interface/aboutdlg.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        aboutdlg.h
   3 // Purpose:     interface of wxAboutDialogInfo
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
   7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   8
   9 /**
  10     @class wxAboutDialogInfo
  11     @wxheader{aboutdlg.h}
  12
  13     wxAboutDialogInfo contains information shown in the standard @e About
  14     dialog displayed by the wxAboutBox() function.
  15
  16     This class contains the general information about the program, such as its
  17     name, version, copyright and so on, as well as lists of the program developers,
  18     documentation writers, artists and translators. The simple properties from the
  19     former group are represented as a string with the exception of the program icon
  20     and the program web site, while the lists from the latter group are stored as
  21     wxArrayString and can be either set entirely at once using
  22     wxAboutDialogInfo::SetDevelopers and similar functions or built one by one using
  23     wxAboutDialogInfo::AddDeveloper etc.
  24
  25     Please also notice that while all the main platforms have the native
  26     implementation of the about dialog, they are often more limited than the
  27     generic version provided by wxWidgets and so the generic version is used if
  28     wxAboutDialogInfo has any fields not supported by the native version. Currently
  29     GTK+ version supports all the possible fields natively but MSW and Mac versions
  30     don't support URLs, licence text nor custom icons in the about dialog and if
  31     either of those is used, wxAboutBox() will automatically use the generic version
  32     so you should avoid specifying these fields to achieve more native look and feel.
  33
  34     @library{wxadv}
  35     @category{misc}
  36
  37     @see wxAboutDialogInfo::SetArtists
  38 */
  39 class wxAboutDialogInfo
  40 {
  41 public:
  42     /**
  43         Default constructor leaves all fields are initially uninitialized, in general
  44         you should call at least SetVersion(), SetCopyright() and SetDescription().
  45     */
  46     wxAboutDialogInfo();
  47
  48     /**
  49         Adds an artist name to be shown in the program credits.
  50
  51         @see SetArtists()
  52     */
  53     void AddArtist(const wxString& artist);
  54
  55     /**
  56         Adds a developer name to be shown in the program credits.
  57
  58         @see SetDevelopers()
  59     */
  60     void AddDeveloper(const wxString& developer);
  61
  62     /**
  63         Adds a documentation writer name to be shown in the program credits.
  64
  65         @see SetDocWriters()
  66     */
  67     void AddDocWriter(const wxString& docwriter);
  68
  69     /**
  70         Adds a translator name to be shown in the program credits. Notice that if no
  71         translator names are specified explicitely, wxAboutBox() will try to use the
  72         translation of the string @c translator-credits from the currently used message
  73         catalog -- this can be used to show just the name of the translator of the
  74         program in the current language.
  75
  76         @see SetTranslators()
  77     */
  78     void AddTranslator(const wxString& translator);
  79
  80     /**
  81         Sets the the list of artists to be shown in the program credits.
  82
  83         @see AddArtist()
  84     */
  85     void SetArtists(const wxArrayString& artists);
  86
  87     /**
  88         Set the short string containing the program copyright information. Notice that
  89         any occurrences of @c "(C)" in @a copyright will be replaced by the
  90         copyright symbol (circled C) automatically, which means that you can avoid
  91         using this symbol in the program source code which can be problematic,
  92     */
  93     void SetCopyright(const wxString& copyright);
  94
  95     /**
  96         Set brief, but possibly multiline, description of the program.
  97     */
  98     void SetDescription(const wxString& desc);
  99
 100     /**
 101         Set the list of developers of the program.
 102
 103         @see AddDeveloper()
 104     */
 105     void SetDevelopers(const wxArrayString& developers);
 106
 107     /**
 108         Set the list of documentation writers.
 109
 110         @see AddDocWriter()
 111     */
 112     void SetDocWriters(const wxArrayString& docwriters);
 113
 114     /**
 115         Set the icon to be shown in the dialog. By default the icon of the main frame
 116         will be shown if the native about dialog supports custom icons. If it doesn't
 117         but a valid icon is specified using this method, the generic about dialog is
 118         used instead so you should avoid calling this function for maximally native
 119         look and feel.
 120     */
 121     void SetIcon(const wxIcon& icon);
 122
 123     /**
 124         Set the long, multiline string containing the text of the program licence.
 125
 126         Only GTK+ version supports showing the licence text in the native about dialog
 127         currently so the generic version will be used under all the other platforms if
 128         this method is called. To preserve the native look and feel it is advised that
 129         you do not call this method but provide a separate menu item in the
 130         @c "Help" menu for displaying the text of your program licence.
 131     */
 132     void SetLicence(const wxString& licence);
 133
 134     /**
 135         This is the same as SetLicence().
 136     */
 137     void SetLicense(const wxString& licence);
 138
 139     /**
 140         Set the name of the program. If this method is not called, the string returned
 141         by wxApp::GetAppName will be shown in the dialog.
 142     */
 143     void SetName(const wxString& name);
 144
 145     /**
 146         Set the list of translators. Please see AddTranslator() for additional
 147         discussion.
 148     */
 149     void SetTranslators(const wxArrayString& translators);
 150
 151     /**
 152         Set the version of the program. The version is in free format, i.e. not
 153         necessarily in the @c x.y.z form but it shouldn't contain the "version" word.
 154     */
 155     void SetVersion(const wxString& version);
 156
 157     /**
 158         Set the web site for the program and its description (which defaults to @a url
 159         itself if empty).
 160
 161         Please notice that only GTK+ version currently supports showing the link in the
 162         native about dialog so if this method is called, the generic version will be
 163         used under all the other platforms.
 164     */
 165     void SetWebSite(const wxString& url,
 166                     const wxString& desc = wxEmptyString);
 167 };
 168
 169
 170 // ============================================================================
 171 // Global functions/macros
 172 // ============================================================================
 173
 174 /**
 175     This function shows the standard about dialog containing the information
 176     specified in @a info. If the current platform has a native about dialog
 177     which is capable of showing all the fields in @a info, the native dialog is
 178     used, otherwise the function falls back to the generic wxWidgets version of
 179     the dialog, i.e. does the same thing as wxGenericAboutBox.
 180
 181     Here is an example of how this function may be used:
 182
 183     @code
 184     void MyFrame::ShowSimpleAboutDialog(wxCommandEvent& WXUNUSED(event))
 185     {
 186         wxAboutDialogInfo info;
 187         info.SetName(_("My Program"));
 188         info.SetVersion(_("1.2.3 Beta"));
 189         info.SetDescription(_("This program does something great."));
 190         info.SetCopyright(_T("(C) 2007 Me my@email.addre.ss"));
 191
 192         wxAboutBox(info);
 193     }
 194     @endcode
 195
 196     Please see the @ref page_utils_samples_dialogs for more examples of
 197     using this function and wxAboutDialogInfo for the description of the
 198     information which can be shown in the about dialog.
 199 */
 200 void wxAboutBox(const wxAboutDialogInfo& info);
 201
 202 /**
 203     This function does the same thing as wxAboutBox() except that it always uses
 204     the generic wxWidgets version of the dialog instead of the native one.
 205
 206     This is mainly useful if you need to customize the dialog by e.g. adding
 207     custom controls to it (customizing the native dialog is not currently
 208     supported).
 209
 210     See the @ref page_utils_samples_dialogs for an example of about dialog
 211     customization.
 212
 213     @see wxAboutDialogInfo
 214 */
 215 void wxGenericAboutBox(const wxAboutDialogInfo& info);
 216