diff -r 051d34a3f367 -r 2c9d3aa5bea2 controlpanel/src/inc/cplogger.h
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+++ b/controlpanel/src/inc/cplogger.h	Thu Apr 01 03:17:51 2010 +0800
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0""
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:  
+*
+*/
+#ifndef CPLOGGER_H
+#define CPLOGGER_H
+
+#include <qdebug>
+#include <qfile>
+#include <qsettings>
+class QFile;
+
+class CpLogger 
+{
+    enum { NoLog = 0, StdTraces, LogToFile };
+public:
+    CpLogger() : mDebug(0), mLogFile(0)
+    {
+        QSettings settings;
+        int logMethod = settings.value("Log/logmethod",NoLog).toInt();
+        switch (logMethod)
+        {
+        default:
+        case NoLog:
+            break;
+        case StdTraces:
+            mDebug = new QDebug(QtDebugMsg);
+            break;
+        case LogToFile:
+            //TBD: hardcode path will be replaced by some other form 
+            mLogFile = new QFile("C:\\data\\logs\\controlpanel.log");
+            mLogFile->open(QFile::WriteOnly | QFile::Append);
+            mDebug = new QDebug(mLogFile);
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    ~CpLogger()
+    {
+        delete mDebug;
+        delete mLogFile;
+    }
+    
+    template<typename T>
+    inline CpLogger &operator << (const T &log) 
+    {
+        if (mDebug)  
+        {
+            (*mDebug) << log;
+        }
+        return *this;
+    }
+    
+private:
+    Q_DISABLE_COPY(CpLogger)
+    QDebug *mDebug;
+    QFile  *mLogFile;
+};
+
+#endif /* CPLOGGER_H */