added creation of wxUniChar from int and conversion to int, for backward compatibility
[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / unichar.h
1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: wx/unichar.h
3 // Purpose: wxUniChar and wxUniCharRef classes
4 // Author: Vaclav Slavik
5 // Created: 2007-03-19
6 // RCS-ID: $Id$
7 // Copyright: (c) 2007 REA Elektronik GmbH
8 // Licence: wxWindows licence
9 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10
11 #ifndef _WX_UNICHAR_H_
12 #define _WX_UNICHAR_H_
13
14 #include "wx/defs.h"
15 #include "wx/chartype.h"
16 #include "wx/stringimpl.h"
17
18 // wint_t is just a typedef for wchar_t for many old compilers but for modern
19 // ones it's a separate type and we must provide a conversion to it to allow
20 // passing wxUniChar[Ref] to functions taking wint_t such as iswalnum() &c
21 #if (defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__DARWIN__)) || \
22 (defined(__VISUALC__) && defined(_NATIVE_WCHAR_T_DEFINED))
23 #define wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
24 #endif
25
26 // helper macro for doing something dependent on whether wint_t is or isn't a
27 // typedef inside another macro
28 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
29 #define wxIF_WINT_T_TYPE(x) x
30 #else // !wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
31 #define wxIF_WINT_T_TYPE(x)
32 #endif // wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE/!wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
33
34 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxUniCharRef;
35
36 // This class represents single Unicode character. It can be converted to
37 // and from char or wchar_t and implements commonly used character operations.
38 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxUniChar
39 {
40 public:
41 // NB: this is not wchar_t on purpose, it needs to represent the entire
42 // Unicode code points range and wchar_t may be too small for that
43 // (e.g. on Win32 where wchar_t* is encoded in UTF-16)
44 typedef wxUint32 value_type;
45
46 wxUniChar() : m_value(0) {}
47
48 // Create the character from 8bit character value encoded in the current
49 // locale's charset.
50 wxUniChar(char c) { m_value = From8bit(c); }
51 wxUniChar(unsigned char c) { m_value = From8bit((char)c); }
52
53 // Create the character from a wchar_t character value.
54 wxUniChar(wchar_t c) { m_value = c; }
55 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
56 wxUniChar(wint_t c) { m_value = c; }
57 #endif
58
59 wxUniChar(int c) { m_value = c; }
60
61 wxUniChar(const wxUniCharRef& c);
62
63 // Returns Unicode code point value of the character
64 value_type GetValue() const { return m_value; }
65
66 // Conversions to char and wchar_t types: all of those are needed to be
67 // able to pass wxUniChars to verious standard narrow and wide character
68 // functions
69 operator char() const { return To8bit(m_value); }
70 operator wchar_t() const { return m_value; }
71 operator int() const { return m_value; }
72
73 // More conversions needed for other standard functions: uchar is for VC++
74 // _mbxxx() ones (to which toxxx/isxxx() are mapped when _MBCS is defined)
75 // and some wide character functions take wint_t which happens to be the
76 // same as wchar_t for Windows compilers but not for g++ (except for the
77 // special Apple version)
78 operator unsigned char() const { return (unsigned char)To8bit(m_value); }
79 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
80 operator wint_t() const { return m_value; }
81 #endif
82
83 // We need this operator for the "*p" part of expressions like "for (
84 // const_iterator p = begin() + nStart; *p; ++p )". In this case,
85 // compilation would fail without it because the conversion to bool would
86 // be ambiguous (there are all these int types conversions...). (And adding
87 // operator unspecified_bool_type() would only makes the ambiguity worse.)
88 operator bool() const { return m_value != 0; }
89 bool operator!() const { return !((bool)*this); }
90 #if (defined(__VISUALC__) && __VISUALC__ < 1400) || \
91 defined(__DIGITALMARS__) || defined(__BORLANDC__)
92 // We need this for VC++ < 8 or DigitalMars and expressions like
93 // "str[0] && *p":
94 bool operator&&(bool v) const { return (bool)*this && v; }
95 #endif
96
97 // Assignment operators:
98 wxUniChar& operator=(const wxUniChar& c) { m_value = c.m_value; return *this; }
99 wxUniChar& operator=(char c) { m_value = From8bit(c); return *this; }
100 wxUniChar& operator=(wchar_t c) { m_value = c; return *this; }
101 wxUniChar& operator=(int c) { m_value = c; return *this; }
102 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
103 wxUniChar& operator=(wint_t c) { m_value = c; return *this; }
104 #endif
105
106 // Comparison operators:
107
108 // define the given comparison operator for all the types
109 #define wxDEFINE_UNICHAR_OPERATOR(op) \
110 bool operator op(const wxUniChar& c) const { return m_value op c.m_value; }\
111 bool operator op(char c) const { return m_value op From8bit(c); } \
112 bool operator op(wchar_t c) const { return m_value op (value_type)c; } \
113 wxIF_WINT_T_TYPE( bool operator op(wint_t c) const { return m_value op (value_type)c; } )
114
115 wxFOR_ALL_COMPARISONS(wxDEFINE_UNICHAR_OPERATOR)
116
117 #undef wxDEFINE_UNICHAR_OPERATOR
118
119 // this is needed for expressions like 'Z'-c
120 int operator-(const wxUniChar& c) const { return m_value - c.m_value; }
121 int operator-(char c) const { return m_value - From8bit(c); }
122 int operator-(wchar_t c) const { return m_value - (value_type)c; }
123 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
124 int operator-(wint_t c) const { return m_value - (value_type)c; }
125 #endif
126
127 private:
128 static value_type From8bit(char c);
129 static char To8bit(value_type c);
130
131 private:
132 value_type m_value;
133 };
134
135
136 // Writeable reference to a character in wxString.
137 //
138 // This class can be used in the same way wxChar is used, except that changing
139 // its value updates the underlying string object.
140 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxUniCharRef
141 {
142 private:
143 typedef wxStringImpl::iterator iterator;
144
145 // create the reference
146 wxUniCharRef(iterator pos) : m_pos(pos) {}
147
148 public:
149 // NB: we have to make this public, because we don't have wxString
150 // declaration available here and so can't declare wxString::iterator
151 // as friend; so at least don't use a ctor but a static function
152 // that must be used explicitly (this is more than using 'explicit'
153 // keyword on ctor!):
154 static wxUniCharRef CreateForString(iterator pos)
155 { return wxUniCharRef(pos); }
156
157 wxUniChar::value_type GetValue() const { return UniChar().GetValue(); }
158
159 // Assignment operators:
160 wxUniCharRef& operator=(const wxUniCharRef& c)
161 {
162 *m_pos = *c.m_pos;
163 return *this;
164 };
165
166 wxUniCharRef& operator=(const wxUniChar& c)
167 {
168 *m_pos = c;
169 return *this;
170 };
171
172 wxUniCharRef& operator=(char c) { return *this = wxUniChar(c); }
173 wxUniCharRef& operator=(wchar_t c) { return *this = wxUniChar(c); }
174 wxUniCharRef& operator=(int c) { return *this = wxUniChar(c); }
175 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
176 wxUniCharRef& operator=(wint_t c) { return *this = wxUniChar(c); }
177 #endif
178
179 // Conversions to the same types as wxUniChar is convertible too:
180 operator char() const { return UniChar(); }
181 operator int() const { return UniChar(); }
182 operator unsigned char() const { return UniChar(); }
183 operator wchar_t() const { return UniChar(); }
184 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
185 operator wint_t() const { return UniChar(); }
186 #endif
187
188 // see wxUniChar::operator bool etc. for explanation
189 operator bool() const { return (bool)UniChar(); }
190 bool operator!() const { return !UniChar(); }
191 #if (defined(__VISUALC__) && __VISUALC__ < 1400) || \
192 defined(__DIGITALMARS__) || defined(__BORLANDC__)
193 bool operator&&(bool v) const { return UniChar() && v; }
194 #endif
195
196 // Comparison operators:
197 #define wxDEFINE_UNICHARREF_OPERATOR(op) \
198 bool operator op(const wxUniCharRef& c) const { return UniChar() op c.UniChar(); }\
199 bool operator op(const wxUniChar& c) const { return UniChar() op c; } \
200 bool operator op(char c) const { return UniChar() op c; } \
201 bool operator op(wchar_t c) const { return UniChar() op c; } \
202 wxIF_WINT_T_TYPE( bool operator op(wint_t c) const { return UniChar() op c; } )
203
204 wxFOR_ALL_COMPARISONS(wxDEFINE_UNICHARREF_OPERATOR)
205
206 #undef wxDEFINE_UNICHARREF_OPERATOR
207
208 // for expressions like c-'A':
209 int operator-(const wxUniCharRef& c) const { return UniChar() - c.UniChar(); }
210 int operator-(const wxUniChar& c) const { return UniChar() - c; }
211 int operator-(char c) const { return UniChar() - c; }
212 int operator-(wchar_t c) const { return UniChar() - c; }
213 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
214 int operator-(wint_t c) const { return UniChar() - c; }
215 #endif
216
217 private:
218 wxUniChar UniChar() const { return *m_pos; }
219 friend class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxUniChar;
220
221 private:
222 // pointer to the character in string
223 iterator m_pos;
224 };
225
226 inline wxUniChar::wxUniChar(const wxUniCharRef& c)
227 {
228 m_value = c.UniChar().m_value;
229 }
230
231 // Comparison operators for the case when wxUniChar(Ref) is the second operand
232 // implemented in terms of member comparison functions
233
234 #define wxCMP_REVERSE(c1, c2, op) c2 op c1
235
236 wxDEFINE_COMPARISONS(char, const wxUniChar&, wxCMP_REVERSE)
237 wxDEFINE_COMPARISONS(char, const wxUniCharRef&, wxCMP_REVERSE)
238
239 wxDEFINE_COMPARISONS(wchar_t, const wxUniChar&, wxCMP_REVERSE)
240 wxDEFINE_COMPARISONS(wchar_t, const wxUniCharRef&, wxCMP_REVERSE)
241
242 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
243 wxDEFINE_COMPARISONS(wint_t, const wxUniChar&, wxCMP_REVERSE)
244 wxDEFINE_COMPARISONS(wint_t, const wxUniCharRef&, wxCMP_REVERSE)
245 #endif
246
247 wxDEFINE_COMPARISONS(const wxUniChar&, const wxUniCharRef&, wxCMP_REVERSE)
248
249 #undef wxCMP_REVERSE
250
251 // for expressions like c-'A':
252 inline int operator-(char c1, const wxUniCharRef& c2) { return -(c2 - c1); }
253 inline int operator-(const wxUniChar& c1, const wxUniCharRef& c2) { return -(c2 - c1); }
254 inline int operator-(wchar_t c1, const wxUniCharRef& c2) { return -(c2 - c1); }
255 #ifdef wxWINT_T_IS_SEPARATE_TYPE
256 inline int operator-(wint_t c1, const wxUniCharRef& c2) { return -(c2 - c1); }
257 #endif
258
259 #endif /* _WX_UNICHAR_H_ */