1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: wx/textentry.h
3 // Purpose: declares wxTextEntry interface defining a simple text entry
4 // Author: Vadim Zeitlin
7 // Copyright: (c) 2007 Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
8 // Licence: wxWindows licence
9 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11 #ifndef _WX_TEXTENTRY_H_
12 #define _WX_TEXTENTRY_H_
14 // wxTextPos is the position in the text (currently it's hardly used anywhere
15 // and should probably be replaced with int anyhow)
16 typedef long wxTextPos
;
18 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_BASE wxArrayString
;
19 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxTextCompleter
;
20 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxTextEntryHintData
;
21 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxWindow
;
23 #include "wx/filefn.h" // for wxFILE and wxDIR only
24 #include "wx/gdicmn.h" // for wxPoint
26 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
28 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
30 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntryBase
33 wxTextEntryBase() { m_eventsBlock
= 0; m_hintData
= NULL
; }
34 virtual ~wxTextEntryBase();
37 // accessing the value
38 // -------------------
40 // SetValue() generates a text change event, ChangeValue() doesn't
41 virtual void SetValue(const wxString
& value
)
42 { DoSetValue(value
, SetValue_SendEvent
); }
43 virtual void ChangeValue(const wxString
& value
);
45 // writing text inserts it at the current position replacing any current
46 // selection, appending always inserts it at the end and doesn't remove any
47 // existing text (but it will reset the selection if there is any)
48 virtual void WriteText(const wxString
& text
) = 0;
49 virtual void AppendText(const wxString
& text
);
51 virtual wxString
GetValue() const;
52 virtual wxString
GetRange(long from
, long to
) const;
53 bool IsEmpty() const { return GetLastPosition() <= 0; }
59 virtual void Replace(long from
, long to
, const wxString
& value
);
60 virtual void Remove(long from
, long to
) = 0;
61 virtual void Clear() { SetValue(wxString()); }
62 void RemoveSelection();
65 // clipboard operations
66 // --------------------
68 virtual void Copy() = 0;
69 virtual void Cut() = 0;
70 virtual void Paste() = 0;
72 virtual bool CanCopy() const;
73 virtual bool CanCut() const;
74 virtual bool CanPaste() const;
79 virtual void Undo() = 0;
80 virtual void Redo() = 0;
82 virtual bool CanUndo() const = 0;
83 virtual bool CanRedo() const = 0;
89 // note that moving insertion point removes any current selection
90 virtual void SetInsertionPoint(long pos
) = 0;
91 virtual void SetInsertionPointEnd() { SetInsertionPoint(-1); }
92 virtual long GetInsertionPoint() const = 0;
93 virtual long GetLastPosition() const = 0;
99 virtual void SetSelection(long from
, long to
) = 0;
100 virtual void SelectAll() { SetSelection(-1, -1); }
101 virtual void GetSelection(long *from
, long *to
) const = 0;
102 bool HasSelection() const;
103 virtual wxString
GetStringSelection() const;
109 // these functions allow to auto-complete the text already entered into the
110 // control using either the given fixed list of strings, the paths from the
111 // file system or an arbitrary user-defined completer
113 // they all return true if completion was enabled or false on error (most
114 // commonly meaning that this functionality is not available under the
117 bool AutoComplete(const wxArrayString
& choices
)
118 { return DoAutoCompleteStrings(choices
); }
120 bool AutoCompleteFileNames()
121 { return DoAutoCompleteFileNames(wxFILE
); }
123 bool AutoCompleteDirectories()
124 { return DoAutoCompleteFileNames(wxDIR
); }
126 // notice that we take ownership of the pointer and will delete it
128 // if the pointer is NULL auto-completion is disabled
129 bool AutoComplete(wxTextCompleter
*completer
)
130 { return DoAutoCompleteCustom(completer
); }
136 virtual bool IsEditable() const = 0;
137 virtual void SetEditable(bool editable
) = 0;
140 // set the max number of characters which may be entered in a single line
142 virtual void SetMaxLength(unsigned long WXUNUSED(len
)) { }
148 // hint is the (usually greyed out) text shown in the control as long as
149 // it's empty and doesn't have focus, it is typically used in controls used
150 // for searching to let the user know what is supposed to be entered there
152 virtual bool SetHint(const wxString
& hint
);
153 virtual wxString
GetHint() const;
159 // margins are the empty space between borders of control and the text
160 // itself. When setting margin, use value -1 to indicate that specific
161 // margin should not be changed.
163 bool SetMargins(const wxPoint
& pt
)
164 { return DoSetMargins(pt
); }
165 bool SetMargins(wxCoord left
, wxCoord top
= -1)
166 { return DoSetMargins(wxPoint(left
, top
)); }
167 wxPoint
GetMargins() const
168 { return DoGetMargins(); }
171 // implementation only
172 // -------------------
174 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for GetEditableWindow(),
175 // like SetValue() does and return true if the event was processed
177 // NB: this is public for wxRichTextCtrl use only right now, do not call it
178 static bool SendTextUpdatedEvent(wxWindow
*win
);
180 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for this window
181 bool SendTextUpdatedEvent()
183 return SendTextUpdatedEvent(GetEditableWindow());
187 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for this window if the
188 // events are not currently disabled
189 void SendTextUpdatedEventIfAllowed()
191 if ( EventsAllowed() )
192 SendTextUpdatedEvent();
195 // this function is provided solely for the purpose of forwarding text
196 // change notifications state from one control to another, e.g. it can be
197 // used by a wxComboBox which derives from wxTextEntry if it delegates all
198 // of its methods to another wxTextCtrl
199 void ForwardEnableTextChangedEvents(bool enable
)
201 // it's important to call the functions which update m_eventsBlock here
202 // and not just our own EnableTextChangedEvents() because our state
203 // (i.e. the result of EventsAllowed()) must change as well
205 ResumeTextChangedEvents();
207 SuppressTextChangedEvents();
211 // flags for DoSetValue(): common part of SetValue() and ChangeValue() and
212 // also used to implement WriteText() in wxMSW
215 SetValue_NoEvent
= 0,
216 SetValue_SendEvent
= 1,
217 SetValue_SelectionOnly
= 2
220 virtual void DoSetValue(const wxString
& value
, int flags
);
221 virtual wxString
DoGetValue() const = 0;
223 // override this to return the associated window, it will be used for event
224 // generation and also by generic hints implementation
225 virtual wxWindow
*GetEditableWindow() = 0;
228 virtual bool DoSetMargins(const wxPoint
& pt
);
229 virtual wxPoint
DoGetMargins() const;
231 // the derived classes should override these virtual methods to implement
232 // auto-completion, they do the same thing as their public counterparts but
233 // have different names to allow overriding just one of them without hiding
235 virtual bool DoAutoCompleteStrings(const wxArrayString
& WXUNUSED(choices
))
237 virtual bool DoAutoCompleteFileNames(int WXUNUSED(flags
)) // wxFILE | wxDIR
239 virtual bool DoAutoCompleteCustom(wxTextCompleter
*completer
);
242 // class which should be used to temporarily disable text change events
244 // if suppress argument in ctor is false, nothing is done
245 class EventsSuppressor
248 EventsSuppressor(wxTextEntryBase
*text
, bool suppress
= true)
253 m_text
->SuppressTextChangedEvents();
259 m_text
->ResumeTextChangedEvents();
263 wxTextEntryBase
*m_text
;
267 friend class EventsSuppressor
;
270 // suppress or resume the text changed events generation: don't use these
271 // functions directly, use EventsSuppressor class above instead
272 void SuppressTextChangedEvents()
274 if ( !m_eventsBlock
++ )
275 EnableTextChangedEvents(false);
278 void ResumeTextChangedEvents()
280 if ( !--m_eventsBlock
)
281 EnableTextChangedEvents(true);
285 // this must be overridden in the derived classes if our implementation of
286 // SetValue() or Replace() is used to disable (and enable back) generation
287 // of the text changed events
289 // initially the generation of the events is enabled
290 virtual void EnableTextChangedEvents(bool WXUNUSED(enable
)) { }
292 // return true if the events are currently not suppressed
293 bool EventsAllowed() const { return m_eventsBlock
== 0; }
296 // if this counter is non-null, events are blocked
297 unsigned m_eventsBlock
;
299 // hint-related stuff, only allocated if/when SetHint() is used
300 wxTextEntryHintData
*m_hintData
;
302 // It needs to call our Do{Get,Set}Value() to work with the real control
304 friend class wxTextEntryHintData
;
307 #ifdef __WXUNIVERSAL__
308 // TODO: we need to use wxTextEntryDelegate here, but for now just prevent
309 // the GTK/MSW classes from being used in wxUniv build
310 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntry
: public wxTextEntryBase
313 #elif defined(__WXGTK20__)
314 #include "wx/gtk/textentry.h"
315 #elif defined(__WXMAC__)
316 #include "wx/osx/textentry.h"
317 #elif defined(__WXMSW__)
318 #include "wx/msw/textentry.h"
319 #elif defined(__WXMOTIF__)
320 #include "wx/motif/textentry.h"
321 #elif defined(__WXPM__)
322 #include "wx/os2/textentry.h"
324 // no platform-specific implementation of wxTextEntry yet
325 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntry
: public wxTextEntryBase
330 #endif // _WX_TEXTENTRY_H_