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[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / init.h
1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: init.h
3 // Purpose: interface of global functions
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9
10 /**
11 @class wxInitializer
12
13 Create an object of this class on the stack to initialize/cleanup the library
14 automatically.
15
16 @library{wxbase}
17 @category{appmanagement}
18
19 @see wxGLContext
20 */
21 class wxInitializer
22 {
23 public:
24 /**
25 Initializes the library.
26 Calls wxInitialize().
27 */
28 wxInitializer(int argc = 0, wxChar **argv = NULL);
29
30 /**
31 Has the initialization been successful? (explicit test)
32 */
33 bool IsOk() const;
34
35 /**
36 This dtor only does clean up if we initialized the library properly.
37 Calls wxUninitialize().
38 */
39 ~wxInitializer();
40 };
41
42
43
44 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_appinitterm */
45 //@{
46
47 /**
48 This function can be used to perform the initialization of wxWidgets if you
49 can't use the default initialization code for any reason.
50
51 If the function returns true, the initialization was successful and the
52 global wxApp object ::wxTheApp has been created. Moreover, wxEntryCleanup()
53 must be called afterwards. If the function returns false, a catastrophic
54 initialization error occured and (at least the GUI part of) the library
55 can't be used at all.
56
57 Notice that parameters @c argc and @c argv may be modified by this
58 function.
59
60 @header{wx/init.h}
61 */
62 bool wxEntryStart(int& argc, wxChar** argv);
63
64 /**
65 See wxEntryStart(int&,wxChar**) for more info about this function.
66
67 This is an additional overload of wxEntryStart() provided under MSW only.
68 It is meant to be called with the parameters passed to WinMain().
69
70 @note Under Windows CE platform, and only there, the type of @a pCmdLine is
71 @c wchar_t *, otherwise it is @c char *, even in Unicode build.
72
73 @onlyfor{wxmsw}
74
75 @header{wx/init.h}
76 */
77 bool wxEntryStart(HINSTANCE hInstance,
78 HINSTANCE hPrevInstance = NULL,
79 char* pCmdLine = NULL,
80 int nCmdShow = SW_SHOWNORMAL);
81
82 /**
83 Free resources allocated by a successful call to wxEntryStart().
84
85 @header{wx/init.h}
86 */
87 void wxEntryCleanup();
88
89 /**
90 Initialize the library (may be called as many times as needed, but each
91 call to wxInitialize() must be matched by wxUninitialize()).
92
93 With this function you may avoid wxDECLARE_APP() and wxIMPLEMENT_APP() macros
94 and use wxInitialize() and wxUninitialize() dynamically in the
95 program startup and termination.
96
97 @header{wx/init.h}
98 */
99 bool wxInitialize(int argc = 0, wxChar **argv = NULL);
100
101 /**
102 Clean up; the library can't be used any more after the last call to
103 wxUninitialize().
104
105 See wxInitialize() for more info.
106
107 @header{wx/init.h}
108 */
109 void wxUninitialize();
110
111 //@}
112