wxWidgets/docs/doxygen/overviews/bufferclasses.h

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// Name:        bufferclasses.h
// Purpose:     topic overview
// Author:      wxWidgets team
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 @page overview_bufferclasses Buffer classes overview

 wxWidgets uses two classes of classes for dealing with buffers in memory.

 The first is one for dealing with character buffers, namely wxCharBuffer 
 for char pointer or multi-byte c strings and wxWCharBuffer for wchar_t pointer 
 or wide character c strings.

 Secondly, wxWidgets uses, although only rarely currently, wxMemoryBuffer 
 for dealing with raw buffers in memory.

 @li @ref overview_bufferclasses_xcb


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 @section overview_bufferclasses_xcb wxXCharBuffer Overview

 @subsection overview_bufferclasses_xcb_general General Usage

 As mentioned, wxCharBuffer and its wide character variant wxWCharBuffer deal 
 with c strings in memory.  They have two constructors, one in which you pass 
 the c string you want them to have a copy of, and another where you specify 
 the size of the buffer in memory in characters you want.

 wxCharBuffer and its variant only contain the c string as a member, so they 
 can be used safely to c functions with variable arguments such as printf.  
 They also contain standard assignment, character access operators and a copy constructor.

 @subsection overview_bufferclasses_xcb_destruct Destruction

 It should be noted that on destruction wxCharBuffer and its wide character 
 variant delete the c string that hold onto.  If you want to get the pointer 
 to the buffer and don't want wxCharBuffer to delete it on destruction, 
 use the member function release to do so.

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