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Class: TraceBuffer

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Collection
      |
      +--SequenceableCollection
         |
         +--ArrayedCollection
            |
            +--Array
               |
               +--TraceBuffer
Package:
stx:libbasic3
Category:
System-Debugging-Support
Version:
rev: 1.2 date: 2010/12/03 09:08:31
user: stefan
file: TraceBuffer.st directory: libbasic3
module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic3

Description:


simple round robin tracebuffer for system debugging.

Class protocol:

instance creation
o  new: n
return an initialized instance

Instance protocol:

dumping
o  dumpLast: n on: aStream

initialization
o  initialize
(comment from inherited method)
just to ignore initialize to objects which do not need it

tracing
o  trace: something

Examples:


|buffer| buffer := self new:100. buffer dumpLast:5 on:Transcript. buffer trace:1. buffer trace:2. buffer trace:3. buffer dumpLast:5 on:Transcript. buffer trace:4. buffer trace:5. buffer dumpLast:5 on:Transcript. buffer trace:6. buffer trace:7. buffer trace:8. buffer dumpLast:5 on:Transcript.

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