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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / latex / wx / tstream.tex

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tstream.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tstream.tex
index e3f3bb72157ddb8a86125d2878153b64ed5a23b8..7b456062a2fe19749846e64baa30959dd4e14aa6 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/tstream.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/tstream.tex
@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ Classes: \helpref{wxStreamBase}{wxstreambase},
 
 \wxheading{Purpose of wxStream}
 
 
 \wxheading{Purpose of wxStream}
 

-We had troubles with standard C++ streams on several platforms:
-they react quite well in most cases, but in the multi-threaded case, for example,
-they have many problems. Some Borland Compilers refuse to work at all
-with them and using iostreams on Linux makes writing programs, that are
+Standard C++ streams can cause problems on several platforms:
+they work quite well in most cases, but in the multi-threaded case, for example,
+they have many problems. Some Borland compilers refuse to work at all
+with them and using iostreams on Linux makes writing programs that are

 binary compatible across different Linux distributions, impossible.
 
 binary compatible across different Linux distributions, impossible.
 

-Therefore, wxStreams have been added to wxWidgets because an application should 
-compile and run on all supported platforms and we don't want users to depend on release
-X.XX of libg++ or some other compiler to run the program.
+Therefore, wxStreams have been added to wxWidgets so that applications can
+reliably compile and run on all supported platforms without dependence on a
+particular release of libg++.

 
 wxStreams is divided in two main parts:
 
 
 wxStreams is divided in two main parts:
 


@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ the API of OnSysRead, OnSysWrite, OnSysSeek and OnSysTell. These functions
 are really implemented by the "IO" classes.
 wxInputStream and wxOutputStream inherit from it.
 
 are really implemented by the "IO" classes.
 wxInputStream and wxOutputStream inherit from it.
 

-wxStreamBuffer is a cache manager for wxStreamBase (it manages a stream buffer
-linked to a stream). One stream can have multiple stream buffers  but one stream
+wxStreamBuffer is a cache manager for wxStreamBase: it manages a stream buffer
+linked to a stream. One stream can have multiple stream buffers  but one stream

 have always one autoinitialized stream buffer.
 
 wxInputStream is the base class for read-only streams. It implements Read,
 have always one autoinitialized stream buffer.
 
 wxInputStream is the base class for read-only streams. It implements Read,


@@ -82,12 +82,6 @@ code:
  // What is my current position ?
  off_t position = in_stream.TellI();
 
  // What is my current position ?
  off_t position = in_stream.TellI();
 

- // wxFileInputStream will close the file descriptor on the destruction.
+ // wxFileInputStream will close the file descriptor on destruction.

 \end{verbatim}
 
 \end{verbatim}
 

-\wxheading{Compatibility with C++ streams}
-
-As I said previously, we could add a filter stream so it takes an istream
-argument and builds a wxInputStream from it: I don't think it should 
-be difficult to implement it and it may be available in the fix of wxWidgets 2.0.
-