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2 | %% Name: dataform.tex | |
3 | %% Purpose: wxDataFormat documentation | |
4 | %% Author: Vadim Zeitlin | |
5 | %% Modified by: | |
6 | %% Created: 03.11.99 | |
7 | %% RCS-ID: $Id$ | |
8 | %% Copyright: (c) Vadim Zeitlin | |
9 | %% License: wxWindows license | |
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11 | ||
12 | \section{\class{wxDataFormat}}\label{wxdataformat} | |
13 | ||
14 | A wxDataFormat is an encapsulation of a platform-specific format handle which | |
15 | is used by the system for the clipboard and drag and drop operations. The | |
16 | applications are usually only interested in, for example, pasting data from the | |
17 | clipboard only if the data is in a format the program understands and a data | |
18 | format is something which uniquely identifies this format. | |
19 | ||
20 | On the system level, a data format is usually just a number ({\tt CLIPFORMAT} | |
21 | under Windows or {\tt Atom} under X11, for example) and the standard formats | |
22 | are, indeed, just numbers which can be implicitly converted to wxDataFormat. | |
23 | The standard formats are: | |
24 | ||
25 | \begin{twocollist}\itemsep=1cm | |
26 | \twocolitem{wxDF\_INVALID}{An invalid format - used as default argument for | |
27 | functions taking a wxDataFormat argument sometimes} | |
28 | \twocolitem{wxDF\_TEXT}{Text format (wxString)} | |
29 | \twocolitem{wxDF\_BITMAP}{A bitmap (wxBitmap)} | |
30 | \twocolitem{wxDF\_METAFILE}{A metafile (wxMetafile, Windows only)} | |
31 | \twocolitem{wxDF\_FILENAME}{A list of filenames} | |
32 | \twocolitem{wxDF\_HTML}{An HTML string. This is only valid when passed to wxSetClipboardData | |
33 | when compiled with Visual C++ in non-Unicode mode} | |
34 | \end{twocollist} | |
35 | ||
36 | As mentioned above, these standard formats may be passed to any function taking | |
37 | wxDataFormat argument because wxDataFormat has an implicit conversion from | |
38 | them (or, to be precise from the type {\tt wxDataFormat::NativeFormat} which is | |
39 | the type used by the underlying platform for data formats). | |
40 | ||
41 | Aside the standard formats, the application may also use custom formats which | |
42 | are identified by their names (strings) and not numeric identifiers. Although | |
43 | internally custom format must be created (or {\it registered}) first, you | |
44 | shouldn't care about it because it is done automatically the first time the | |
45 | wxDataFormat object corresponding to a given format name is created. The only | |
46 | implication of this is that you should avoid having global wxDataFormat objects | |
47 | with non-default constructor because their constructors are executed before the | |
48 | program has time to perform all necessary initialisations and so an attempt to | |
49 | do clipboard format registration at this time will usually lead to a crash! | |
50 | ||
51 | \wxheading{Virtual functions to override} | |
52 | ||
53 | None | |
54 | ||
55 | \wxheading{Derived from} | |
56 | ||
57 | None | |
58 | ||
59 | \wxheading{See also} | |
60 | ||
61 | \helpref{Clipboard and drag and drop overview}{wxdndoverview}, | |
62 | \helpref{DnD sample}{samplednd}, | |
63 | \helpref{wxDataObject}{wxdataobject} | |
64 | ||
65 | \wxheading{Include files} | |
66 | ||
67 | <wx/dataobj.h> | |
68 | ||
69 | \latexignore{\rtfignore{\wxheading{Members}}} | |
70 | ||
71 | \membersection{wxDataFormat::wxDataFormat}\label{wxdataformatwxdataformatdef} | |
72 | ||
73 | \func{}{wxDataFormat}{\param{NativeFormat}{ format = wxDF\_INVALID}} | |
74 | ||
75 | Constructs a data format object for one of the standard data formats or an | |
76 | empty data object (use \helpref{SetType}{wxdataformatsettype} or | |
77 | \helpref{SetId}{wxdataformatsetid} later in this case) | |
78 | ||
79 | \perlnote{In wxPerl this function is named {\tt newNative}.} | |
80 | ||
81 | \membersection{wxDataFormat::wxDataFormat}\label{wxdataformatwxdataformat} | |
82 | ||
83 | \func{}{wxDataFormat}{\param{const wxChar }{*format}} | |
84 | ||
85 | Constructs a data format object for a custom format identified by its name | |
86 | {\it format}. | |
87 | ||
88 | \perlnote{In wxPerl this function is named {\tt newUser}.} | |
89 | ||
90 | \membersection{wxDataFormat::operator $==$}\label{wxdataformatoperatoreq} | |
91 | ||
92 | \constfunc{bool}{operator $==$}{\param{const wxDataFormat\&}{ format}} | |
93 | ||
94 | Returns true if the formats are equal. | |
95 | ||
96 | \membersection{wxDataFormat::operator $!=$}\label{wxdataformatoperatorneq} | |
97 | ||
98 | \constfunc{bool}{operator $!=$}{\param{const wxDataFormat\&}{ format}} | |
99 | ||
100 | Returns true if the formats are different. | |
101 | ||
102 | \membersection{wxDataFormat::GetId}\label{wxdataformatgetid} | |
103 | ||
104 | \constfunc{wxString}{GetId}{\void} | |
105 | ||
106 | Returns the name of a custom format (this function will fail for a standard | |
107 | format). | |
108 | ||
109 | \membersection{wxDataFormat::GetType}\label{wxdataformatgettype} | |
110 | ||
111 | \constfunc{NativeFormat}{GetType}{\void} | |
112 | ||
113 | Returns the platform-specific number identifying the format. | |
114 | ||
115 | \membersection{wxDataFormat::SetId}\label{wxdataformatsetid} | |
116 | ||
117 | \func{void}{SetId}{\param{const wxChar }{*format}} | |
118 | ||
119 | Sets the format to be the custom format identified by the given name. | |
120 | ||
121 | \membersection{wxDataFormat::SetType}\label{wxdataformatsettype} | |
122 | ||
123 | \func{void}{SetType}{\param{NativeFormat}{ format}} | |
124 | ||
125 | Sets the format to the given value, which should be one of wxDF\_XXX constants. | |
126 |