/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkLogger.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2009-02-05 19:05:01 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.8 $

  Copyright (c) Insight Software Consortium. All rights reserved.
  See ITKCopyright.txt or http://www.itk.org/HTML/Copyright.htm for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.

=========================================================================*/

#ifndef __itkLogger_h
#define __itkLogger_h

#include "itkMultipleLogOutput.h"
#include "itkRealTimeClock.h"
#include "itkLoggerBase.h"

namespace itk
{
/** \class Logger
 *   \brief Class Logger is meant for logging information during a run.
 *
 * \author Hee-Su Kim, Compute Science Dept. Kyungpook National University,
 *                     ISIS Center, Georgetown University.
 *
 *
 *  \ingroup OSSystemObjects LoggingObjects
 */

class ITKCommon_EXPORT Logger : public LoggerBase
{
public:
  typedef Logger                    Self;
  typedef LoggerBase                Superclass;
  typedef SmartPointer<Self>        Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer<const Self>  ConstPointer;

  /** Run-time type information (and related methods). */
  itkTypeMacro( Logger, Object );

  /** New macro for creation of through a Smart Pointer */
  itkNewMacro( Self );

protected:

  /** Constructor */
  Logger() {};

  /** Destructor */
  virtual ~Logger() {};

private:
  Logger(const Self&); //purposely not implemented
  void operator=(const Self&); //purposely not implemented

};  // class Logger

} // namespace itk

#endif  // __itkLogger_h
