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