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// Name:        _cshelp.i
// Purpose:     Context sensitive help classes, and etc.
//
// Author:      Robin Dunn
//
// Created:     28-July-2001
// RCS-ID:      $Id$
// Copyright:   (c) 2001 by Total Control Software
// Licence:     wxWindows license
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// not a %module

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
%newgroup

%{
%}

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enum {
    wxFRAME_EX_CONTEXTHELP,
    wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP,
};
%constant wxEventType wxEVT_HELP;
%constant wxEventType wxEVT_DETAILED_HELP;


%pythoncode { 
EVT_HELP = wx.PyEventBinder( wxEVT_HELP, 1)
EVT_HELP_RANGE = wx.PyEventBinder(  wxEVT_HELP, 2)
EVT_DETAILED_HELP = wx.PyEventBinder( wxEVT_DETAILED_HELP, 1)
EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE = wx.PyEventBinder( wxEVT_DETAILED_HELP, 2)
}

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DocStr(wxHelpEvent,
"A help event is sent when the user has requested
context-sensitive help. This can either be caused by the
application requesting context-sensitive help mode via
wx.ContextHelp, or (on MS Windows) by the system generating a
WM_HELP message when the user pressed F1 or clicked on the query
button in a dialog caption.

A help event is sent to the window that the user clicked on, and
is propagated up the window hierarchy until the event is
processed or there are no more event handlers. The application
should call event.GetId to check the identity of the clicked-on
window, and then either show some suitable help or call
event.Skip if the identifier is unrecognised. Calling Skip is
important because it allows wxWindows to generate further events
for ancestors of the clicked-on window. Otherwise it would be
impossible to show help for container windows, since processing
would stop after the first window found.

 Events
    EVT_HELP            Sent when the user has requested context-
                        sensitive help.
    EVT_HELP_RANGE      Allows to catch EVT_HELP for a range of IDs
");


class wxHelpEvent : public wxCommandEvent
{
public:
    DocCtorStr(
        wxHelpEvent(wxEventType type = wxEVT_NULL,
                    wxWindowID winid = 0,
                    const wxPoint& pt = wxDefaultPosition),
        "");
    

    DocDeclStr(
        const wxPoint , GetPosition() const,
        "Returns the left-click position of the mouse, in screen\n"
        "coordinates. This allows the application to position the help\n"
        "appropriately.");
    
    DocDeclStr(
        void , SetPosition(const wxPoint& pos),
        "Sets the left-click position of the mouse, in screen coordinates.");
    

    DocDeclStr(
        const wxString& , GetLink() const,
        "Get an optional link to further help");
    
    DocDeclStr(
        void , SetLink(const wxString& link),
        "Set an optional link to further help");
    

    DocDeclStr(
        const wxString& , GetTarget() const,
        "Get an optional target to display help in. E.g. a window specification");
    
    DocDeclStr(
        void , SetTarget(const wxString& target),
        "Set an optional target to display help in. E.g. a window specification");
    
};

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DocStr(wxContextHelp,
"This class changes the cursor to a query and puts the application
into a 'context-sensitive help mode'. When the user left-clicks
on a window within the specified window, a EVT_HELP event is sent
to that control, and the application may respond to it by popping
up some help.

There are a couple of ways to invoke this behaviour implicitly:

    * Use the wx.DIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP extended style for a
      dialog (Windows only). This will put a question mark in the
      titlebar, and Windows will put the application into
      context-sensitive help mode automatically, with further
      programming.

    * Create a wx.ContextHelpButton, whose predefined behaviour
      is to create a context help object. Normally you will write
      your application so that this button is only added to a
      dialog for non-Windows platforms (use
      wx.DIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP on Windows).
");       

class wxContextHelp : public wxObject {
public:
    DocCtorStr(
        wxContextHelp(wxWindow* window = NULL, bool doNow = True),
        "Constructs a context help object, calling BeginContextHelp if\n"
        "doNow is true (the default).\n"
        "\n"
        "If window is None, the top window is used.");
    
    ~wxContextHelp();

    DocDeclStr(
        bool , BeginContextHelp(wxWindow* window = NULL),
        "Puts the application into context-sensitive help mode. window is\n"
        "the window which will be used to catch events; if NULL, the top\n"
        "window will be used.\n"
        "\n"
        "Returns true if the application was successfully put into\n"
        "context-sensitive help mode. This function only returns when the\n"
        "event loop has finished.");
    
    DocDeclStr(
        bool , EndContextHelp(),
        "Ends context-sensitive help mode. Not normally called by the\n"
        "application.");
    
};


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DocStr(wxContextHelpButton,
"Instances of this class may be used to add a question mark button
that when pressed, puts the application into context-help
mode. It does this by creating a wx.ContextHelp object which
itself generates a EVT_HELP event when the user clicks on a
window.

On Windows, you may add a question-mark icon to a dialog by use
of the wx.DIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP extra style, but on other
platforms you will have to add a button explicitly, usually next
to OK, Cancel or similar buttons.
");

class wxContextHelpButton : public wxBitmapButton {
public:
    %pythonAppend wxContextHelpButton "self._setOORInfo(self)"

    DocCtorStr(
        wxContextHelpButton(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id = wxID_CONTEXT_HELP,
                            const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
                            const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize,
                            long style = wxBU_AUTODRAW),
        "Constructor, creating and showing a context help button.");
};


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DocStr(wxHelpProvider,
"wx.HelpProvider is an abstract class used by a program
implementing context-sensitive help to show the help text for the
given window.

The current help provider must be explicitly set by the
application using wx.HelpProvider.Set().");

class wxHelpProvider 
{
public:
    DocDeclStr(
        static wxHelpProvider *, Set(wxHelpProvider *helpProvider),
        "Sset the current, application-wide help provider. Returns the\n"
        "previous one.  Unlike some other classes, the help provider is\n"
        "not created on demand. This must be explicitly done by the\n"
        "application.");
    
    DocDeclStr(
        static wxHelpProvider *, Get(),
        "Return the current application-wide help provider.");
    

    DocDeclStr(
        wxString , GetHelp(const wxWindow *window),
        "Gets the help string for this window. Its interpretation is\n"
        "dependent on the help provider except that empty string always\n"
        "means that no help is associated with the window.");
    
    DocDeclStr(
        bool , ShowHelp(wxWindow *window),
        "Shows help for the given window. Uses GetHelp internally if\n"
        "applicable.\n"
        "\n"
        "Returns true if it was done, or false if no help was available\n"
        "for this window.");
    
    DocDeclStr(
        void , AddHelp(wxWindow *window, const wxString& text),
        "Associates the text with the given window.");

    DocDeclStrName(
        void , AddHelp(wxWindowID id, const wxString& text),
        "This version associates the given text with all windows with this\n"
        "id. May be used to set the same help string for all Cancel\n"
        "buttons in the application, for example.",
        AddHelpById);

    DocDeclStr(
        void , RemoveHelp(wxWindow* window),
        "Removes the association between the window pointer and the help\n"
        "text. This is called by the wx.Window destructor. Without this,\n"
        "the table of help strings will fill up and when window pointers\n"
        "are reused, the wrong help string will be found.");
    
    
    %extend { void Destroy() { delete self; } }
};

 
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DocStr(wxSimpleHelpProvider,
"wx.SimpleHelpProvider is an implementation of wx.HelpProvider
which supports only plain text help strings, and shows the string
associated with the control (if any) in a tooltip.");

class wxSimpleHelpProvider : public wxHelpProvider
{
public:
    wxSimpleHelpProvider();
};


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// TODO: Add this once the wxHelpController is in wxPython...

//  class WXDLLEXPORT wxHelpControllerHelpProvider : public wxSimpleHelpProvider
//  {
//  public:
//      wxHelpControllerHelpProvider(wxHelpController* hc = NULL);
//      void SetHelpController(wxHelpController* hc);
//      wxHelpController* GetHelpController();
//  };




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