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1/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2// Name: aboutdlg.h
3// Purpose: interface of wxAboutDialogInfo
4// Author: wxWidgets team
5// RCS-ID: $Id$
6// Licence: wxWindows license
7/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9/**
10 @class wxAboutDialogInfo
11
12 wxAboutDialogInfo contains information shown in the standard @e About
13 dialog displayed by the wxAboutBox() function.
14
15 This class contains the general information about the program, such as its
16 name, version, copyright and so on, as well as lists of the program developers,
17 documentation writers, artists and translators. The simple properties from the
18 former group are represented as a string with the exception of the program icon
19 and the program web site, while the lists from the latter group are stored as
20 wxArrayString and can be either set entirely at once using
21 wxAboutDialogInfo::SetDevelopers and similar functions or built one by one using
22 wxAboutDialogInfo::AddDeveloper etc.
23
24 Please also notice that while all the main platforms have the native
25 implementation of the about dialog, they are often more limited than the
26 generic version provided by wxWidgets and so the generic version is used if
27 wxAboutDialogInfo has any fields not supported by the native version. Currently
28 GTK+ version supports all the possible fields natively but MSW and Mac versions
29 don't support URLs, licence text nor custom icons in the about dialog and if
30 either of those is used, wxAboutBox() will automatically use the generic version
31 so you should avoid specifying these fields to achieve more native look and feel.
32
33 @library{wxadv}
34 @category{cmndlg,data}
35
36 @see wxAboutDialogInfo::SetArtists
37*/
38class wxAboutDialogInfo
39{
40public:
41 /**
42 Default constructor leaves all fields are initially uninitialized, in general
43 you should call at least SetVersion(), SetCopyright() and SetDescription().
44 */
45 wxAboutDialogInfo();
46
47 /**
48 Adds an artist name to be shown in the program credits.
49
50 @see SetArtists()
51 */
52 void AddArtist(const wxString& artist);
53
54 /**
55 Adds a developer name to be shown in the program credits.
56
57 @see SetDevelopers()
58 */
59 void AddDeveloper(const wxString& developer);
60
61 /**
62 Adds a documentation writer name to be shown in the program credits.
63
64 @see SetDocWriters()
65 */
66 void AddDocWriter(const wxString& docwriter);
67
68 /**
69 Adds a translator name to be shown in the program credits. Notice that if no
70 translator names are specified explicitely, wxAboutBox() will try to use the
71 translation of the string @c translator-credits from the currently used message
72 catalog -- this can be used to show just the name of the translator of the
73 program in the current language.
74
75 @see SetTranslators()
76 */
77 void AddTranslator(const wxString& translator);
78
79 /**
80 Sets the the list of artists to be shown in the program credits.
81
82 @see AddArtist()
83 */
84 void SetArtists(const wxArrayString& artists);
85
86 /**
87 Set the short string containing the program copyright information. Notice that
88 any occurrences of @c "(C)" in @a copyright will be replaced by the
89 copyright symbol (circled C) automatically, which means that you can avoid
90 using this symbol in the program source code which can be problematic,
91 */
92 void SetCopyright(const wxString& copyright);
93
94 /**
95 Set brief, but possibly multiline, description of the program.
96 */
97 void SetDescription(const wxString& desc);
98
99 /**
100 Set the list of developers of the program.
101
102 @see AddDeveloper()
103 */
104 void SetDevelopers(const wxArrayString& developers);
105
106 /**
107 Set the list of documentation writers.
108
109 @see AddDocWriter()
110 */
111 void SetDocWriters(const wxArrayString& docwriters);
112
113 /**
114 Set the icon to be shown in the dialog. By default the icon of the main frame
115 will be shown if the native about dialog supports custom icons. If it doesn't
116 but a valid icon is specified using this method, the generic about dialog is
117 used instead so you should avoid calling this function for maximally native
118 look and feel.
119 */
120 void SetIcon(const wxIcon& icon);
121
122 /**
123 Set the long, multiline string containing the text of the program licence.
124
125 Only GTK+ version supports showing the licence text in the native about dialog
126 currently so the generic version will be used under all the other platforms if
127 this method is called. To preserve the native look and feel it is advised that
128 you do not call this method but provide a separate menu item in the
129 @c "Help" menu for displaying the text of your program licence.
130 */
131 void SetLicence(const wxString& licence);
132
133 /**
134 This is the same as SetLicence().
135 */
136 void SetLicense(const wxString& licence);
137
138 /**
139 Set the name of the program. If this method is not called, the string returned
140 by wxApp::GetAppName will be shown in the dialog.
141 */
142 void SetName(const wxString& name);
143
144 /**
145 Set the list of translators. Please see AddTranslator() for additional
146 discussion.
147 */
148 void SetTranslators(const wxArrayString& translators);
149
150 /**
151 Set the version of the program. The version is in free format, i.e. not
152 necessarily in the @c x.y.z form but it shouldn't contain the "version" word.
153 */
154 void SetVersion(const wxString& version);
155
156 /**
157 Set the web site for the program and its description (which defaults to @a url
158 itself if empty).
159
160 Please notice that only GTK+ version currently supports showing the link in the
161 native about dialog so if this method is called, the generic version will be
162 used under all the other platforms.
163 */
164 void SetWebSite(const wxString& url,
165 const wxString& desc = wxEmptyString);
166};
167
168
169// ============================================================================
170// Global functions/macros
171// ============================================================================
172
173/** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_dialog */
174//@{
175
176/**
177 This function shows the standard about dialog containing the information
178 specified in @a info. If the current platform has a native about dialog
179 which is capable of showing all the fields in @a info, the native dialog is
180 used, otherwise the function falls back to the generic wxWidgets version of
181 the dialog, i.e. does the same thing as wxGenericAboutBox.
182
183 Here is an example of how this function may be used:
184
185 @code
186 void MyFrame::ShowSimpleAboutDialog(wxCommandEvent& WXUNUSED(event))
187 {
188 wxAboutDialogInfo info;
189 info.SetName(_("My Program"));
190 info.SetVersion(_("1.2.3 Beta"));
191 info.SetDescription(_("This program does something great."));
192 info.SetCopyright(_T("(C) 2007 Me <my@email.addre.ss>"));
193
194 wxAboutBox(info);
195 }
196 @endcode
197
198 Please see the @ref page_samples_dialogs for more examples of using this
199 function and wxAboutDialogInfo for the description of the information which
200 can be shown in the about dialog.
201
202 @header{wx/aboutdlg.h}
203*/
204void wxAboutBox(const wxAboutDialogInfo& info);
205
206/**
207 This function does the same thing as wxAboutBox() except that it always uses
208 the generic wxWidgets version of the dialog instead of the native one.
209
210 This is mainly useful if you need to customize the dialog by e.g. adding
211 custom controls to it (customizing the native dialog is not currently
212 supported).
213
214 See the @ref page_samples_dialogs for an example of about dialog
215 customization.
216
217 @see wxAboutDialogInfo
218
219 @header{wx/aboutdlg.h}
220*/
221void wxGenericAboutBox(const wxAboutDialogInfo& info);
222
223//@}