From 0b397099c74e670e457f369d9f38574a6321085c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwidgets.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:01:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] documented the weird behaviour of wxTextFile:GetPrev/NextLine

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/branches/WX_2_2_BRANCH@7874 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
---
 docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex  | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 samples/console/console.cpp | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex b/docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex
index ff7ecc856f..7cd79b94a0 100644
--- a/docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex
@@ -189,10 +189,13 @@ allows more "iterator-like" traversal of the list of lines, i.e. you may
 write something like:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
-for ( str = GetFirstLine(); !Eof(); str = GetNextLine() )
+wxTextFile file;
+...
+for ( str = file.GetFirstLine(); !file.Eof(); str = file.GetNextLine() )
 {
     // do something with the current line in str
 }
+// do something with the last line in str
 \end{verbatim}
 
 \membersection{wxTextFile::GetNextLine}\label{wxtextfilegetnextline}
@@ -212,7 +215,21 @@ Gets the previous line in the file.
 
 \func{wxString\&}{GetLastLine}{\void}
 
-Gets the last line of the file.
+Gets the last line of the file. Together with 
+\helpref{GetPrevLine}{wxtextfilegetprevline} it allows to enumerate the lines
+in the file from the end to the beginning like this:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+wxTextFile file;
+...
+for ( str = file.GetLastLine();
+      file.GetCurrentLine() > 0;
+      str = file.GetPrevLine() )
+{
+    // do something with the current line in str
+}
+// do something with the first line in str
+\end{verbatim}
 
 \membersection{wxTextFile::GetLineType}\label{wxtextfilegetlinetype}
 
diff --git a/samples/console/console.cpp b/samples/console/console.cpp
index dfd10befa1..a935db655f 100644
--- a/samples/console/console.cpp
+++ b/samples/console/console.cpp
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 //#define TEST_DIR
 //#define TEST_DLLLOADER
 //#define TEST_EXECUTE
-//#define TEST_FILE
+#define TEST_FILE
 //#define TEST_FILECONF
 //#define TEST_HASH
 //#define TEST_LIST
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 //#define TEST_VCARD            -- don't enable this (VZ)
 //#define TEST_WCHAR
 //#define TEST_ZIP
-#define TEST_ZLIB
+//#define TEST_ZLIB
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // test class for container objects
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static void TestFileRead()
 
         puts("File dump:\n----------");
 
-        static const size_t len = 1024;
+        static const off_t len = 1024;
         char buf[len];
         for ( ;; )
         {
@@ -404,6 +404,24 @@ static void TestTextFileRead()
     {
         printf("Number of lines: %u\n", file.GetLineCount());
         printf("Last line: '%s'\n", file.GetLastLine().c_str());
+
+        wxString s;
+
+        puts("\nDumping the entire file:");
+        for ( s = file.GetFirstLine(); !file.Eof(); s = file.GetNextLine() )
+        {
+            printf("%6u: %s\n", file.GetCurrentLine() + 1, s.c_str());
+        }
+        printf("%6u: %s\n", file.GetCurrentLine() + 1, s.c_str());
+
+        puts("\nAnd now backwards:");
+        for ( s = file.GetLastLine();
+              file.GetCurrentLine() != 0;
+              s = file.GetPrevLine() )
+        {
+            printf("%6u: %s\n", file.GetCurrentLine() + 1, s.c_str());
+        }
+        printf("%6u: %s\n", file.GetCurrentLine() + 1, s.c_str());
     }
     else
     {
@@ -3505,7 +3523,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 #endif // TEST_LOG
 
 #ifdef TEST_FILE
-    TestFileRead();
+    if ( 0 )
+        TestFileRead();
     TestTextFileRead();
 #endif // TEST_FILE