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System module

Base module of SFML, defining various utilities. More...

## Classes
class | sf::Clock
| Utility class that measures the elapsed time. More...
class | sf::FileInputStream
| Implementation of input stream based on a file. More...
class | sf::InputStream
| Abstract class for custom file input streams. More...
class | sf::Lock
| Automatic wrapper for locking and unlocking mutexes. More...
class | sf::MemoryInputStream
| Implementation of input stream based on a memory chunk. More...
class | sf::Mutex
| Blocks concurrent access to shared resources from multiple threads. More...
class | sf::NonCopyable
| Utility class that makes any derived class non-copyable. More...
class | sf::String
| Utility string class that automatically handles conversions between types and encodings. More...
class | sf::Thread
| Utility class to manipulate threads. More...
class | sf::ThreadLocal
| Defines variables with thread-local storage. More...
class | sf::ThreadLocalPtr< T >
| Pointer to a thread-local variable. More...
class | sf::Time
| Represents a time value. More...
class | sf::Utf< N >
| Utility class providing generic functions for UTF conversions. More...
class | sf::Vector2< T >
| Utility template class for manipulating 2-dimensional vectors. More...
class | sf::Vector3< T >
| Utility template class for manipulating 3-dimensional vectors. More...

## Functions
ANativeActivity * | sf::getNativeActivity ()
| Return a pointer to the Android native activity. More...
void | sf::sleep (Time duration)
| Make the current thread sleep for a given duration. More...
std::ostream & | sf::err ()
| Standard stream used by SFML to output warnings and errors. More...

## Detailed Description

Base module of SFML, defining various utilities.

It provides vector classes, Unicode strings and conversion functions, threads and mutexes, timing classes.

## Function Documentation

## ◆ err()

sf::err | ( |  | ) |

Standard stream used by SFML to output warnings and errors.

By default, sf::err() outputs to the same location as std::cerr, (-> the stderr descriptor) which is the console if there's one available.

It is a standard std::ostream instance, so it supports all the insertion operations defined by the STL (operator <<, manipulators, etc.).

sf::err() can be redirected to write to another output, independently of std::cerr, by using the rdbuf() function provided by the std::ostream class.

Example:

// Redirect to a file
std::ofstream file("sfml-log.txt");
std::streambuf* previous = sf::err().rdbuf(file.rdbuf());
// Redirect to nothing
sf::err().rdbuf(NULL);
// Restore the original output
sf::err().rdbuf(previous);

Returns
  Reference to std::ostream representing the SFML error stream

## ◆ getNativeActivity()

ANativeActivity* sf::getNativeActivity | ( |  | ) |

Return a pointer to the Android native activity.

You shouldn't have to use this function, unless you want to implement very specific details, that SFML doesn't support, or to use a workaround for a known issue.

Returns
  Pointer to Android native activity structure

Platform Limitation
  This is only available on Android and to use it, you'll have to specifically include SFML/System/NativeActivity.hpp in your code.

## ◆ sleep()

void sf::sleep | ( | Time | duration | ) |

Make the current thread sleep for a given duration.

sf::sleep is the best way to block a program or one of its threads, as it doesn't consume any CPU power.

Parameters

  duration | Time to sleep