1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: wxAppBase class and macros used for declaration of wxApp
4 // derived class in the user code
5 // Author: Julian Smart
9 // Copyright: (c) Julian Smart and Markus Holzem
10 // Licence: wxWindows licence
11 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13 #ifndef _WX_APP_H_BASE_
14 #define _WX_APP_H_BASE_
17 #pragma interface "appbase.h"
20 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
22 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
24 #if (defined(__WXMSW__) && !defined(__WXMICROWIN__)) || defined (__WXPM__)
25 class WXDLLEXPORT wxApp
;
26 typedef wxApp
* (*wxAppInitializerFunction
)();
28 // returning wxApp* won't work with gcc
29 #include "wx/object.h"
31 typedef wxObject
* (*wxAppInitializerFunction
)();
34 class WXDLLEXPORT wxCmdLineParser
;
36 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
37 // headers we have to include here
38 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
40 #include "wx/event.h" // for the base class
43 #include "wx/window.h" // for wxTopLevelWindows
50 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
52 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
54 static const int wxPRINT_WINDOWS
= 1;
55 static const int wxPRINT_POSTSCRIPT
= 2;
57 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
58 // support for framebuffer ports
59 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
62 // VS: Fullscreen/framebuffer application needs to choose display mode prior
63 // to wxWindows initialization. This class holds information about display
64 // mode. It is used by wxApp::Set/GetDisplayMode.
65 class WXDLLEXPORT wxDisplayModeInfo
68 wxDisplayModeInfo() : m_ok(FALSE
) {}
69 wxDisplayModeInfo(unsigned width
, unsigned height
, unsigned depth
)
70 : m_width(width
), m_height(height
), m_depth(depth
), m_ok(TRUE
) {}
72 unsigned GetWidth() const { return m_width
; }
73 unsigned GetHeight() const { return m_height
; }
74 unsigned GetDepth() const { return m_depth
; }
75 bool IsOk() const { return m_ok
; }
78 unsigned m_width
, m_height
, m_depth
;
83 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
84 // the common part of wxApp implementations for all platforms
85 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
87 class WXDLLEXPORT wxAppBase
: public wxEvtHandler
93 // the virtual functions which may/must be overridden in the derived class
94 // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
96 // called during the program initialization, returning FALSE from here
97 // prevents the program from continuing - it's a good place to create
98 // the top level program window and return TRUE.
100 // Override: always in GUI application, rarely in console ones.
101 virtual bool OnInit();
104 // a platform-dependent version of OnInit(): the code here is likely to
105 // depend on the toolkit. default version does nothing.
108 virtual bool OnInitGui();
111 // called to start program execution - the default version just enters
112 // the main GUI loop in which events are received and processed until
113 // the last window is not deleted (if GetExitOnFrameDelete) or
114 // ExitMainLoop() is called. In console mode programs, the execution
115 // of the program really starts here
117 // Override: rarely in GUI applications, always in console ones.
119 virtual int OnRun() { return MainLoop(); };
121 virtual int OnRun() = 0;
124 // called after the main loop termination. This is a good place for
125 // cleaning up (it may be too late in dtor) and is also useful if you
126 // want to return some non-default exit code - this is just the return
127 // value of this method.
130 virtual int OnExit();
132 // called when a fatal exception occurs, this function should take care
133 // not to do anything which might provoke a nested exception! It may be
134 // overridden if you wish to react somehow in non-default way (core
135 // dump under Unix, application crash under Windows) to fatal program
136 // errors, however extreme care should be taken if you don't want this
137 // function to crash.
140 virtual void OnFatalException() { }
142 // the worker functions - usually not used directly by the user code
143 // -----------------------------------------------------------------
146 // execute the main GUI loop, the function returns when the loop ends
147 virtual int MainLoop() = 0;
149 // exit the main GUI loop during the next iteration (i.e. it does not
150 // stop the program immediately!)
151 virtual void ExitMainLoop() = 0;
153 // returns TRUE if the program is initialized
154 virtual bool Initialized() = 0;
156 // returns TRUE if there are unprocessed events in the event queue
157 virtual bool Pending() = 0;
159 // process the first event in the event queue (blocks until an event
160 // apperas if there are none currently)
161 virtual void Dispatch() = 0;
163 // process all currently pending events right now
165 // it is an error to call Yield() recursively unless the value of
166 // onlyIfNeeded is TRUE
168 // WARNING: this function is dangerous as it can lead to unexpected
169 // reentrancies (i.e. when called from an event handler it
170 // may result in calling the same event handler again), use
171 // with _extreme_ care or, better, don't use at all!
172 virtual bool Yield(bool onlyIfNeeded
= FALSE
) = 0;
175 // application info: name, description, vendor
176 // -------------------------------------------
178 // NB: all these should be set by the application itself, there are no
179 // reasonable default except for the application name which is taken to
182 // set/get the application name
183 wxString
GetAppName() const
190 void SetAppName(const wxString
& name
) { m_appName
= name
; }
192 // set/get the app class name
193 wxString
GetClassName() const { return m_className
; }
194 void SetClassName(const wxString
& name
) { m_className
= name
; }
196 // set/get the vendor name
197 const wxString
& GetVendorName() const { return m_vendorName
; }
198 void SetVendorName(const wxString
& name
) { m_vendorName
= name
; }
201 // top level window functions
202 // --------------------------
204 // return TRUE if our app has focus
205 virtual bool IsActive() const { return m_isActive
; }
207 // set the "main" top level window
208 void SetTopWindow(wxWindow
*win
) { m_topWindow
= win
; }
210 // return the "main" top level window (if it hadn't been set previously
211 // with SetTopWindow(), will return just some top level window and, if
212 // there are none, will return NULL)
213 virtual wxWindow
*GetTopWindow() const
217 else if (wxTopLevelWindows
.GetCount() > 0)
218 return wxTopLevelWindows
.GetFirst()->GetData();
220 return (wxWindow
*)NULL
;
223 // control the exit behaviour: by default, the program will exit the
224 // main loop (and so, usually, terminate) when the last top-level
225 // program window is deleted. Beware that if you disabel this (with
226 // SetExitOnFrameDelete(FALSE)), you'll have to call ExitMainLoop()
227 // explicitly from somewhere.
228 void SetExitOnFrameDelete(bool flag
) { m_exitOnFrameDelete
= flag
; }
229 bool GetExitOnFrameDelete() const { return m_exitOnFrameDelete
; }
233 // cmd line parsing stuff
234 // ----------------------
236 // all of these methods may be overridden in the derived class to
237 // customize the command line parsing (by default only a few standard
238 // options are handled)
240 // you also need to call wxApp::OnInit() from YourApp::OnInit() for all
243 #if wxUSE_CMDLINE_PARSER
244 // this one is called from OnInit() to add all supported options
245 // to the given parser
246 virtual void OnInitCmdLine(wxCmdLineParser
& parser
);
248 // called after successfully parsing the command line, return TRUE
249 // to continue and FALSE to exit
250 virtual bool OnCmdLineParsed(wxCmdLineParser
& parser
);
252 // called if "--help" option was specified, return TRUE to continue
254 virtual bool OnCmdLineHelp(wxCmdLineParser
& parser
);
256 // called if incorrect command line options were given, return
257 // FALSE to abort and TRUE to continue
258 virtual bool OnCmdLineError(wxCmdLineParser
& parser
);
259 #endif // wxUSE_CMDLINE_PARSER
261 // miscellaneous customization functions
262 // -------------------------------------
265 // override this function to create default log target of arbitrary
266 // user-defined class (default implementation creates a wxLogGui
267 // object) - this log object is used by default by all wxLogXXX()
269 virtual wxLog
*CreateLogTarget()
270 #if wxUSE_GUI && wxUSE_LOGGUI && !defined(__WXMICROWIN__)
271 { return new wxLogGui
; }
273 { return new wxLogStderr
; }
278 // get the standard icon used by wxWin dialogs - this allows the user
279 // to customize the standard dialogs. The 'which' parameter is one of
281 virtual wxIcon
GetStdIcon(int which
) const = 0;
283 // Get display mode that is used use. This is only used in framebuffer wxWin ports
285 virtual wxDisplayModeInfo
GetDisplayMode() const { return wxDisplayModeInfo(); }
286 // Set display mode to use. This is only used in framebuffer wxWin ports
287 // (such as wxMGL). This method should be called from wxApp:OnInitGui
288 virtual bool SetDisplayMode(const wxDisplayModeInfo
& WXUNUSED(info
)) { return TRUE
; }
290 // set use of best visual flag (see below)
291 void SetUseBestVisual( bool flag
) { m_useBestVisual
= flag
; }
292 bool GetUseBestVisual() const { return m_useBestVisual
; }
294 // set/get printing mode: see wxPRINT_XXX constants.
296 // default behaviour is the normal one for Unix: always use PostScript
298 virtual void SetPrintMode(int WXUNUSED(mode
)) { }
299 int GetPrintMode() const { return wxPRINT_POSTSCRIPT
; }
301 // called by toolkit-specific code to set the app status: active (we have
302 // focus) or not and also the last window which had focus before we were
304 virtual void SetActive(bool isActive
, wxWindow
*lastFocus
);
310 // this function is called when an assert failure occurs, the base class
311 // version does the normal processing (i.e. shows the usual assert failure
314 virtual void OnAssert(const wxChar
*file
, int line
, const wxChar
*msg
);
315 #endif // __WXDEBUG__
317 // deprecated functions, please updae your code to not use them!
318 // -------------------------------------------------------------
320 #if WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
321 // used by obsolete wxDebugMsg only
322 void SetWantDebugOutput( bool flag
) { m_wantDebugOutput
= flag
; }
323 bool GetWantDebugOutput() const { return m_wantDebugOutput
; }
325 // TRUE if the application wants to get debug output
326 bool m_wantDebugOutput
;
327 #endif // WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
329 // implementation only from now on
330 // -------------------------------
332 // helpers for dynamic wxApp construction
333 static void SetInitializerFunction(wxAppInitializerFunction fn
)
334 { m_appInitFn
= fn
; }
335 static wxAppInitializerFunction
GetInitializerFunction()
336 { return m_appInitFn
; }
338 // process all events in the wxPendingEvents list
339 virtual void ProcessPendingEvents();
341 // access to the command line arguments
346 // function used for dynamic wxApp creation
347 static wxAppInitializerFunction m_appInitFn
;
349 // application info (must be set from the user code)
350 wxString m_vendorName
, // vendor name (ACME Inc)
351 m_appName
, // app name
352 m_className
; // class name
355 // the main top level window - may be NULL
356 wxWindow
*m_topWindow
;
358 // if TRUE, exit the main loop when the last top level window is deleted
359 bool m_exitOnFrameDelete
;
361 // TRUE if the apps whats to use the best visual on systems where
362 // more than one are available (Sun, SGI, XFree86 4.0 ?)
363 bool m_useBestVisual
;
365 // does any of our windows has focus?
370 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
371 // now include the declaration of the real class
372 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
375 #if defined(__WXMSW__)
376 #include "wx/msw/app.h"
377 #elif defined(__WXMOTIF__)
378 #include "wx/motif/app.h"
379 #elif defined(__WXMGL__)
380 #include "wx/mgl/app.h"
381 #elif defined(__WXGTK__)
382 #include "wx/gtk/app.h"
383 #elif defined(__WXX11__)
384 #include "wx/x11/app.h"
385 #elif defined(__WXMAC__)
386 #include "wx/mac/app.h"
387 #elif defined(__WXPM__)
388 #include "wx/os2/app.h"
389 #elif defined(__WXSTUBS__)
390 #include "wx/stubs/app.h"
393 // can't use typedef because wxApp forward declared as a class
394 class WXDLLEXPORT wxApp
: public wxAppBase
399 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
401 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
403 // the one and only application object - use of wxTheApp in application code
404 // is discouraged, consider using DECLARE_APP() after which you may call
405 // wxGetApp() which will return the object of the correct type (i.e. MyApp and
407 WXDLLEXPORT_DATA(extern wxApp
*) wxTheApp
;
409 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
411 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
413 // event loop related functions only work in GUI programs
414 // ------------------------------------------------------
416 // Force an exit from main loop
417 extern void WXDLLEXPORT
wxExit();
419 // Yield to other apps/messages
420 extern bool WXDLLEXPORT
wxYield();
422 // Yield to other apps/messages
423 extern void WXDLLEXPORT
wxWakeUpIdle();
425 // Post a message to the given eventhandler which will be processed during the
426 // next event loop iteration
427 inline void wxPostEvent(wxEvtHandler
*dest
, wxEvent
& event
)
429 wxCHECK_RET( dest
, wxT("need an object to post event to in wxPostEvent") );
432 dest
->AddPendingEvent(event
);
434 dest
->ProcessEvent(event
);
438 // console applications may avoid using DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros
439 // and call these functions instead at the program startup and termination
440 // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
444 // initialize the library (may be called as many times as needed, but each
445 // call to wxInitialize() must be matched by wxUninitialize())
446 extern bool WXDLLEXPORT
wxInitialize();
448 // clean up - the library can't be used any more after the last call to
450 extern void WXDLLEXPORT
wxUninitialize();
452 // create an object of this class on stack to initialize/cleanup thel ibrary
454 class WXDLLEXPORT wxInitializer
457 // initialize the library
458 wxInitializer() { m_ok
= wxInitialize(); }
460 // has the initialization been successful? (explicit test)
461 bool IsOk() const { return m_ok
; }
463 // has the initialization been successful? (implicit test)
464 operator bool() const { return m_ok
; }
466 // dtor only does clean up if we initialized the library properly
467 ~wxInitializer() { if ( m_ok
) wxUninitialize(); }
475 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
476 // macros for dynamic creation of the application object
477 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
479 // Having a global instance of this class allows wxApp to be aware of the app
480 // creator function. wxApp can then call this function to create a new app
481 // object. Convoluted, but necessary.
483 class WXDLLEXPORT wxAppInitializer
486 wxAppInitializer(wxAppInitializerFunction fn
)
487 { wxApp::SetInitializerFunction(fn
); }
490 // Here's a macro you can use if your compiler really, really wants main() to
491 // be in your main program (e.g. hello.cpp). Now IMPLEMENT_APP should add this
494 #if !wxUSE_GUI || defined(__WXMOTIF__) || defined(__WXGTK__) || defined(__WXPM__) || defined(__WXMGL__)
495 #define IMPLEMENT_WXWIN_MAIN \
496 extern int wxEntry( int argc, char *argv[] ); \
497 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return wxEntry(argc, argv); }
498 #elif defined(__WXMAC__) && defined(__UNIX__)
499 // wxMac seems to have a specific wxEntry prototype
500 #define IMPLEMENT_WXWIN_MAIN \
501 extern int wxEntry( int argc, char *argv[], bool enterLoop = 1 ); \
502 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return wxEntry(argc, argv); }
503 #elif defined(__WXMSW__) && defined(WXUSINGDLL)
504 // NT defines APIENTRY, 3.x not
505 #if !defined(WXAPIENTRY)
506 #define WXAPIENTRY WXFAR wxSTDCALL
510 #include "wx/msw/winundef.h"
512 #define IMPLEMENT_WXWIN_MAIN \
513 extern "C" int WXAPIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,\
514 HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,\
515 LPSTR m_lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)\
517 return wxEntry((WXHINSTANCE) hInstance,\
518 (WXHINSTANCE) hPrevInstance,\
519 m_lpCmdLine, nCmdShow);\
522 #define IMPLEMENT_WXWIN_MAIN
525 #ifdef __WXUNIVERSAL__
526 #include "wx/univ/theme.h"
528 #define IMPLEMENT_WX_THEME_SUPPORT \
529 WX_USE_THEME(win32); \
532 #define IMPLEMENT_WX_THEME_SUPPORT
535 // Use this macro if you want to define your own main() or WinMain() function
536 // and call wxEntry() from there.
537 #define IMPLEMENT_APP_NO_MAIN(appname) \
538 wxApp *wxCreateApp() { return new appname; } \
539 wxAppInitializer wxTheAppInitializer((wxAppInitializerFunction) wxCreateApp); \
540 appname& wxGetApp() { return *(appname *)wxTheApp; }
542 // Same as IMPLEMENT_APP() normally but doesn't include themes support in
543 // wxUniversal builds
544 #define IMPLEMENT_APP_NO_THEMES(appname) \
545 IMPLEMENT_APP_NO_MAIN(appname) \
548 // Use this macro exactly once, the argument is the name of the wxApp-derived
549 // class which is the class of your application.
550 #define IMPLEMENT_APP(appname) \
551 IMPLEMENT_APP_NO_THEMES(appname) \
552 IMPLEMENT_WX_THEME_SUPPORT
554 // this macro can be used multiple times and just allows you to use wxGetApp()
556 #define DECLARE_APP(appname) extern appname& wxGetApp();