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+/****************************************************************************
+**
+** QCache and QCacheIterator class documentation
+**
+** Copyright (C) 1992-2008 Trolltech ASA. All rights reserved.
+**
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+**
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+**********************************************************************/
+
+
+/*****************************************************************************
+ QCache documentation
+ *****************************************************************************/
+
+/*!
+ \class QCache
+ \brief The QCache class is a template class that provides a cache based on QString keys.
+
+ \ingroup collection
+ \ingroup tools
+
+ \important autoDelete setAutoDelete
+
+ A cache is a least recently used (LRU) list of cache items. Each
+ cache item has a key and a certain cost. The sum of item costs,
+ totalCost(), never exceeds the maximum cache cost, maxCost(). If
+ inserting a new item would cause the total cost to exceed the
+ maximum cost, the least recently used items in the cache are
+ removed.
+
+ QCache is a template class. QCache\<X\> defines a cache that
+ operates on pointers to X, or X*.
+
+ Apart from insert(), by far the most important function is find()
+ (which also exists as operator[]()). This function looks up an
+ item, returns it, and by default marks it as being the most
+ recently used item.
+
+ There are also methods to remove() or take() an object from the
+ cache. Calling setAutoDelete(TRUE) for a cache tells it to delete
+ items that are removed. The default is to not delete items when
+ they are removed (i.e., remove() and take() are equivalent).
+
+ When inserting an item into the cache, only the pointer is copied,
+ not the item itself. This is called a shallow copy. It is possible
+ to make the cache copy all of the item's data (known as a deep
+ copy) when an item is inserted. insert() calls the virtual
+ function QPtrCollection::newItem() for the item to be inserted.
+ Inherit a cache and reimplement newItem() if you want deep copies.
+
+ When removing a cache item, the virtual function
+ QPtrCollection::deleteItem() is called. The default
+ implementation deletes the item if auto-deletion is enabled, and
+ does nothing otherwise.
+
+ There is a QCacheIterator that can be used to traverse the items
+ in the cache in arbitrary order.
+
+ In QCache, the cache items are accessed via \l QString keys, which
+ are Unicode strings. If you want to use non-Unicode, plain 8-bit
+ \c char* keys, use the QAsciiCache template. A QCache has the
+ same performance as a QAsciiCache.
+
+ \sa QCacheIterator, QAsciiCache, QIntCache
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn QCache::QCache( const QCache<type> &c )
+
+ \internal
+
+ Do not use. A QCache cannot be copied. Calls qFatal() in debug version.
+*/
+
+
+/*!
+ \fn QCache::QCache( int maxCost, int size, bool caseSensitive )
+
+ Constructs a cache whose contents will never have a total cost
+ greater than \a maxCost and which is expected to contain less than
+ \a size items.
+
+ \a size is actually the size of an internal hash array; it's
+ usually best to make it a prime number and at least 50% bigger
+ than the largest expected number of items in the cache.
+
+ Each inserted item has an associated cost. When inserting a new
+ item, if the total cost of all items in the cache will exceed \a
+ maxCost, the cache will start throwing out the older (least
+ recently used) items until there is enough room for the new item
+ to be inserted.
+
+ If \a caseSensitive is TRUE (the default), the cache keys are case
+ sensitive; if it is FALSE, they are case-insensitive.
+ Case-insensitive comparison considers all Unicode letters.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn QCache::~QCache()
+
+ Removes all items from the cache and destroys it. All iterators
+ that access this cache will be reset.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn QCache<type>& QCache::operator=( const QCache<type> &c )
+
+ \internal
+
+ Do not use. A QCache cannot be copied. Calls qFatal() in debug version.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn int QCache::maxCost() const
+
+ Returns the maximum allowed total cost of the cache.
+
+ \sa setMaxCost() totalCost()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn int QCache::totalCost() const
+
+ Returns the total cost of the items in the cache. This is an
+ integer in the range 0 to maxCost().
+
+ \sa setMaxCost()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn void QCache::setMaxCost( int m )
+
+ Sets the maximum allowed total cost of the cache to \a m. If the
+ current total cost is greater than \a m, some items are deleted
+ immediately.
+
+ \sa maxCost() totalCost()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn uint QCache::count() const
+
+ Returns the number of items in the cache.
+
+ \sa totalCost()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn uint QCache::size() const
+
+ Returns the size of the hash array used to implement the cache.
+ This should be a bit bigger than count() is likely to be.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn bool QCache::isEmpty() const
+
+ Returns TRUE if the cache is empty; otherwise returns FALSE.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn bool QCache::insert( const QString &k, const type *d, int c, int p )
+
+ Inserts the item \a d into the cache with key \a k and associated
+ cost, \a c. Returns TRUE if it is successfully inserted; otherwise
+ returns FALSE.
+
+ The cache's size is limited, and if the total cost is too high,
+ QCache will remove old, least recently used items until there is
+ room for this new item.
+
+ The parameter \a p is internal and should be left at the default
+ value (0).
+
+ \warning If this function returns FALSE (which could happen, e.g.
+ if the cost of this item alone exceeds maxCost()) you must delete
+ \a d yourself. Additionally, be very careful about using \a d
+ after calling this function because any other insertions into the
+ cache, from anywhere in the application or within Qt itself, could
+ cause the object to be discarded from the cache and the pointer to
+ become invalid.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn bool QCache::remove( const QString &k )
+
+ Removes the item associated with \a k, and returns TRUE if the
+ item was present in the cache; otherwise returns FALSE.
+
+ The item is deleted if auto-deletion has been enabled, i.e., if
+ you have called setAutoDelete(TRUE).
+
+ If there are two or more items with equal keys, the one that was
+ inserted last is removed.
+
+ All iterators that refer to the removed item are set to point to
+ the next item in the cache's traversal order.
+
+ \sa take(), clear()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCache::take( const QString &k )
+
+ Takes the item associated with \a k out of the cache without
+ deleting it, and returns a pointer to the item taken out, or 0
+ if the key does not exist in the cache.
+
+ If there are two or more items with equal keys, the one that was
+ inserted last is taken.
+
+ All iterators that refer to the taken item are set to point to the
+ next item in the cache's traversal order.
+
+ \sa remove(), clear()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn void QCache::clear()
+
+ Removes all items from the cache and deletes them if auto-deletion
+ has been enabled.
+
+ All cache iterators that operate this on cache are reset.
+
+ \sa remove() take()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCache::find( const QString &k, bool ref ) const
+
+ Returns the item associated with key \a k, or 0 if the key does
+ not exist in the cache. If \a ref is TRUE (the default), the item
+ is moved to the front of the least recently used list.
+
+ If there are two or more items with equal keys, the one that was
+ inserted last is returned.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCache::operator[]( const QString &k ) const
+
+ Returns the item associated with key \a k, or 0 if \a k does not
+ exist in the cache, and moves the item to the front of the least
+ recently used list.
+
+ If there are two or more items with equal keys, the one that was
+ inserted last is returned.
+
+ This is the same as find( k, TRUE ).
+
+ \sa find()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn void QCache::statistics() const
+
+ A debug-only utility function. Prints out cache usage, hit/miss,
+ and distribution information using qDebug(). This function does
+ nothing in the release library.
+*/
+
+/*****************************************************************************
+ QCacheIterator documentation
+ *****************************************************************************/
+
+/*!
+ \class QCacheIterator qcache.h
+ \brief The QCacheIterator class provides an iterator for QCache collections.
+
+ \ingroup collection
+ \ingroup tools
+
+ Note that the traversal order is arbitrary; you are not guaranteed
+ any particular order. If new objects are inserted into the cache
+ while the iterator is active, the iterator may or may not see
+ them.
+
+ Multiple iterators are completely independent, even when they
+ operate on the same QCache. QCache updates all iterators that
+ refer an item when that item is removed.
+
+ QCacheIterator provides an operator++(), and an operator+=() to
+ traverse the cache. The current() and currentKey() functions are
+ used to access the current cache item and its key. The atFirst()
+ and atLast() return TRUE if the iterator points to the first or
+ last item in the cache respectively. The isEmpty() function
+ returns TRUE if the cache is empty, and count() returns the number
+ of items in the cache.
+
+ Note that atFirst() and atLast() refer to the iterator's arbitrary
+ ordering, not to the cache's internal least recently used list.
+
+ \sa QCache
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn QCacheIterator::QCacheIterator( const QCache<type> &cache )
+
+ Constructs an iterator for \a cache. The current iterator item is
+ set to point to the first item in the \a cache.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn QCacheIterator::QCacheIterator (const QCacheIterator<type> & ci)
+
+ Constructs an iterator for the same cache as \a ci. The new
+ iterator starts at the same item as ci.current(), but moves
+ independently from there on.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn QCacheIterator<type>& QCacheIterator::operator=( const QCacheIterator<type> &ci )
+
+ Makes this an iterator for the same cache as \a ci. The new
+ iterator starts at the same item as ci.current(), but moves
+ independently thereafter.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn uint QCacheIterator::count() const
+
+ Returns the number of items in the cache on which this iterator
+ operates.
+
+ \sa isEmpty()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn bool QCacheIterator::isEmpty() const
+
+ Returns TRUE if the cache is empty, i.e. count() == 0; otherwise
+ it returns FALSE.
+
+ \sa count()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn bool QCacheIterator::atFirst() const
+
+ Returns TRUE if the iterator points to the first item in the
+ cache; otherwise returns FALSE. Note that this refers to the
+ iterator's arbitrary ordering, not to the cache's internal least
+ recently used list.
+
+ \sa toFirst(), atLast()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn bool QCacheIterator::atLast() const
+
+ Returns TRUE if the iterator points to the last item in the cache;
+ otherwise returns FALSE. Note that this refers to the iterator's
+ arbitrary ordering, not to the cache's internal least recently
+ used list.
+
+ \sa toLast(), atFirst()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCacheIterator::toFirst()
+
+ Sets the iterator to point to the first item in the cache and
+ returns a pointer to the item.
+
+ Sets the iterator to 0 and returns 0 if the cache is empty.
+
+ \sa toLast() isEmpty()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCacheIterator::toLast()
+
+ Sets the iterator to point to the last item in the cache and
+ returns a pointer to the item.
+
+ Sets the iterator to 0 and returns 0 if the cache is empty.
+
+ \sa toFirst() isEmpty()
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn QCacheIterator::operator type *() const
+
+ Cast operator. Returns a pointer to the current iterator item.
+ Same as current().
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCacheIterator::current() const
+
+ Returns a pointer to the current iterator item.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn QString QCacheIterator::currentKey() const
+
+ Returns the key for the current iterator item.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCacheIterator::operator()()
+
+ Makes the succeeding item current and returns the original current
+ item.
+
+ If the current iterator item was the last item in the cache or if
+ it was 0, 0 is returned.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCacheIterator::operator+=( uint jump )
+
+ Returns the item \a jump positions after the current item, or 0 if
+ it is beyond the last item. Makes this the current item.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCacheIterator::operator-=( uint jump )
+
+ Returns the item \a jump positions before the current item, or 0
+ if it is before the first item. Makes this the current item.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCacheIterator::operator++()
+
+ Prefix++ makes the iterator point to the item just after current()
+ and makes that the new current item for the iterator. If current()
+ was the last item, operator++() returns 0.
+*/
+
+/*!
+ \fn type *QCacheIterator::operator--()
+
+ Prefix-- makes the iterator point to the item just before
+ current() and makes that the new current item for the iterator. If
+ current() was the first item, operator--() returns 0.
+*/
+