interface/wx/taskbar.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        taskbar.h
   3 // Purpose:     interface of wxTaskBarIcon
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
   7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   8
   9 /**
  10     @class wxTaskBarIcon
  11
  12     This class represents a taskbar icon.
  13     A taskbar icon is an icon that appears in the 'system tray' and responds to
  14     mouse clicks, optionally with a tooltip above it to help provide information.
  15
  16     @section taskbaricon_xnote X Window System Note
  17     Under X Window System, the window manager must support either the
  18     "System Tray Protocol" (see http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/systemtray-spec)
  19     by freedesktop.org (WMs used by modern desktop environments such as GNOME >= 2,
  20     KDE >= 3 and XFCE >= 4 all do) or the older methods used in GNOME 1.2 and KDE 1 and 2.
  21
  22     If it doesn't, the icon will appear as a toplevel window on user's desktop.
  23     Because not all window managers have system tray, there's no guarantee that
  24     wxTaskBarIcon will work correctly under X Window System and so the applications
  25     should use it only as an optional component of their user interface.
  26     The user should be required to explicitly enable the taskbar icon on Unix,
  27     it shouldn't be on by default.
  28
  29     @beginEventTable{wxTaskBarIconEvent}
  30     Note that not all ports are required to send these events and so it's better
  31     to override wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu() if all that the application does
  32     is that it shows a popup menu in reaction to mouse click.
  33     @event{EVT_TASKBAR_MOVE(func)}
  34         Process a wxEVT_TASKBAR_MOVE event.
  35     @event{EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DOWN(func)}
  36         Process a wxEVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DOWN event.
  37     @event{EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_UP(func)}
  38         Process a wxEVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_UP event.
  39     @event{EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_DOWN(func)}
  40         Process a wxEVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_DOWN event.
  41     @event{EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_UP(func)}
  42         Process a wxEVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_UP event.
  43     @event{EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DCLICK(func)}
  44         Process a wxEVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DCLICK event.
  45     @event{EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_DCLICK(func)}
  46         Process a wxEVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_DCLICK event.
  47     @event{EVT_TASKBAR_CLICK(func)}
  48         This is a synonym for either EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_DOWN or UP depending on
  49         the platform, use this event macro to catch the event which should result
  50         in the menu being displayed on the current platform.
  51     @endEventTable
  52
  53     @library{wxadv}
  54     @category{misc}
  55 */
  56 class wxTaskBarIcon : public wxEvtHandler
  57 {
  58 public:
  59     /**
  60         Default constructor.
  61     */
  62     wxTaskBarIcon();
  63
  64     /**
  65         Destroys the wxTaskBarIcon object, removing the icon if not already removed.
  66     */
  67     virtual ~wxTaskBarIcon();
  68
  69     /**
  70         This method is called by the library when the user requests popup menu
  71         (on Windows and Unix platforms, this is when the user right-clicks the icon).
  72
  73         Override this function in order to provide popup menu associated with the icon.
  74         If CreatePopupMenu() returns @NULL (this happens by default), no menu is shown,
  75         otherwise the menu is displayed and then deleted by the library as soon as the
  76         user dismisses it.
  77
  78         The events can be handled by a class derived from wxTaskBarIcon.
  79     */
  80     virtual wxMenu* CreatePopupMenu();
  81
  82     /**
  83         This method is similar to wxWindow::Destroy and can be used to schedule
  84         the task bar icon object for the delayed destruction: it will be deleted
  85         during the next event loop iteration, which allows the task bar
  86         icon to process any pending events for it before being destroyed.
  87     */
  88     void Destroy();
  89
  90     /**
  91         Returns @true if SetIcon() was called with no subsequent RemoveIcon().
  92     */
  93     bool IsIconInstalled() const;
  94
  95     /**
  96         Returns @true if the object initialized successfully.
  97     */
  98     bool IsOk() const;
  99
 100     /**
 101         Pops up a menu at the current mouse position.
 102         The events can be handled by a class derived from wxTaskBarIcon.
 103
 104         @note
 105         It is recommended to override CreatePopupMenu() callback instead of
 106         calling this method from event handler, because some ports (e.g. wxCocoa)
 107         may not implement PopupMenu() and mouse click events at all.
 108     */
 109     virtual bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu);
 110
 111     /**
 112         Removes the icon previously set with SetIcon().
 113     */
 114     virtual bool RemoveIcon();
 115
 116     /**
 117         Sets the icon, and optional tooltip text.
 118     */
 119     bool SetIcon(const wxIcon& icon, const wxString& tooltip);
 120
 121     /**
 122         Returns true if system tray is available in the desktop environment the
 123         app runs under.
 124
 125         On Windows and Mac OS X, the tray is always available and this function
 126         simply returns true.
 127
 128         On Unix, X11 environment may or may not provide the tray, depending on
 129         user's desktop environment. Most modern desktops support the tray via
 130         the System Tray Protocol by freedesktop.org
 131         (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/systemtray-spec).
 132
 133         @note Tray availability may change during application's lifetime
 134               under X11 and so applications shouldn't cache the result.
 135
 136         @note wxTaskBarIcon supports older GNOME 1.2 and KDE 1/2 methods of
 137               adding icons to tray, but they are unreliable and this method
 138               doesn't detect them.
 139
 140         @since 2.9.0
 141     */
 142     static bool IsAvailable();
 143 };
 144