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  1. /*
  2. Printable.h - Interface class that allows printing of complex types
  3. Copyright (c) 2011 Adrian McEwen. All right reserved.
  4. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  5. modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  6. License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  7. version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  8. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  9. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  10. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
  11. Lesser General Public License for more details.
  12. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  13. License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  14. Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
  15. */
  16. #ifndef Printable_h
  17. #define Printable_h
  18. #include <new.h>
  19. class Print;
  20. /** The Printable class provides a way for new classes to allow themselves to be printed.
  21. By deriving from Printable and implementing the printTo method, it will then be possible
  22. for users to print out instances of this class by passing them into the usual
  23. Print::print and Print::println methods.
  24. */
  25. class Printable
  26. {
  27. public:
  28. virtual size_t printTo(Print& p) const = 0;
  29. };
  30. #endif