1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: wx/textentry.h
3 // Purpose: declares wxTextEntry interface defining a simple text entry
4 // Author: Vadim Zeitlin
7 // Copyright: (c) 2007 Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
8 // Licence: wxWindows licence
9 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11 #ifndef _WX_TEXTENTRY_H_
12 #define _WX_TEXTENTRY_H_
14 // wxTextPos is the position in the text (currently it's hardly used anywhere
15 // and should probably be replaced with int anyhow)
16 typedef long wxTextPos
;
18 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_BASE wxArrayString
;
19 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxTextCompleter
;
20 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxTextEntryHintData
;
21 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxWindow
;
23 #include "wx/gdicmn.h" // for wxPoint
25 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
27 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
29 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntryBase
32 wxTextEntryBase() { m_eventsBlock
= 0; m_hintData
= NULL
; }
33 virtual ~wxTextEntryBase();
36 // accessing the value
37 // -------------------
39 // SetValue() generates a text change event, ChangeValue() doesn't
40 virtual void SetValue(const wxString
& value
)
41 { DoSetValue(value
, SetValue_SendEvent
); }
42 virtual void ChangeValue(const wxString
& value
);
44 // writing text inserts it at the current position replacing any current
45 // selection, appending always inserts it at the end and doesn't remove any
46 // existing text (but it will reset the selection if there is any)
47 virtual void WriteText(const wxString
& text
) = 0;
48 virtual void AppendText(const wxString
& text
);
50 virtual wxString
GetValue() const;
51 virtual wxString
GetRange(long from
, long to
) const;
52 bool IsEmpty() const { return GetLastPosition() <= 0; }
58 virtual void Replace(long from
, long to
, const wxString
& value
);
59 virtual void Remove(long from
, long to
) = 0;
60 virtual void Clear() { SetValue(wxString()); }
61 void RemoveSelection();
64 // clipboard operations
65 // --------------------
67 virtual void Copy() = 0;
68 virtual void Cut() = 0;
69 virtual void Paste() = 0;
71 virtual bool CanCopy() const;
72 virtual bool CanCut() const;
73 virtual bool CanPaste() const;
78 virtual void Undo() = 0;
79 virtual void Redo() = 0;
81 virtual bool CanUndo() const = 0;
82 virtual bool CanRedo() const = 0;
88 // note that moving insertion point removes any current selection
89 virtual void SetInsertionPoint(long pos
) = 0;
90 virtual void SetInsertionPointEnd() { SetInsertionPoint(-1); }
91 virtual long GetInsertionPoint() const = 0;
92 virtual long GetLastPosition() const = 0;
98 virtual void SetSelection(long from
, long to
) = 0;
99 virtual void SelectAll() { SetSelection(-1, -1); }
100 virtual void GetSelection(long *from
, long *to
) const = 0;
101 bool HasSelection() const;
102 virtual wxString
GetStringSelection() const;
108 // these functions allow to auto-complete the text already entered into the
109 // control using either the given fixed list of strings, the paths from the
110 // file system or an arbitrary user-defined completer
112 // they all return true if completion was enabled or false on error (most
113 // commonly meaning that this functionality is not available under the
116 bool AutoComplete(const wxArrayString
& choices
)
117 { return DoAutoCompleteStrings(choices
); }
119 bool AutoCompleteFileNames()
120 { return DoAutoCompleteFileNames(); }
122 // notice that we take ownership of the pointer and will delete it
124 // if the pointer is NULL auto-completion is disabled
125 bool AutoComplete(wxTextCompleter
*completer
)
126 { return DoAutoCompleteCustom(completer
); }
132 virtual bool IsEditable() const = 0;
133 virtual void SetEditable(bool editable
) = 0;
136 // set the max number of characters which may be entered in a single line
138 virtual void SetMaxLength(unsigned long WXUNUSED(len
)) { }
144 // hint is the (usually greyed out) text shown in the control as long as
145 // it's empty and doesn't have focus, it is typically used in controls used
146 // for searching to let the user know what is supposed to be entered there
148 virtual bool SetHint(const wxString
& hint
);
149 virtual wxString
GetHint() const;
155 // margins are the empty space between borders of control and the text
156 // itself. When setting margin, use value -1 to indicate that specific
157 // margin should not be changed.
159 bool SetMargins(const wxPoint
& pt
)
160 { return DoSetMargins(pt
); }
161 bool SetMargins(wxCoord left
, wxCoord top
= -1)
162 { return DoSetMargins(wxPoint(left
, top
)); }
163 wxPoint
GetMargins() const
164 { return DoGetMargins(); }
167 // implementation only
168 // -------------------
170 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for GetEditableWindow(),
171 // like SetValue() does and return true if the event was processed
173 // NB: this is public for wxRichTextCtrl use only right now, do not call it
174 static bool SendTextUpdatedEvent(wxWindow
*win
);
176 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for this window
177 bool SendTextUpdatedEvent()
179 return SendTextUpdatedEvent(GetEditableWindow());
183 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for this window if the
184 // events are not currently disabled
185 void SendTextUpdatedEventIfAllowed()
187 if ( EventsAllowed() )
188 SendTextUpdatedEvent();
191 // this function is provided solely for the purpose of forwarding text
192 // change notifications state from one control to another, e.g. it can be
193 // used by a wxComboBox which derives from wxTextEntry if it delegates all
194 // of its methods to another wxTextCtrl
195 void ForwardEnableTextChangedEvents(bool enable
)
197 // it's important to call the functions which update m_eventsBlock here
198 // and not just our own EnableTextChangedEvents() because our state
199 // (i.e. the result of EventsAllowed()) must change as well
201 ResumeTextChangedEvents();
203 SuppressTextChangedEvents();
207 // flags for DoSetValue(): common part of SetValue() and ChangeValue() and
208 // also used to implement WriteText() in wxMSW
211 SetValue_NoEvent
= 0,
212 SetValue_SendEvent
= 1,
213 SetValue_SelectionOnly
= 2
216 virtual void DoSetValue(const wxString
& value
, int flags
);
217 virtual wxString
DoGetValue() const = 0;
219 // override this to return the associated window, it will be used for event
220 // generation and also by generic hints implementation
221 virtual wxWindow
*GetEditableWindow() = 0;
224 virtual bool DoSetMargins(const wxPoint
& pt
);
225 virtual wxPoint
DoGetMargins() const;
227 // the derived classes should override these virtual methods to implement
228 // auto-completion, they do the same thing as their public counterparts but
229 // have different names to allow overriding just one of them without hiding
231 virtual bool DoAutoCompleteStrings(const wxArrayString
& WXUNUSED(choices
))
233 virtual bool DoAutoCompleteFileNames() { return false; }
234 virtual bool DoAutoCompleteCustom(wxTextCompleter
*completer
);
237 // class which should be used to temporarily disable text change events
239 // if suppress argument in ctor is false, nothing is done
240 class EventsSuppressor
243 EventsSuppressor(wxTextEntryBase
*text
, bool suppress
= true)
248 m_text
->SuppressTextChangedEvents();
254 m_text
->ResumeTextChangedEvents();
258 wxTextEntryBase
*m_text
;
262 friend class EventsSuppressor
;
265 // suppress or resume the text changed events generation: don't use these
266 // functions directly, use EventsSuppressor class above instead
267 void SuppressTextChangedEvents()
269 if ( !m_eventsBlock
++ )
270 EnableTextChangedEvents(false);
273 void ResumeTextChangedEvents()
275 if ( !--m_eventsBlock
)
276 EnableTextChangedEvents(true);
280 // this must be overridden in the derived classes if our implementation of
281 // SetValue() or Replace() is used to disable (and enable back) generation
282 // of the text changed events
284 // initially the generation of the events is enabled
285 virtual void EnableTextChangedEvents(bool WXUNUSED(enable
)) { }
287 // return true if the events are currently not suppressed
288 bool EventsAllowed() const { return m_eventsBlock
== 0; }
291 // if this counter is non-null, events are blocked
292 unsigned m_eventsBlock
;
294 // hint-related stuff, only allocated if/when SetHint() is used
295 wxTextEntryHintData
*m_hintData
;
297 // It needs to call our Do{Get,Set}Value() to work with the real control
299 friend class wxTextEntryHintData
;
302 #ifdef __WXUNIVERSAL__
303 // TODO: we need to use wxTextEntryDelegate here, but for now just prevent
304 // the GTK/MSW classes from being used in wxUniv build
305 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntry
: public wxTextEntryBase
308 #elif defined(__WXGTK20__)
309 #include "wx/gtk/textentry.h"
310 #elif defined(__WXMAC__)
311 #include "wx/osx/textentry.h"
312 #elif defined(__WXMSW__)
313 #include "wx/msw/textentry.h"
314 #elif defined(__WXMOTIF__)
315 #include "wx/motif/textentry.h"
316 #elif defined(__WXPM__)
317 #include "wx/os2/textentry.h"
319 // no platform-specific implementation of wxTextEntry yet
320 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntry
: public wxTextEntryBase
325 #endif // _WX_TEXTENTRY_H_