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[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / colordlg.h

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Name:        colordlg.h
// Purpose:     interface of wxColourDialog
// Author:      wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID:      $Id$
// Licence:     wxWindows license
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/**
    @class wxColourDialog

    This class represents the colour chooser dialog.

    @library{wxcore}
    @category{cmndlg}

    @see @ref overview_cmndlg_colour, wxColour, wxColourData,
         wxGetColourFromUser()
*/
class wxColourDialog : public wxDialog
{
public:
    /**
        Constructor. Pass a parent window, and optionally a pointer to a block
        of colour data, which will be copied to the colour dialog's colour
        data.

        Custom colours from colour data object will be be used in the dialog's
        colour palette. Invalid entries in custom colours list will be ignored
        on some platforms(GTK) or replaced with white colour on platforms where
        custom colours palette has fixed size (MSW).

        @see wxColourData
    */
    wxColourDialog(wxWindow* parent, wxColourData* data = NULL);

    /**
        Destructor.
    */
    virtual ~wxColourDialog();

    /**
        Same as wxColourDialog().
    */
    bool Create(wxWindow* parent, wxColourData* data = NULL);

    /**
        Returns the colour data associated with the colour dialog.
    */
    wxColourData& GetColourData();

    /**
        Shows the dialog, returning wxID_OK if the user pressed OK, and
        wxID_CANCEL otherwise.
    */
    virtual int ShowModal();
};



// ============================================================================
// Global functions/macros
// ============================================================================

/** @ingroup group_funcmacro_dialog */
//@{

/**
    Shows the colour selection dialog and returns the colour selected by user
    or invalid colour (use wxColour::IsOk() to test whether a colour is valid)
    if the dialog was cancelled.

    @param parent
        The parent window for the colour selection dialog.
    @param colInit
        If given, this will be the colour initially selected in the dialog.
    @param caption
        If given, this will be used for the dialog caption.
    @param data
        Optional object storing additional colour dialog settings, such as
        custom colours. If none is provided the same settings as the last time
        are used.

    @header{wx/colordlg.h}
*/
wxColour wxGetColourFromUser(wxWindow* parent,
                             const wxColour& colInit,
                             const wxString& caption = wxEmptyString,
                             wxColourData* data = NULL);

//@}