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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: window.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxWindow
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9
10 /**
11 Background styles. See wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle().
12 */
13 enum wxBackgroundStyle
14 {
15 /// Use the default background, as determined by
16 /// the system or the current theme.
17 wxBG_STYLE_SYSTEM,
18
19 /// Use a solid colour for the background, this style is set automatically if you call
20 /// SetBackgroundColour() so you only need to set it explicitly if you had
21 /// changed the background style to something else before.
22 wxBG_STYLE_COLOUR,
23
24 /// Don't draw the background at all, it's supposed that it is drawn by
25 /// the user-defined erase background event handler.
26 /// This style should be used to avoid flicker when the background is entirely
27 /// custom-drawn.
28 wxBG_STYLE_CUSTOM,
29
30 /// The background is (partially) transparent,this style is automatically set if you call
31 /// SetTransparent() which is used to set the transparency level.
32 wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT
33 };
34
35
36 /**
37 Valid values for wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() and wxWindow::HideWithEffect().
38 */
39 enum wxShowEffect
40 {
41 /// Roll window to the left
42 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_LEFT,
43
44 /// Roll window to the right
45 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_RIGHT,
46
47 /// Roll window to the top
48 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_TOP,
49
50 /// Roll window to the bottom
51 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_BOTTOM,
52
53 /// Slide window to the left
54 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_LEFT,
55
56 /// Slide window to the right
57 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT,
58
59 /// Slide window to the top
60 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_TOP,
61
62 /// Slide window to the bottom
63 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_BOTTOM,
64
65 /// Fade in or out effect
66 wxSHOW_EFFECT_BLEND,
67
68 /// Expanding or collapsing effect
69 wxSHOW_EFFECT_EXPAND
70 };
71
72 /**
73 Different window variants, on platforms like eg mac uses different
74 rendering sizes.
75 */
76 enum wxWindowVariant
77 {
78 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL, //!< Normal size
79 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_SMALL, //!< Smaller size (about 25 % smaller than normal)
80 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_MINI, //!< Mini size (about 33 % smaller than normal)
81 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_LARGE, //!< Large size (about 25 % larger than normal)
82 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_MAX
83 };
84
85
86 /**
87 Flags which can be used in wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI().
88 */
89 enum wxUpdateUI
90 {
91 wxUPDATE_UI_NONE,
92 wxUPDATE_UI_RECURSE,
93 wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE /**< Invoked from On(Internal)Idle */
94 };
95
96
97 /**
98 @class wxWindow
99
100 wxWindow is the base class for all windows and represents any visible object
101 om screen. All controls, top level windows and so on are windows. Sizers and
102 device contexts are not, however, as they don't appear on screen themselves.
103
104 Please note that all children of the window will be deleted automatically by
105 the destructor before the window itself is deleted which means that you don't
106 have to worry about deleting them manually. Please see the @ref
107 overview_windowdeletion "window deletion overview" for more information.
108
109 Also note that in this, and many others, wxWidgets classes some
110 @c GetXXX() methods may be overloaded (as, for example,
111 wxWindow::GetSize or wxWindow::GetClientSize). In this case, the overloads
112 are non-virtual because having multiple virtual functions with the same name
113 results in a virtual function name hiding at the derived class level (in
114 English, this means that the derived class has to override all overloaded
115 variants if it overrides any of them). To allow overriding them in the derived
116 class, wxWidgets uses a unique protected virtual @c DoGetXXX() method
117 and all @c GetXXX() ones are forwarded to it, so overriding the former
118 changes the behaviour of the latter.
119
120 @beginStyleTable
121 @style{wxBORDER_DEFAULT}
122 The window class will decide the kind of border to show, if any.
123 @style{wxBORDER_SIMPLE}
124 Displays a thin border around the window. wxSIMPLE_BORDER is the
125 old name for this style.
126 @style{wxBORDER_SUNKEN}
127 Displays a sunken border. wxSUNKEN_BORDER is the old name for this
128 style.
129 @style{wxBORDER_RAISED}
130 Displays a raised border. wxRAISED_BORDER is the old name for this
131 style.
132 @style{wxBORDER_STATIC}
133 Displays a border suitable for a static control. wxSTATIC_BORDER
134 is the old name for this style. Windows only.
135 @style{wxBORDER_THEME}
136 Displays a native border suitable for a control, on the current
137 platform. On Windows XP or Vista, this will be a themed border; on
138 most other platforms a sunken border will be used. For more
139 information for themed borders on Windows, please see Themed
140 borders on Windows.
141 @style{wxBORDER_NONE}
142 Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the
143 window. wxNO_BORDER is the old name for this style.
144 @style{wxBORDER_DOUBLE}
145 This style is obsolete and should not be used.
146 @style{wxTRANSPARENT_WINDOW}
147 The window is transparent, that is, it will not receive paint
148 events. Windows only.
149 @style{wxTAB_TRAVERSAL}
150 Use this to enable tab traversal for non-dialog windows.
151 @style{wxWANTS_CHARS}
152 Use this to indicate that the window wants to get all char/key
153 events for all keys - even for keys like TAB or ENTER which are
154 usually used for dialog navigation and which wouldn't be generated
155 without this style. If you need to use this style in order to get
156 the arrows or etc., but would still like to have normal keyboard
157 navigation take place, you should call Navigate in response to the
158 key events for Tab and Shift-Tab.
159 @style{wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
160 On Windows, this style used to disable repainting the window
161 completely when its size is changed. Since this behaviour is now
162 the default, the style is now obsolete and no longer has an effect.
163 @style{wxVSCROLL}
164 Use this style to enable a vertical scrollbar. Notice that this
165 style cannot be used with native controls which don't support
166 scrollbars nor with top-level windows in most ports.
167 @style{wxHSCROLL}
168 Use this style to enable a horizontal scrollbar. The same
169 limitations as for wxVSCROLL apply to this style.
170 @style{wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB}
171 If a window has scrollbars, disable them instead of hiding them
172 when they are not needed (i.e. when the size of the window is big
173 enough to not require the scrollbars to navigate it). This style is
174 currently implemented for wxMSW, wxGTK and wxUniversal and does
175 nothing on the other platforms.
176 @style{wxCLIP_CHILDREN}
177 Use this style to eliminate flicker caused by the background being
178 repainted, then children being painted over them. Windows only.
179 @style{wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
180 Use this style to force a complete redraw of the window whenever it
181 is resized instead of redrawing just the part of the window
182 affected by resizing. Note that this was the behaviour by default
183 before 2.5.1 release and that if you experience redraw problems
184 with code which previously used to work you may want to try this.
185 Currently this style applies on GTK+ 2 and Windows only, and full
186 repainting is always done on other platforms.
187 @endStyleTable
188
189 @beginExtraStyleTable
190 @style{wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY}
191 By default, Validate/TransferDataTo/FromWindow() only work on
192 direct children of the window (compatible behaviour). Set this flag
193 to make them recursively descend into all subwindows.
194 @style{wxWS_EX_BLOCK_EVENTS}
195 wxCommandEvents and the objects of the derived classes are
196 forwarded to the parent window and so on recursively by default.
197 Using this flag for the given window allows to block this
198 propagation at this window, i.e. prevent the events from being
199 propagated further upwards. Dialogs have this flag on by default
200 for the reasons explained in the @ref overview_eventhandling "Event Handling Overview".
201 @style{wxWS_EX_TRANSIENT}
202 Don't use this window as an implicit parent for the other windows:
203 this must be used with transient windows as otherwise there is the
204 risk of creating a dialog/frame with this window as a parent which
205 would lead to a crash if the parent is destroyed before the child.
206 @style{wxWS_EX_CONTEXTHELP}
207 Under Windows, puts a query button on the caption. When pressed,
208 Windows will go into a context-sensitive help mode and wxWidgets
209 will send a wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application window.
210 This style cannot be used (because of the underlying native behaviour)
211 together with @c wxMAXIMIZE_BOX or @c wxMINIMIZE_BOX, so these two styles
212 are automatically turned off if this one is used.
213 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE}
214 This window should always process idle events, even if the mode set
215 by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
216 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES}
217 This window should always process UI update events, even if the
218 mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
219 @endExtraStyleTable
220
221 @library{wxcore}
222 @category{miscwnd}
223
224 @see @ref overview_eventhandling "Event handling overview",
225 @ref overview_windowsizing "Window sizing overview"
226 */
227 class wxWindow : public wxEvtHandler
228 {
229 public:
230 /**
231 Default constructor
232 */
233 wxWindow();
234
235 /**
236 Constructs a window, which can be a child of a frame, dialog or any other
237 non-control window.
238
239 @param parent
240 Pointer to a parent window.
241 @param id
242 Window identifier. If wxID_ANY, will automatically create an identifier.
243 @param pos
244 Window position. wxDefaultPosition indicates that wxWidgets
245 should generate a default position for the window.
246 If using the wxWindow class directly, supply an actual position.
247 @param size
248 Window size. wxDefaultSize indicates that wxWidgets should generate
249 a default size for the window. If no suitable size can be found, the
250 window will be sized to 20x20 pixels so that the window is visible but
251 obviously not correctly sized.
252 @param style
253 Window style. For generic window styles, please see wxWindow.
254 @param name
255 Window name.
256 */
257 wxWindow(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id,
258 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
259 const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize,
260 long style = 0,
261 const wxString& name = wxPanelNameStr);
262
263 /**
264 Destructor.
265
266 Deletes all sub-windows, then deletes itself. Instead of using
267 the @b delete operator explicitly, you should normally use Destroy()
268 so that wxWidgets can delete a window only when it is safe to do so, in idle time.
269
270 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
271 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
272 */
273 virtual ~wxWindow();
274
275 /**
276 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
277 indicate that this control doesn't accept input at all (i.e. behaves like
278 e.g. wxStaticText) and so doesn't need focus.
279
280 @see AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard()
281 */
282 virtual bool AcceptsFocus() const;
283
284 /**
285 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
286 indicate that while this control can, in principle, have focus if the user
287 clicks it with the mouse, it shouldn't be included in the TAB traversal chain
288 when using the keyboard.
289 */
290 virtual bool AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard() const;
291
292 /**
293 Overridden to indicate wehter this window or one of its children accepts
294 focus. Usually it's the same as AcceptsFocus() but is overridden for
295 container windows.
296 */
297 virtual bool AcceptsFocusRecursively() const;
298
299 /**
300 Adds a child window. This is called automatically by window creation
301 functions so should not be required by the application programmer.
302 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
303 called by the user code.
304
305 @param child
306 Child window to add.
307 */
308 virtual void AddChild(wxWindow* child);
309
310 /**
311 Call this function to force one or both scrollbars to be always shown, even if
312 the window is big enough to show its entire contents without scrolling.
313
314 @since 2.9.0
315
316 @param hflag
317 Whether the horizontal scroll bar should always be visible.
318 @param vflag
319 Whether the vertical scroll bar should always be visible.
320
321 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under Mac/Carbon.
322 */
323 virtual void AlwaysShowScrollbars(bool hflag = true, bool vflag = true);
324
325 /**
326 Sets the cached best size value.
327 */
328 void CacheBestSize(const wxSize& size) const;
329
330 /**
331 Returns @true if the system supports transparent windows and calling
332 SetTransparent() may succeed. If this function returns @false, transparent
333 windows are definitely not supported by the current system.
334 */
335 virtual bool CanSetTransparent();
336
337 /**
338 Directs all mouse input to this window.
339 Call ReleaseMouse() to release the capture.
340
341 Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
342 and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
343 captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
344 window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
345 as you capture it, unless the window receives the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
346
347 Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
348 must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent and cancel this operation when it receives
349 the event. The event handler must not recapture mouse.
350
351 @see ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
352 */
353 void CaptureMouse();
354
355 /**
356 A synonym for Centre().
357 */
358 void Center(int dir = wxBOTH);
359
360 /**
361 A synonym for CentreOnParent().
362 */
363 void CenterOnParent(int dir = wxBOTH);
364
365 /**
366 Centres the window.
367
368 @param direction
369 Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
370 or wxBOTH. It may also include wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN flag
371 if you want to center the window on the entire screen and not on its
372 parent window.
373
374 @remarks If the window is a top level one (i.e. doesn't have a parent),
375 it will be centered relative to the screen anyhow.
376
377 @see Center()
378 */
379 void Centre(int direction = wxBOTH);
380
381 /**
382 Centres the window on its parent. This is a more readable synonym for Centre().
383
384 @param direction
385 Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
386 or wxBOTH.
387
388 @remarks This methods provides for a way to center top level windows over
389 their parents instead of the entire screen. If there
390 is no parent or if the window is not a top level
391 window, then behaviour is the same as Centre().
392
393 @see wxTopLevelWindow::CentreOnScreen
394 */
395 void CentreOnParent(int direction = wxBOTH);
396
397 /**
398 Clears the window by filling it with the current background colour. Does not
399 cause an erase background event to be generated.
400 */
401 virtual void ClearBackground();
402
403 /**
404 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
405
406 @param x
407 A pointer to a integer value for the x coordinate. Pass the client
408 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
409 @param y
410 A pointer to a integer value for the y coordinate. Pass the client
411 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
412
413 @beginWxPythonOnly
414 In place of a single overloaded method name, wxPython implements the following methods:
415 - ClientToScreen(point): Accepts and returns a wxPoint
416 - ClientToScreenXY(x, y): Returns a 2-tuple, (x, y)
417 @endWxPythonOnly
418 */
419 void ClientToScreen(int* x, int* y) const;
420
421 /**
422 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
423
424 @param pt
425 The client position for the second form of the function.
426 */
427 wxPoint ClientToScreen(const wxPoint& pt) const;
428
429 /**
430 Converts client area size @a size to corresponding window size.
431
432 In other words, the returned value is what would GetSize() return if this
433 window had client area of given size. Components with wxDefaultCoord
434 value are left unchanged. Note that the conversion is not always
435 exact, it assumes that non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't
436 take into account things like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance
437 of the scrollbars.
438
439 @since 2.8.8
440
441 @see WindowToClientSize()
442 */
443 virtual wxSize ClientToWindowSize(const wxSize& size) const;
444
445 /**
446 Converts window size @a size to corresponding client area size
447 In other words, the returned value is what would GetClientSize() return if
448 this window had given window size. Components with wxDefaultCoord value
449 are left unchanged.
450
451 Note that the conversion is not always exact, it assumes that
452 non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't take into account things
453 like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance of the scrollbars.
454
455 @since 2.8.8
456
457 @see ClientToWindowSize()
458 */
459 virtual wxSize WindowToClientSize(const wxSize& size) const;
460
461 /**
462 This function simply generates a wxCloseEvent whose handler usually tries
463 to close the window. It doesn't close the window itself, however.
464
465 @param force
466 @false if the window's close handler should be able to veto the destruction
467 of this window, @true if it cannot.
468
469 @remarks Close calls the close handler for the window, providing an
470 opportunity for the window to choose whether to destroy
471 the window. Usually it is only used with the top level
472 windows (wxFrame and wxDialog classes) as the others
473 are not supposed to have any special OnClose() logic.
474 The close handler should check whether the window is being deleted
475 forcibly, using wxCloseEvent::CanVeto, in which case it should
476 destroy the window using wxWindow::Destroy.
477 Note that calling Close does not guarantee that the window will
478 be destroyed; but it provides a way to simulate a manual close
479 of a window, which may or may not be implemented by destroying
480 the window. The default implementation of wxDialog::OnCloseWindow
481 does not necessarily delete the dialog, since it will simply
482 simulate an wxID_CANCEL event which is handled by the appropriate
483 button event handler and may do anything at all.
484 To guarantee that the window will be destroyed, call
485 wxWindow::Destroy instead
486
487 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
488 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
489 */
490 bool Close(bool force = false);
491
492 //@{
493 /**
494 Converts a point or size from dialog units to pixels.
495
496 For the x dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
497 width and then divided by 4.
498 For the y dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
499 height and then divided by 8.
500
501 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
502 even if the font changes.
503 You can also use these functions programmatically.
504 A convenience macro is defined:
505 @code
506 #define wxDLG_UNIT(parent, pt) parent->ConvertDialogToPixels(pt)
507 @endcode
508
509 @see ConvertPixelsToDialog()
510 */
511 wxPoint ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxPoint& pt);
512 wxSize ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxSize& sz);
513 //@}
514
515 //@{
516 /**
517 Converts a point or size from pixels to dialog units.
518
519 For the x dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 4 and then divided by the
520 average character width.
521 For the y dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 8 and then divided by the
522 average character height.
523
524 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
525 even if the font changes.
526
527 @see ConvertDialogToPixels()
528 */
529 wxPoint ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxPoint& pt);
530 wxSize ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxSize& sz);
531 //@}
532
533 /**
534 Destroys the window safely. Use this function instead of the delete operator,
535 since different window classes can be destroyed differently. Frames and dialogs
536 are not destroyed immediately when this function is called -- they are added
537 to a list of windows to be deleted on idle time, when all the window's events
538 have been processed. This prevents problems with events being sent to
539 non-existent windows.
540
541 @return @true if the window has either been successfully deleted, or it
542 has been added to the list of windows pending real deletion.
543 */
544 virtual bool Destroy();
545
546 /**
547 Destroys all children of a window. Called automatically by the destructor.
548 */
549 bool DestroyChildren();
550
551 /**
552 Returns true if this window is in process of being destroyed.
553
554 The top level windows are not deleted immediately but are rather
555 scheduled for later destruction to give them time to process any
556 pending messages, see Destroy() description.
557
558 This function returns @true if this window, or one of its parent
559 windows, is scheduled for destruction and can be useful to avoid
560 manipulating it as it's usually useless to do something with a window
561 which is on the point of disappearing anyhow.
562 */
563 bool IsBeingDeleted() const;
564
565 /**
566 Disables the window. Same as @ref Enable() Enable(@false).
567
568 @return Returns @true if the window has been disabled, @false if it had
569 been already disabled before the call to this function.
570 */
571 bool Disable();
572
573 /**
574 Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
575 This function is called by UpdateWindowUI() in order to check return
576 values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and act appropriately.
577 For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating, wxWidgets
578 implements this function as follows:
579
580 @code
581 // do the window-specific processing after processing the update event
582 void wxTopLevelWindowBase::DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event)
583 {
584 if ( event.GetSetEnabled() )
585 Enable(event.GetEnabled());
586
587 if ( event.GetSetText() )
588 {
589 if ( event.GetText() != GetTitle() )
590 SetTitle(event.GetText());
591 }
592 }
593 @endcode
594 */
595 virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event);
596
597 /**
598 Enables or disables eligibility for drop file events (OnDropFiles).
599
600 @param accept
601 If @true, the window is eligible for drop file events.
602 If @false, the window will not accept drop file events.
603
604 @remarks Windows only until version 2.8.9, available on all platforms
605 since 2.8.10. Cannot be used together with SetDropTarget() on
606 non-Windows platforms.
607
608 @see SetDropTarget()
609 */
610 virtual void DragAcceptFiles(bool accept);
611
612 /**
613 Enable or disable the window for user input. Note that when a parent window is
614 disabled, all of its children are disabled as well and they are reenabled again
615 when the parent is.
616
617 @param enable
618 If @true, enables the window for input. If @false, disables the window.
619
620 @return Returns @true if the window has been enabled or disabled, @false
621 if nothing was done, i.e. if the window had already
622 been in the specified state.
623
624 @see IsEnabled(), Disable(), wxRadioBox::Enable
625 */
626 virtual bool Enable(bool enable = true);
627
628 /**
629 Finds the window or control which currently has the keyboard focus.
630
631 @remarks Note that this is a static function, so it can be called without
632 needing a wxWindow pointer.
633
634 @see SetFocus(), HasFocus()
635 */
636 static wxWindow* FindFocus();
637
638 /**
639 Find a child of this window, by @a id.
640 May return @a this if it matches itself.
641 */
642 wxWindow* FindWindow(long id) const;
643
644 /**
645 Find a child of this window, by name.
646 May return @a this if it matches itself.
647 */
648 wxWindow* FindWindow(const wxString& name) const;
649
650 /**
651 Find the first window with the given @e id.
652
653 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
654 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
655 window hierarchy.
656 The search is recursive in both cases.
657
658 @see FindWindow()
659 */
660 static wxWindow* FindWindowById(long id, const wxWindow* parent = 0);
661
662 /**
663 Find a window by its label.
664
665 Depending on the type of window, the label may be a window title
666 or panel item label. If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all
667 top-level frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be
668 limited to the given window hierarchy.
669 The search is recursive in both cases.
670
671 @see FindWindow()
672 */
673 static wxWindow* FindWindowByLabel(const wxString& label,
674 const wxWindow* parent = 0);
675
676 /**
677 Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or Create()
678 function call).
679
680 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
681 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
682 window hierarchy.
683
684 The search is recursive in both cases. If no window with such name is found,
685 FindWindowByLabel() is called.
686
687 @see FindWindow()
688 */
689 static wxWindow* FindWindowByName(const wxString& name,
690 const wxWindow* parent = 0);
691
692 /**
693 Sizes the window so that it fits around its subwindows.
694
695 This function won't do anything if there are no subwindows and will only really
696 work correctly if sizers are used for the subwindows layout.
697
698 Also, if the window has exactly one subwindow it is better (faster and the result
699 is more precise as Fit() adds some margin to account for fuzziness of its calculations)
700 to call:
701
702 @code
703 window->SetClientSize(child->GetSize());
704 @endcode
705
706 instead of calling Fit().
707
708 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
709 */
710 virtual void Fit();
711
712 /**
713 Similar to Fit(), but sizes the interior (virtual) size of a window.
714
715 Mainly useful with scrolled windows to reset scrollbars after sizing
716 changes that do not trigger a size event, and/or scrolled windows without
717 an interior sizer. This function similarly won't do anything if there are
718 no subwindows.
719 */
720 virtual void FitInside();
721
722 /**
723 Freezes the window or, in other words, prevents any updates from taking
724 place on screen, the window is not redrawn at all.
725
726 Thaw() must be called to reenable window redrawing. Calls to these two
727 functions may be nested but to ensure that the window is properly
728 repainted again, you must thaw it exactly as many times as you froze it.
729
730 If the window has any children, they are recursively frozen too.
731
732 This method is useful for visual appearance optimization (for example,
733 it is a good idea to use it before doing many large text insertions in
734 a row into a wxTextCtrl under wxGTK) but is not implemented on all
735 platforms nor for all controls so it is mostly just a hint to wxWidgets
736 and not a mandatory directive.
737
738 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Thaw(), IsFrozen()
739 */
740 void Freeze();
741
742 /**
743 Gets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
744 */
745 wxAcceleratorTable* GetAcceleratorTable();
746
747 /**
748 Returns the accessible object for this window, if any.
749 See also wxAccessible.
750 */
751 wxAccessible* GetAccessible();
752
753 /**
754 Returns the background colour of the window.
755
756 @see SetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(), GetForegroundColour()
757 */
758 wxColour GetBackgroundColour() const;
759
760 /**
761 Returns the background style of the window.
762 The background style can be one of the wxBackgroundStyle.
763
764 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
765 SetBackgroundStyle(), SetTransparent()
766 */
767 virtual wxBackgroundStyle GetBackgroundStyle() const;
768
769 /**
770 This functions returns the best acceptable minimal size for the window.
771
772 For example, for a static control, it will be the minimal size such that the
773 control label is not truncated. For windows containing subwindows (typically
774 wxPanel), the size returned by this function will be the same as the size
775 the window would have had after calling Fit().
776 */
777 wxSize GetBestSize() const;
778
779 /**
780 Returns the currently captured window.
781
782 @see HasCapture(), CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(),
783 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
784 */
785 static wxWindow* GetCapture();
786
787 /**
788 Returns the caret() associated with the window.
789 */
790 wxCaret* GetCaret() const;
791
792 /**
793 Returns the character height for this window.
794 */
795 virtual int GetCharHeight() const;
796
797 /**
798 Returns the average character width for this window.
799 */
800 virtual int GetCharWidth() const;
801
802 //@{
803 /**
804 Returns a reference to the list of the window's children. @c wxWindowList
805 is a type-safe wxList-like class whose elements are of type @c wxWindow*.
806 */
807 wxWindowList& GetChildren();
808 const wxWindowList& GetChildren() const;
809 //@}
810
811 /**
812 Returns the default font and colours which are used by the control.
813
814 This is useful if you want to use the same font or colour in your own control
815 as in a standard control -- which is a much better idea than hard coding specific
816 colours or fonts which might look completely out of place on the users
817 system, especially if it uses themes.
818
819 The @a variant parameter is only relevant under Mac currently and is
820 ignore under other platforms. Under Mac, it will change the size of the
821 returned font. See SetWindowVariant() for more about this.
822
823 This static method is "overridden" in many derived classes and so calling,
824 for example, wxButton::GetClassDefaultAttributes() will typically
825 return the values appropriate for a button which will be normally different
826 from those returned by, say, wxListCtrl::GetClassDefaultAttributes().
827
828 The @c wxVisualAttributes structure has at least the fields
829 @c font, @c colFg and @c colBg. All of them may be invalid
830 if it was not possible to determine the default control appearance or,
831 especially for the background colour, if the field doesn't make sense as is
832 the case for @c colBg for the controls with themed background.
833
834 @see InheritAttributes()
835 */
836 static wxVisualAttributes GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindowVariant variant = wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL);
837
838 //@{
839 /**
840 Returns the size of the window 'client area' in pixels.
841
842 The client area is the area which may be drawn on by the programmer,
843 excluding title bar, border, scrollbars, etc.
844 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
845 return size is empty (both width and height are 0).
846
847 @see GetSize(), GetVirtualSize()
848 */
849 void GetClientSize(int* width, int* height) const;
850 wxSize GetClientSize() const;
851 //@}
852
853 /**
854 Returns a pointer to the window's layout constraints, or @NULL if there are none.
855 */
856 wxLayoutConstraints* GetConstraints() const;
857
858 /**
859 Return the sizer that this window is a member of, if any, otherwise @NULL.
860 */
861 wxSizer* GetContainingSizer() const;
862
863 /**
864 Return the cursor associated with this window.
865
866 @see SetCursor()
867 */
868 const wxCursor& GetCursor() const;
869
870 /**
871 Currently this is the same as calling
872 wxWindow::GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindow::GetWindowVariant()).
873
874 One advantage of using this function compared to the static version is that
875 the call is automatically dispatched to the correct class (as usual with
876 virtual functions) and you don't have to specify the class name explicitly.
877
878 The other one is that in the future this function could return different
879 results, for example it might return a different font for an "Ok" button
880 than for a generic button if the users GUI is configured to show such buttons
881 in bold font. Of course, the down side is that it is impossible to call this
882 function without actually having an object to apply it to whereas the static
883 version can be used without having to create an object first.
884 */
885 virtual wxVisualAttributes GetDefaultAttributes() const;
886
887 /**
888 Returns the associated drop target, which may be @NULL.
889
890 @see SetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
891 */
892 virtual wxDropTarget* GetDropTarget() const;
893
894 /**
895 Merges the window's best size into the min size and returns the result.
896 This is the value used by sizers to determine the appropriate
897 ammount of space to allocate for the widget.
898
899 @see GetBestSize(), SetInitialSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
900 */
901 wxSize GetEffectiveMinSize() const;
902
903 /**
904 Returns the event handler for this window.
905 By default, the window is its own event handler.
906
907 @see SetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
908 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
909 */
910 wxEvtHandler* GetEventHandler() const;
911
912 /**
913 Returns the extra style bits for the window.
914 */
915 long GetExtraStyle() const;
916
917 /**
918 Returns the font for this window.
919
920 @see SetFont()
921 */
922 wxFont GetFont() const;
923
924 /**
925 Returns the foreground colour of the window.
926
927 @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
928 interpretation according to the window class; it may be
929 the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
930
931 @see SetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
932 GetBackgroundColour()
933 */
934 wxColour GetForegroundColour() const;
935
936 /**
937 Returns the grandparent of a window, or @NULL if there isn't one.
938 */
939 wxWindow* GetGrandParent() const;
940
941 /**
942 Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
943 Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
944 @b Widget for Motif, @b GtkWidget for GTK or @b WinHandle for PalmOS.
945 */
946 virtual WXWidget GetHandle() const;
947
948 /**
949 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
950 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
951 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
952
953 @see SetHelpText(), GetHelpTextAtPoint(), wxHelpProvider
954 */
955 wxString GetHelpText() const;
956
957 /**
958 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
959 This method should be overridden if the help message depends on the position
960 inside the window, otherwise GetHelpText() can be used.
961
962 @param point
963 Coordinates of the mouse at the moment of help event emission.
964 @param origin
965 Help event origin, see also wxHelpEvent::GetOrigin.
966 */
967 virtual wxString GetHelpTextAtPoint(const wxPoint& point,
968 wxHelpEvent::Origin origin) const;
969
970 /**
971 Returns the identifier of the window.
972
973 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application
974 has not provided one (or the default wxID_ANY) an unique
975 identifier with a negative value will be generated.
976
977 @see SetId(), @ref overview_windowids
978 */
979 wxWindowID GetId() const;
980
981 /**
982 Generic way of getting a label from any window, for
983 identification purposes.
984
985 @remarks The interpretation of this function differs from class to class.
986 For frames and dialogs, the value returned is the
987 title. For buttons or static text controls, it is the
988 button text. This function can be useful for
989 meta-programs (such as testing tools or special-needs
990 access programs) which need to identify windows by name.
991 */
992 virtual wxString GetLabel() const;
993
994 /**
995 Returns the maximum size of window's client area.
996
997 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
998 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using
999 SetClientSize().
1000
1001 @see GetMaxSize()
1002 */
1003 virtual wxSize GetMaxClientSize() const;
1004
1005 /**
1006 Returns the maximum size of the window.
1007
1008 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
1009 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using SetSize().
1010
1011 @see GetMaxClientSize()
1012 */
1013 virtual wxSize GetMaxSize() const;
1014
1015 /**
1016 Returns the minimum size of window's client area, an indication to the sizer
1017 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of its client area.
1018
1019 It normally just returns the value set by SetMinClientSize(), but it can be
1020 overridden to do the calculation on demand.
1021
1022 @see GetMinSize()
1023 */
1024 virtual wxSize GetMinClientSize() const;
1025
1026 /**
1027 Returns the minimum size of the window, an indication to the sizer layout
1028 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
1029
1030 This method normally just returns the value set by SetMinSize(), but it
1031 can be overridden to do the calculation on demand.
1032
1033 @see GetMinClientSize()
1034 */
1035 virtual wxSize GetMinSize() const;
1036
1037 /**
1038 Returns the window's name.
1039
1040 @remarks This name is not guaranteed to be unique; it is up to the
1041 programmer to supply an appropriate name in the window
1042 constructor or via SetName().
1043
1044 @see SetName()
1045 */
1046 virtual wxString GetName() const;
1047
1048 /**
1049 Returns the next window after this one among the parent children or @NULL
1050 if this window is the last child.
1051
1052 @since 2.8.8
1053
1054 @see GetPrevSibling()
1055 */
1056 wxWindow* GetNextSibling() const;
1057
1058 /**
1059 Returns the parent of the window, or @NULL if there is no parent.
1060 */
1061 wxWindow* GetParent() const;
1062
1063 //@{
1064 /**
1065 This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
1066 returns the selected id.
1067
1068 It can be more convenient than the general purpose PopupMenu() function
1069 for simple menus proposing a choice in a list of strings to the user.
1070
1071 Notice that to avoid unexpected conflicts between the (usually
1072 consecutive range of) ids used by the menu passed to this function and
1073 the existing EVT_UPDATE_UI() handlers, this function temporarily
1074 disables UI updates for the window, so you need to manually disable
1075 (or toggle or ...) any items which should be disabled in the menu
1076 before showing it.
1077
1078 The parameter @a menu is the menu to show.
1079 The parameter @a pos (or the parameters @a x and @a y) is the
1080 position at which to show the menu in client coordinates.
1081
1082 @return
1083 The selected menu item id or @c wxID_NONE if none selected or an
1084 error occurred.
1085
1086 @since 2.9.0
1087 */
1088 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, const wxPoint& pos);
1089 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, int x, int y);
1090 //@}
1091
1092 /**
1093 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1094 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1095
1096 @param x
1097 Receives the x position of the window if non-@NULL.
1098 @param y
1099 Receives the y position of the window if non-@NULL.
1100
1101 @see GetScreenPosition()
1102 */
1103 void GetPosition(int* x, int* y) const;
1104
1105 /**
1106 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1107 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1108
1109 @see GetScreenPosition()
1110 */
1111 wxPoint GetPosition() const;
1112
1113 /**
1114 Returns the previous window before this one among the parent children or @c
1115 @NULL if this window is the first child.
1116
1117 @since 2.8.8
1118
1119 @see GetNextSibling()
1120 */
1121 wxWindow* GetPrevSibling() const;
1122
1123 /**
1124 Returns the position and size of the window as a wxRect object.
1125
1126 @see GetScreenRect()
1127 */
1128 wxRect GetRect() const;
1129
1130 /**
1131 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1132 child window or a top level one.
1133
1134 @param x
1135 Receives the x position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1136 @param y
1137 Receives the y position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1138
1139 @see GetPosition()
1140 */
1141 void GetScreenPosition(int* x, int* y) const;
1142
1143 /**
1144 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1145 child window or a top level one.
1146
1147 @see GetPosition()
1148 */
1149 wxPoint GetScreenPosition() const;
1150
1151 /**
1152 Returns the position and size of the window on the screen as a wxRect object.
1153
1154 @see GetRect()
1155 */
1156 wxRect GetScreenRect() const;
1157
1158 /**
1159 Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
1160
1161 @see See SetScrollbar()
1162 */
1163 virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation) const;
1164
1165 /**
1166 Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
1167
1168 @see SetScrollbar()
1169 */
1170 virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation) const;
1171
1172 /**
1173 Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
1174
1175 @see SetScrollbar()
1176 */
1177 virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation) const;
1178
1179 /**
1180 Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
1181 scrollbars, etc.
1182
1183 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
1184 returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
1185
1186 @param width
1187 Receives the window width.
1188 @param height
1189 Receives the window height.
1190
1191 @see GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize()
1192 */
1193 void GetSize(int* width, int* height) const;
1194
1195 /**
1196 See the GetSize(int*,int*) overload for more info.
1197 */
1198 wxSize GetSize() const;
1199
1200 /**
1201 Return the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
1202 SetSizer() or @NULL.
1203 */
1204 wxSizer* GetSizer() const;
1205
1206 /**
1207 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1208 window with the currently selected font.
1209
1210 The text extent is returned in @a w and @a h pointers.
1211
1212 @param string
1213 String whose extent is to be measured.
1214 @param w
1215 Return value for width.
1216 @param h
1217 Return value for height.
1218 @param descent
1219 Return value for descent (optional).
1220 @param externalLeading
1221 Return value for external leading (optional).
1222 @param font
1223 Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
1224 */
1225 virtual void GetTextExtent(const wxString& string, int* w, int* h,
1226 int* descent = NULL,
1227 int* externalLeading = NULL,
1228 const wxFont* font = NULL) const;
1229
1230 /**
1231 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1232 window with the currently selected font.
1233 */
1234 wxSize GetTextExtent(const wxString& string) const;
1235
1236 /**
1237 Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
1238 */
1239 wxToolTip* GetToolTip() const;
1240
1241 /**
1242 Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
1243 Should only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
1244
1245 @see wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
1246 */
1247 const wxRegion& GetUpdateRegion() const;
1248
1249 /**
1250 Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if
1251 there is none.
1252 */
1253 virtual wxValidator* GetValidator();
1254
1255 //@{
1256 /**
1257 This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
1258 By default it returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
1259 SetVirtualSize() it will return the size set with that method.
1260 */
1261 wxSize GetVirtualSize() const;
1262
1263 /**
1264 Like the other GetVirtualSize() overload but uses pointers instead.
1265
1266 @param width
1267 Receives the window virtual width.
1268 @param height
1269 Receives the window virtual height.
1270 */
1271 void GetVirtualSize(int* width, int* height) const;
1272 //@}
1273
1274 /**
1275 Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
1276 and y components of the result respectively.
1277 */
1278 virtual wxSize GetWindowBorderSize() const;
1279
1280 //@{
1281 /**
1282 Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or Create()
1283 method. GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
1284 */
1285 virtual long GetWindowStyleFlag() const;
1286 long GetWindowStyle() const;
1287 //@}
1288
1289 /**
1290 Returns the value previously passed to SetWindowVariant().
1291 */
1292 wxWindowVariant GetWindowVariant() const;
1293
1294 /**
1295 This function will generate the appropriate call to
1296 Navigate() if the key event is one normally used for
1297 keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
1298
1299 @return Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
1300 handled, @false otherwise.
1301
1302 @see Navigate()
1303 */
1304 bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent& event);
1305
1306 /**
1307 Shorthand for:
1308 @code
1309 GetEventHandler()->SafelyProcessEvent(event);
1310 @endcode
1311 */
1312 bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent& event) const;
1313
1314 /**
1315 Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
1316
1317 @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
1318 wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1319 */
1320 virtual bool HasCapture() const;
1321
1322 /**
1323 Returns @true if the window has the given @a exFlag bit set in its
1324 extra styles.
1325
1326 @see SetExtraStyle()
1327 */
1328 bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag) const;
1329
1330 /**
1331 Returns @true if the window has the given @a flag bit set.
1332 */
1333 bool HasFlag(int flag) const;
1334
1335 /**
1336 Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
1337 child window) has focus.
1338
1339 @see FindFocus()
1340 */
1341 virtual bool HasFocus() const;
1342
1343 /**
1344 This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
1345 multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
1346 wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
1347 and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should do it as well to
1348 allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
1349 */
1350 virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
1351
1352 /**
1353 Returns @true if this window has a scroll bar for this orientation.
1354
1355 @param orient
1356 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
1357 */
1358 bool HasScrollbar(int orient) const;
1359
1360 /**
1361 Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example,
1362 for wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
1363
1364 This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
1365 shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
1366 wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
1367 */
1368 virtual bool HasTransparentBackground();
1369
1370 /**
1371 Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
1372 */
1373 bool Hide();
1374
1375 /**
1376 This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a special visual
1377 effect if possible.
1378
1379 The parameters of this function are the same as for ShowWithEffect(),
1380 please see their description there.
1381
1382 @since 2.9.0
1383 */
1384 virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
1385 unsigned int timeout = 0);
1386
1387 /**
1388 This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
1389 window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
1390 the font and the foreground and background colours.
1391
1392 By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
1393 own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
1394 However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
1395 SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
1396 attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
1397 window takes the same value as used by the parent.
1398 In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
1399 the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
1400
1401 This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
1402 different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
1403 are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
1404 different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
1405 they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
1406 desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
1407 just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
1408 do inherit the parents attributes.
1409 */
1410 virtual void InheritAttributes();
1411
1412 /**
1413 Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
1414 to the dialog via validators.
1415 */
1416 virtual void InitDialog();
1417
1418 /**
1419 Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
1420 is needed.
1421 */
1422 void InvalidateBestSize();
1423
1424 /**
1425 Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
1426 any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
1427 and transferred to the screen all at once later.
1428
1429 @see wxBufferedDC
1430 */
1431 virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
1432
1433 /**
1434 Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input,
1435 @false otherwise.
1436
1437 Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
1438 been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled.
1439 To get the intrinsic status of this window, use IsThisEnabled()
1440
1441 @see Enable()
1442 */
1443 bool IsEnabled() const;
1444
1445 //@{
1446 /**
1447 Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
1448 last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
1449 only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
1450 */
1451 bool IsExposed(int x, int y) const;
1452 bool IsExposed(wxPoint& pt) const;
1453 bool IsExposed(int x, int y, int w, int h) const;
1454 bool IsExposed(wxRect& rect) const;
1455 //@}
1456
1457 /**
1458 Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to Freeze().
1459
1460 @see Freeze(), Thaw()
1461 */
1462 bool IsFrozen() const;
1463
1464 /**
1465 Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
1466
1467 @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
1468 */
1469 virtual bool IsRetained() const;
1470
1471 /**
1472 Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
1473
1474 @param orient
1475 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
1476
1477 @see AlwaysShowScrollbars()
1478 */
1479 virtual bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient) const;
1480
1481 /**
1482 Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
1483
1484 @see IsShownOnScreen()
1485 */
1486 virtual bool IsShown() const;
1487
1488 /**
1489 Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
1490 is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
1491
1492 @see IsShown()
1493 */
1494 virtual bool IsShownOnScreen() const;
1495
1496 /**
1497 Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
1498 i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
1499 mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
1500 IsEnabled() instead.
1501 */
1502 bool IsThisEnabled() const;
1503
1504 /**
1505 Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
1506 dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
1507 window).
1508 */
1509 virtual bool IsTopLevel() const;
1510
1511 /**
1512 Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
1513 for this window.
1514
1515 This function does not get called automatically when the window is resized
1516 because lots of windows deriving from wxWindow does not need this functionality.
1517 If you want to have Layout() called automatically, you should derive
1518 from wxPanel (see wxPanel::Layout).
1519
1520 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
1521 */
1522 virtual bool Layout();
1523
1524 /**
1525 Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
1526
1527 @remarks
1528 This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
1529
1530 @see Raise()
1531 */
1532 virtual void Lower();
1533
1534 /**
1535 Disables all other windows in the application so that
1536 the user can only interact with this window.
1537
1538 @param modal
1539 If @true, this call disables all other windows in the application so that
1540 the user can only interact with this window. If @false, the effect is
1541 reversed.
1542 */
1543 virtual void MakeModal(bool modal = true);
1544
1545 /**
1546 Moves the window to the given position.
1547
1548 @param x
1549 Required x position.
1550 @param y
1551 Required y position.
1552 @param flags
1553 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1554
1555 @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
1556 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1557 @code
1558 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1559 @endcode
1560
1561 @see SetSize()
1562 */
1563 void Move(int x, int y, int flags = wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1564
1565 /**
1566 Moves the window to the given position.
1567
1568 @param pt
1569 wxPoint object representing the position.
1570 @param flags
1571 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1572
1573 @remarks Implementations of SetSize() can also implicitly implement the
1574 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1575 @code
1576 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1577 @endcode
1578
1579 @see SetSize()
1580 */
1581 void Move(const wxPoint& pt, int flags = wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1582
1583 /**
1584 Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
1585 This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
1586 the focus switches to this window.
1587
1588 Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
1589 MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
1590 it after creating all the windows.
1591
1592 @param win
1593 A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
1594 must not be @NULL
1595 */
1596 void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
1597
1598 /**
1599 Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that it inserts this window just
1600 before @a win instead of putting it right after it.
1601 */
1602 void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
1603
1604 /**
1605 Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window.
1606 This method is equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
1607 parent window.
1608
1609 @param flags
1610 A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
1611 wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
1612
1613 @return Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
1614 if nothing changed.
1615
1616 @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
1617 handler to do the default navigation behaviour for the
1618 tab key, since the standard default behaviour for a
1619 multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB style
1620 is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
1621 control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
1622 HandleAsNavigationKey.
1623 */
1624 bool Navigate(int flags = IsForward);
1625
1626 /**
1627 Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
1628 See Navigate() for more information.
1629 */
1630 bool NavigateIn(int flags = IsForward);
1631
1632 /**
1633 Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.
1634 The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindow ID
1635 or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
1636
1637 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
1638
1639 @param count
1640 The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
1641
1642 @return Returns the ID or the first ID of the range, or wxID_NONE if the
1643 specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
1644
1645 @see UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager,
1646 @ref overview_windowids
1647 */
1648 static wxWindowID NewControlId(int count = 1);
1649
1650 /**
1651 This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
1652 sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
1653 that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
1654 handler in a derived class.
1655
1656 This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
1657 and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
1658 in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
1659 */
1660 virtual void OnInternalIdle();
1661
1662 /**
1663 Same as #ScrollLines (-1).
1664 */
1665 bool LineUp();
1666
1667 /**
1668 Same as #ScrollLines (1).
1669 */
1670 bool LineDown();
1671
1672 /**
1673 Same as #ScrollPages (-1).
1674 */
1675 bool PageUp();
1676
1677 /**
1678 Same as #ScrollPages (1).
1679 */
1680 bool PageDown();
1681
1682
1683 /**
1684 Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
1685
1686 @param deleteHandler
1687 If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed.
1688 The default value is @false.
1689
1690 @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
1691 PushEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1692 */
1693 wxEvtHandler* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler = false);
1694
1695 //@{
1696 /**
1697 Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
1698 window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu.
1699
1700 If a menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
1701 processed as usually. If the coordinates are not specified, current mouse
1702 cursor position is used.
1703
1704 @a menu is the menu to pop up.
1705
1706 The position where the menu will appear can be specified either as a
1707 wxPoint @a pos or by two integers (@a x and @a y).
1708
1709 @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
1710 ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
1711 The menu does not get deleted by the window.
1712 It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
1713 calling PopupMenu in response to mouse click, because some of
1714 the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
1715 the menu in that case.
1716
1717 @see wxMenu
1718 */
1719 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu,
1720 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition);
1721 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu, int x, int y);
1722 //@}
1723
1724 /**
1725 Posts a size event to the window.
1726
1727 This is the same as SendSizeEvent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST argument.
1728 */
1729 void PostSizeEvent();
1730
1731 /**
1732 Posts a size event to the parent of this window.
1733
1734 This is the same as SendSizeEventToParent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST
1735 argument.
1736 */
1737 void PostSizeEventToParent();
1738
1739 /**
1740 Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
1741
1742 @param handler
1743 Specifies the handler to be pushed.
1744
1745 @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
1746 events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
1747 own event handler, but an application may wish to
1748 substitute another, for example to allow central
1749 implementation of event-handling for a variety of
1750 different window classes.
1751 wxWindow::PushEventHandler allows an application to set up a
1752 chain of event handlers, where an event not handled by one event
1753 handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
1754 Use wxWindow::PopEventHandler to remove the event handler.
1755
1756 @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
1757 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1758 */
1759 void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
1760
1761 /**
1762 Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
1763
1764 @remarks
1765 This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
1766
1767 @see Lower()
1768 */
1769 virtual void Raise();
1770
1771 /**
1772 Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
1773 where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
1774 happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
1775 to update the window immediately you should use Update() instead.
1776
1777 @param eraseBackground
1778 If @true, the background will be erased.
1779 @param rect
1780 If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will be treated as damaged.
1781
1782 @see RefreshRect()
1783 */
1784 virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground = true,
1785 const wxRect* rect = NULL);
1786
1787 /**
1788 Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
1789 repainted.
1790
1791 This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax as it can be called
1792 with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
1793 */
1794 void RefreshRect(const wxRect& rect, bool eraseBackground = true);
1795
1796 /**
1797 Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
1798 registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
1799
1800 It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
1801 and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
1802 other application.
1803
1804 @param hotkeyId
1805 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
1806 and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
1807 system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
1808 This is a MSW specific detail.
1809 @param modifiers
1810 A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
1811 or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
1812 with the key.
1813 @param virtualKeyCode
1814 The virtual key code of the hotkey.
1815
1816 @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
1817 other application already registered a hotkey with this
1818 modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
1819
1820 @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
1821 event. This function is currently only implemented
1822 under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
1823 detecting hardware button presses.
1824
1825 @see UnregisterHotKey()
1826 */
1827 virtual bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId, int modifiers,
1828 int virtualKeyCode);
1829
1830 /**
1831 Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
1832
1833 @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
1834 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1835 */
1836 void ReleaseMouse();
1837
1838 /**
1839 Removes a child window.
1840
1841 This is called automatically by window deletion functions so should not
1842 be required by the application programmer.
1843 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
1844 called by the user code.
1845
1846 @param child
1847 Child window to remove.
1848 */
1849 virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow* child);
1850
1851 /**
1852 Find the given @a handler in the windows event handler chain and remove
1853 (but not delete) it from it.
1854
1855 @param handler
1856 The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
1857 must be present in this windows event handlers chain
1858
1859 @return Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
1860 results in an assert failure so this function should
1861 only be called when the handler is supposed to be there).
1862
1863 @see PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
1864 */
1865 bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
1866
1867 /**
1868 Reparents the window, i.e the window will be removed from its
1869 current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
1870 and then re-inserted into another.
1871
1872 @param newParent
1873 New parent.
1874 */
1875 virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow* newParent);
1876
1877 /**
1878 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1879
1880 @param x
1881 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1882 @param y
1883 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1884 */
1885 void ScreenToClient(int* x, int* y) const;
1886
1887 /**
1888 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1889
1890 @param pt
1891 The screen position.
1892 */
1893 wxPoint ScreenToClient(const wxPoint& pt) const;
1894
1895 /**
1896 Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @a lines is
1897 positive) or up.
1898
1899 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
1900 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
1901
1902 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
1903 wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for wxScrolled classes
1904 under all platforms).
1905
1906 @see ScrollPages()
1907 */
1908 virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines);
1909
1910 /**
1911 Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @a pages is
1912 positive) or up.
1913
1914 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
1915 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
1916
1917 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
1918
1919 @see ScrollLines()
1920 */
1921 virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages);
1922
1923 /**
1924 Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
1925
1926 @param dx
1927 Amount to scroll horizontally.
1928 @param dy
1929 Amount to scroll vertically.
1930 @param rect
1931 Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
1932 scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
1933 parameter)
1934
1935 @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolled instead of using this
1936 function directly.
1937 */
1938 virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx, int dy,
1939 const wxRect* rect = NULL);
1940
1941 /**
1942 This function sends a dummy @ref wxSizeEvent "size event" to
1943 the window allowing it to re-layout its children positions.
1944
1945 It is sometimes useful to call this function after adding or deleting a
1946 children after the frame creation or if a child size changes. Note that
1947 if the frame is using either sizers or constraints for the children
1948 layout, it is enough to call wxWindow::Layout() directly and this
1949 function should not be used in this case.
1950
1951 If @a flags includes @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST value, this function posts
1952 the event, i.e. schedules it for later processing, instead of
1953 dispatching it directly. You can also use PostSizeEvent() as a more
1954 readable equivalent of calling this function with this flag.
1955
1956 @param flags
1957 May include @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST. Default value is 0.
1958 */
1959 virtual void SendSizeEvent(int flags = 0);
1960
1961 /**
1962 Safe wrapper for GetParent()->SendSizeEvent().
1963
1964 This function simply checks that the window has a valid parent which is
1965 not in process of being deleted and calls SendSizeEvent() on it. It is
1966 used internally by windows such as toolbars changes to whose state
1967 should result in parent re-layout (e.g. when a toolbar is added to the
1968 top of the window, all the other windows must be shifted down).
1969
1970 @see PostSizeEventToParent()
1971
1972 @param flags
1973 See description of this parameter in SendSizeEvent() documentation.
1974 */
1975 void SendSizeEventToParent(int flags = 0);
1976
1977 /**
1978 Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
1979 */
1980 virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable& accel);
1981
1982 /**
1983 Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
1984 will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
1985 See also wxAccessible.
1986 */
1987 void SetAccessible(wxAccessible* accessible);
1988
1989 /**
1990 Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
1991 when the window is resized. Please note that this only happens for the
1992 windows usually used to contain children, namely wxPanel and wxTopLevelWindow
1993 (and the classes deriving from them).
1994
1995 This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
1996 you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
1997 updated when its size changes.
1998
1999 @param autoLayout
2000 Set this to @true if you wish the Layout() function to be
2001 called automatically when the window is resized
2002 (really happens only if you derive from wxPanel or wxTopLevelWindow).
2003
2004 @see SetConstraints()
2005 */
2006 void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout);
2007
2008 /**
2009 Sets the background colour of the window.
2010 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
2011 this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
2012
2013 @param colour
2014 The colour to be used as the background colour, pass
2015 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
2016
2017 @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
2018 wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
2019 automatically under GTK.
2020 Note that setting the background colour does not cause an
2021 immediate refresh, so you may wish to call wxWindow::ClearBackground
2022 or wxWindow::Refresh after calling this function.
2023 Using this function will disable attempts to use themes for
2024 this window, if the system supports them. Use with care since
2025 usually the themes represent the appearance chosen by the user
2026 to be used for all applications on the system.
2027
2028 @see GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
2029 GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
2030 Refresh(), wxEraseEvent
2031 */
2032 virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
2033
2034 /**
2035 Sets the background style of the window. see GetBackgroundStyle() for
2036 the description of the possible style values.
2037
2038 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
2039 SetTransparent()
2040 */
2041 virtual bool SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style);
2042
2043 /**
2044 This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
2045 native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0).
2046
2047 It is called by wxWidgets' container control code to give the native
2048 system a hint when doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable
2049 or change the effect of programmatically calling SetFocus().
2050
2051 @see wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
2052 */
2053 virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus);
2054
2055 /**
2056 Sets the caret() associated with the window.
2057 */
2058 void SetCaret(wxCaret* caret);
2059
2060 //@{
2061 /**
2062 This sets the size of the window client area in pixels.
2063
2064 Using this function to size a window tends to be more device-independent
2065 than SetSize(), since the application need not worry about what dimensions
2066 the border or title bar have when trying to fit the window around panel
2067 items, for example.
2068 */
2069 virtual void SetClientSize(int width, int height);
2070 virtual void SetClientSize(const wxSize& size);
2071 //@}
2072
2073 /**
2074 Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
2075 will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2076 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2077 window, it will be deleted.
2078
2079 @param constraints
2080 The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
2081 constraints.
2082
2083 @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
2084 the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
2085 must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
2086 setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
2087 the sizer will have effect.
2088 */
2089 void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints* constraints);
2090
2091 /**
2092 This normally does not need to be called by user code.
2093 It is called when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window
2094 can remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
2095 */
2096 void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer* sizer);
2097
2098 /**
2099 Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
2100 children of the window implicitly.
2101
2102 The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
2103 be reset back to default.
2104
2105 @param cursor
2106 Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
2107
2108 @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
2109 */
2110 virtual bool SetCursor(const wxCursor& cursor);
2111
2112 /**
2113 Associates a drop target with this window.
2114 If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
2115
2116 @see GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
2117 */
2118 virtual void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget* target);
2119
2120 /**
2121 Sets the event handler for this window.
2122
2123 @param handler
2124 Specifies the handler to be set.
2125
2126 @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
2127 events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
2128 own event handler, but an application may wish to
2129 substitute another, for example to allow central
2130 implementation of event-handling for a variety of
2131 different window classes.
2132 It is usually better to use wxWindow::PushEventHandler since
2133 this sets up a chain of event handlers, where an event not
2134 handled by one event handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
2135
2136 @see GetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
2137 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
2138 */
2139 void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
2140
2141 /**
2142 Sets the extra style bits for the window.
2143 The currently defined extra style bits are reported in the class
2144 description.
2145 */
2146 virtual void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle);
2147
2148 /**
2149 This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
2150
2151 @see HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
2152 wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
2153 */
2154 virtual void SetFocus();
2155
2156 /**
2157 This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
2158 gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
2159
2160 By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
2161 can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
2162 */
2163 virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();
2164
2165 /**
2166 Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
2167 parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
2168 use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and see InheritAttributes() for more
2169 explanations.
2170
2171 Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
2172 wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
2173 call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
2174 any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
2175 GetTextExtent().
2176
2177 @param font
2178 Font to associate with this window, pass
2179 wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
2180
2181 @return @true if the want was really changed, @false if it was already set
2182 to this font and so nothing was done.
2183
2184 @see GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
2185 */
2186 virtual bool SetFont(const wxFont& font);
2187
2188 /**
2189 Sets the foreground colour of the window.
2190 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
2191 this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
2192
2193 @param colour
2194 The colour to be used as the foreground colour, pass
2195 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
2196
2197 @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
2198 interpretation according to the window class; it may be
2199 the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
2200
2201 @see GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
2202 GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
2203 */
2204 virtual bool SetForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
2205
2206 /**
2207 Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2208 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
2209 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
2210
2211 @see GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider::AddHelp()
2212 */
2213 void SetHelpText(const wxString& helpText);
2214
2215 /**
2216 Sets the identifier of the window.
2217
2218 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
2219 not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
2220 Normally, the identifier should be provided on creation
2221 and should not be modified subsequently.
2222
2223 @see GetId(), @ref overview_windowids
2224 */
2225 void SetId(wxWindowID winid);
2226
2227 /**
2228 A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
2229 window's @e best size values.
2230
2231 Also sets the window's minsize to the value passed in for use with sizers.
2232 This means that if a full or partial size is passed to this function then
2233 the sizers will use that size instead of the results of GetBestSize() to
2234 determine the minimum needs of the window for layout.
2235
2236 Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
2237 size to the passed in value (if any.)
2238
2239 @see SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize(),
2240 @ref overview_windowsizing
2241 */
2242 void SetInitialSize(const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);
2243
2244 /**
2245 Sets the window's label.
2246
2247 @param label
2248 The window label.
2249
2250 @see GetLabel()
2251 */
2252 virtual void SetLabel(const wxString& label);
2253
2254 /**
2255 Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
2256 layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
2257
2258 @see SetMaxSize()
2259 */
2260 virtual void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize& size);
2261
2262 /**
2263 Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
2264 that this is the maximum possible size.
2265
2266 @see SetMaxClientSize()
2267 */
2268 virtual void SetMaxSize(const wxSize& size);
2269
2270 /**
2271 Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
2272 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
2273 area.
2274
2275 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
2276 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
2277
2278 Note, that just as with SetMinSize(), calling this method doesn't
2279 prevent the program from explicitly making the window smaller than the
2280 specified size.
2281
2282 @see SetMinSize()
2283 */
2284 virtual void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize& size);
2285
2286 /**
2287 Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout
2288 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
2289
2290 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
2291 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
2292
2293 Notice that calling this method doesn't prevent the program from making
2294 the window explicitly smaller than the specified size by calling
2295 SetSize(), it just ensures that it won't become smaller than this size
2296 during the automatic layout.
2297
2298 @see SetMinClientSize()
2299 */
2300 virtual void SetMinSize(const wxSize& size);
2301
2302 /**
2303 Sets the window's name.
2304
2305 @param name
2306 A name to set for the window.
2307
2308 @see GetName()
2309 */
2310 virtual void SetName(const wxString& name);
2311
2312 /**
2313 Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
2314 by the children of this window.
2315
2316 @see SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
2317 */
2318 void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
2319
2320 /**
2321 Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
2322 children of this window.
2323
2324 @see SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
2325 */
2326 void SetOwnFont(const wxFont& font);
2327
2328 /**
2329 Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
2330 by the children of this window.
2331
2332 @see SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
2333 */
2334 void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
2335
2336 /**
2337 @deprecated use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
2338 */
2339 void SetPalette(const wxPalette& pal);
2340
2341 /**
2342 Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
2343
2344 @param orientation
2345 Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set.
2346 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
2347 @param pos
2348 Position in scroll units.
2349 @param refresh
2350 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
2351
2352 @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
2353 window: it is up to the application to take note of
2354 scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
2355
2356 @see SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(), wxScrollBar,
2357 wxScrolled
2358 */
2359 virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation, int pos,
2360 bool refresh = true);
2361
2362 /**
2363 Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
2364
2365 @param orientation
2366 Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set.
2367 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
2368 @param position
2369 The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
2370 @param thumbSize
2371 The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
2372 @param range
2373 The maximum position of the scrollbar. Value of -1 can be used to
2374 ask for the scrollbar to be shown but in the disabled state: this
2375 can be used to avoid removing the scrollbar even when it is not
2376 needed (currently this is only implemented in wxMSW port).
2377 @param refresh
2378 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
2379
2380 @remarks
2381 Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
2382 The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
2383 You would use:
2384 @code
2385 SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
2386 @endcode
2387 Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never
2388 go above 50 minus 16, or 34. You can determine how many lines are
2389 currently visible by dividing the current view size by the character
2390 height in pixels.
2391 When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need
2392 to recalculate the scrollbar settings when the window size changes.
2393 You could therefore put your scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
2394 call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called
2395 initially and also from your wxSizeEvent handler function.
2396
2397 @see @ref overview_scrolling, wxScrollBar, wxScrolled, wxScrollWinEvent
2398 */
2399 virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation, int position,
2400 int thumbSize, int range,
2401 bool refresh = true);
2402
2403 /**
2404 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
2405
2406 @param x
2407 Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2408 existing value should be used.
2409 @param y
2410 Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2411 existing value should be used.
2412 @param width
2413 Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
2414 value should be used.
2415 @param height
2416 Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2417 existing value should be used.
2418 @param sizeFlags
2419 Indicates the interpretation of other parameters.
2420 It is a bit list of the following:
2421 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
2422 a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
2423 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
2424 a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
2425 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
2426 a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
2427 - @c wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
2428 if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
2429 - @c wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
2430 wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted as real
2431 dimensions, not default values.
2432 - @c wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
2433 already the same as the parameters of this function,
2434 nothing is done. but with this flag a window resize may
2435 be forced even in this case (supported in wx 2.6.2 and
2436 later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere
2437 currently).
2438
2439 @remarks This overload sets the position and optionally size, of the window.
2440 Parameters may be wxDefaultCoord to indicate either that a default
2441 should be supplied by wxWidgets, or that the current value of the
2442 dimension should be used.
2443
2444 @see Move()
2445 */
2446 void SetSize(int x, int y, int width, int height,
2447 int sizeFlags = wxSIZE_AUTO);
2448
2449 //@{
2450 /**
2451 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
2452 The size is specified using a wxRect, wxSize or by a couple of @c int objects.
2453
2454 @remarks This form must be used with non-default width and height values.
2455
2456 @see Move()
2457 */
2458 virtual void SetSize(const wxRect& rect);
2459 virtual void SetSize(const wxSize& size);
2460 virtual void SetSize(int width, int height);
2461 //@}
2462
2463 /**
2464 Use of this function for windows which are not toplevel windows
2465 (such as wxDialog or wxFrame) is discouraged.
2466 Please use SetMinSize() and SetMaxSize() instead.
2467
2468 @see wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints
2469 */
2470 void SetSizeHints( const wxSize& minSize,
2471 const wxSize& maxSize=wxDefaultSize,
2472 const wxSize& incSize=wxDefaultSize);
2473
2474 /**
2475 Sets the window to have the given layout sizer.
2476 The window will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2477 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2478 window, it will be deleted if the deleteOld parameter is @true.
2479
2480 Note that this function will also call SetAutoLayout() implicitly with @true
2481 parameter if the @a sizer is non-@NULL and @false otherwise.
2482
2483 @param sizer
2484 The sizer to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and conditionally delete
2485 the window's sizer. See below.
2486 @param deleteOld
2487 If @true (the default), this will delete any pre-existing sizer.
2488 Pass @false if you wish to handle deleting the old sizer yourself.
2489
2490 @remarks SetSizer enables and disables Layout automatically.
2491 */
2492 void SetSizer(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld = true);
2493
2494 /**
2495 This method calls SetSizer() and then wxSizer::SetSizeHints which sets the initial
2496 window size to the size needed to accommodate all sizer elements and sets the
2497 size hints which, if this window is a top level one, prevent the user from
2498 resizing it to be less than this minimial size.
2499 */
2500 void SetSizerAndFit(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld = true);
2501
2502 /**
2503 This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
2504 to draw the windows' background instead if its own background drawing
2505 code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
2506 obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
2507 One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
2508 defined by a user's selected theme.
2509
2510 Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
2511 by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
2512 */
2513 virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable);
2514
2515 //@{
2516 /**
2517 Attach a tooltip to the window.
2518
2519 wxToolTip pointer can be @NULL in the overload taking the pointer,
2520 meaning to unset any existing tooltips, however UnsetToolTip() provides
2521 a more readable alternative to this operation.
2522
2523 Notice that these methods are always available, even if wxWidgets was
2524 compiled with @c wxUSE_TOOLTIPS set to 0, but don't do anything in this
2525 case.
2526
2527 @see GetToolTip(), wxToolTip
2528 */
2529 void SetToolTip(const wxString& tip);
2530 void SetToolTip(wxToolTip* tip);
2531 //@}
2532
2533 /**
2534 Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
2535 returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
2536 See also CanSetTransparent().
2537
2538 The parameter @a alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
2539 fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
2540 @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be used.
2541 */
2542 virtual bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha);
2543
2544 /**
2545 Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
2546 called wxValidator::Clone to create a new validator of this type.
2547 */
2548 virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator& validator);
2549
2550 //@{
2551 /**
2552 Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
2553 */
2554 void SetVirtualSize(int width, int height);
2555 void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize& size);
2556 //@}
2557
2558 //@{
2559 /**
2560 Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
2561 after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be be called
2562 after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.
2563
2564 See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
2565
2566 @see GetWindowStyleFlag()
2567 */
2568 virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style);
2569 void SetWindowStyle(long style);
2570 //@}
2571
2572 /**
2573 This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
2574 Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
2575 exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant enum.
2576
2577 By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
2578 be used to change this.
2579 */
2580 void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant);
2581
2582 /**
2583 Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
2584 InheritAttributes(), returning @false forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
2585
2586 The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
2587 wxControl where it returns @true.
2588 */
2589 virtual bool ShouldInheritColours() const;
2590
2591 /**
2592 Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
2593 for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
2594 needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
2595
2596 @param show
2597 If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
2598
2599 @return @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
2600 was done because it already was in the requested state.
2601
2602 @see IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show, wxShowEvent.
2603 */
2604 virtual bool Show(bool show = true);
2605
2606 /**
2607 This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a special visual
2608 effect if possible.
2609
2610 @param effect
2611 The effect to use.
2612
2613 @param timeout
2614 The @a timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
2615 milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default
2616 animation time for the current platform is used.
2617
2618 @note Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and does the
2619 same thing as Show() in the other ports.
2620
2621 @since 2.9.0
2622
2623 @see HideWithEffect()
2624 */
2625 virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
2626 unsigned int timeout = 0);
2627
2628 /**
2629 Reenables window updating after a previous call to Freeze().
2630
2631 To really thaw the control, it must be called exactly the same number
2632 of times as Freeze().
2633
2634 If the window has any children, they are recursively thawn too.
2635
2636 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Freeze(), IsFrozen()
2637 */
2638 void Thaw();
2639
2640 /**
2641 Turns the given @a flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
2642 This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
2643 the case for default flags).
2644
2645 Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
2646 creation.
2647
2648 @return Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
2649 if it was switched off.
2650
2651 @see SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
2652 */
2653 bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag);
2654
2655 /**
2656 Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
2657 validators. Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2658
2659 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2660 the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
2661
2662 @see TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2663 */
2664 virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();
2665
2666 /**
2667 Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
2668 validators.
2669
2670 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2671 the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
2672
2673 @return Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2674
2675 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2676 */
2677 virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();
2678
2679 /**
2680 Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
2681
2682 @param hotkeyId
2683 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
2684 RegisterHotKey().
2685
2686 @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
2687 id was invalid.
2688
2689 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
2690
2691 @see RegisterHotKey()
2692 */
2693 virtual bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId);
2694
2695 /**
2696 Unreserve an ID or range of IDs that was reserved by NewControlId().
2697 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
2698
2699 @param id
2700 The starting ID of the range of IDs to unreserve.
2701 @param count
2702 The number of sequential IDs to unreserve.
2703
2704 @see NewControlId(), wxIdManager, @ref overview_windowids
2705 */
2706 static void UnreserveControlId(wxWindowID id, int count = 1);
2707
2708 /**
2709 Unset any existing tooltip.
2710
2711 @since 2.9.0
2712
2713 @see SetToolTip()
2714 */
2715 void UnsetToolTip();
2716
2717 /**
2718 Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
2719 all of its children recursively while this would usually only happen when the
2720 flow of control returns to the event loop.
2721
2722 Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
2723 nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
2724 a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to immediately redraw the
2725 window unconditionally.
2726 */
2727 virtual void Update();
2728
2729 /**
2730 This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
2731 The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
2732 wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
2733 and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
2734
2735 You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
2736 UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
2737 are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
2738 wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode() or wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval() to limit
2739 the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle time.
2740 @a flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the wxUpdateUI enumeration.
2741
2742 If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
2743 function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
2744 this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
2745 to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
2746 only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
2747 The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
2748 an idle function.
2749
2750 @code
2751 void MyWindow::OnInternalIdle()
2752 {
2753 if (wxUpdateUIEvent::CanUpdate(this))
2754 UpdateWindowUI(wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE);
2755 }
2756 @endcode
2757
2758 @see wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
2759 */
2760 virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags = wxUPDATE_UI_NONE);
2761
2762 /**
2763 Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
2764 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2765 the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
2766
2767 @return Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
2768
2769 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
2770 wxValidator
2771 */
2772 virtual bool Validate();
2773
2774 /**
2775 Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
2776
2777 @note This function is not supported under Mac because Apple Human
2778 Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor programmatically.
2779
2780 @param x
2781 The new x position for the cursor.
2782 @param y
2783 The new y position for the cursor.
2784 */
2785 virtual void WarpPointer(int x, int y);
2786
2787
2788 protected:
2789
2790 /**
2791 Gets the size which best suits the window: for a control, it would be
2792 the minimal size which doesn't truncate the control, for a panel - the
2793 same size as it would have after a call to Fit().
2794
2795 The default implementation of this function is designed for use in container
2796 windows, such as wxPanel, and works something like this:
2797 -# If the window has a sizer then it is used to calculate the best size.
2798 -# Otherwise if the window has layout constraints then those are used to
2799 calculate the best size.
2800 -# Otherwise if the window has children then the best size is set to be large
2801 enough to show all the children.
2802 -# Otherwise if there are no children then the window's minimal size will be
2803 used as its best size.
2804 -# Otherwise if there is no minimal size set, then the current size is used
2805 for the best size.
2806
2807 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
2808 */
2809 virtual wxSize DoGetBestSize() const;
2810
2811
2812 /**
2813 Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
2814 components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
2815 @deprecated @todo provide deprecation description
2816 */
2817 virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize& size);
2818 };
2819
2820
2821
2822 // ============================================================================
2823 // Global functions/macros
2824 // ============================================================================
2825
2826 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_misc */
2827 //@{
2828
2829 /**
2830 Find the deepest window at the mouse pointer position, returning the window
2831 and current pointer position in screen coordinates.
2832
2833 @header{wx/window.h}
2834 */
2835 wxWindow* wxFindWindowAtPointer(wxPoint& pt);
2836
2837 /**
2838 Gets the currently active window (implemented for MSW and GTK only
2839 currently, always returns @NULL in the other ports).
2840
2841 @header{wx/window.h}
2842 */
2843 wxWindow* wxGetActiveWindow();
2844
2845 /**
2846 Returns the first top level parent of the given window, or in other words,
2847 the frame or dialog containing it, or @NULL.
2848
2849 @header{wx/window.h}
2850 */
2851 wxWindow* wxGetTopLevelParent(wxWindow* window);
2852
2853 //@}
2854