Nppcommunity npp-community

Debug output: improve output performance and design

• Replace the outputF function with the DebugOutput object that allows to bundle up the outputs and flush them to the debug console only when ready.
• It also improves the testability of debug tools that need to output as you now only have to overload the output part of the class.
• DebugOutput comes with its set of tests.

• The existing function guards tests have been updated to reflect the new output method.

• Future improvements:

  • Instead of an extern variable to the global DebugOutput (yuk) we could implement a DebugOutput stack where we could push and pop DebugOutput objects. This stack would live in the application object.

[#8 state:needs_ack responsible:npp-community]

Signed-off-by: Jocelyn Legault jocelynlegault@gmail.com
http://github.com/npp-community/npp-community/commit/bcb2c98d3c5464...