#ifndef MARS_MLog
#define MARS_MLog

#ifndef ROOT_TObject
#include <TObject.h>
#endif
#ifndef ROOT_TString
#include <TString.h>
#endif

#ifndef __CINT__
#include <iostream.h>  // base classes for MLog
#else
class streambuf;
class ostream;
#endif

#define bsz    160 // two standard lines

class TGTextView;

class MLog : public streambuf, public ostream, public TObject
{
public:
    typedef enum _flags {
        eStdout   = 0x001,
        eStderr   = 0x002,
        eFile     = 0x004,
        eGui      = 0x008,
        eNoColors = 0x400  //BIT(15)
    } Flags_t;

    enum ELogBits {
       kHasChanged = BIT(14)  // if gui has changed
    };

private:
    static const char kESC;
    static const char *const kEsc;
    static const char *const kReset;
    static const char *const kRed;
    static const char *const kGreen;
    static const char *const kYellow;
    static const char *const kUnderline;
    static const char *const kBlink;
    static const char *const kBright;
    static const char *const kDark;

    char        fBuffer;      //!
    char        fBase[bsz+1]; //! Buffer to store the data in
    char       *fPPtr;        //! Pointer to present position in buffer
    const char *fEPtr;        //! Pointer to end of buffer

    UInt_t fOutputLevel;      //! Present output level of the stream
    UInt_t fDebugLevel;       //! Present global debug level
    UInt_t fDevice;           //! Flag to indicate the present streams

    Bool_t fIsNull;           //! Switch output completely off

    ofstream   *fout;          //! possible file output stream
    Bool_t      fOutAllocated; //! flag if fout is created by MLogging
    TGTextView *fgui;          //! Text View output

    Bool_t     fIsDirectGui;  //! Pipe text directly to the GUI (for single threaded environments)
    TString  **fGuiLines;     //! Lines to pipe to gui
    Int_t      fNumLines;     //!
    TString    fGuiLine;      //!

#ifdef _REENTRANT
    void *fMuxGui;            //! Mutex locking access of TGListBox
#endif

    void Init();

    void WriteBuffer();
    int sync();
    int overflow(int i); // i=EOF means not a real overflow

    void AllocateFile(const char *f);
    void DeallocateFile();
    void ReallocateFile(const char *f);
    void CheckFlag(Flags_t chk, int flag);
    void Output(ostream &out, int len);

public:
    MLog(int i=eStdout);
    MLog(ofstream &out);
    MLog(TGTextView &out);
    MLog(const char *fname, int flag=-1);

    MLog(MLog &log);
    ~MLog();

    void Lock();
    void UnLock();

    void EnableDirectGui()  { fIsDirectGui = kTRUE; }
    void DisableDirectGui() { fIsDirectGui = kFALSE; }
    void UpdateGui();

    void Underline();

    void SetDebugLevel(int i)           { fDebugLevel  =  i;  }
    int  GetDebugLevel() const          { return fDebugLevel; }
    void SetOutputLevel(int i)          { fOutputLevel =  i;  }
    void SetOutputDevice(int i)         { fDevice      =  i;  }
    void EnableOutputDevice(Flags_t f)  { fDevice     |=  f;  }
    void DisableOutputDevice(Flags_t f) { fDevice     &= ~f;  }
    void operator=(ofstream &out)       { SetOutputFile(out); }
    void operator=(TGTextView *out)     { SetOutputGui(out);  }

    Bool_t IsOutputDeviceEnabled(int i) const { return fDevice & i; }

    void SetOutputGui(TGTextView *out, int flag=-1)
    {
        fgui = out;
        CheckFlag(eGui, flag);
    }

    void SetOutputFile(ofstream &out, int flag=-1)
    {
        //
        // Set new output file by a given stream. The new output
        // file is not deleted automatically. If no flag is specified
        // the state of the file-device stream is unchanged.
        // if the a flag is specified the state is changed
        // in correspondance to the flag
        //
        DeallocateFile();
        fout = &out;
        CheckFlag(eFile, flag);
    }

    void SetOutputFile(const char *f=NULL, int flag=-1)
    {
        //
        // Set new output file by name. The new output file must
        // not be deleted by the user. If no flag is specified
        // the state of the file-device stream is unchanged.
        // if the a flag is specified the state is changed
        // in correspondance to the flag
        //
        ReallocateFile(f);
        CheckFlag(eFile, flag);
    }

    ofstream &GetOutputFile()
    {
        //
        // Get the file output stream from MLogging
        // if no file output stream is existing yet it will be created.
        // For the creating a C-Temporary file name is used.
        // if the stream is created here the user must not delete it
        //
        // What a pitty, but it seems, that there is now way to ask
        // an ofstream for the corresponding file name. Elsewhise
        // I would implement a GetFileName-function, too.
        //
        if (!fout)
            ReallocateFile(NULL);
        return *fout;
    }

    void SetNullOutput(Bool_t n=kTRUE) { fIsNull = n; }

    void SetNoColors(Bool_t flag=kTRUE) { flag ? SetBit(eNoColors) : ResetBit(eNoColors); }

    ClassDef(MLog, 0) // This is what we call 'The logging system'
};

#endif