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#W  info.gd                     GAP library                      Steve Linton
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#H  @(#)$Id: info.gd,v 4.16 2002/04/15 10:04:53 sal Exp $
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#Y  Copyright (C)  1997,  Lehrstuhl D fuer Mathematik,  RWTH Aachen,  Germany
#Y  (C) 1998 School Math and Comp. Sci., University of St.  Andrews, Scotland
#Y  Copyright (C) 2002 The GAP Group
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##  This package sets up the new Info messages system
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##  Informational messages are controlled by the user setting desired
##  levels of verbosity for InfoClasses. A set of InfoClasses is an
##  InfoSelector, and classes and selectors may be built up with \+
#N  I wanted to use \or, but this isn't an operation
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##  A message is associated with a selector and a level and is
##  printed when the desired level for any of the classes in the selector
##  equals or exceeds  the level of the message
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##  The main user calls are  NewInfoClass( <name> ) to define a new class,
##  \+ or \[\] to combine InfoClasses into an InfoSelector
##  SetInfoLevel( <class>, <level> ) to set desired printing levels and
##  Info( <selector>, <level>, <data>, <moredata>, ... ) to selectively print
##  <data>, <moredata>, etc.
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##  Also available are InfoLevel( <class> ) to inspect the level, and
##  SetAllInfoLevels( <level> )
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#N  There may be a case for doing this without using method selection at all
#N  as it could then be installed earlier in library loading
#N
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##  This file is the declarations part of that package
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Revision.info_gd :=
    "@(#)$Id: info.gd,v 4.16 2002/04/15 10:04:53 sal Exp $";

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#C  IsInfoClass(<obj>)                           the category of Info Classes
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DeclareCategory("IsInfoClass", IsObject);

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#V  InfoClassFamily                                the family of Info Classes
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BIND_GLOBAL( "InfoClassFamily",
    NewFamily("InfoClassFamily", IsInfoClass, IsInfoClass) );

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#C  IsInfoSelector(<obj>)                 the category of sets of InfoClasses
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##  Such sets are what we actually use in message selection
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DeclareCategoryCollections( "IsInfoClass" );

DeclareSynonym( "IsInfoSelector", IsInfoClassCollection and IsSSortedList );

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#O  NewInfoClass( <name> )                            obtain a new Info Class
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##  The name is used only for printing, and is not checked for uniqueness
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DeclareOperation("NewInfoClass", [IsString] );


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#F  DeclareInfoClass( <name> )                        obtain a new Info Class
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##  Info classes of the {\GAP} library are created by `DeclareInfoClass'.
##  The variables are automatically made read-only.
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DeclareGlobalFunction( "DeclareInfoClass" );


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#O  SetInfoLevel( <class>, <level>)   set desired verbosity level for a class
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#N  Is it sensible to SetInfoLevel for a selector?
#N  Would RaiseInfoLevel (which would not lower it if it were already higher
#N  or LowerInfoLevel (the opposite) be any use?
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##  Info level 0 means no #I messages, higher levels produce more messages
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DeclareOperation("SetInfoLevel", [IsInfoClass, IsInt]);

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#O  InfoLevel( <class> )              get desired verbosity level for a class
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#N Does this make sense for a selector (gets the max of the levels for the
#N classes that make up the selector, presumably)?
#N
#N In the final version, this will have to be done directly, not via an
#N Operation, as the kernel needs to do it quickly, and for a whole selector
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DeclareOperation("InfoLevel", [IsInfoClass]);

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#O  Info( <selector>, <level>, <data> [, <moredata>...] )      possibly print
##                                                                  a message
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##  If the desired verbosity level for any of the classes making up selector
##  is equal to or greater than level, then this function should Print "#I  "
##  then do CallFuncList(Print, <data> ...) (where <data> may be multiple
##  arguments), then Print a newline
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##  Info is now a keyword, implemented in the kernel, so that data arguments
##  are not evaluated when they are not needed
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##  DeclareGlobalFunction("Info");

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#O  CompletionBar( <class>, <level>, <string>, <value> )
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##  if the info level of <class> is at least <level>, this displays a bar
##  graph showing progress of <value> (a number between 0 and 1).
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##  If <value> is not a number, the bar graph display is terminated.
DeclareGlobalFunction("CompletionBar");

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