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76 This is obsolete, replaced by wxLog functionality.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