log message is logged once, and in case exactly
810 the same message successively repeats one or more times, only the number of
811 repetitions is logged.
812 */
813 static void SetRepetitionCounting(bool repetCounting = true);
814
815 /**
816 Sets the timestamp format prepended by the default log targets to all
817 messages. The string may contain any normal characters as well as %
818 prefixed format specificators, see @e strftime() manual for details.
819 Passing an empty string to this function disables message time stamping.
820 */
821 static void SetTimestamp(const wxString& format);
822
823 /**
824 Sets the trace mask, see @ref log_derivingyours section for details.
825 */
826 static void SetTraceMask(wxTraceMask mask);
827
828 /**
829 Activates or deactivates verbose mode in which the verbose messages are
830 logged as the normal ones instead of being silently dropped.
831 */
832 static void SetVerbose(bool verbose = true);
833
834 /**
835 Suspends the logging until Resume() is called.
836
837 Note that the latter must be called the same number of times as the former
838 to undo it, i.e. if you call Suspend() twice you must call Resume() twice as well.
839
840 Note that suspending the logging means that the log sink won't be be flushed
841 periodically, it doesn't have any effect if the current log target does the
842 logging immediately without waiting for Flush() to be called (the standard
843 GUI log target only shows the log dialog when it is flushed, so Suspend()
844 works as expected with it).
845
846 @see Resume(), wxLogNull
847 */
848 static void Suspend();
849 };
850
851
852
853 /**
854 @class wxLogNull
855
856 This class allows you to temporarily suspend logging. All calls to the log
857 functions during the life time of an object of this class are just ignored.
858
859 In particular, it can be used to suppress the log messages given by wxWidgets
860 itself but it should be noted that it is rarely the best way to cope with this
861 problem as @b all log messages are suppressed, even if they indicate a
862 completely different error than the one the programmer wanted to suppress.
863
864 For instance, the example of the overview:
865
866 @code
867 wxFile file;
868
869 // wxFile.Open() normally complains if file can't be opened, we don't want it
870 {
871 wxLogNull logNo;
872 if ( !file.Open("bar") )
873 ... process error ourselves ...
874 } // ~wxLogNull called, old log sink restored
875
876 wxLogMessage("..."); // ok
877 @endcode
878
879 would be better written as:
880
881 @code
882 wxFile file;
883
884 // don't try to open file if it doesn't exist, we are prepared to deal with
885 // this ourselves - but all other errors are not expected
886 if ( wxFile::Exists("bar") )
887 {
888 // gives an error message if the file couldn't be opened
889 file.Open("bar");
890 }
891 else
892 {
893 ...
894 }
895 @endcode
896
897
898 @library{wxbase}
899 @category{logging}
900 */
901 class wxLogNull : public wxLog
902 {
903 public:
904 /**
905 Suspends logging.
906 */
907 wxLogNull();
908
909 /**
910 Resumes logging.
911 */
912 ~wxLogNull();
913 };
914
915
916
917 // ============================================================================
918 // Global functions/macros
919 // ============================================================================
920
921 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
922 //@{
923
924 /**
925 This function shows a message to the user in a safe way and should be safe
926 to call even before the application has been initialized or if it is
927 currently in some other strange state (for example, about to crash). Under
928 Windows this function shows a message box using a native dialog instead of
929 wxMessageBox() (which might be unsafe to call), elsewhere it simply prints
930 the message to the standard output using the title as prefix.
931
932 @param title
933 The title of the message box shown to the user or the prefix of the
934 message string.
935 @param text
936 The text to show to the user.
937
938 @see wxLogFatalError()
939
940 @header{wx/log.h}
941 */
942 void wxSafeShowMessage(const wxString& title, const wxString& text);
943
944 /**
945 Returns the error code from the last system call. This function uses
946 @c errno on Unix platforms and @c GetLastError under Win32.
947
948 @see wxSysErrorMsg(), wxLogSysError()
949
950 @header{wx/log.h}
951 */
952 unsigned long wxSysErrorCode();
953
954 /**
955 Returns the error message corresponding to the given system error code. If
956 @a errCode is 0 (default), the last error code (as returned by
957 wxSysErrorCode()) is used.
958
959 @see wxSysErrorCode(), wxLogSysError()
960
961 @header{wx/log.h}
962 */
963 const wxChar* wxSysErrorMsg(unsigned long errCode = 0);
964
965 //@}
966
967 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
968 //@{
969 /**
970 For all normal, informational messages. They also appear in a message box
971 by default (but it can be changed).
972
973 @header{wx/log.h}
974 */
975 void wxLogMessage(const char* formatString, ... );
976 void wxVLogMessage(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
977 //@}
978
979 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
980 //@{
981 /**
982 For verbose output. Normally, it is suppressed, but might be activated if
983 the user wishes to know more details about the program progress (another,
984 but possibly confusing name for the same function could be @c wxLogInfo).
985
986 @header{wx/log.h}
987 */
988 void wxLogVerbose(const char* formatString, ... );
989 void wxVLogVerbose(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
990 //@}
991
992 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
993 //@{
994 /**
995 For warnings - they are also normally shown to the user, but don't
996 interrupt the program work.
997
998 @header{wx/log.h}
999 */
1000 void wxLogWarning(const char* formatString, ... );
1001 void wxVLogWarning(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1002 //@}
1003
1004 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
1005 //@{
1006 /**
1007 Like wxLogError(), but also terminates the program with the exit code 3.
1008 Using @e abort() standard function also terminates the program with this
1009 exit code.
1010
1011 @header{wx/log.h}
1012 */
1013 void wxLogFatalError(const char* formatString, ... );
1014 void wxVLogFatalError(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1015 //@}
1016
1017 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
1018 //@{
1019 /**
1020 The functions to use for error messages, i.e. the messages that must be
1021 shown to the user. The default processing is to pop up a message box to
1022 inform the user about it.
1023
1024 @header{wx/log.h}
1025 */
1026 void wxLogError(const char* formatString, ... );
1027 void wxVLogError(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1028 //@}
1029
1030 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
1031 //@{
1032 /**
1033 Like wxLogDebug(), trace functions only do something in debug builds and
1034 expand to nothing in the release one. The reason for making it a separate
1035 function is that usually there are a lot of trace messages, so it might
1036 make sense to separate them from other debug messages.
1037
1038 wxLogDebug(const char*,const char*,...) and
1039 wxLogDebug(wxTraceMask,const char*,...) can be used instead if you would
1040 like to be able to separate trace messages into different categories which
1041 can be enabled or disabled with the static functions provided in wxLog.
1042
1043 @header{wx/log.h}
1044 */
1045 void wxLogTrace(const char* formatString, ... );
1046 void wxVLogTrace(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1047 //@}
1048
1049 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
1050 //@{
1051 /**
1052 Like wxLogDebug(), trace functions only do something in debug builds and
1053 expand to nothing in the release one. The reason for making it a separate
1054 function is that usually there are a lot of trace messages, so it might
1055 make sense to separate them from other debug messages.
1056
1057 In this version of wxLogTrace(), trace messages can be separated into
1058 different categories and calls using this function only log the message if
1059 the given @a mask is currently enabled in wxLog. This lets you selectively
1060 trace only some operations and not others by enabling the desired trace
1061 masks with wxLog::AddTraceMask() or by setting the
1062 @ref overview_envvars "@c WXTRACE environment variable".
1063
1064 The predefined string trace masks used by wxWidgets are:
1065
1066 @beginDefList
1067 @itemdef{ wxTRACE_MemAlloc, Trace memory allocation (new/delete) }
1068 @itemdef{ wxTRACE_Messages, Trace window messages/X callbacks }
1069 @itemdef{ wxTRACE_ResAlloc, Trace GDI resource allocation }
1070 @itemdef{ wxTRACE_RefCount, Trace various ref counting operations }
1071 @itemdef{ wxTRACE_OleCalls, Trace OLE method calls (Win32 only) }
1072 @endDefList
1073
1074 @note Since both the mask and the format string are strings, this might
1075 lead to function signature confusion in some cases: if you intend to
1076 call the format string only version of wxLogTrace(), add a "%s"
1077 format string parameter and then supply a second string parameter for
1078 that "%s", the string mask version of wxLogTrace() will erroneously
1079 get called instead, since you are supplying two string parameters to
1080 the function. In this case you'll unfortunately have to avoid having
1081 two leading string parameters, e.g. by adding a bogus integer (with
1082 its "%d" format string).
1083
1084 @header{wx/log.h}
1085 */
1086 void wxLogTrace(const char* mask, const char* formatString, ... );
1087 void wxVLogTrace(const char* mask,
1088 const char* formatString,
1089 va_list argPtr);
1090 //@}
1091
1092 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
1093 //@{
1094 /**
1095 Like wxLogDebug(), trace functions only do something in debug builds and
1096 expand to nothing in the release one. The reason for making it a separate
1097 function is that usually there are a lot of trace messages, so it might
1098 make sense to separate them from other debug messages.
1099
1100 This version of wxLogTrace() only logs the message if all the bits
1101 corresponding to the @a mask are set in the wxLog trace mask which can be
1102 set by calling wxLog::SetTraceMask(). This version is less flexible than
1103 wxLogDebug(const char*,const char*,...) because it doesn't allow defining
1104 the user trace masks easily. This is why it is deprecated in favour of
1105 using string trace masks.
1106
1107 The following bitmasks are defined for wxTraceMask:
1108
1109 @beginDefList
1110 @itemdef{ wxTraceMemAlloc, Trace memory allocation (new/delete) }
1111 @itemdef{ wxTraceMessages, Trace window messages/X callbacks }
1112 @itemdef{ wxTraceResAlloc, Trace GDI resource allocation }
1113 @itemdef{ wxTraceRefCount, Trace various ref counting operations }
1114 @itemdef{ wxTraceOleCalls, Trace OLE method calls (Win32 only) }
1115 @endDefList
1116
1117 @header{wx/log.h}
1118 */
1119 void wxLogTrace(wxTraceMask mask, const char* formatString, ... );
1120 void wxVLogTrace(wxTraceMask mask, const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1121 //@}
1122
1123 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
1124 //@{
1125 /**
1126 The right functions for debug output. They only do something in debug mode
1127 (when the preprocessor symbol @c __WXDEBUG__ is defined) and expand to
1128 nothing in release mode (otherwise).
1129
1130 @header{wx/log.h}
1131 */
1132 void wxLogDebug(const char* formatString, ... );
1133 void wxVLogDebug(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1134 //@}
1135
1136 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
1137 //@{
1138 /**
1139 Messages logged by this function will appear in the statusbar of the
1140 @a frame or of the top level application window by default (i.e. when using
1141 the second version of the functions).
1142
1143 If the target frame doesn't have a statusbar, the message will be lost.
1144
1145 @header{wx/log.h}
1146 */
1147 void wxLogStatus(wxFrame* frame, const char* formatString, ... );
1148 void wxVLogStatus(wxFrame* frame, const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1149 void wxLogStatus(const char* formatString, ... );
1150 void wxVLogStatus(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1151 //@}
1152
1153 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_log */
1154 //@{
1155 /**
1156 Mostly used by wxWidgets itself, but might be handy for logging errors
1157 after system call (API function) failure. It logs the specified message
1158 text as well as the last system error code (@e errno or @e ::GetLastError()
1159 depending on the platform) and the corresponding error message. The second
1160 form of this function takes the error code explicitly as the first
1161 argument.
1162
1163 @see wxSysErrorCode(), wxSysErrorMsg()
1164
1165 @header{wx/log.h}
1166 */
1167 void wxLogSysError(const char* formatString, ... );
1168 void wxVLogSysError(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
1169 //@}
1170