X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/5f3cd8a22a6abe2a47985fd00d00f173ac5167fc..02a3b39120a618998dc690e95c3983606ea97745:/docs/latex/wx/tlog.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tlog.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tlog.tex index 2213bd161d..8799686e8f 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/tlog.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/tlog.tex @@ -1,9 +1,15 @@ -\section{Log classes overview}\label{wxlogoverview} - -Classes: \helpref{wxLog}wxlog, \helpref{wxLogStderr}wxlogstderr, -\helpref{wxLogOstream}wxlogostream, \helpref{wxLogTextCtrl}wxlogtextctrl, -\helpref{wxLogWindow}{wxlogwindow}, \helpref{wxLogGui}{wxloggui}, -\helpref{wxLogNull}{wxlognull} +\section{wxLog classes overview}\label{wxlogoverview} + +Classes: \helpref{wxLog}{wxlog},\\ +\helpref{wxLogStderr}{wxlogstderr},\\ +\helpref{wxLogStream}{wxlogstream},\\ +\helpref{wxLogTextCtrl}{wxlogtextctrl},\\ +\helpref{wxLogWindow}{wxlogwindow},\\ +\helpref{wxLogGui}{wxloggui},\\ +\helpref{wxLogNull}{wxlognull},\\ +\helpref{wxLogChain}{wxlogchain},\\ +\helpref{wxLogPassThrough}{wxlogpassthrough},\\ +\helpref{wxStreamToTextRedirector}{wxstreamtotextredirector} This is a general overview of logging classes provided by wxWindows. The word logging here has a broad sense, including all of the program output, not only @@ -16,75 +22,79 @@ First of all, no knowledge of {\it wxLog} classes is needed to use them. For this, you should only know about {\it wxLogXXX()} functions. All of them have the same syntax as {\it printf()}, i.e. they take the format string as the first argument and a variable number of arguments. Here are all of them: + \begin{itemize}\itemsep=0pt \item{\bf wxLogFatalError} which is like {\it wxLogError}, but also terminates the program with the exit code 3 (using {\it abort()} standard function also terminates the program with this exit code). - \item{\bf wxLogError} is the function to use for error messages, i.e. the messages that must be shown to the user. The default processing is to pop up a message box to inform the user about it. - \item{\bf wxLogWarning} for warnings - they are also normally shown to the user, but don't interrupt the program work. - \item{\bf wxLogMessage} is for all normal, informational messages. They also appear in a message box by default (but it can be changed, see below). Notice that the standard behaviour is to not show informational messages if there are any errors later - the logic being that the later error messages make the informational messages preceding them meaningless. - -\item{\bf wxLogVerbose} is for verbose output. Normally, it's suppressed, but +\item{\bf wxLogVerbose} is for verbose output. Normally, it is suppressed, but might be activated if the user wishes to know more details about the program progress (another, but possibly confusing name for the same function is {\bf -wxLogInfo} - +wxLogInfo}). \item{\bf wxLogStatus} is for status messages - they will go into the status -bar of the active or specified (as the first argument) -\helpref{wxFrame}{wxframe} if it has one. - +bar of the active or specified (as the first argument) \helpref{wxFrame}{wxframe} if it has one. \item{\bf wxLogSysError} is mostly used by wxWindows 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 ({\it errno} or -{\it ::GetLastError()} depending on the platform) and the corresponding error -message. The second form of this function takes the error code explitly as the +specified message text as well as the last system error +code ({\it errno} or {\it ::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. - \item{\bf wxLogDebug} is {\bf the} right function for debug output. It only does anything at all in the debug mode (when the preprocessor symbol \_\_WXDEBUG\_\_ is defined) and expands to nothing in release mode (otherwise). - +{\bf Tip:} under Windows, you must either run the program under debugger or +use a 3rd party program such as \urlref{DbgView}{http://www.sysinternals.com} +to actually see the debug output. \item{\bf wxLogTrace} as {\bf wxLogDebug} only does something in debug build. The reason for making it a separate function from it is that usually there are a lot of trace messages, so it might make sense to separate them from other debug messages which would be flooded in them. Moreover, the second version of this function takes a trace mask as the first argument which allows to further restrict the amount of messages generated. - \end{itemize} -% VZ: Julian, am I pushing too much here? The usage of these functions should be fairly straightforward, however it may be asked why not use the other logging facilities, such as C standard stdio functions or C++ streams. The short answer is that they're all very good generic mechanisms, but are not really adapted for wxWindows, while the log classes are. Some of advantages in using wxWindows log functions are: -\begin{itemize}\itemsep=0pt -\item{Portability} It's a common practice to use {\it printf()} statements or +\begin{itemize}\itemsep=0pt +\item{\bf Portability} It is a common practice to use {\it printf()} statements or cout/cerr C++ streams for writing out some (debug or otherwise) information. -Although it works just fine under Unix, these messages go strictly nowever +Although it works just fine under Unix, these messages go strictly nowhere under Windows where the stdout of GUI programs is not assigned to anything. Thus, you might view {\it wxLogMessage()} as a simple substitute for {\it printf()}. -\item{Flexibility} The output of wxLog functions can be redirected or +You can also redirect the {\it wxLogXXX} calls to {\it cout} by just writing: +{\small +\begin{verbatim} + wxLog *logger=new wxLogStream(&cout); + wxLog::SetActiveTarget(logger); +\end{verbatim} +} + +Finally, there is also a possibility to redirect the output sent to {\it cout} +to a \helpref{wxTextCtrl}{wxtextctrl} by using the +\helpref{wxStreamToTextRedirector}{wxstreamtotextredirector} class. + +\item{\bf Flexibility} The output of wxLog functions can be redirected or suppressed entirely based on their importance, which is either impossible or difficult to do with traditional methods. For example, only error messages, or only error messages and warnings might be logged, filtering out all informational messages. - -\item{Comlpeteness} Usually, an error message should be presented to the user +\item{\bf Completeness} Usually, an error message should be presented to the user when some operation fails. Let's take a quite simple but common case of a file error: suppose that you're writing your data file on disk and there is not enough space. The actual error might have been detected inside wxWindows code @@ -94,17 +104,16 @@ written to the disk. However, as wxWindows uses {\it wxLogError()} in this situation, the exact error code (and the corresponding error message) will be given to the user together with "high level" message about data file writing error. - \end{itemize} After having enumerated all the functions which are normally used to log the messages, and why would you want to use them we now describe how all this works. -wxWindows has the notion of a {\it log target}: it's just a class deriving +wxWindows has the notion of a {\it log target}: it is just a class deriving from \helpref{wxLog}{wxlog}. As such, it implements the virtual functions of the base class which are called when a message is logged. Only one log target -is {\it active} at any moment, this is the one used by \it{wxLogXXX()} +is {\it active} at any moment, this is the one used by {\it wxLogXXX()} functions. The normal usage of a log object (i.e. object of a class derived from wxLog) is to install it as the active target with a call to {\it SetActiveTarget()} and it will be used automatically by all subsequent calls @@ -121,27 +130,26 @@ types yourself. There are some predefined classes deriving from wxLog and which might be helpful to see how you can create a new log target class and, of course, may also be used without any change. There are: + \begin{itemize}\itemsep=0pt \item{\bf wxLogStderr} This class logs messages to a {\it FILE *}, using stderr by default as its name suggests. - \item{\bf wxLogStream} This class has the same functionality as wxLogStderr, but uses {\it ostream} and cerr instead of {\it FILE *} and stderr. - \item{\bf wxLogGui} This is the standard log target for wxWindows -applications (it's used by default if you don't do anything) and provides the +applications (it is used by default if you don't do anything) and provides the most reasonable handling of all types of messages for given platform. - \item{\bf wxLogWindow} This log target provides a "log console" which collects all messages generated by the application and also passes them to the previous active log target. The log window frame has a menu allowing user to clear the log, close it completely or save all messages to file. - \item{\bf wxLogNull} The last log class is quite particular: it doesn't do anything. The objects of this class may be instantiated to (temporarily) suppress output of {\it wxLogXXX()} functions. As an example, trying to open a -non-existing file will usually provoke an error message, but if you for some -reason it's unwanted, just use this construction: +non-existing file will usually provoke an error message, but if for some +reasons it is unwanted, just use this construction: + +{\small \begin{verbatim} wxFile file; @@ -154,5 +162,11 @@ reason it's unwanted, just use this construction: wxLogMessage("..."); // ok \end{verbatim} - +} \end{itemize} + +The log targets can also be combined: for example you may wish to redirect the +messages somewhere else (for example, to a log file) but also process them as +normally. For this the \helpref{wxLogChain}{wxlogchain} and +\helpref{wxLogPassThrough}{wxlogpassthrough} can be used. +