interface/wx/unichar.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        unichar.h
   3 // Purpose:     interface of wxUniChar
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
   7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   8
   9 /**
  10     @class wxUniChar
  11
  12     This class represents a single Unicode character. It can be converted to
  13     and from @c char or @c wchar_t and implements commonly used character operations.
  14
  15     @library{wxbase}
  16     @category{data}
  17 */
  18 class wxUniChar
  19 {
  20 public:
  21     /**
  22         This is not wchar_t on purpose, it needs to represent the entire
  23         Unicode code points range and wchar_t may be too small for that
  24         (e.g. on Win32 where wchar_t* is encoded in UTF-16).
  25     */
  26     typedef wxUint32 value_type;
  27
  28     /**
  29         Default ctor.
  30     */
  31     wxUniChar()
  32
  33     //@{
  34     /**
  35         Create the character from 8bit character value encoded in the current
  36         locale's charset.
  37     */
  38     wxUniChar(char c);
  39     wxUniChar(unsigned char c);
  40     //@}
  41
  42     wxUniChar(int c);
  43     wxUniChar(unsigned int c);
  44     wxUniChar(long int c);
  45     wxUniChar(unsigned long int c);
  46     wxUniChar(short int c);
  47     wxUniChar(unsigned short int c);
  48
  49     wxUniChar(const wxUniCharRef& c);
  50
  51     /**
  52         Returns Unicode code point value of the character.
  53     */
  54     value_type GetValue() const;
  55
  56     /**
  57         Returns true if the character is an ASCII character.
  58     */
  59     bool IsAscii() const;
  60
  61     //@{
  62     /**
  63         Conversions to char and wchar_t types: all of those are needed to be
  64         able to pass wxUniChars to various standard narrow and wide character
  65         functions.
  66     */
  67     operator char() const;
  68     operator unsigned char() const;
  69     operator wchar_t() const;
  70     operator int() const;
  71     operator unsigned int() const;
  72     operator long int() const;
  73     operator unsigned long int() const;
  74     operator short int() const;
  75     operator unsigned short int() const;
  76     //@}
  77
  78     //@{
  79     /**
  80         Assignment operators
  81     */
  82     wxUniChar& operator=(const wxUniChar& c);
  83     wxUniChar& operator=(const wxUniCharRef& c);
  84     wxUniChar& operator=(char c);
  85     wxUniChar& operator=(unsigned char c);
  86     wxUniChar& operator=(wchar_t c);
  87     wxUniChar& operator=(int c);
  88     wxUniChar& operator=(unsigned int c);
  89     wxUniChar& operator=(long int c);
  90     wxUniChar& operator=(unsigned long int c);
  91     wxUniChar& operator=(short int c);
  92     wxUniChar& operator=(unsigned short int c);
  93     //@}
  94 };
  95
  96
  97 /**
  98     @class wxUniCharRef
  99
 100     Writeable reference to a character in wxString.
 101
 102     This class can be used in the same way wxChar is used, except that changing
 103     its value updates the underlying string object.
 104
 105     @library{wxbase}
 106     @category{data}
 107 */
 108 class wxUniCharRef
 109 {
 110 public:
 111 };
 112