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

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// Name:        statusbr.h
// Purpose:     interface of wxStatusBar
// Author:      wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID:      $Id$
// Licence:     wxWindows license
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/**
    @class wxStatusBar

    A status bar is a narrow window that can be placed along the bottom of a frame
    to give small amounts of status information. It can contain one or more fields,
    one or more of which can be variable length according to the size of the window.

    @beginStyleTable
    @style{wxST_SIZEGRIP}
        Displays a gripper at the right-hand side of the status bar.
    @endStyleTable

    @remarks
    It is possible to create controls and other windows on the status bar.
    Position these windows from an OnSize() event handler.

    @library{wxcore}
    @category{miscwnd}

    @see wxFrame, @ref page_samples_statbar
*/
class wxStatusBar : public wxWindow
{
public:
    /**
        Default ctor.
    */
    wxStatusBar();

    /**
        Constructor, creating the window.

        @param parent
            The window parent, usually a frame.
        @param id
            The window identifier.
            It may take a value of -1 to indicate a default value.
        @param style
            The window style. See wxStatusBar.
        @param name
            The name of the window. This parameter is used to associate a name with the
            item, allowing the application user to set Motif resource values for
            individual windows.

        @see Create()
    */
    wxStatusBar(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id = wxID_ANY,
                long style = wxST_SIZEGRIP,
                const wxString& name = wxStatusBarNameStr);

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

    /**
        Creates the window, for two-step construction.
        See wxStatusBar() for details.
    */
    bool Create(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id = wxID_ANY,
                long style = wxST_SIZEGRIP,
                const wxString& name = wxStatusBarNameStr);

    /**
        Returns the size and position of a field's internal bounding rectangle.

        @param i
            The field in question.
        @param rect
            The rectangle values are placed in this variable.

        @return @true if the field index is valid, @false otherwise.

        @see wxRect
    */
    virtual bool GetFieldRect(int i, wxRect& rect) const;

    /**
        Returns the number of fields in the status bar.
    */
    int GetFieldsCount() const;

    /**
        Returns the string associated with a status bar field.

        @param i
            The number of the status field to retrieve, starting from zero.

        @return The status field string if the field is valid, otherwise the
                empty string.

        @see SetStatusText()
    */
    virtual wxString GetStatusText(int i = 0) const;

    /**
        Sets the field text to the top of the stack, and pops the stack of saved
        strings.

        @see PushStatusText()
    */
    void PopStatusText(int field = 0);

    /**
        Saves the current field text in a per field stack, and sets the field text
        to the string passed as argument.
    */
    void PushStatusText(const wxString& string, int field = 0);

    /**
        Sets the number of fields, and optionally the field widths.

        @param number
            The number of fields.
        @param widths
            An array of n integers interpreted in the same way as
            in SetStatusWidths().
    */
    virtual void SetFieldsCount(int number = 1, const int* widths = NULL);

    /**
        Sets the minimal possible height for the status bar.

        The real height may be bigger than the height specified here depending
        on the size of the font used by the status bar.
    */
    virtual void SetMinHeight(int height);

    /**
        Sets the styles of the fields in the status line which can make fields appear
        flat or raised instead of the standard sunken 3D border.

        @param n
            The number of fields in the status bar. Must be equal to the
            number passed to SetFieldsCount() the last time it was called.
        @param styles
            Contains an array of n integers with the styles for each field. There
            are three possible styles:
            - wxSB_NORMAL (default): The field appears sunken with a standard 3D border.
            - wxSB_FLAT: No border is painted around the field so that it appears flat.
            - wxSB_RAISED: A raised 3D border is painted around the field.
    */
    virtual void SetStatusStyles(int n, const int* styles);

    /**
        Sets the text for one field.

        @param text
            The text to be set. Use an empty string ("") to clear the field.
        @param i
            The field to set, starting from zero.

        @see GetStatusText(), wxFrame::SetStatusText
    */
    virtual void SetStatusText(const wxString& text, int i = 0);

    /**
        Sets the widths of the fields in the status line. There are two types of
        fields: fixed widths one and variable width fields. For the fixed width fields
        you should specify their (constant) width in pixels. For the variable width
        fields, specify a negative number which indicates how the field should expand:
        the space left for all variable width fields is divided between them according
        to the absolute value of this number. A variable width field with width of -2
        gets twice as much of it as a field with width -1 and so on.

        For example, to create one fixed width field of width 100 in the right part of
        the status bar and two more fields which get 66% and 33% of the remaining
        space correspondingly, you should use an array containing -2, -1 and 100.

        @param n
            The number of fields in the status bar. Must be equal to the
            number passed to SetFieldsCount() the last time it was called.
        @param widths_field
            Contains an array of n integers, each of which is either an
            absolute status field width in pixels if positive or indicates a
            variable width field if negative.

        @remarks The widths of the variable fields are calculated from the total
                 width of all fields, minus the sum of widths of the
                 non-variable fields, divided by the number of variable fields.

        @see SetFieldsCount(), wxFrame::SetStatusWidths()
    */
    virtual void SetStatusWidths(int n, const int* widths_field);
};