interface/wx/panel.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        panel.h
   3 // Purpose:     interface of wxPanel
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
   7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   8
   9 /**
  10     @class wxPanel
  11
  12     A panel is a window on which controls are placed. It is usually placed within
  13     a frame. Its main feature over its parent class wxWindow is code for handling
  14     child windows and TAB traversal. Since wxWidgets 2.9, there is support both
  15     for TAB traversal implemented by wxWidgets itself as well as native TAB
  16     traversal (such as for GTK 2.0).
  17
  18     @note Tab traversal is implemented through an otherwise undocumented
  19           intermediate wxControlContainer class from which any class can derive
  20           in addition to the normal wxWindow base class. Please see @c wx/containr.h
  21           and @c wx/panel.h to find out how this is achieved.
  22
  23     @note if not all characters are being intercepted by your OnKeyDown or
  24           OnChar handler, it may be because you are using the @c wxTAB_TRAVERSAL style,
  25           which grabs some keypresses for use by child controls.
  26
  27     @remarks By default, a panel has the same colouring as a dialog.
  28
  29     @library{wxbase}
  30     @category{miscwnd}
  31
  32     @see wxDialog
  33 */
  34 class wxPanel : public wxWindow
  35 {
  36 public:
  37
  38     /**
  39         Default constructor.
  40     */
  41     wxPanel();
  42
  43     /**
  44         Constructor.
  45
  46         @param parent
  47             The parent window.
  48         @param id
  49             An identifier for the panel. @c wxID_ANY is taken to mean a default.
  50         @param pos
  51             The panel position. The value @c wxDefaultPosition indicates a default position,
  52             chosen by either the windowing system or wxWidgets, depending on platform.
  53         @param size
  54             The panel size. The value @c wxDefaultSize indicates a default size, chosen by
  55             either the windowing system or wxWidgets, depending on platform.
  56         @param style
  57             The window style. See wxPanel.
  58         @param name
  59             Window name.
  60
  61         @see Create()
  62     */
  63     wxPanel(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id = wxID_ANY,
  64             const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
  65             const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize,
  66             long style = wxTAB_TRAVERSAL,
  67             const wxString& name = "panel");
  68
  69     /**
  70         Destructor. Deletes any child windows before deleting the physical window.
  71     */
  72     virtual ~wxPanel();
  73
  74     /**
  75         This method is overridden from wxWindow::AcceptsFocus()
  76         and returns @true only if there is no child window in the panel which
  77         can accept the focus. This is reevaluated each time a child
  78         window is added or removed from the panel.
  79     */
  80     bool AcceptsFocus() const;
  81
  82     /**
  83         Used for two-step panel construction. See wxPanel() for details.
  84     */
  85     bool Create(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id = wxID_ANY,
  86                 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
  87                 const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize,
  88                 long style = wxTAB_TRAVERSAL,
  89                 const wxString& name = "panel");
  90
  91     /**
  92         Sends a wxInitDialogEvent, which in turn transfers data to the dialog via
  93         validators.
  94
  95         @see wxInitDialogEvent
  96     */
  97     virtual void InitDialog();
  98
  99     /**
 100         The default handler for wxEVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED.
 101
 102         @param event
 103             The colour change event.
 104
 105         @remarks Changes the panel's colour to conform to the current settings
 106                  (Windows only). Add an event table entry for your panel
 107                  class if you wish the behaviour to be different (such
 108                  as keeping a user-defined background colour). If you do
 109                  override this function, call wxEvent::Skip() to propagate
 110                  the notification to child windows and controls.
 111
 112         @see wxSysColourChangedEvent
 113     */
 114     void OnSysColourChanged(wxSysColourChangedEvent& event);
 115
 116     /**
 117         Overrides wxWindow::SetFocus().
 118
 119         This method uses the (undocumented) mix-in class wxControlContainer which manages
 120         the focus and TAB logic for controls which usually have child controls.
 121
 122         In practice, if you call this method and the control has at least
 123         one child window, the focus will be given to the child window.
 124
 125         @see wxFocusEvent, wxWindow::SetFocus()
 126     */
 127     virtual void SetFocus();
 128
 129     /**
 130         In contrast to SetFocus() (see above) this will set the focus to the panel
 131         even if there are child windows in the panel. This is only rarely needed.
 132     */
 133     void SetFocusIgnoringChildren();
 134 };
 135