avoid infinite recursion for richtooltops, (hopefully) fixes #15070

[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / log.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/log.h b/interface/wx/log.h
index 3be28347e7ac5ce4b7f0ecb00922de400e460b77..998f0159590acb5c810df9d6aa46163ab92a7c5b 100644 (file)
--- a/interface/wx/log.h
+++ b/interface/wx/log.h
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
 // Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 // Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 

+#if wxUSE_BASE

 
 /**
     Different standard log levels (you may also define your own) used with
 
 /**
     Different standard log levels (you may also define your own) used with

-    by standard wxLog functions wxLogError(), wxLogWarning(), etc...
+    by standard wxLog functions wxLogGeneric(), wxLogError(), wxLogWarning(), etc...

 */
 enum wxLogLevelValues
 {
 */
 enum wxLogLevelValues
 {


@@ -69,1000 +70,1124 @@ public:
 };
 
 /**
 };
 
 /**

-    @class wxLogWindow
+    @class wxLogFormatter

 
 

-    This class represents a background log window: to be precise, it collects all
-    log messages in the log frame which it manages but also passes them on to the
-    log target which was active at the moment of its creation. This allows you, for
-    example, to show all the log messages in a frame but still continue to process
-    them normally by showing the standard log dialog.
+    wxLogFormatter class is used to format the log messages. It implements the
+    default formatting and can be derived from to create custom formatters.
+
+    The default implementation formats the message into a string containing
+    the time stamp, level-dependent prefix and the message itself.
+
+    To change it, you can derive from it and override its Format() method. For
+    example, to include the thread id in the log messages you can use
+    @code
+        class LogFormatterWithThread : public wxLogFormatter
+        {
+            virtual wxString Format(wxLogLevel level,
+                                    const wxString& msg,
+                                    const wxLogRecordInfo& info) const
+            {
+                return wxString::Format("[%d] %s(%d) : %s",
+                    info.threadId, info.filename, info.line, msg);
+            }
+        };
+    @endcode
+    And then associate it with wxLog instance using its SetFormatter(). Then,
+    if you call:
+
+    @code
+        wxLogMessage(_("*** Application started ***"));
+    @endcode
+
+    the log output could be something like:
+
+    @verbatim
+        [7872] d:\testApp\src\testApp.cpp(85) : *** Application started ***
+    @endverbatim

 
     @library{wxbase}
     @category{logging}
 
 
     @library{wxbase}
     @category{logging}
 

-    @see wxLogTextCtrl
+    @see @ref overview_log
+
+    @since 2.9.4

 */
 */

-class wxLogWindow : public wxLogInterposer
+class wxLogFormatter

 {
 public:
     /**
 {
 public:
     /**

-        Creates the log frame window and starts collecting the messages in it.
-
-        @param pParent
-            The parent window for the log frame, may be @NULL
-        @param szTitle
-            The title for the log frame
-        @param show
-            @true to show the frame initially (default), otherwise
-            Show() must be called later.
-        @param passToOld
-            @true to process the log messages normally in addition to logging them 
-            in the log frame (default), @false to only log them in the log frame.
-            Note that if no targets were set using wxLog::SetActiveTarget() then 
-            wxLogWindow simply becomes the active one and messages won't be passed
-            to other targets.
+        The default ctor does nothing.

     */
     */

-    wxLogWindow(wxWindow* pParent, const wxString& szTitle, bool show = true,
-                bool passToOld = true);
+    wxLogFormatter();

 
 

-    /**
-        Returns the associated log frame window. This may be used to position or resize
-        it but use Show() to show or hide it.
-    */
-    wxFrame* GetFrame() const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Called if the user closes the window interactively, will not be
-        called if it is destroyed for another reason (such as when program
-        exits).
-
-        Return @true from here to allow the frame to close, @false to
-        prevent this from happening.
+        This function creates the full log message string.

 
 

-        @see OnFrameDelete()
-    */
-    virtual bool OnFrameClose(wxFrame* frame);
+        Override it to customize the output string format.

 
 

-    /**
-        Called immediately after the log frame creation allowing for
-        any extra initializations.
-    */
-    virtual void OnFrameCreate(wxFrame* frame);
+        @param level
+            The level of this log record, e.g. ::wxLOG_Error.
+        @param msg
+            The log message itself.
+        @param info
+            All the other information (such as time, component, location...)
+            associated with this log record.

 
 

-    /**
-        Called right before the log frame is going to be deleted: will
-        always be called unlike OnFrameClose().
+        @return
+            The formated message.
+
+        @note
+            Time stamping is disabled for Visual C++ users in debug builds by
+            default because otherwise it would be impossible to directly go to the line
+            from which the log message was generated by simply clicking in the debugger
+            window on the corresponding error message. If you wish to enable it, override
+            FormatTime().

     */
     */

-    virtual void OnFrameDelete(wxFrame* frame);
+    virtual wxString Format(wxLogLevel level,
+                            const wxString& msg,
+                            const wxLogRecordInfo& info) const;

 
 

+protected:

     /**
     /**

-        Shows or hides the frame.
-    */
-    void Show(bool show = true);
-};
-
-
-
-/**
-    @class wxLogInterposerTemp
+        This function formats the time stamp part of the log message.

 
 

-    A special version of wxLogChain which uses itself as the new log target.
-    It forwards log messages to the previously installed one in addition to
-    processing them itself. Unlike wxLogInterposer, it doesn't delete the old
-    target which means it can be used to temporarily redirect log output.
+        Override this function if you need to customize just the time stamp.

 
 

-    As per wxLogInterposer, this class must be derived from to implement
-    wxLog::DoLog and/or wxLog::DoLogString methods.
+        @param time
+            Time to format.

 
 

-    @library{wxbase}
-    @category{logging}
-*/
-class wxLogInterposerTemp : public wxLogChain
-{
-public:
-    /**
-        The default constructor installs this object as the current active log target.
+        @return
+            The formated time string, may be empty.

     */
     */

-    wxLogInterposerTemp();
+    virtual wxString FormatTime(time_t time) const;

 };
 
 
 };
 
 

-

 /**
 /**

-    @class wxLogChain
-
-    This simple class allows you to chain log sinks, that is to install a new sink but
-    keep passing log messages to the old one instead of replacing it completely as
-    wxLog::SetActiveTarget does.
-
-    It is especially useful when you want to divert the logs somewhere (for
-    example to a file or a log window) but also keep showing the error messages
-    using the standard dialogs as wxLogGui does by default.
+    @class wxLog

 
 

-    Example of usage:
+    wxLog class defines the interface for the <em>log targets</em> used by wxWidgets
+    logging functions as explained in the @ref overview_log.

 
 

-    @code
-    wxLogChain *logChain = new wxLogChain(new wxLogStderr);
+    The only situations when you need to directly use this class is when you want
+    to derive your own log target because the existing ones don't satisfy your
+    needs.

 
 

-    // all the log messages are sent to stderr and also processed as usually
-    ...
+    Otherwise, it is completely hidden behind the @ref group_funcmacro_log "wxLogXXX() functions"
+    and you may not even know about its existence.

 
 

-    // don't delete logChain directly as this would leave a dangling
-    // pointer as active log target, use SetActiveTarget() instead
-    delete wxLog::SetActiveTarget(...something else or NULL...);
-    @endcode
+    @note For console-mode applications, the default target is wxLogStderr, so
+          that all @e wxLogXXX() functions print on @c stderr when @c wxUSE_GUI = 0.

 
     @library{wxbase}
     @category{logging}
 
     @library{wxbase}
     @category{logging}

+
+    @see @ref overview_log, @ref group_funcmacro_log "wxLogXXX() functions"

 */
 */

-class wxLogChain : public wxLog
+class wxLog

 {
 public:
     /**
 {
 public:
     /**

-        Sets the specified @c logger (which may be @NULL) as the default log
-        target but the log messages are also passed to the previous log target if any.
+        @name Trace mask functions

     */
     */

-    wxLogChain(wxLog* logger);
+    //@{

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Destroys the previous log target.
-    */
-    virtual ~wxLogChain();
+        Add the @a mask to the list of allowed masks for wxLogTrace().

 
 

-    /**
-        Detaches the old log target so it won't be destroyed when the wxLogChain object
-        is destroyed.
+        @see RemoveTraceMask(), GetTraceMasks()

     */
     */

-    void DetachOldLog();
+    static void AddTraceMask(const wxString& mask);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns the pointer to the previously active log target (which may be @NULL).
+        Removes all trace masks previously set with AddTraceMask().
+
+        @see RemoveTraceMask()

     */
     */

-    wxLog* GetOldLog() const;
+    static void ClearTraceMasks();

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns @true if the messages are passed to the previously active log
-        target (default) or @false if PassMessages() had been called.
+        Returns the currently allowed list of string trace masks.
+
+        @see AddTraceMask().

     */
     */

-    bool IsPassingMessages() const;
+    static const wxArrayString& GetTraceMasks();

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        By default, the log messages are passed to the previously active log target.
-        Calling this function with @false parameter disables this behaviour
-        (presumably temporarily, as you shouldn't use wxLogChain at all otherwise) and
-        it can be reenabled by calling it again with @a passMessages set to @true.
+        Returns @true if the @a mask is one of allowed masks for wxLogTrace().
+
+        See also: AddTraceMask(), RemoveTraceMask()

     */
     */

-    void PassMessages(bool passMessages);
+    static bool IsAllowedTraceMask(const wxString& mask);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Sets another log target to use (may be @NULL).
+        Remove the @a mask from the list of allowed masks for
+        wxLogTrace().

 
 

-        The log target specified in the wxLogChain(wxLog*) constructor or in a
-        previous call to this function is deleted.
-        This doesn't change the old log target value (the one the messages are
-        forwarded to) which still remains the same as was active when wxLogChain
-        object was created.
+        @see AddTraceMask()

     */
     */

-    void SetLog(wxLog* logger);
-};
+    static void RemoveTraceMask(const wxString& mask);

 
 

+    //@}

 
 
 
 

-/**
-    @class wxLogGui

 
 

-    This is the default log target for the GUI wxWidgets applications.
+    /**
+        @name Log target functions
+    */
+    //@{

 
 

-    Please see @ref overview_log_customize for explanation of how to change the
-    default log target.
+    /**
+        Instructs wxLog to not create new log targets on the fly if there is none
+        currently (see GetActiveTarget()).

 
 

-    An object of this class is used by default to show the log messages created
-    by using wxLogMessage(), wxLogError() and other logging functions. It
-    doesn't display the messages logged by them immediately however but
-    accumulates all messages logged during an event handler execution and then
-    shows them all at once when its Flush() method is called during the idle
-    time processing. This has the important advantage of showing only a single
-    dialog to the user even if several messages were logged because of a single
-    error as it often happens (e.g. a low level function could log a message
-    because it failed to open a file resulting in its caller logging another
-    message due to the failure of higher level operation requiring the use of
-    this file). If you need to force the display of all previously logged
-    messages immediately you can use wxLog::FlushActive() to force the dialog
-    display.
+        (Almost) for internal use only: it is supposed to be called by the
+        application shutdown code (where you don't want the log target to be
+        automatically created anymore).

 
 

-    Also notice that if an error message is logged when several informative
-    messages had been already logged before, the informative messages are
-    discarded on the assumption that they are not useful -- and may be
-    confusing and hence harmful -- any more after the error. The warning
-    and error messages are never discarded however and any informational
-    messages logged after the first error one are also kept (as they may
-    contain information about the error recovery). You may override DoLog()
-    method to change this behaviour.
+        Note that this function also calls ClearTraceMasks().
+    */
+    static void DontCreateOnDemand();

 
 

-    At any rate, it is possible that that several messages were accumulated
-    before this class Flush() method is called. If this is the case, Flush()
-    uses a custom dialog which shows the last message directly and allows the
-    user to view the previously logged ones by expanding the "Details"
-    wxCollapsiblePane inside it. This custom dialog also provides the buttons
-    for copying the log messages to the clipboard and saving them to a file.
+    /**
+        Returns the pointer to the active log target (may be @NULL).

 
 

-    However if only a single message is present when Flush() is called, just a
-    wxMessageBox() is used to show it. This has the advantage of being closer
-    to the native behaviour but it doesn't give the user any possibility to
-    copy or save the message (except for the recent Windows versions where @c
-    Ctrl-C may be pressed in the message box to copy its contents to the
-    clipboard) so you may want to override DoShowSingleMessage() to customize
-    wxLogGui -- the dialogs sample shows how to do this.
+        Notice that if SetActiveTarget() hadn't been previously explicitly
+        called, this function will by default try to create a log target by
+        calling wxAppTraits::CreateLogTarget() which may be overridden in a
+        user-defined traits class to change the default behaviour. You may also
+        call DontCreateOnDemand() to disable this behaviour.

 
 

-    @library{wxcore}
-    @category{logging}
-*/
-class wxLogGui : public wxLog
-{
-public:
-    /**
-        Default constructor.
+        When this function is called from threads other than main one,
+        auto-creation doesn't happen. But if the thread has a thread-specific
+        log target previously set by SetThreadActiveTarget(), it is returned
+        instead of the global one. Otherwise, the global log target is
+        returned.

     */
     */

-    wxLogGui();
+    static wxLog* GetActiveTarget();

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Presents the accumulated log messages, if any, to the user.
+        Sets the specified log target as the active one.

 
 

-        This method is called during the idle time and should show any messages
-        accumulated in wxLogGui#m_aMessages field to the user.
-     */
-    virtual void Flush();
+        Returns the pointer to the previous active log target (may be @NULL).
+        To suppress logging use a new instance of wxLogNull not @NULL.  If the
+        active log target is set to @NULL a new default log target will be
+        created when logging occurs.
+
+        @see SetThreadActiveTarget()
+    */
+    static wxLog* SetActiveTarget(wxLog* logtarget);

 
 

-protected:

     /**
     /**

-        Returns the appropriate title for the dialog.
+        Sets a thread-specific log target.

 
 

-        The title is constructed from wxApp::GetAppDisplayName() and the
-        severity string (e.g. "error" or "warning") appropriate for the current
-        wxLogGui#m_bErrors and wxLogGui#m_bWarnings values.
-     */
-    wxString GetTitle() const;
+        The log target passed to this function will be used for all messages
+        logged by the current thread using the usual wxLog functions. This
+        shouldn't be called from the main thread which never uses a thread-
+        specific log target but can be used for the other threads to handle
+        thread logging completely separately; instead of buffering thread log
+        messages in the main thread logger.

 
 

-    /**
-        Returns wxICON_ERROR, wxICON_WARNING or wxICON_INFORMATION depending on
-        the current maximal severity.
+        Notice that unlike for SetActiveTarget(), wxWidgets does not destroy
+        the thread-specific log targets when the thread terminates so doing
+        this is your responsibility.

 
 

-        This value is suitable to be used in the style parameter of
-        wxMessageBox() function.
+        This method is only available if @c wxUSE_THREADS is 1, i.e. wxWidgets
+        was compiled with threads support.
+
+        @param logger
+            The new thread-specific log target, possibly @NULL.
+        @return
+            The previous thread-specific log target, initially @NULL.
+
+        @since 2.9.1

      */
      */

-    int GetSeverityIcon() const;
+    static wxLog *SetThreadActiveTarget(wxLog *logger);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Forgets all the currently stored messages.
+        Flushes the current log target if any, does nothing if there is none.

 
 

-        If you override Flush() (and don't call the base class version), you
-        must call this method to avoid messages being logged over and over
-        again.
-     */
-    void Clear();
+        When this method is called from the main thread context, it also
+        flushes any previously buffered messages logged by the other threads.
+        When it is called from the other threads it simply calls Flush() on the
+        currently active log target, so it mostly makes sense to do this if a
+        thread has its own logger set with SetThreadActiveTarget().
+    */
+    static void FlushActive();

 
 

+    /**
+        Resumes logging previously suspended by a call to Suspend().
+        All messages logged in the meanwhile will be flushed soon.
+    */
+    static void Resume();

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Method called by Flush() to show a single log message.
+        Suspends the logging until Resume() is called.

 
 

-        This function can be overridden to show the message in a different way.
-        By default a simple wxMessageBox() call is used.
+        Note that the latter must be called the same number of times as the former
+        to undo it, i.e. if you call Suspend() twice you must call Resume() twice as well.

 
 

-        @param message
-            The message to show (it can contain multiple lines).
-        @param title
-            The suggested title for the dialog showing the message, see
-            GetTitle().
-        @param style
-            One of @c wxICON_XXX constants, see GetSeverityIcon().
-     */
-    virtual void DoShowSingleLogMessage(const wxString& message,
-                                        const wxString& title,
-                                        int style);
+        Note that suspending the logging means that the log sink won't be flushed
+        periodically, it doesn't have any effect if the current log target does the
+        logging immediately without waiting for Flush() to be called (the standard
+        GUI log target only shows the log dialog when it is flushed, so Suspend()
+        works as expected with it).

 
 

-    /**
-        Method called by Flush() to show multiple log messages.
+        @see Resume(), wxLogNull
+    */
+    static void Suspend();

 
 

-        This function can be overridden to show the messages in a different way.
-        By default a special log dialog showing the most recent message and
-        allowing the user to expand it to view the previously logged ones is
-        used.
+    //@}

 
 

-        @param messages
-            Array of messages to show; it contains more than one element.
-        @param severities
-            Array of message severities containing @c wxLOG_XXX values.
-        @param times
-            Array of time_t values indicating when each message was logged.
-        @param title
-            The suggested title for the dialog showing the message, see
-            GetTitle().
-        @param style
-            One of @c wxICON_XXX constants, see GetSeverityIcon().
-     */
-    virtual void DoShowMultipleLogMessages(const wxArrayString& messages,
-                                           const wxArrayInt& severities,
-                                           const wxArrayLong& times,
-                                           const wxString& title,
-                                           int style);

 
 
     /**
 
 
     /**

-        All currently accumulated messages.
+        @name Log level functions
+    */
+    //@{

 
 

-        This array may be empty if no messages were logged.
+    /**
+        Returns the current log level limit.

 
 

-        @see m_aSeverity, m_aTimes
-     */
-    wxArrayString m_aMessages;
+        All messages at levels strictly greater than the value returned by this
+        function are not logged at all.
+
+        @see SetLogLevel(), IsLevelEnabled()
+    */
+    static wxLogLevel GetLogLevel();

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        The severities of each logged message.
+        Returns true if logging at this level is enabled for the current thread.

 
 

-        This array is synchronized with wxLogGui#m_aMessages, i.e. the n-th
-        element of this array corresponds to the severity of the n-th message.
-        The possible severity values are @c wxLOG_XXX constants, e.g.
-        wxLOG_Error, wxLOG_Warning, wxLOG_Message etc.
-     */
-    wxArrayInt m_aSeverity;
+        This function only returns @true if logging is globally enabled and if
+        @a level is less than or equal to the maximal log level enabled for the
+        given @a component.

 
 

-    /**
-        The time stamps of each logged message.
+        @see IsEnabled(), SetLogLevel(), GetLogLevel(), SetComponentLevel()

 
 

-        The elements of this array are time_t values corresponding to the time
-        when the message was logged.
+        @since 2.9.1

      */
      */

-    wxArrayLong m_aTimes;
+    static bool IsLevelEnabled(wxLogLevel level, wxString component);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        True if there any error messages.
-     */
-    bool m_bErrors;
+        Sets the log level for the given component.

 
 

-    /**
-        True if there any warning messages.
+        For example, to disable all but error messages from wxWidgets network
+        classes you may use
+        @code
+            wxLog::SetComponentLevel("wx/net", wxLOG_Error);
+        @endcode

 
 

-        If both wxLogGui#m_bErrors and this member are false, there are only
-        informational messages to be shown.
-     */
-    bool m_bWarnings;
+        SetLogLevel() may be used to set the global log level.

 
 

-    /**
-        True if there any messages to be shown to the user.
+        @param component
+            Non-empty component name, possibly using slashes (@c /) to separate
+            it into several parts.
+        @param level
+            Maximal level of log messages from this component which will be
+            handled instead of being simply discarded.

 
 

-        This variable is used instead of simply checking whether
-        wxLogGui#m_aMessages array is empty to allow blocking further calls to
-        Flush() while a log dialog is already being shown, even if the messages
-        array hasn't been emptied yet.
+        @since 2.9.1

      */
      */

-    bool m_bHasMessages;
-};
-
+    static void SetComponentLevel(const wxString& component, wxLogLevel level);

 
 

+    /**
+        Specifies that log messages with level greater (numerically) than
+        @a logLevel should be ignored and not sent to the active log target.

 
 

-/**
-    @class wxLogStream
+        @see SetComponentLevel()
+    */
+    static void SetLogLevel(wxLogLevel logLevel);

 
 

-    This class can be used to redirect the log messages to a C++ stream.
+    //@}

 
 

-    Please note that this class is only available if wxWidgets was compiled with
-    the standard iostream library support (@c wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM must be on).

 
 

-    @library{wxbase}
-    @category{logging}

 
 

-    @see wxLogStderr, wxStreamToTextRedirector
-*/
-class wxLogStream : public wxLog
-{
-public:

     /**
     /**

-        Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given
-        output stream. If it is @NULL, the messages are sent to @c cerr.
+        @name Enable/disable features functions

     */
     */

-    wxLogStream(std::ostream *ostr = NULL);
-};
+    //@{

 
 

+    /**
+        Globally enable or disable logging.

 
 

+        Calling this function with @false argument disables all log messages
+        for the current thread.

 
 

-/**
-    @class wxLogStderr
+        @see wxLogNull, IsEnabled()

 
 

-    This class can be used to redirect the log messages to a C file stream (not to
-    be confused with C++ streams).
+        @return
+            The old state, i.e. @true if logging was previously enabled and
+            @false if it was disabled.
+     */
+    static bool EnableLogging(bool enable = true);

 
 

-    It is the default log target for the non-GUI wxWidgets applications which
-    send all the output to @c stderr.
+    /**
+        Returns true if logging is enabled at all now.

 
 

-    @library{wxbase}
-    @category{logging}
+        @see IsLevelEnabled(), EnableLogging()
+     */
+    static bool IsEnabled();

 
 

-    @see wxLogStream
-*/
-class wxLogStderr : public wxLog
-{
-public:

     /**
     /**

-        Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given
-        @c FILE. If it is @NULL, the messages are sent to @c stderr.
+        Returns whether the repetition counting mode is enabled.

     */
     */

-    wxLogStderr(FILE* fp = NULL);
-};
-
-
-
-/**
-    @class wxLogBuffer
-
-    wxLogBuffer is a very simple implementation of log sink which simply collects
-    all the logged messages in a string (except the debug messages which are output
-    in the usual way immediately as we're presumably not interested in collecting
-    them for later). The messages from different log function calls are separated
-    by the new lines.
-
-    All the messages collected so far can be shown to the user (and the current
-    buffer cleared) by calling the overloaded wxLogBuffer::Flush method.
+    static bool GetRepetitionCounting();

 
 

-    @library{wxbase}
-    @category{logging}
-*/
-class wxLogBuffer : public wxLog
-{
-public:

     /**
     /**

-        The default ctor does nothing.
+        Enables logging mode in which a log message is logged once, and in case exactly
+        the same message successively repeats one or more times, only the number of
+        repetitions is logged.

     */
     */

-    wxLogBuffer();
+    static void SetRepetitionCounting(bool repetCounting = true);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Shows all the messages collected so far to the user (using a message box in the
-        GUI applications or by printing them out to the console in text mode) and
-        clears the internal buffer.
+        Returns the current timestamp format string.
+
+        Notice that the current time stamp is only used by the default log
+        formatter and custom formatters may ignore this format.

     */
     */

-    virtual void Flush();
+    static const wxString& GetTimestamp();

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns the current buffer contains. Messages from different log function calls
-        are separated with the new lines in the buffer.
-        The buffer can be cleared by Flush() which will also show the current
-        contents to the user.
+        Sets the timestamp format prepended by the default log targets to all
+        messages. The string may contain any normal characters as well as %
+        prefixed format specifiers, see @e strftime() manual for details.
+        Passing an empty string to this function disables message time stamping.
+
+        Notice that the current time stamp is only used by the default log
+        formatter and custom formatters may ignore this format. You can also
+        define a custom wxLogFormatter to customize the time stamp handling
+        beyond changing its format.

     */
     */

-    const wxString& GetBuffer() const;
-};
+    static void SetTimestamp(const wxString& format);

 
 

+    /**
+        Disables time stamping of the log messages.

 
 

+        Notice that the current time stamp is only used by the default log
+        formatter and custom formatters may ignore calls to this function.

 
 

-/**
-    @class wxLogInterposer
+        @since 2.9.0
+    */
+    static void DisableTimestamp();

 
 

-    A special version of wxLogChain which uses itself as the new log target.
-    It forwards log messages to the previously installed one in addition to
-    processing them itself.
+    /**
+        Returns whether the verbose mode is currently active.
+    */
+    static bool GetVerbose();

 
 

-    Unlike wxLogChain which is usually used directly as is, this class must be
-    derived from to implement wxLog::DoLog and/or wxLog::DoLogString methods.
+    /**
+        Activates or deactivates verbose mode in which the verbose messages are
+        logged as the normal ones instead of being silently dropped.

 
 

-    wxLogInterposer destroys the previous log target in its destructor.
-    If you don't want this to happen, use wxLogInterposerTemp instead.
+        The verbose messages are the trace messages which are not disabled in the
+        release mode and are generated by wxLogVerbose().

 
 

-    @library{wxbase}
-    @category{logging}
-*/
-class wxLogInterposer : public wxLogChain
-{
-public:
-    /**
-        The default constructor installs this object as the current active log target.
+        @see @ref overview_log

     */
     */

-    wxLogInterposer();
-};
+    static void SetVerbose(bool verbose = true);

 
 

+    //@}

 
 
 
 

-/**
-    @class wxLogTextCtrl
+    /**
+        Sets the specified formatter as the active one.

 
 

-    Using these target all the log messages can be redirected to a text control.
-    The text control must have been created with @c wxTE_MULTILINE style by the
-    caller previously.
+        @param formatter
+            The new formatter. If @NULL, reset to the default formatter.

 
 

-    @library{wxbase}
-    @category{logging}
+        Returns the pointer to the previous formatter. You must delete it
+        if you don't plan to attach it again to a wxLog object later.

 
 

-    @see wxTextCtrl, wxStreamToTextRedirector
-*/
-class wxLogTextCtrl : public wxLog
-{
-public:
-    /**
-        Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given text
-        control. The @a textctrl parameter cannot be @NULL.
+        @since 2.9.4

     */
     */

-    wxLogTextCtrl(wxTextCtrl* pTextCtrl);
-};
+    wxLogFormatter *SetFormatter(wxLogFormatter* formatter);

 
 
 
 

+    /**
+        Some of wxLog implementations, most notably the standard wxLogGui class,
+        buffer the messages (for example, to avoid showing the user a zillion of modal
+        message boxes one after another -- which would be really annoying).
+        This function shows them all and clears the buffer contents.
+        If the buffer is already empty, nothing happens.

 
 

-/**
-    @class wxLog
+        If you override this method in a derived class, call the base class
+        version first, before doing anything else.
+    */
+    virtual void Flush();

 
 

-    wxLog class defines the interface for the <em>log targets</em> used by wxWidgets
-    logging functions as explained in the @ref overview_log.
-    
-    The only situations when you need to directly use this class is when you want
-    to derive your own log target because the existing ones don't satisfy your
-    needs.
+    /**
+        Log the given record.

 
 

-    Otherwise, it is completely hidden behind the @ref group_funcmacro_log "wxLogXXX() functions" 
-    and you may not even know about its existence.
+        This function should only be called from the DoLog() implementations in
+        the derived classes if they need to call DoLogRecord() on another log
+        object (they can, of course, just use wxLog::DoLogRecord() call syntax
+        to call it on the object itself). It should not be used for logging new
+        messages which can be only sent to the currently active logger using
+        OnLog() which also checks if the logging (for this level) is enabled
+        while this method just directly calls DoLog().

 
 

-    @note For console-mode applications, the default target is wxLogStderr, so
-          that all @e wxLogXXX() functions print on @c stderr when @c wxUSE_GUI = 0.
+        Example of use of this class from wxLogChain:
+        @code
+        void wxLogChain::DoLogRecord(wxLogLevel level,
+                                     const wxString& msg,
+                                     const wxLogRecordInfo& info)
+        {
+            // let the previous logger show it
+            if ( m_logOld && IsPassingMessages() )
+                m_logOld->LogRecord(level, msg, info);

 
 

-    @library{wxcore}
-    @category{logging}
+            // and also send it to the new one
+            if ( m_logNew && m_logNew != this )
+                m_logNew->LogRecord(level, msg, info);
+        }
+        @endcode

 
 

-    @see @ref overview_log, @ref group_funcmacro_log "wxLogXXX() functions" 
-*/
-class wxLog
-{
-public:
+        @since 2.9.1
+     */
+    void LogRecord(wxLogLevel level, const wxString& msg, const wxLogRecordInfo& info);
+
+protected:

     /**
     /**

-        @name Trace mask functions
-    */
+        @name Logging callbacks.
+
+        The functions which should be overridden by custom log targets.
+
+        When defining a new log target, you have a choice between overriding
+        DoLogRecord(), which provides maximal flexibility, DoLogTextAtLevel()
+        which can be used if you don't intend to change the default log
+        messages formatting but want to handle log messages of different levels
+        differently or, in the simplest case, DoLogText().
+     */

     //@{
     //@{

-    
+

     /**
     /**

-        Add the @a mask to the list of allowed masks for wxLogTrace().
+        Called to log a new record.

 
 

-        @see RemoveTraceMask(), GetTraceMasks()
-    */
-    static void AddTraceMask(const wxString& mask);
+        Any log message created by wxLogXXX() functions is passed to this
+        method of the active log target. The default implementation prepends
+        the timestamp and, for some log levels (e.g. error and warning), the
+        corresponding prefix to @a msg and passes it to DoLogTextAtLevel().
+
+        You may override this method to implement custom formatting of the
+        log messages or to implement custom filtering of log messages (e.g. you
+        could discard all log messages coming from the given source file).
+     */
+    virtual void DoLogRecord(wxLogLevel level,
+                             const wxString& msg,
+                             const wxLogRecordInfo& info);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Removes all trace masks previously set with AddTraceMask().
+        Called to log the specified string at given level.

 
 

-        @see RemoveTraceMask()
+        The base class versions logs debug and trace messages on the system
+        default debug output channel and passes all the other messages to
+        DoLogText().

     */
     */

-    static void ClearTraceMasks();
+    virtual void DoLogTextAtLevel(wxLogLevel level, const wxString& msg);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns the currently allowed list of string trace masks.
+        Called to log the specified string.

 
 

-        @see AddTraceMask().
+        A simple implementation might just send the string to @c stdout or
+        @c stderr or save it in a file (of course, the already existing
+        wxLogStderr can be used for this).
+
+        The base class version of this function asserts so it must be
+        overridden if you don't override DoLogRecord() or DoLogTextAtLevel().

     */
     */

-    static const wxArrayString& GetTraceMasks();
+    virtual void DoLogText(const wxString& msg);

 
 

-    /**
-        Returns @true if the @a mask is one of allowed masks for wxLogTrace().
+    //@}
+};

 
 

-        See also: AddTraceMask(), RemoveTraceMask()
-    */
-    static bool IsAllowedTraceMask(const wxString& mask);

 
 

-    /**
-        Remove the @a mask from the list of allowed masks for
-        wxLogTrace().

 
 

-        @see AddTraceMask()
-    */
-    static void RemoveTraceMask(const wxString& mask);
-    
-    //@}
+/**
+    @class wxLogChain

 
 

+    This simple class allows you to chain log sinks, that is to install a new sink but
+    keep passing log messages to the old one instead of replacing it completely as
+    wxLog::SetActiveTarget does.

 
 

+    It is especially useful when you want to divert the logs somewhere (for
+    example to a file or a log window) but also keep showing the error messages
+    using the standard dialogs as wxLogGui does by default.

 
 

-    /**
-        @name Log target functions
-    */
-    //@{
-    
-    /**
-        Instructs wxLog to not create new log targets on the fly if there is none
-        currently (see GetActiveTarget()). 
-        
-        (Almost) for internal use only: it is supposed to be called by the
-        application shutdown code (where you don't want the log target to be
-        automatically created anymore).
+    Example of usage:

 
 

-        Note that this function also calls ClearTraceMasks().
-    */
-    static void DontCreateOnDemand();
+    @code
+    wxLogChain *logChain = new wxLogChain(new wxLogStderr);

 
 

-    /**
-        Returns the pointer to the active log target (may be @NULL).
+    // all the log messages are sent to stderr and also processed as usually
+    ...

 
 

-        Notice that if SetActiveTarget() hadn't been previously explicitly
-        called, this function will by default try to create a log target by
-        calling wxAppTraits::CreateLogTarget() which may be overridden in a
-        user-defined traits class to change the default behaviour. You may also
-        call DontCreateOnDemand() to disable this behaviour.
+    // don't delete logChain directly as this would leave a dangling
+    // pointer as active log target, use SetActiveTarget() instead
+    delete wxLog::SetActiveTarget(...something else or NULL...);
+    @endcode

 
 

-        When this function is called from threads other than main one,
-        auto-creation doesn't happen. But if the thread has a thread-specific
-        log target previously set by SetThreadActiveTarget(), it is returned
-        instead of the global one. Otherwise, the global log target is
-        returned.
+    @library{wxbase}
+    @category{logging}
+*/
+class wxLogChain : public wxLog
+{
+public:
+    /**
+        Sets the specified @c logger (which may be @NULL) as the default log
+        target but the log messages are also passed to the previous log target if any.

     */
     */

-    static wxLog* GetActiveTarget();
+    wxLogChain(wxLog* logger);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Sets the specified log target as the active one.
+        Destroys the previous log target.
+    */
+    virtual ~wxLogChain();

 
 

-        Returns the pointer to the previous active log target (may be @NULL).
-        To suppress logging use a new instance of wxLogNull not @NULL.  If the
-        active log target is set to @NULL a new default log target will be
-        created when logging occurs.
+    /**
+        Detaches the old log target so it won't be destroyed when the wxLogChain object
+        is destroyed.
+    */
+    void DetachOldLog();

 
 

-        @see SetThreadActiveTarget()
+    /**
+        Returns the pointer to the previously active log target (which may be @NULL).

     */
     */

-    static wxLog* SetActiveTarget(wxLog* logtarget);
+    wxLog* GetOldLog() const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Sets a thread-specific log target.
+        Returns @true if the messages are passed to the previously active log
+        target (default) or @false if PassMessages() had been called.
+    */
+    bool IsPassingMessages() const;

 
 

-        The log target passed to this function will be used for all messages
-        logged by the current thread using the usual wxLog functions. This
-        shouldn't be called from the main thread which never uses a thread-
-        specific log target but can be used for the other threads to handle
-        thread logging completely separately; instead of buffering thread log
-        messages in the main thread logger.
+    /**
+        By default, the log messages are passed to the previously active log target.
+        Calling this function with @false parameter disables this behaviour
+        (presumably temporarily, as you shouldn't use wxLogChain at all otherwise) and
+        it can be reenabled by calling it again with @a passMessages set to @true.
+    */
+    void PassMessages(bool passMessages);

 
 

-        Notice that unlike for SetActiveTarget(), wxWidgets does not destroy
-        the thread-specific log targets when the thread terminates so doing
-        this is your responsibility.
+    /**
+        Sets another log target to use (may be @NULL).

 
 

-        This method is only available if @c wxUSE_THREADS is 1, i.e. wxWidgets
-        was compiled with threads support.
+        The log target specified in the wxLogChain(wxLog*) constructor or in a
+        previous call to this function is deleted.
+        This doesn't change the old log target value (the one the messages are
+        forwarded to) which still remains the same as was active when wxLogChain
+        object was created.
+    */
+    void SetLog(wxLog* logger);
+};

 
 

-        @param logger
-            The new thread-specific log target, possibly @NULL.
-        @return
-            The previous thread-specific log target, initially @NULL.

 
 

-        @since 2.9.1
-     */
-    static wxLog *SetThreadActiveTarget(wxLog *logger);
-    
-    /**
-        Flushes the current log target if any, does nothing if there is none.

 
 

-        When this method is called from the main thread context, it also
-        flushes any previously buffered messages logged by the other threads.
-        When it is called from the other threads it simply calls Flush() on the
-        currently active log target, so it mostly makes sense to do this if a
-        thread has its own logger set with SetThreadActiveTarget().
-    */
-    static void FlushActive();
-    
+/**
+    @class wxLogInterposer
+
+    A special version of wxLogChain which uses itself as the new log target.
+    It forwards log messages to the previously installed one in addition to
+    processing them itself.
+
+    Unlike wxLogChain which is usually used directly as is, this class must be
+    derived from to implement wxLog::DoLog and/or wxLog::DoLogString methods.
+
+    wxLogInterposer destroys the previous log target in its destructor.
+    If you don't want this to happen, use wxLogInterposerTemp instead.
+
+    @library{wxbase}
+    @category{logging}
+*/
+class wxLogInterposer : public wxLogChain
+{
+public:

     /**
     /**

-        Resumes logging previously suspended by a call to Suspend().
-        All messages logged in the meanwhile will be flushed soon.
+        The default constructor installs this object as the current active log target.

     */
     */

-    static void Resume();
+    wxLogInterposer();
+};

 
 

-    /**
-        Suspends the logging until Resume() is called.

 
 

-        Note that the latter must be called the same number of times as the former
-        to undo it, i.e. if you call Suspend() twice you must call Resume() twice as well.

 
 

-        Note that suspending the logging means that the log sink won't be be flushed
-        periodically, it doesn't have any effect if the current log target does the
-        logging immediately without waiting for Flush() to be called (the standard
-        GUI log target only shows the log dialog when it is flushed, so Suspend()
-        works as expected with it).
+/**
+    @class wxLogInterposerTemp

 
 

-        @see Resume(), wxLogNull
-    */
-    static void Suspend();
-    
-    //@}
-    
+    A special version of wxLogChain which uses itself as the new log target.
+    It forwards log messages to the previously installed one in addition to
+    processing them itself. Unlike wxLogInterposer, it doesn't delete the old
+    target which means it can be used to temporarily redirect log output.

 
 

+    As per wxLogInterposer, this class must be derived from to implement
+    wxLog::DoLog and/or wxLog::DoLogString methods.

 
 

+    @library{wxbase}
+    @category{logging}
+*/
+class wxLogInterposerTemp : public wxLogChain
+{
+public:

     /**
     /**

-        @name Log level functions
+        The default constructor installs this object as the current active log target.

     */
     */

-    //@{
-    
-    /**
-        Returns the current log level limit.
+    wxLogInterposerTemp();
+};

 
 

-        All messages at levels strictly greater than the value returned by this
-        function are not logged at all.

 
 

-        @see SetLogLevel(), IsLevelEnabled()
-    */
-    static wxLogLevel GetLogLevel();
-    
-    /**
-        Returns true if logging at this level is enabled for the current thread.
+/**
+    @class wxLogStream

 
 

-        This function only returns @true if logging is globally enabled and if
-        @a level is less than or equal to the maximal log level enabled for the
-        given @a component.
+    This class can be used to redirect the log messages to a C++ stream.

 
 

-        @see IsEnabled(), SetLogLevel(), GetLogLevel(), SetComponentLevel()
+    Please note that this class is only available if wxWidgets was compiled with
+    the standard iostream library support (@c wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM must be on).

 
 

-        @since 2.9.1
-     */
-    static bool IsLevelEnabled(wxLogLevel level, wxString component);
+    @library{wxbase}
+    @category{logging}

 
 

+    @see wxLogStderr, wxStreamToTextRedirector
+*/
+class wxLogStream : public wxLog
+{
+public:

     /**
     /**

-        Sets the log level for the given component.
+        Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given
+        output stream. If it is @NULL, the messages are sent to @c cerr.
+    */
+    wxLogStream(std::ostream *ostr = NULL);
+};

 
 

-        For example, to disable all but error messages from wxWidgets network
-        classes you may use
-        @code
-            wxLog::SetComponentLevel("wx/net", wxLOG_Error);
-        @endcode

 
 

-        SetLogLevel() may be used to set the global log level.

 
 

-        @param component
-            Non-empty component name, possibly using slashes (@c /) to separate
-            it into several parts.
-        @param level
-            Maximal level of log messages from this component which will be
-            handled instead of being simply discarded.
+/**
+    @class wxLogStderr

 
 

-        @since 2.9.1
-     */
-    static void SetComponentLevel(const wxString& component, wxLogLevel level);
+    This class can be used to redirect the log messages to a C file stream (not to
+    be confused with C++ streams).

 
 

-    /**
-        Specifies that log messages with level greater (numerically) than
-        @a logLevel should be ignored and not sent to the active log target.
+    It is the default log target for the non-GUI wxWidgets applications which
+    send all the output to @c stderr.

 
 

-        @see SetComponentLevel()
+    @library{wxbase}
+    @category{logging}
+
+    @see wxLogStream
+*/
+class wxLogStderr : public wxLog
+{
+public:
+    /**
+        Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given
+        @c FILE. If it is @NULL, the messages are sent to @c stderr.

     */
     */

-    static void SetLogLevel(wxLogLevel logLevel);
-    
-    //@}
+    wxLogStderr(FILE* fp = NULL);
+};
+
+
+
+/**
+    @class wxLogBuffer

 
 

+    wxLogBuffer is a very simple implementation of log sink which simply collects
+    all the logged messages in a string (except the debug messages which are output
+    in the usual way immediately as we're presumably not interested in collecting
+    them for later). The messages from different log function calls are separated
+    by the new lines.

 
 

+    All the messages collected so far can be shown to the user (and the current
+    buffer cleared) by calling the overloaded wxLogBuffer::Flush method.

 
 

+    @library{wxbase}
+    @category{logging}
+*/
+class wxLogBuffer : public wxLog
+{
+public:

     /**
     /**

-        @name Enable/disable features functions
+        The default ctor does nothing.

     */
     */

-    //@{
-    
+    wxLogBuffer();
+

     /**
     /**

-        Globally enable or disable logging.
+        Shows all the messages collected so far to the user (using a message box in the
+        GUI applications or by printing them out to the console in text mode) and
+        clears the internal buffer.
+    */
+    virtual void Flush();

 
 

-        Calling this function with @false argument disables all log messages
-        for the current thread.
+    /**
+        Returns the current buffer contains. Messages from different log function calls
+        are separated with the new lines in the buffer.
+        The buffer can be cleared by Flush() which will also show the current
+        contents to the user.
+    */
+    const wxString& GetBuffer() const;
+};

 
 

-        @see wxLogNull, IsEnabled()

 
 

-        @return
-            The old state, i.e. @true if logging was previously enabled and
-            @false if it was disabled.
-     */
-    static bool EnableLogging(bool enable = true);

 
 

+/**
+    @class wxLogNull
+
+    This class allows you to temporarily suspend logging. All calls to the log
+    functions during the life time of an object of this class are just ignored.
+
+    In particular, it can be used to suppress the log messages given by wxWidgets
+    itself but it should be noted that it is rarely the best way to cope with this
+    problem as @b all log messages are suppressed, even if they indicate a
+    completely different error than the one the programmer wanted to suppress.
+
+    For instance, the example of the overview:
+
+    @code
+      wxFile file;
+
+      // wxFile.Open() normally complains if file can't be opened, we don't want it
+      {
+        wxLogNull logNo;
+        if ( !file.Open("bar") )
+          ... process error ourselves ...
+      } // ~wxLogNull called, old log sink restored
+
+      wxLogMessage("..."); // ok
+    @endcode
+
+    would be better written as:
+
+    @code
+      wxFile file;
+
+      // don't try to open file if it doesn't exist, we are prepared to deal with
+      // this ourselves - but all other errors are not expected
+      if ( wxFile::Exists("bar") )
+      {
+          // gives an error message if the file couldn't be opened
+          file.Open("bar");
+      }
+      else
+      {
+          ...
+      }
+    @endcode
+
+
+    @library{wxbase}
+    @category{logging}
+*/
+class wxLogNull
+{
+public:

     /**
     /**

-        Returns true if logging is enabled at all now.
+        Suspends logging.
+    */
+    wxLogNull();

 
 

-        @see IsLevelEnabled(), EnableLogging()
-     */
-    static bool IsEnabled();
-    

     /**
     /**

-        Returns whether the repetition counting mode is enabled.
+        Resumes logging.

     */
     */

-    static bool GetRepetitionCounting();
+    ~wxLogNull();
+};
+
+#endif // wxUSE_BASE

 
 

+#if wxUSE_GUI
+
+/**
+    @class wxLogWindow
+
+    This class represents a background log window: to be precise, it collects all
+    log messages in the log frame which it manages but also passes them on to the
+    log target which was active at the moment of its creation. This allows you, for
+    example, to show all the log messages in a frame but still continue to process
+    them normally by showing the standard log dialog.
+
+    @library{wxcore}
+    @category{logging}
+
+    @see wxLogTextCtrl
+*/
+class wxLogWindow : public wxLogInterposer
+{
+public:

     /**
     /**

-        Enables logging mode in which a log message is logged once, and in case exactly
-        the same message successively repeats one or more times, only the number of
-        repetitions is logged.
+        Creates the log frame window and starts collecting the messages in it.
+
+        @param pParent
+            The parent window for the log frame, may be @NULL
+        @param szTitle
+            The title for the log frame
+        @param show
+            @true to show the frame initially (default), otherwise
+            Show() must be called later.
+        @param passToOld
+            @true to process the log messages normally in addition to logging them
+            in the log frame (default), @false to only log them in the log frame.
+            Note that if no targets were set using wxLog::SetActiveTarget() then
+            wxLogWindow simply becomes the active one and messages won't be passed
+            to other targets.

     */
     */

-    static void SetRepetitionCounting(bool repetCounting = true);
-    
+    wxLogWindow(wxWindow* pParent, const wxString& szTitle, bool show = true,
+                bool passToOld = true);
+

     /**
     /**

-        Returns the current timestamp format string.
+        Returns the associated log frame window. This may be used to position or resize
+        it but use Show() to show or hide it.

     */
     */

-    static const wxString& GetTimestamp();
+    wxFrame* GetFrame() const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Sets the timestamp format prepended by the default log targets to all
-        messages. The string may contain any normal characters as well as %
-        prefixed format specificators, see @e strftime() manual for details.
-        Passing an empty string to this function disables message time stamping.
+        Called if the user closes the window interactively, will not be
+        called if it is destroyed for another reason (such as when program
+        exits).
+
+        Return @true from here to allow the frame to close, @false to
+        prevent this from happening.
+
+        @see OnFrameDelete()

     */
     */

-    static void SetTimestamp(const wxString& format);
+    virtual bool OnFrameClose(wxFrame* frame);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Disables time stamping of the log messages.
+        Called immediately after the log frame creation allowing for
+        any extra initializations.
+    */
+    virtual void OnFrameCreate(wxFrame* frame);

 
 

-        @since 2.9.0
+    /**
+        Called right before the log frame is going to be deleted: will
+        always be called unlike OnFrameClose().

     */
     */

-    static void DisableTimestamp();
-    
+    virtual void OnFrameDelete(wxFrame* frame);
+

     /**
     /**

-        Returns whether the verbose mode is currently active.
+        Shows or hides the frame.

     */
     */

-    static bool GetVerbose();
+    void Show(bool show = true);
+};
+
+
+
+/**
+    @class wxLogGui
+
+    This is the default log target for the GUI wxWidgets applications.
+
+    Please see @ref overview_log_customize for explanation of how to change the
+    default log target.
+
+    An object of this class is used by default to show the log messages created
+    by using wxLogMessage(), wxLogError() and other logging functions. It
+    doesn't display the messages logged by them immediately however but
+    accumulates all messages logged during an event handler execution and then
+    shows them all at once when its Flush() method is called during the idle
+    time processing. This has the important advantage of showing only a single
+    dialog to the user even if several messages were logged because of a single
+    error as it often happens (e.g. a low level function could log a message
+    because it failed to open a file resulting in its caller logging another
+    message due to the failure of higher level operation requiring the use of
+    this file). If you need to force the display of all previously logged
+    messages immediately you can use wxLog::FlushActive() to force the dialog
+    display.

 
 

+    Also notice that if an error message is logged when several informative
+    messages had been already logged before, the informative messages are
+    discarded on the assumption that they are not useful -- and may be
+    confusing and hence harmful -- any more after the error. The warning
+    and error messages are never discarded however and any informational
+    messages logged after the first error one are also kept (as they may
+    contain information about the error recovery). You may override DoLog()
+    method to change this behaviour.
+
+    At any rate, it is possible that that several messages were accumulated
+    before this class Flush() method is called. If this is the case, Flush()
+    uses a custom dialog which shows the last message directly and allows the
+    user to view the previously logged ones by expanding the "Details"
+    wxCollapsiblePane inside it. This custom dialog also provides the buttons
+    for copying the log messages to the clipboard and saving them to a file.
+
+    However if only a single message is present when Flush() is called, just a
+    wxMessageBox() is used to show it. This has the advantage of being closer
+    to the native behaviour but it doesn't give the user any possibility to
+    copy or save the message (except for the recent Windows versions where @c
+    Ctrl-C may be pressed in the message box to copy its contents to the
+    clipboard) so you may want to override DoShowSingleLogMessage() to
+    customize wxLogGui -- the dialogs sample shows how to do this.
+
+    @library{wxcore}
+    @category{logging}
+*/
+class wxLogGui : public wxLog
+{
+public:

     /**
     /**

-        Activates or deactivates verbose mode in which the verbose messages are
-        logged as the normal ones instead of being silently dropped.
-        
-        The verbose messages are the trace messages which are not disabled in the
-        release mode and are generated by wxLogVerbose().
-        
-        @see @ref overview_log
+        Default constructor.

     */
     */

-    static void SetVerbose(bool verbose = true);
-    
-    //@}
-    
-    
+    wxLogGui();

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Some of wxLog implementations, most notably the standard wxLogGui class,
-        buffer the messages (for example, to avoid showing the user a zillion of modal
-        message boxes one after another -- which would be really annoying).
-        This function shows them all and clears the buffer contents.
-        If the buffer is already empty, nothing happens.
+        Presents the accumulated log messages, if any, to the user.

 
 

-        If you override this method in a derived class, call the base class
-        version first, before doing anything else.
-    */
+        This method is called during the idle time and should show any messages
+        accumulated in wxLogGui#m_aMessages field to the user.
+     */

     virtual void Flush();
     virtual void Flush();

-    
-    /**
-        Log the given record.

 
 

-        This function should only be called from the DoLog() implementations in
-        the derived classes if they need to call DoLogRecord() on another log
-        object (they can, of course, just use wxLog::DoLogRecord() call syntax
-        to call it on the object itself). It should not be used for logging new
-        messages which can be only sent to the currently active logger using
-        OnLog() which also checks if the logging (for this level) is enabled
-        while this method just directly calls DoLog().
+protected:
+    /**
+        Returns the appropriate title for the dialog.

 
 

-        Example of use of this class from wxLogChain:
-        @code
-        void wxLogChain::DoLogRecord(wxLogLevel level,
-                                     const wxString& msg,
-                                     const wxLogRecordInfo& info)
-        {
-            // let the previous logger show it
-            if ( m_logOld && IsPassingMessages() )
-                m_logOld->LogRecord(level, msg, info);
+        The title is constructed from wxApp::GetAppDisplayName() and the
+        severity string (e.g. "error" or "warning") appropriate for the current
+        wxLogGui#m_bErrors and wxLogGui#m_bWarnings values.
+     */
+    wxString GetTitle() const;

 
 

-            // and also send it to the new one
-            if ( m_logNew && m_logNew != this )
-                m_logNew->LogRecord(level, msg, info);
-        }
-        @endcode
+    /**
+        Returns wxICON_ERROR, wxICON_WARNING or wxICON_INFORMATION depending on
+        the current maximal severity.

 
 

-        @since 2.9.1
+        This value is suitable to be used in the style parameter of
+        wxMessageBox() function.

      */
      */

-    void LogRecord(wxLogLevel level, const wxString& msg, time_t timestamp);
+    int GetSeverityIcon() const;

 
 

-protected:

     /**
     /**

-        @name Logging callbacks.
-
-        The functions which should be overridden by custom log targets.
+        Forgets all the currently stored messages.

 
 

-        When defining a new log target, you have a choice between overriding
-        DoLogRecord(), which provides maximal flexibility, DoLogTextAtLevel()
-        which can be used if you don't intend to change the default log
-        messages formatting but want to handle log messages of different levels
-        differently or, in the simplest case, DoLogText().
+        If you override Flush() (and don't call the base class version), you
+        must call this method to avoid messages being logged over and over
+        again.

      */
      */

-    //@{
+    void Clear();
+

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Called to created log a new record.
+        All currently accumulated messages.

 
 

-        Any log message created by wxLogXXX() functions is passed to this
-        method of the active log target. The default implementation prepends
-        the timestamp and, for some log levels (e.g. error and warning), the
-        corresponding prefix to @a msg and passes it to DoLogTextAtLevel().
+        This array may be empty if no messages were logged.

 
 

-        You may override this method to implement custom formatting of the
-        log messages or to implement custom filtering of log messages (e.g. you
-        could discard all log messages coming from the given source file).
+        @see m_aSeverity, m_aTimes

      */
      */

-    virtual void DoLogRecord(wxLogLevel level,
-                             const wxString& msg,
-                             const wxLogRecordInfo& info);
+    wxArrayString m_aMessages;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Called to log the specified string at given level.
+        The severities of each logged message.

 
 

-        The base class versions logs debug and trace messages on the system
-        default debug output channel and passes all the other messages to
-        DoLogText().
-    */
-    virtual void DoLogTextAtLevel(wxLogLevel level, const wxString& msg);
+        This array is synchronized with wxLogGui#m_aMessages, i.e. the n-th
+        element of this array corresponds to the severity of the n-th message.
+        The possible severity values are @c wxLOG_XXX constants, e.g.
+        wxLOG_Error, wxLOG_Warning, wxLOG_Message etc.
+     */
+    wxArrayInt m_aSeverity;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Called to log the specified string.
+        The time stamps of each logged message.

 
 

-        A simple implementation might just send the string to @c stdout or
-        @c stderr or save it in a file (of course, the already existing
-        wxLogStderr can be used for this).
+        The elements of this array are time_t values corresponding to the time
+        when the message was logged.
+     */
+    wxArrayLong m_aTimes;

 
 

-        The base class version of this function asserts so it must be
-        overridden if you don't override DoLogRecord() or DoLogTextAtLevel().
-    */
-    virtual void DoLogText(const wxString& msg);
+    /**
+        True if there any error messages.
+     */
+    bool m_bErrors;

 
 

-    //@}
-};
+    /**
+        True if there any warning messages.

 
 

+        If both wxLogGui#m_bErrors and this member are false, there are only
+        informational messages to be shown.
+     */
+    bool m_bWarnings;

 
 

+    /**
+        True if there any messages to be shown to the user.

 
 

-/**
-    @class wxLogNull
+        This variable is used instead of simply checking whether
+        wxLogGui#m_aMessages array is empty to allow blocking further calls to
+        Flush() while a log dialog is already being shown, even if the messages
+        array hasn't been emptied yet.
+     */
+    bool m_bHasMessages;

 
 

-    This class allows you to temporarily suspend logging. All calls to the log
-    functions during the life time of an object of this class are just ignored.
+private:
+    /**
+        Method called by Flush() to show a single log message.

 
 

-    In particular, it can be used to suppress the log messages given by wxWidgets
-    itself but it should be noted that it is rarely the best way to cope with this
-    problem as @b all log messages are suppressed, even if they indicate a
-    completely different error than the one the programmer wanted to suppress.
+        This function can be overridden to show the message in a different way.
+        By default a simple wxMessageBox() call is used.

 
 

-    For instance, the example of the overview:
+        @param message
+            The message to show (it can contain multiple lines).
+        @param title
+            The suggested title for the dialog showing the message, see
+            GetTitle().
+        @param style
+            One of @c wxICON_XXX constants, see GetSeverityIcon().
+     */
+    virtual void DoShowSingleLogMessage(const wxString& message,
+                                        const wxString& title,
+                                        int style);

 
 

-    @code
-      wxFile file;
+    /**
+        Method called by Flush() to show multiple log messages.

 
 

-      // wxFile.Open() normally complains if file can't be opened, we don't want it
-      {
-        wxLogNull logNo;
-        if ( !file.Open("bar") )
-          ... process error ourselves ...
-      } // ~wxLogNull called, old log sink restored
+        This function can be overridden to show the messages in a different way.
+        By default a special log dialog showing the most recent message and
+        allowing the user to expand it to view the previously logged ones is
+        used.

 
 

-      wxLogMessage("..."); // ok
-    @endcode
+        @param messages
+            Array of messages to show; it contains more than one element.
+        @param severities
+            Array of message severities containing @c wxLOG_XXX values.
+        @param times
+            Array of time_t values indicating when each message was logged.
+        @param title
+            The suggested title for the dialog showing the message, see
+            GetTitle().
+        @param style
+            One of @c wxICON_XXX constants, see GetSeverityIcon().
+     */
+    virtual void DoShowMultipleLogMessages(const wxArrayString& messages,
+                                           const wxArrayInt& severities,
+                                           const wxArrayLong& times,
+                                           const wxString& title,
+                                           int style);
+};

 
 

-    would be better written as:

 
 

-    @code
-      wxFile file;

 
 

-      // don't try to open file if it doesn't exist, we are prepared to deal with
-      // this ourselves - but all other errors are not expected
-      if ( wxFile::Exists("bar") )
-      {
-          // gives an error message if the file couldn't be opened
-          file.Open("bar");
-      }
-      else
-      {
-          ...
-      }
-    @endcode
+/**
+    @class wxLogTextCtrl

 
 

+    Using these target all the log messages can be redirected to a text control.
+    The text control must have been created with @c wxTE_MULTILINE style by the
+    caller previously.

 
 

-    @library{wxbase}
+    @library{wxcore}

     @category{logging}
     @category{logging}

+
+    @see wxTextCtrl, wxStreamToTextRedirector

 */
 */

-class wxLogNull
+class wxLogTextCtrl : public wxLog

 {
 public:
     /**
 {
 public:
     /**

-        Suspends logging.
-    */
-    wxLogNull();
-
-    /**
-        Resumes logging.
+        Constructs a log target which sends all the log messages to the given text
+        control. The @a textctrl parameter cannot be @NULL.

     */
     */

-    ~wxLogNull();
+    wxLogTextCtrl(wxTextCtrl* pTextCtrl);

 };
 
 
 };
 
 

+#endif // wxUSE_GUI
+
+#if wxUSE_BASE
+

 
 // ============================================================================
 // Global functions/macros
 
 // ============================================================================
 // Global functions/macros


@@ -1114,6 +1239,18 @@ const wxChar* wxSysErrorMsg(unsigned long errCode = 0);
 
 //@}
 
 
 //@}
 

+/** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */
+//@{
+/**
+    Logs a message with the given wxLogLevel.
+    E.g. using @c wxLOG_Message as first argument, this function behaves like wxLogMessage().
+
+    @header{wx/log.h}
+*/
+void wxLogGeneric(wxLogLevel level, const char* formatString, ... );
+void wxVLogGeneric(wxLogLevel level, const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
+//@}
+

 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */
 //@{
 /**
 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */
 //@{
 /**


@@ -1180,7 +1317,7 @@ void wxVLogError(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */
 //@{
 /**
 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */
 //@{
 /**

-    Log a message at wxLOG_Trace log level.
+    Log a message at @c wxLOG_Trace log level (see ::wxLogLevelValues enum).

 
     Notice that the use of trace masks is not recommended any more as setting
     the log components (please see @ref overview_log_enable) provides a way to
 
     Notice that the use of trace masks is not recommended any more as setting
     the log components (please see @ref overview_log_enable) provides a way to


@@ -1192,30 +1329,10 @@ void wxVLogError(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
     function is that usually there are a lot of trace messages, so it might
     make sense to separate them from other debug messages.
 
     function is that usually there are a lot of trace messages, so it might
     make sense to separate them from other debug messages.
 

-    wxLogTrace(const char*,const char*,...) and can be used instead of
-    wxLogDebug() if you would like to be able to separate trace messages into
-    different categories which can be enabled or disabled with
-    wxLog::AddTraceMask() and wxLog::RemoveTraceMask().
-
-    @header{wx/log.h}
-*/
-void wxLogTrace(const char *mask, const char* formatString, ... );
-void wxVLogTrace(const char *mask, const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
-//@}
-
-/** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */
-//@{
-/**
-    Like wxLogDebug(), trace functions only do something in debug builds and
-    expand to nothing in the release one. The reason for making it a separate
-    function is that usually there are a lot of trace messages, so it might
-    make sense to separate them from other debug messages.
-
-    In this version of wxLogTrace(), trace messages can be separated into
-    different categories and calls using this function only log the message if
-    the given @a mask is currently enabled in wxLog. This lets you selectively
-    trace only some operations and not others by enabling the desired trace
-    masks with wxLog::AddTraceMask() or by setting the
+    Trace messages can be separated into different categories; these functions in facts
+    only log the message if the given @a mask is currently enabled in wxLog. 
+    This lets you selectively trace only some operations and not others by enabling the 
+    desired trace masks with wxLog::AddTraceMask() or by setting the

     @ref overview_envvars "@c WXTRACE environment variable".
 
     The predefined string trace masks used by wxWidgets are:
     @ref overview_envvars "@c WXTRACE environment variable".
 
     The predefined string trace masks used by wxWidgets are:


@@ -1228,22 +1345,10 @@ void wxVLogTrace(const char *mask, const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
     @itemdef{ wxTRACE_OleCalls, Trace OLE method calls (Win32 only) }
     @endDefList
 
     @itemdef{ wxTRACE_OleCalls, Trace OLE method calls (Win32 only) }
     @endDefList
 

-    @note Since both the mask and the format string are strings, this might
-          lead to function signature confusion in some cases: if you intend to
-          call the format string only version of wxLogTrace(), add a "%s"
-          format string parameter and then supply a second string parameter for
-          that "%s", the string mask version of wxLogTrace() will erroneously
-          get called instead, since you are supplying two string parameters to
-          the function. In this case you'll unfortunately have to avoid having
-          two leading string parameters, e.g. by adding a bogus integer (with
-          its "%d" format string).
-

     @header{wx/log.h}
 */
 void wxLogTrace(const char* mask, const char* formatString, ... );
     @header{wx/log.h}
 */
 void wxLogTrace(const char* mask, const char* formatString, ... );

-void wxVLogTrace(const char* mask,
-                  const char* formatString,
-                  va_list argPtr);
+void wxVLogTrace(const char* mask, const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);

 //@}
 
 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */
 //@}
 
 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_log */


@@ -1313,7 +1418,7 @@ void wxVLogStatus(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
 /**
     Mostly used by wxWidgets itself, but might be handy for logging errors
     after system call (API function) failure. It logs the specified message
 /**
     Mostly used by wxWidgets itself, but might be handy for logging errors
     after system call (API function) failure. It logs the specified message

-    text as well as the last system error code (@e errno or @e ::GetLastError()
+    text as well as the last system error code (@e errno or @e GetLastError()

     depending on the platform) and the corresponding error message. The second
     form of this function takes the error code explicitly as the first
     argument.
     depending on the platform) and the corresponding error message. The second
     form of this function takes the error code explicitly as the first
     argument.


@@ -1347,3 +1452,4 @@ void wxVLogSysError(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
 
 //@}
 
 
 //@}
 

+#endif // wxUSE_BASE