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 wxTextEntryHintData
;
20 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxWindow
;
22 #include "wx/gdicmn.h" // for wxPoint
24 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
26 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
28 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntryBase
31 wxTextEntryBase() { m_eventsBlock
= 0; m_hintData
= NULL
; }
32 virtual ~wxTextEntryBase();
35 // accessing the value
36 // -------------------
38 // SetValue() generates a text change event, ChangeValue() doesn't
39 virtual void SetValue(const wxString
& value
)
40 { DoSetValue(value
, SetValue_SendEvent
); }
41 virtual void ChangeValue(const wxString
& value
)
42 { DoSetValue(value
, SetValue_NoEvent
); }
44 // writing text inserts it at the current position replacing any current
45 // selection, appending always inserts it at the end and doesn't remove any
46 // existing text (but it will reset the selection if there is any)
47 virtual void WriteText(const wxString
& text
) = 0;
48 virtual void AppendText(const wxString
& text
);
50 virtual wxString
GetValue() const;
51 virtual wxString
GetRange(long from
, long to
) const;
52 bool IsEmpty() const { return GetLastPosition() <= 0; }
58 virtual void Replace(long from
, long to
, const wxString
& value
);
59 virtual void Remove(long from
, long to
) = 0;
60 virtual void Clear() { SetValue(wxString()); }
61 void RemoveSelection();
64 // clipboard operations
65 // --------------------
67 virtual void Copy() = 0;
68 virtual void Cut() = 0;
69 virtual void Paste() = 0;
71 virtual bool CanCopy() const;
72 virtual bool CanCut() const;
73 virtual bool CanPaste() const;
78 virtual void Undo() = 0;
79 virtual void Redo() = 0;
81 virtual bool CanUndo() const = 0;
82 virtual bool CanRedo() const = 0;
88 // note that moving insertion point removes any current selection
89 virtual void SetInsertionPoint(long pos
) = 0;
90 virtual void SetInsertionPointEnd() { SetInsertionPoint(-1); }
91 virtual long GetInsertionPoint() const = 0;
92 virtual long GetLastPosition() const = 0;
98 virtual void SetSelection(long from
, long to
) = 0;
99 virtual void SelectAll() { SetSelection(-1, -1); }
100 virtual void GetSelection(long *from
, long *to
) const = 0;
101 bool HasSelection() const;
102 virtual wxString
GetStringSelection() const;
108 // these functions allow to auto-complete the text already entered into the
109 // control using either the given fixed list of strings, the paths from the
110 // file system or, in the future, an arbitrary user-defined completer
112 // they all return true if completion was enabled or false on error (most
113 // commonly meaning that this functionality is not available under the
116 virtual bool AutoComplete(const wxArrayString
& WXUNUSED(choices
))
121 virtual bool AutoCompleteFileNames() { return false; }
127 virtual bool IsEditable() const = 0;
128 virtual void SetEditable(bool editable
) = 0;
131 // set the max number of characters which may be entered in a single line
133 virtual void SetMaxLength(unsigned long WXUNUSED(len
)) { }
139 // hint is the (usually greyed out) text shown in the control as long as
140 // it's empty and doesn't have focus, it is typically used in controls used
141 // for searching to let the user know what is supposed to be entered there
143 virtual bool SetHint(const wxString
& hint
);
144 virtual wxString
GetHint() const;
150 // margins are the empty space between borders of control and the text
151 // itself. When setting margin, use value -1 to indicate that specific
152 // margin should not be changed.
154 bool SetMargins(const wxPoint
& pt
)
155 { return DoSetMargins(pt
); }
156 bool SetMargins(wxCoord left
, wxCoord top
= -1)
157 { return DoSetMargins(wxPoint(left
, top
)); }
158 wxPoint
GetMargins() const
159 { return DoGetMargins(); }
162 // implementation only
163 // -------------------
165 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for GetEditableWindow(),
166 // like SetValue() does and return true if the event was processed
168 // NB: this is public for wxRichTextCtrl use only right now, do not call it
169 static bool SendTextUpdatedEvent(wxWindow
*win
);
171 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for this window
172 bool SendTextUpdatedEvent()
174 return SendTextUpdatedEvent(GetEditableWindow());
178 // this function is provided solely for the purpose of forwarding text
179 // change notifications state from one control to another, e.g. it can be
180 // used by a wxComboBox which derives from wxTextEntry if it delegates all
181 // of its methods to another wxTextCtrl
182 void ForwardEnableTextChangedEvents(bool enable
)
184 // it's important to call the functions which update m_eventsBlock here
185 // and not just our own EnableTextChangedEvents() because our state
186 // (i.e. the result of EventsAllowed()) must change as well
188 ResumeTextChangedEvents();
190 SuppressTextChangedEvents();
194 // flags for DoSetValue(): common part of SetValue() and ChangeValue() and
195 // also used to implement WriteText() in wxMSW
198 SetValue_NoEvent
= 0,
199 SetValue_SendEvent
= 1,
200 SetValue_SelectionOnly
= 2
203 virtual void DoSetValue(const wxString
& value
, int flags
);
204 virtual wxString
DoGetValue() const = 0;
206 // override this to return the associated window, it will be used for event
207 // generation and also by generic hints implementation
208 virtual wxWindow
*GetEditableWindow() = 0;
211 virtual bool DoSetMargins(const wxPoint
& pt
);
212 virtual wxPoint
DoGetMargins() const;
215 // class which should be used to temporarily disable text change events
217 // if suppress argument in ctor is false, nothing is done
218 class EventsSuppressor
221 EventsSuppressor(wxTextEntryBase
*text
, bool suppress
= true)
226 m_text
->SuppressTextChangedEvents();
232 m_text
->ResumeTextChangedEvents();
236 wxTextEntryBase
*m_text
;
240 friend class EventsSuppressor
;
242 // generate the wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event for this window if the
243 // events are not currently disabled
244 void SendTextUpdatedEventIfAllowed()
246 if ( EventsAllowed() )
247 SendTextUpdatedEvent();
252 // suppress or resume the text changed events generation: don't use these
253 // functions directly, use EventsSuppressor class above instead
254 void SuppressTextChangedEvents()
256 if ( !m_eventsBlock
++ )
257 EnableTextChangedEvents(false);
260 void ResumeTextChangedEvents()
262 if ( !--m_eventsBlock
)
263 EnableTextChangedEvents(true);
267 // this must be overridden in the derived classes if our implementation of
268 // SetValue() or Replace() is used to disable (and enable back) generation
269 // of the text changed events
271 // initially the generation of the events is enabled
272 virtual void EnableTextChangedEvents(bool WXUNUSED(enable
)) { }
274 // return true if the events are currently not suppressed
275 bool EventsAllowed() const { return m_eventsBlock
== 0; }
278 // if this counter is non-null, events are blocked
279 unsigned m_eventsBlock
;
281 // hint-related stuff, only allocated if/when SetHint() is used
282 wxTextEntryHintData
*m_hintData
;
285 #ifdef __WXUNIVERSAL__
286 // TODO: we need to use wxTextEntryDelegate here, but for now just prevent
287 // the GTK/MSW classes from being used in wxUniv build
288 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntry
: public wxTextEntryBase
291 #elif defined(__WXGTK20__)
292 #include "wx/gtk/textentry.h"
293 #elif defined(__WXMAC__)
294 #include "wx/osx/textentry.h"
295 #elif defined(__WXMSW__)
296 #include "wx/msw/textentry.h"
297 #elif defined(__WXMOTIF__)
298 #include "wx/motif/textentry.h"
299 #elif defined(__WXPM__)
300 #include "wx/os2/textentry.h"
302 // no platform-specific implementation of wxTextEntry yet
303 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxTextEntry
: public wxTextEntryBase
308 #endif // _WX_TEXTENTRY_H_