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[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / window.h
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, wxWindow* parent = NULL);
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 wxWindow* parent = NULL);
675
676 /**
677 Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or @b 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 wxWindow* parent = NULL);
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 This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
1065 returns the selected id. It can be more convenient than the general purpose
1066 PopupMenu() function for simple menus proposing a choice in a list of
1067 strings to the user.
1068
1069 @param menu
1070 The menu to show
1071 @param pos
1072 The position at which to show the menu in client coordinates
1073
1074 @return The selected menu item id or wxID_NONE if none selected or an
1075 error occurred.
1076 */
1077 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, const wxPoint& pos);
1078
1079 /**
1080 See the GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu&, const wxPoint&) overload.
1081 This overload differs only because it takes two integers for the
1082 menu position instead of a wxPoint.
1083 */
1084 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, int x, int y);
1085
1086 /**
1087 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1088 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1089
1090 @param x
1091 Receives the x position of the window if non-@NULL.
1092 @param y
1093 Receives the y position of the window if non-@NULL.
1094
1095 @see GetScreenPosition()
1096 */
1097 void GetPosition(int* x, int* y) const;
1098
1099 /**
1100 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1101 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1102
1103 @see GetScreenPosition()
1104 */
1105 wxPoint GetPosition() const;
1106
1107 /**
1108 Returns the previous window before this one among the parent children or @c
1109 @NULL if this window is the first child.
1110
1111 @since 2.8.8
1112
1113 @see GetNextSibling()
1114 */
1115 wxWindow* GetPrevSibling() const;
1116
1117 /**
1118 Returns the position and size of the window as a wxRect object.
1119
1120 @see GetScreenRect()
1121 */
1122 wxRect GetRect() const;
1123
1124 /**
1125 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1126 child window or a top level one.
1127
1128 @param x
1129 Receives the x position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1130 @param y
1131 Receives the y position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1132
1133 @see GetPosition()
1134 */
1135 void GetScreenPosition(int* x, int* y) const;
1136
1137 /**
1138 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1139 child window or a top level one.
1140
1141 @see GetPosition()
1142 */
1143 wxPoint GetScreenPosition() const;
1144
1145 /**
1146 Returns the position and size of the window on the screen as a wxRect object.
1147
1148 @see GetRect()
1149 */
1150 wxRect GetScreenRect() const;
1151
1152 /**
1153 Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
1154
1155 @see See SetScrollbar()
1156 */
1157 virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation) const;
1158
1159 /**
1160 Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
1161
1162 @see SetScrollbar()
1163 */
1164 virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation) const;
1165
1166 /**
1167 Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
1168
1169 @see SetScrollbar()
1170 */
1171 virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation) const;
1172
1173 /**
1174 Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
1175 scrollbars, etc.
1176
1177 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
1178 returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
1179
1180 @param width
1181 Receives the window width.
1182 @param height
1183 Receives the window height.
1184
1185 @see GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize()
1186 */
1187 void GetSize(int* width, int* height) const;
1188
1189 /**
1190 See the GetSize(int*,int*) overload for more info.
1191 */
1192 wxSize GetSize() const;
1193
1194 /**
1195 Return the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
1196 SetSizer() or @NULL.
1197 */
1198 wxSizer* GetSizer() const;
1199
1200 /**
1201 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1202 window with the currently selected font.
1203
1204 The text extent is returned in @a w and @a h pointers.
1205
1206 @param string
1207 String whose extent is to be measured.
1208 @param w
1209 Return value for width.
1210 @param h
1211 Return value for height.
1212 @param descent
1213 Return value for descent (optional).
1214 @param externalLeading
1215 Return value for external leading (optional).
1216 @param font
1217 Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
1218 */
1219 virtual void GetTextExtent(const wxString& string, int* w, int* h,
1220 int* descent = NULL,
1221 int* externalLeading = NULL,
1222 const wxFont* font = NULL) const;
1223
1224 /**
1225 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1226 window with the currently selected font.
1227 */
1228 wxSize GetTextExtent(const wxString& string) const;
1229
1230 /**
1231 Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
1232 */
1233 wxToolTip* GetToolTip() const;
1234
1235 /**
1236 Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
1237 Should only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
1238
1239 @see wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
1240 */
1241 const wxRegion& GetUpdateRegion() const;
1242
1243 /**
1244 Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if
1245 there is none.
1246 */
1247 virtual wxValidator* GetValidator();
1248
1249 //@{
1250 /**
1251 This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
1252 By default it returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
1253 SetVirtualSize() it will return the size set with that method.
1254 */
1255 wxSize GetVirtualSize() const;
1256
1257 /**
1258 Like the other GetVirtualSize() overload but uses pointers instead.
1259
1260 @param width
1261 Receives the window virtual width.
1262 @param height
1263 Receives the window virtual height.
1264 */
1265 void GetVirtualSize(int* width, int* height) const;
1266 //@}
1267
1268 /**
1269 Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
1270 and y components of the result respectively.
1271 */
1272 virtual wxSize GetWindowBorderSize() const;
1273
1274 /**
1275 Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or @b Create
1276 method. @b GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
1277 */
1278 virtual long GetWindowStyleFlag() const;
1279
1280 /**
1281 Returns the value previously passed to SetWindowVariant().
1282 */
1283 wxWindowVariant GetWindowVariant() const;
1284
1285 /**
1286 This function will generate the appropriate call to
1287 Navigate() if the key event is one normally used for
1288 keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
1289
1290 @return Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
1291 handled, @false otherwise.
1292
1293 @see Navigate()
1294 */
1295 bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent& event);
1296
1297 /**
1298 Shorthand for:
1299 @code
1300 GetEventHandler()->SafelyProcessEvent(event);
1301 @endcode
1302 */
1303 bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent& event) const;
1304
1305 /**
1306 Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
1307
1308 @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
1309 wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1310 */
1311 virtual bool HasCapture() const;
1312
1313 /**
1314 Returns @true if the window has the given @a exFlag bit set in its
1315 extra styles.
1316
1317 @see SetExtraStyle()
1318 */
1319 bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag) const;
1320
1321 /**
1322 Returns @true if the window has the given @a flag bit set.
1323 */
1324 bool HasFlag(int flag) const;
1325
1326 /**
1327 Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
1328 child window) has focus.
1329
1330 @see FindFocus()
1331 */
1332 virtual bool HasFocus() const;
1333
1334 /**
1335 This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
1336 multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
1337 wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
1338 and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should do it as well to
1339 allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
1340 */
1341 virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
1342
1343 /**
1344 Returns @true if this window has a scroll bar for this orientation.
1345
1346 @param orient
1347 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
1348 */
1349 bool HasScrollbar(int orient) const;
1350
1351 /**
1352 Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example,
1353 for wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
1354
1355 This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
1356 shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
1357 wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
1358 */
1359 virtual bool HasTransparentBackground();
1360
1361 /**
1362 Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
1363 */
1364 bool Hide();
1365
1366 /**
1367 This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a special visual
1368 effect if possible.
1369
1370 The parameters of this function are the same as for ShowWithEffect(),
1371 please see their description there.
1372
1373 @since 2.9.0
1374 */
1375 virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
1376 unsigned int timeout = 0);
1377
1378 /**
1379 This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
1380 window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
1381 the font and the foreground and background colours.
1382
1383 By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
1384 own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
1385 However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
1386 SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
1387 attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
1388 window takes the same value as used by the parent.
1389 In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
1390 the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
1391
1392 This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
1393 different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
1394 are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
1395 different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
1396 they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
1397 desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
1398 just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
1399 do inherit the parents attributes.
1400 */
1401 virtual void InheritAttributes();
1402
1403 /**
1404 Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
1405 to the dialog via validators.
1406 */
1407 virtual void InitDialog();
1408
1409 /**
1410 Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
1411 is needed.
1412 */
1413 void InvalidateBestSize();
1414
1415 /**
1416 Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
1417 any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
1418 and transferred to the screen all at once later.
1419
1420 @see wxBufferedDC
1421 */
1422 virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
1423
1424 /**
1425 Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input,
1426 @false otherwise.
1427
1428 Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
1429 been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled.
1430 To get the intrinsic status of this window, use IsThisEnabled()
1431
1432 @see Enable()
1433 */
1434 bool IsEnabled() const;
1435
1436 //@{
1437 /**
1438 Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
1439 last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
1440 only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
1441 */
1442 bool IsExposed(int x, int y) const;
1443 bool IsExposed(wxPoint& pt) const;
1444 bool IsExposed(int x, int y, int w, int h) const;
1445 bool IsExposed(wxRect& rect) const;
1446 //@}
1447
1448 /**
1449 Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to Freeze().
1450
1451 @see Freeze(), Thaw()
1452 */
1453 bool IsFrozen() const;
1454
1455 /**
1456 Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
1457
1458 @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
1459 */
1460 virtual bool IsRetained() const;
1461
1462 /**
1463 Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
1464
1465 @param orient
1466 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
1467
1468 @see AlwaysShowScrollbars()
1469 */
1470 virtual bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient) const;
1471
1472 /**
1473 Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
1474
1475 @see IsShownOnScreen()
1476 */
1477 virtual bool IsShown() const;
1478
1479 /**
1480 Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
1481 is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
1482
1483 @see IsShown()
1484 */
1485 virtual bool IsShownOnScreen() const;
1486
1487 /**
1488 Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
1489 i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
1490 mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
1491 IsEnabled() instead.
1492 */
1493 bool IsThisEnabled() const;
1494
1495 /**
1496 Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
1497 dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
1498 window).
1499 */
1500 virtual bool IsTopLevel() const;
1501
1502 /**
1503 Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
1504 for this window.
1505
1506 This function does not get called automatically when the window is resized
1507 because lots of windows deriving from wxWindow does not need this functionality.
1508 If you want to have Layout() called automatically, you should derive
1509 from wxPanel (see wxPanel::Layout).
1510
1511 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
1512 */
1513 virtual bool Layout();
1514
1515 /**
1516 Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
1517
1518 @remarks
1519 This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
1520
1521 @see Raise()
1522 */
1523 virtual void Lower();
1524
1525 /**
1526 Disables all other windows in the application so that
1527 the user can only interact with this window.
1528
1529 @param modal
1530 If @true, this call disables all other windows in the application so that
1531 the user can only interact with this window. If @false, the effect is
1532 reversed.
1533 */
1534 virtual void MakeModal(bool modal = true);
1535
1536 /**
1537 Moves the window to the given position.
1538
1539 @param x
1540 Required x position.
1541 @param y
1542 Required y position.
1543 @param flags
1544 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1545
1546 @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
1547 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1548 @code
1549 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1550 @endcode
1551
1552 @see SetSize()
1553 */
1554 void Move(int x, int y, int flags = wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1555
1556 /**
1557 Moves the window to the given position.
1558
1559 @param pt
1560 wxPoint object representing the position.
1561 @param flags
1562 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1563
1564 @remarks Implementations of SetSize() can also implicitly implement the
1565 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1566 @code
1567 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1568 @endcode
1569
1570 @see SetSize()
1571 */
1572 void Move(const wxPoint& pt, int flags = wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1573
1574 /**
1575 Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
1576 This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
1577 the focus switches to this window.
1578
1579 Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
1580 MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
1581 it after creating all the windows.
1582
1583 @param win
1584 A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
1585 must not be @NULL
1586 */
1587 void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
1588
1589 /**
1590 Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that it inserts this window just
1591 before @a win instead of putting it right after it.
1592 */
1593 void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
1594
1595 /**
1596 Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window.
1597 This method is equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
1598 parent window.
1599
1600 @param flags
1601 A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
1602 wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
1603
1604 @return Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
1605 if nothing changed.
1606
1607 @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
1608 handler to do the default navigation behaviour for the
1609 tab key, since the standard default behaviour for a
1610 multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB style
1611 is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
1612 control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
1613 HandleAsNavigationKey.
1614 */
1615 bool Navigate(int flags = IsForward);
1616
1617 /**
1618 Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
1619 See Navigate() for more information.
1620 */
1621 bool NavigateIn(int flags = IsForward);
1622
1623 /**
1624 Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.
1625 The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindow ID
1626 or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
1627
1628 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
1629
1630 @param count
1631 The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
1632
1633 @return Returns the ID or the first ID of the range, or wxID_NONE if the
1634 specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
1635
1636 @see UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager,
1637 @ref overview_windowids
1638 */
1639 static wxWindowID NewControlId(int count = 1);
1640
1641 /**
1642 This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
1643 sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
1644 that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
1645 handler in a derived class.
1646
1647 This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
1648 and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
1649 in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
1650 */
1651 virtual void OnInternalIdle();
1652
1653 /**
1654 Same as #ScrollLines (-1).
1655 */
1656 bool LineUp();
1657
1658 /**
1659 Same as #ScrollLines (1).
1660 */
1661 bool LineDown();
1662
1663 /**
1664 Same as #ScrollPages (-1).
1665 */
1666 bool PageUp();
1667
1668 /**
1669 Same as #ScrollPages (1).
1670 */
1671 bool PageDown();
1672
1673
1674 /**
1675 Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
1676
1677 @param deleteHandler
1678 If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed.
1679 The default value is @false.
1680
1681 @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
1682 PushEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1683 */
1684 wxEvtHandler* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler = false);
1685
1686 //@{
1687 /**
1688 Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
1689 window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu.
1690
1691 If a menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
1692 processed as usually. If the coordinates are not specified, current mouse
1693 cursor position is used.
1694
1695 @a menu is the menu to pop up.
1696
1697 The position where the menu will appear can be specified either as a
1698 wxPoint @a pos or by two integers (@a x and @a y).
1699
1700 @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
1701 ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
1702 The menu does not get deleted by the window.
1703 It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
1704 calling PopupMenu in response to mouse click, because some of
1705 the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
1706 the menu in that case.
1707
1708 @see wxMenu
1709 */
1710 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu,
1711 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition);
1712 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu, int x, int y);
1713 //@}
1714
1715 /**
1716 Posts a size event to the window.
1717
1718 This is the same as SendSizeEvent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST argument.
1719 */
1720 void PostSizeEvent();
1721
1722 /**
1723 Posts a size event to the parent of this window.
1724
1725 This is the same as SendSizeEventToParent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST
1726 argument.
1727 */
1728 void PostSizeEventToParent();
1729
1730 /**
1731 Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
1732
1733 @param handler
1734 Specifies the handler to be pushed.
1735
1736 @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
1737 events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
1738 own event handler, but an application may wish to
1739 substitute another, for example to allow central
1740 implementation of event-handling for a variety of
1741 different window classes.
1742 wxWindow::PushEventHandler allows an application to set up a
1743 chain of event handlers, where an event not handled by one event
1744 handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
1745 Use wxWindow::PopEventHandler to remove the event handler.
1746
1747 @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
1748 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1749 */
1750 void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
1751
1752 /**
1753 Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
1754
1755 @remarks
1756 This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
1757
1758 @see Lower()
1759 */
1760 virtual void Raise();
1761
1762 /**
1763 Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
1764 where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
1765 happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
1766 to update the window immediately you should use Update() instead.
1767
1768 @param eraseBackground
1769 If @true, the background will be erased.
1770 @param rect
1771 If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will be treated as damaged.
1772
1773 @see RefreshRect()
1774 */
1775 virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground = true,
1776 const wxRect* rect = NULL);
1777
1778 /**
1779 Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
1780 repainted.
1781
1782 This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax as it can be called
1783 with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
1784 */
1785 void RefreshRect(const wxRect& rect, bool eraseBackground = true);
1786
1787 /**
1788 Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
1789 registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
1790
1791 It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
1792 and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
1793 other application.
1794
1795 @param hotkeyId
1796 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
1797 and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
1798 system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
1799 This is a MSW specific detail.
1800 @param modifiers
1801 A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
1802 or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
1803 with the key.
1804 @param virtualKeyCode
1805 The virtual key code of the hotkey.
1806
1807 @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
1808 other application already registered a hotkey with this
1809 modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
1810
1811 @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
1812 event. This function is currently only implemented
1813 under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
1814 detecting hardware button presses.
1815
1816 @see UnregisterHotKey()
1817 */
1818 virtual bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId, int modifiers,
1819 int virtualKeyCode);
1820
1821 /**
1822 Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
1823
1824 @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
1825 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1826 */
1827 void ReleaseMouse();
1828
1829 /**
1830 Removes a child window.
1831
1832 This is called automatically by window deletion functions so should not
1833 be required by the application programmer.
1834 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
1835 called by the user code.
1836
1837 @param child
1838 Child window to remove.
1839 */
1840 virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow* child);
1841
1842 /**
1843 Find the given @a handler in the windows event handler chain and remove
1844 (but not delete) it from it.
1845
1846 @param handler
1847 The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
1848 must be present in this windows event handlers chain
1849
1850 @return Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
1851 results in an assert failure so this function should
1852 only be called when the handler is supposed to be there).
1853
1854 @see PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
1855 */
1856 bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
1857
1858 /**
1859 Reparents the window, i.e the window will be removed from its
1860 current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
1861 and then re-inserted into another.
1862
1863 @param newParent
1864 New parent.
1865 */
1866 virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow* newParent);
1867
1868 /**
1869 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1870
1871 @param x
1872 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1873 @param y
1874 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1875 */
1876 void ScreenToClient(int* x, int* y) const;
1877
1878 /**
1879 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1880
1881 @param pt
1882 The screen position.
1883 */
1884 wxPoint ScreenToClient(const wxPoint& pt) const;
1885
1886 /**
1887 Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @a lines is
1888 positive) or up.
1889
1890 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
1891 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
1892
1893 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
1894 wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for wxScrolled classes
1895 under all platforms).
1896
1897 @see ScrollPages()
1898 */
1899 virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines);
1900
1901 /**
1902 Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @a pages is
1903 positive) or up.
1904
1905 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
1906 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
1907
1908 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
1909
1910 @see ScrollLines()
1911 */
1912 virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages);
1913
1914 /**
1915 Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
1916
1917 @param dx
1918 Amount to scroll horizontally.
1919 @param dy
1920 Amount to scroll vertically.
1921 @param rect
1922 Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
1923 scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
1924 parameter)
1925
1926 @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolled instead of using this
1927 function directly.
1928 */
1929 virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx, int dy,
1930 const wxRect* rect = NULL);
1931
1932 /**
1933 This function sends a dummy @ref wxSizeEvent "size event" to
1934 the window allowing it to re-layout its children positions.
1935
1936 It is sometimes useful to call this function after adding or deleting a
1937 children after the frame creation or if a child size changes. Note that
1938 if the frame is using either sizers or constraints for the children
1939 layout, it is enough to call wxWindow::Layout() directly and this
1940 function should not be used in this case.
1941
1942 If @a flags includes @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST value, this function posts
1943 the event, i.e. schedules it for later processing, instead of
1944 dispatching it directly. You can also use PostSizeEvent() as a more
1945 readable equivalent of calling this function with this flag.
1946
1947 @param flags
1948 May include @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST. Default value is 0.
1949 */
1950 virtual void SendSizeEvent(int flags = 0);
1951
1952 /**
1953 Safe wrapper for GetParent()->SendSizeEvent().
1954
1955 This function simply checks that the window has a valid parent which is
1956 not in process of being deleted and calls SendSizeEvent() on it. It is
1957 used internally by windows such as toolbars changes to whose state
1958 should result in parent re-layout (e.g. when a toolbar is added to the
1959 top of the window, all the other windows must be shifted down).
1960
1961 @see PostSizeEventToParent()
1962
1963 @param flags
1964 See description of this parameter in SendSizeEvent() documentation.
1965 */
1966 void SendSizeEventToParent(int flags = 0);
1967
1968 /**
1969 Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
1970 */
1971 virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable& accel);
1972
1973 /**
1974 Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
1975 will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
1976 See also wxAccessible.
1977 */
1978 void SetAccessible(wxAccessible* accessible);
1979
1980 /**
1981 Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
1982 when the window is resized. Please note that this only happens for the
1983 windows usually used to contain children, namely wxPanel and wxTopLevelWindow
1984 (and the classes deriving from them).
1985
1986 This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
1987 you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
1988 updated when its size changes.
1989
1990 @param autoLayout
1991 Set this to @true if you wish the Layout() function to be
1992 called automatically when the window is resized
1993 (really happens only if you derive from wxPanel or wxTopLevelWindow).
1994
1995 @see SetConstraints()
1996 */
1997 void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout);
1998
1999 /**
2000 Sets the background colour of the window.
2001 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
2002 this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
2003
2004 @param colour
2005 The colour to be used as the background colour, pass
2006 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
2007
2008 @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
2009 wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
2010 automatically under GTK.
2011 Note that setting the background colour does not cause an
2012 immediate refresh, so you may wish to call wxWindow::ClearBackground
2013 or wxWindow::Refresh after calling this function.
2014 Using this function will disable attempts to use themes for
2015 this window, if the system supports them. Use with care since
2016 usually the themes represent the appearance chosen by the user
2017 to be used for all applications on the system.
2018
2019 @see GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
2020 GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
2021 Refresh(), wxEraseEvent
2022 */
2023 virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
2024
2025 /**
2026 Sets the background style of the window. see GetBackgroundStyle() for
2027 the description of the possible style values.
2028
2029 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
2030 SetTransparent()
2031 */
2032 virtual bool SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style);
2033
2034 /**
2035 This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
2036 native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0).
2037
2038 It is called by wxWidgets' container control code to give the native
2039 system a hint when doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable
2040 or change the effect of programmatically calling SetFocus().
2041
2042 @see wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
2043 */
2044 virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus);
2045
2046 /**
2047 Sets the caret() associated with the window.
2048 */
2049 void SetCaret(wxCaret* caret);
2050
2051 //@{
2052 /**
2053 This sets the size of the window client area in pixels.
2054
2055 Using this function to size a window tends to be more device-independent
2056 than SetSize(), since the application need not worry about what dimensions
2057 the border or title bar have when trying to fit the window around panel
2058 items, for example.
2059 */
2060 virtual void SetClientSize(int width, int height);
2061 virtual void SetClientSize(const wxSize& size);
2062 //@}
2063
2064 /**
2065 Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
2066 will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2067 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2068 window, it will be deleted.
2069
2070 @param constraints
2071 The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
2072 constraints.
2073
2074 @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
2075 the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
2076 must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
2077 setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
2078 the sizer will have effect.
2079 */
2080 void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints* constraints);
2081
2082 /**
2083 This normally does not need to be called by user code.
2084 It is called when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window
2085 can remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
2086 */
2087 void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer* sizer);
2088
2089 /**
2090 Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
2091 children of the window implicitly.
2092
2093 The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
2094 be reset back to default.
2095
2096 @param cursor
2097 Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
2098
2099 @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
2100 */
2101 virtual bool SetCursor(const wxCursor& cursor);
2102
2103 /**
2104 Associates a drop target with this window.
2105 If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
2106
2107 @see GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
2108 */
2109 virtual void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget* target);
2110
2111 /**
2112 Sets the event handler for this window.
2113
2114 @param handler
2115 Specifies the handler to be set.
2116
2117 @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
2118 events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
2119 own event handler, but an application may wish to
2120 substitute another, for example to allow central
2121 implementation of event-handling for a variety of
2122 different window classes.
2123 It is usually better to use wxWindow::PushEventHandler since
2124 this sets up a chain of event handlers, where an event not
2125 handled by one event handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
2126
2127 @see GetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
2128 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
2129 */
2130 void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
2131
2132 /**
2133 Sets the extra style bits for the window.
2134 The currently defined extra style bits are reported in the class
2135 description.
2136 */
2137 virtual void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle);
2138
2139 /**
2140 This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
2141
2142 @see HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
2143 wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
2144 */
2145 virtual void SetFocus();
2146
2147 /**
2148 This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
2149 gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
2150
2151 By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
2152 can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
2153 */
2154 virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();
2155
2156 /**
2157 Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
2158 parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
2159 use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and see InheritAttributes() for more
2160 explanations.
2161
2162 Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
2163 wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
2164 call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
2165 any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
2166 GetTextExtent().
2167
2168 @param font
2169 Font to associate with this window, pass
2170 wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
2171
2172 @return @true if the want was really changed, @false if it was already set
2173 to this font and so nothing was done.
2174
2175 @see GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
2176 */
2177 virtual bool SetFont(const wxFont& font);
2178
2179 /**
2180 Sets the foreground colour of the window.
2181 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
2182 this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
2183
2184 @param colour
2185 The colour to be used as the foreground colour, pass
2186 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
2187
2188 @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
2189 interpretation according to the window class; it may be
2190 the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
2191
2192 @see GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
2193 GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
2194 */
2195 virtual bool SetForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
2196
2197 /**
2198 Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2199 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
2200 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
2201
2202 @see GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider::AddHelp()
2203 */
2204 void SetHelpText(const wxString& helpText);
2205
2206 /**
2207 Sets the identifier of the window.
2208
2209 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
2210 not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
2211 Normally, the identifier should be provided on creation
2212 and should not be modified subsequently.
2213
2214 @see GetId(), @ref overview_windowids
2215 */
2216 void SetId(wxWindowID winid);
2217
2218 /**
2219 A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
2220 window's @e best size values.
2221
2222 Also sets the window's minsize to the value passed in for use with sizers.
2223 This means that if a full or partial size is passed to this function then
2224 the sizers will use that size instead of the results of GetBestSize() to
2225 determine the minimum needs of the window for layout.
2226
2227 Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
2228 size to the passed in value (if any.)
2229
2230 @see SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize(),
2231 @ref overview_windowsizing
2232 */
2233 void SetInitialSize(const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);
2234
2235 /**
2236 Sets the window's label.
2237
2238 @param label
2239 The window label.
2240
2241 @see GetLabel()
2242 */
2243 virtual void SetLabel(const wxString& label);
2244
2245 /**
2246 Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
2247 layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
2248
2249 @see SetMaxSize()
2250 */
2251 virtual void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize& size);
2252
2253 /**
2254 Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
2255 that this is the maximum possible size.
2256
2257 @see SetMaxClientSize()
2258 */
2259 virtual void SetMaxSize(const wxSize& size);
2260
2261 /**
2262 Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
2263 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
2264 area.
2265
2266 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
2267 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
2268
2269 Note, that just as with SetMinSize(), calling this method doesn't
2270 prevent the program from explicitly making the window smaller than the
2271 specified size.
2272
2273 @see SetMinSize()
2274 */
2275 virtual void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize& size);
2276
2277 /**
2278 Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout
2279 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
2280
2281 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
2282 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
2283
2284 Notice that calling this method doesn't prevent the program from making
2285 the window explicitly smaller than the specified size by calling
2286 SetSize(), it just ensures that it won't become smaller than this size
2287 during the automatic layout.
2288
2289 @see SetMinClientSize()
2290 */
2291 virtual void SetMinSize(const wxSize& size);
2292
2293 /**
2294 Sets the window's name.
2295
2296 @param name
2297 A name to set for the window.
2298
2299 @see GetName()
2300 */
2301 virtual void SetName(const wxString& name);
2302
2303 /**
2304 Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
2305 by the children of this window.
2306
2307 @see SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
2308 */
2309 void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
2310
2311 /**
2312 Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
2313 children of this window.
2314
2315 @see SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
2316 */
2317 void SetOwnFont(const wxFont& font);
2318
2319 /**
2320 Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
2321 by the children of this window.
2322
2323 @see SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
2324 */
2325 void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
2326
2327 /**
2328 @deprecated use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
2329 */
2330 void SetPalette(const wxPalette& pal);
2331
2332 /**
2333 Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
2334
2335 @param orientation
2336 Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set.
2337 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
2338 @param pos
2339 Position in scroll units.
2340 @param refresh
2341 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
2342
2343 @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
2344 window: it is up to the application to take note of
2345 scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
2346
2347 @see SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(), wxScrollBar,
2348 wxScrolled
2349 */
2350 virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation, int pos,
2351 bool refresh = true);
2352
2353 /**
2354 Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
2355
2356 @param orientation
2357 Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set.
2358 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
2359 @param position
2360 The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
2361 @param thumbSize
2362 The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
2363 @param range
2364 The maximum position of the scrollbar.
2365 @param refresh
2366 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
2367
2368 @remarks
2369 Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
2370 The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
2371 You would use:
2372 @code
2373 SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
2374 @endcode
2375 Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never
2376 go above 50 minus 16, or 34. You can determine how many lines are
2377 currently visible by dividing the current view size by the character
2378 height in pixels.
2379 When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need
2380 to recalculate the scrollbar settings when the window size changes.
2381 You could therefore put your scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
2382 call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called
2383 initially and also from your wxSizeEvent handler function.
2384
2385 @see @ref overview_scrolling, wxScrollBar, wxScrolled, wxScrollWinEvent
2386 */
2387 virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation, int position,
2388 int thumbSize, int range,
2389 bool refresh = true);
2390
2391 /**
2392 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
2393
2394 @param x
2395 Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2396 existing value should be used.
2397 @param y
2398 Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2399 existing value should be used.
2400 @param width
2401 Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
2402 value should be used.
2403 @param height
2404 Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2405 existing value should be used.
2406 @param sizeFlags
2407 Indicates the interpretation of other parameters.
2408 It is a bit list of the following:
2409 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
2410 a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
2411 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
2412 a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
2413 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
2414 a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
2415 - @c wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
2416 if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
2417 - @c wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
2418 wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted as real
2419 dimensions, not default values.
2420 - @c wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
2421 already the same as the parameters of this function,
2422 nothing is done. but with this flag a window resize may
2423 be forced even in this case (supported in wx 2.6.2 and
2424 later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere
2425 currently).
2426
2427 @remarks This overload sets the position and optionally size, of the window.
2428 Parameters may be wxDefaultCoord to indicate either that a default
2429 should be supplied by wxWidgets, or that the current value of the
2430 dimension should be used.
2431
2432 @see Move()
2433 */
2434 void SetSize(int x, int y, int width, int height,
2435 int sizeFlags = wxSIZE_AUTO);
2436
2437 //@{
2438 /**
2439 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
2440 The size is specified using a wxRect, wxSize or by a couple of @c int objects.
2441
2442 @remarks This form must be used with non-default width and height values.
2443
2444 @see Move()
2445 */
2446 virtual void SetSize(const wxRect& rect);
2447 virtual void SetSize(const wxSize& size);
2448 virtual void SetSize(int width, int height);
2449 //@}
2450
2451 /**
2452 Use of this function for windows which are not toplevel windows
2453 (such as wxDialog or wxFrame) is discouraged.
2454 Please use SetMinSize() and SetMaxSize() instead.
2455
2456 @see wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints
2457 */
2458 void SetSizeHints( const wxSize& minSize,
2459 const wxSize& maxSize=wxDefaultSize,
2460 const wxSize& incSize=wxDefaultSize);
2461
2462 /**
2463 Sets the window to have the given layout sizer.
2464 The window will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2465 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2466 window, it will be deleted if the deleteOld parameter is @true.
2467
2468 Note that this function will also call SetAutoLayout() implicitly with @true
2469 parameter if the @a sizer is non-@NULL and @false otherwise.
2470
2471 @param sizer
2472 The sizer to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and conditionally delete
2473 the window's sizer. See below.
2474 @param deleteOld
2475 If @true (the default), this will delete any pre-existing sizer.
2476 Pass @false if you wish to handle deleting the old sizer yourself.
2477
2478 @remarks SetSizer enables and disables Layout automatically.
2479 */
2480 void SetSizer(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld = true);
2481
2482 /**
2483 This method calls SetSizer() and then wxSizer::SetSizeHints which sets the initial
2484 window size to the size needed to accommodate all sizer elements and sets the
2485 size hints which, if this window is a top level one, prevent the user from
2486 resizing it to be less than this minimial size.
2487 */
2488 void SetSizerAndFit(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld = true);
2489
2490 /**
2491 This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
2492 to draw the windows' background instead if its own background drawing
2493 code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
2494 obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
2495 One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
2496 defined by a user's selected theme.
2497
2498 Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
2499 by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
2500 */
2501 virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable);
2502
2503 //@{
2504 /**
2505 Attach a tooltip to the window.
2506
2507 wxToolTip pointer can be @NULL in the overload taking the pointer,
2508 meaning to unset any existing tooltips, however UnsetToolTip() provides
2509 a more readable alternative to this operation.
2510
2511 Notice that these methods are always available, even if wxWidgets was
2512 compiled with @c wxUSE_TOOLTIPS set to 0, but don't do anything in this
2513 case.
2514
2515 @see GetToolTip(), wxToolTip
2516 */
2517 void SetToolTip(const wxString& tip);
2518 void SetToolTip(wxToolTip* tip);
2519 //@}
2520
2521 /**
2522 Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
2523 returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
2524 See also CanSetTransparent().
2525
2526 The parameter @a alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
2527 fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
2528 @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be used.
2529 */
2530 virtual bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha);
2531
2532 /**
2533 Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
2534 called wxValidator::Clone to create a new validator of this type.
2535 */
2536 virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator& validator);
2537
2538 //@{
2539 /**
2540 Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
2541 */
2542 void SetVirtualSize(int width, int height);
2543 void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize& size);
2544 //@}
2545
2546 /**
2547 Identical to SetWindowStyleFlag().
2548 */
2549 void SetWindowStyle(long style);
2550
2551 /**
2552 Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
2553 after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be be called
2554 after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.
2555
2556 See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
2557
2558 @see GetWindowStyleFlag()
2559 */
2560 virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style);
2561
2562 /**
2563 This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
2564 Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
2565 exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant enum.
2566
2567 By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
2568 be used to change this.
2569 */
2570 void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant);
2571
2572 /**
2573 Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
2574 InheritAttributes(), returning @false forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
2575
2576 The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
2577 wxControl where it returns @true.
2578 */
2579 virtual bool ShouldInheritColours() const;
2580
2581 /**
2582 Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
2583 for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
2584 needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
2585
2586 @param show
2587 If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
2588
2589 @return @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
2590 was done because it already was in the requested state.
2591
2592 @see IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show, wxShowEvent.
2593 */
2594 virtual bool Show(bool show = true);
2595
2596 /**
2597 This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a special visual
2598 effect if possible.
2599
2600 @param effect
2601 The effect to use.
2602
2603 @param timeout
2604 The @a timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
2605 milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default
2606 animation time for the current platform is used.
2607
2608 @note Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and does the
2609 same thing as Show() in the other ports.
2610
2611 @since 2.9.0
2612
2613 @see HideWithEffect()
2614 */
2615 virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
2616 unsigned int timeout = 0);
2617
2618 /**
2619 Reenables window updating after a previous call to Freeze().
2620
2621 To really thaw the control, it must be called exactly the same number
2622 of times as Freeze().
2623
2624 If the window has any children, they are recursively thawn too.
2625
2626 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Freeze(), IsFrozen()
2627 */
2628 void Thaw();
2629
2630 /**
2631 Turns the given @a flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
2632 This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
2633 the case for default flags).
2634
2635 Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
2636 creation.
2637
2638 @return Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
2639 if it was switched off.
2640
2641 @see SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
2642 */
2643 bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag);
2644
2645 /**
2646 Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
2647 validators. Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2648
2649 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2650 the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
2651
2652 @see TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2653 */
2654 virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();
2655
2656 /**
2657 Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
2658 validators.
2659
2660 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2661 the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
2662
2663 @return Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2664
2665 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2666 */
2667 virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();
2668
2669 /**
2670 Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
2671
2672 @param hotkeyId
2673 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
2674 RegisterHotKey().
2675
2676 @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
2677 id was invalid.
2678
2679 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
2680
2681 @see RegisterHotKey()
2682 */
2683 virtual bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId);
2684
2685 /**
2686 Unreserve an ID or range of IDs that was reserved by NewControlId().
2687 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
2688
2689 @param id
2690 The starting ID of the range of IDs to unreserve.
2691 @param count
2692 The number of sequential IDs to unreserve.
2693
2694 @see NewControlId(), wxIdManager, @ref overview_windowids
2695 */
2696 static void UnreserveControlId(wxWindowID id, int count = 1);
2697
2698 /**
2699 Unset any existing tooltip.
2700
2701 @since 2.9.0
2702
2703 @see SetToolTip()
2704 */
2705 void UnsetToolTip();
2706
2707 /**
2708 Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
2709 all of its children recursively while this would usually only happen when the
2710 flow of control returns to the event loop.
2711
2712 Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
2713 nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
2714 a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to immediately redraw the
2715 window unconditionally.
2716 */
2717 virtual void Update();
2718
2719 /**
2720 This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
2721 The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
2722 wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
2723 and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
2724
2725 You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
2726 UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
2727 are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
2728 wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode() or wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval() to limit
2729 the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle time.
2730 @a flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the wxUpdateUI enumeration.
2731
2732 If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
2733 function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
2734 this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
2735 to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
2736 only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
2737 The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
2738 an idle function.
2739
2740 @code
2741 void MyWindow::OnInternalIdle()
2742 {
2743 if (wxUpdateUIEvent::CanUpdate(this))
2744 UpdateWindowUI(wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE);
2745 }
2746 @endcode
2747
2748 @see wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
2749 */
2750 virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags = wxUPDATE_UI_NONE);
2751
2752 /**
2753 Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
2754 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2755 the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
2756
2757 @return Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
2758
2759 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
2760 wxValidator
2761 */
2762 virtual bool Validate();
2763
2764 /**
2765 Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
2766
2767 @note This function is not supported under Mac because Apple Human
2768 Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor programmatically.
2769
2770 @param x
2771 The new x position for the cursor.
2772 @param y
2773 The new y position for the cursor.
2774 */
2775 virtual void WarpPointer(int x, int y);
2776
2777
2778 protected:
2779
2780 /**
2781 Gets the size which best suits the window: for a control, it would be
2782 the minimal size which doesn't truncate the control, for a panel - the
2783 same size as it would have after a call to Fit().
2784
2785 The default implementation of this function is designed for use in container
2786 windows, such as wxPanel, and works something like this:
2787 -# If the window has a sizer then it is used to calculate the best size.
2788 -# Otherwise if the window has layout constraints then those are used to
2789 calculate the best size.
2790 -# Otherwise if the window has children then the best size is set to be large
2791 enough to show all the children.
2792 -# Otherwise if there are no children then the window's minimal size will be
2793 used as its best size.
2794 -# Otherwise if there is no minimal size set, then the current size is used
2795 for the best size.
2796
2797 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
2798 */
2799 virtual wxSize DoGetBestSize() const;
2800
2801
2802 /**
2803 Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
2804 components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
2805 @deprecated @todo provide deprecation description
2806 */
2807 virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize& size);
2808 };
2809
2810
2811
2812 // ============================================================================
2813 // Global functions/macros
2814 // ============================================================================
2815
2816 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_misc */
2817 //@{
2818
2819 /**
2820 Find the deepest window at the mouse pointer position, returning the window
2821 and current pointer position in screen coordinates.
2822
2823 @header{wx/window.h}
2824 */
2825 wxWindow* wxFindWindowAtPointer(wxPoint& pt);
2826
2827 /**
2828 Gets the currently active window (implemented for MSW and GTK only
2829 currently, always returns @NULL in the other ports).
2830
2831 @header{wx/window.h}
2832 */
2833 wxWindow* wxGetActiveWindow();
2834
2835 /**
2836 Returns the first top level parent of the given window, or in other words,
2837 the frame or dialog containing it, or @NULL.
2838
2839 @header{wx/window.h}
2840 */
2841 wxWindow* wxGetTopLevelParent(wxWindow* window);
2842
2843 //@}
2844