contrib/include/wx/fl/gcupdatesmgr.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        gcupdatesmgr.h
   3 // Purpose:     Header for cbGCUpdatesMgr class.
   4 // Author:      Aleksandras Gluchovas
   5 // Modified by:
   6 // Created:     19/10/98
   7 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   8 // Copyright:   (c) Aleksandras Gluchovas
   9 // Licence:     wxWindows licence
  10 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  11
  12 #ifndef __GCUPDATESMGR_G__
  13 #define __GCUPDATESMGR_G__
  14
  15 #if defined(__GNUG__) && !defined(__APPLE__)
  16     #pragma interface "gcupdatesmgr.h"
  17 #endif
  18
  19 #include "wx/fl/controlbar.h"
  20 #include "wx/fl/updatesmgr.h"
  21
  22 #include "wx/fl/garbagec.h"
  23
  24 /*
  25 This class implements optimized logic for refreshing
  26 the areas of frame layout that actually need to be updated.
  27 It is used as the default updates manager by wxFrameLayout.
  28
  29 It is called 'Garbage Collecting' updates manager because
  30 its implementation tries to find out dependencies between bars,
  31 and to order them into a 'hierarchy'. This hierarchical sorting resembles
  32 the implementation of heap-garbage collectors, which resolve
  33 dependencies between references.
  34
  35 Example: there are situations where the order in which the user
  36 moves windows does matter.
  37
  38 \begin{verbatim}
  39   case 1)
  40      ------            ---
  41      | A     |             |B|
  42         ------     --->      | |
  43             ---               --- ------
  44             |B|                   | A  |
  45             | |                   ------
  46             ---
  47                         (future)
  48        (past)
  49 \end{verbatim}
  50
  51 Past/future positions of A and B windows completely overlap, i.e.
  52 depend on each other, and there is no solution for
  53 moving the windows without refreshing both of them
  54 -- we have a cyclic dependency here. The garbage collection algorithm will
  55 find this cyclic dependecy and will force refresh after movement.
  56
  57 \begin{verbatim}
  58   case 2)
  59
  60      ------
  61      | A     |
  62         ------     --->
  63             ---
  64             |B|                              ------
  65             | |                              | A  |
  66             ---                              ------
  67                          ---
  68                          |B|
  69                          | |
  70                          ---
  71
  72                         (future)
  73        (past)
  74 \end{verbatim}
  75
  76 In this case past/future positions do not overlap, so
  77 it is enough only to move windows without refreshing them.
  78 Garbage collection will 'notice' this.
  79
  80 There is also a third case, when overlapping is partial.
  81 In this case the refreshing can also be avoided by
  82 moving windows in the order of 'most-dependant' towards the
  83 'least-dependent'. GC handles this automatically, by
  84 sorting windows by their dependency-level (or 'hierarchy').
  85
  86 See garbagec.h for more details of this method; garbagec.h/cpp
  87 implement sorting of generic dependencies and does not deal
  88 with graphical objects directly.
  89
  90 Summary: garbage collection improves performance when complex or large
  91 windows are moved around, by reducing the number of repaints. It also helps
  92 to avoid dirty non-client areas of moved windows
  93 in some special cases of 'overlapping anomalies'.
  94 */
  95
  96 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FL cbGCUpdatesMgr : public cbSimpleUpdatesMgr
  97 {
  98     DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS( cbGCUpdatesMgr )
  99 protected:
 100
 101     GarbageCollector mGC;
 102
 103         // Internal function for repositioning items.
 104     void DoRepositionItems( wxList& items );
 105
 106         // Internal function for repositioning items.
 107     void AddItem( wxList&     itemList,
 108                   cbBarInfo*  pBar,
 109                   cbDockPane* pPane,
 110                   wxRect&     curBounds,
 111                   wxRect&     prevBounds );
 112
 113 public:
 114
 115         // Default constructor.
 116     cbGCUpdatesMgr(void) {}
 117
 118         // Constructor, taking a frame layout.
 119     cbGCUpdatesMgr( wxFrameLayout* pPanel );
 120
 121         // Receives notifications from the frame layout.
 122     virtual void OnStartChanges();
 123
 124         // Refreshes the parts of the frame layout which need an update.
 125     virtual void UpdateNow();
 126 };
 127
 128 #endif /* __GCUPDATESMGR_G__ */
 129