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1///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2// Name: tipdlg.h
3// Purpose: declaration of wxTipDialog
4// Author: Vadim Zeitlin
5// Modified by:
6// Created: 28.06.99
7// RCS-ID: $Id$
8// Copyright: (c) Vadim Zeitlin
9// Licence: wxWindows licence
10///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11
12#ifndef _WX_TIPDLG_H_
13#define _WX_TIPDLG_H_
14
15#ifdef __GNUG__
16 #pragma interface "tipdlg.h"
17#endif
18
19// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
20// headers which we must include here
21// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
22
23#include "wx/defs.h"
24
25#if wxUSE_STARTUP_TIPS
26
27#include "wx/textfile.h"
28
29// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
30// wxTipProvider - a class which is used by wxTipDialog to get the text of the
31// tips
32// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
33
34// the abstract base class: it provides the tips, i.e. implements the GetTip()
35// function which returns the new tip each time it's called. To support this,
36// wxTipProvider evidently needs some internal state which is the tip "index"
37// and which should be saved/restored by the program to not always show one and
38// the same tip (of course, you may use random starting position as well...)
39class WXDLLEXPORT wxTipProvider
40{
41public:
42 wxTipProvider(size_t currentTip) { m_currentTip = currentTip; }
43
44 // get the current tip and update the internal state to return the next tip
45 // when called for the next time
46 virtual wxString GetTip() = 0;
47
48 // get the current tip "index" (or whatever allows the tip provider to know
49 // from where to start the next time)
50 size_t GetCurrentTip() const { return m_currentTip; }
51
52 // virtual dtor for the base class
53 virtual ~wxTipProvider() { }
54
55protected:
56 size_t m_currentTip;
57};
58
59// a function which returns an implementation of wxTipProvider using the
60// specified text file as the source of tips (each line is a tip).
61//
62// NB: the caller is responsible for deleting the pointer!
63WXDLLEXPORT wxTipProvider *wxCreateFileTipProvider(const wxString& filename,
64 size_t currentTip);
65
66// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
67// wxTipDialog
68// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
69
70// A dialog which shows a "tip" - a short and helpful messages describing to
71// the user some program characteristic. Many programs show the tips at
72// startup, so the dialog has "Show tips on startup" checkbox which allows to
73// the user to disable this (however, it's the program which should show, or
74// not, the dialog on startup depending on its value, not this class).
75//
76// The function returns TRUE if this checkbox is checked, FALSE otherwise.
77WXDLLEXPORT bool wxShowTip(wxWindow *parent,
78 wxTipProvider *tipProvider,
79 bool showAtStartup = TRUE);
80
81#endif // wxUSE_STARTUP_TIPS
82
83#endif // _WX_TIPDLG_H_