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+/************************************************************************/
+/*! \class RtError
+    \brief Exception handling class for RtAudio & RtMidi.
+
+    The RtError class is quite simple but it does allow errors to be
+    "caught" by RtError::Type. See the RtAudio and RtMidi
+    documentation to know which methods can throw an RtError.
+
+*/
+/************************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef RTERROR_H
+#define RTERROR_H
+
+#include <exception>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <string>
+
+class RtError : public std::exception
+{
+ public:
+  //! Defined RtError types.
+  enum Type {
+    WARNING,           /*!< A non-critical error. */
+    DEBUG_WARNING,     /*!< A non-critical error which might be useful for debugging. */
+    UNSPECIFIED,       /*!< The default, unspecified error type. */
+    NO_DEVICES_FOUND,  /*!< No devices found on system. */
+    INVALID_DEVICE,    /*!< An invalid device ID was specified. */
+    MEMORY_ERROR,      /*!< An error occured during memory allocation. */
+    INVALID_PARAMETER, /*!< An invalid parameter was specified to a function. */
+    INVALID_USE,       /*!< The function was called incorrectly. */
+    DRIVER_ERROR,      /*!< A system driver error occured. */
+    SYSTEM_ERROR,      /*!< A system error occured. */
+    THREAD_ERROR       /*!< A thread error occured. */
+  };
+
+  //! The constructor.
+  RtError( const std::string& message, Type type = RtError::UNSPECIFIED ) throw() : message_(message), type_(type) {}
+ 
+  //! The destructor.
+  virtual ~RtError( void ) throw() {}
+
+  //! Prints thrown error message to stderr.
+  virtual void printMessage( void ) throw() { std::cerr << '\n' << message_ << "\n\n"; }
+
+  //! Returns the thrown error message type.
+  virtual const Type& getType(void) throw() { return type_; }
+
+  //! Returns the thrown error message string.
+  virtual const std::string& getMessage(void) throw() { return message_; }
+
+  //! Returns the thrown error message as a c-style string.
+  virtual const char* what( void ) const throw() { return message_.c_str(); }
+
+ protected:
+  std::string message_;
+  Type type_;
+};
+
+#endif