1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: interface of wxWindow
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11 Background styles. See wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle().
13 enum wxBackgroundStyle
15 /// Use the default background, as determined by
16 /// the system or the current theme.
19 /// Use a solid colour for the background, this style is set automatically if you call
20 /// SetBackgroundColour() so you only need to set it explicitly if you had
21 /// changed the background style to something else before.
24 /// Don't draw the background at all, it's supposed that it is drawn by
25 /// the user-defined erase background event handler.
26 /// This style should be used to avoid flicker when the background is entirely
30 /// The background is (partially) transparent,this style is automatically set if you call
31 /// SetTransparent() which is used to set the transparency level.
32 wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT
37 Valid values for wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() and wxWindow::HideWithEffect().
41 /// Roll window to the left
42 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_LEFT
,
44 /// Roll window to the right
45 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_RIGHT
,
47 /// Roll window to the top
48 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_TOP
,
50 /// Roll window to the bottom
51 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_BOTTOM
,
53 /// Slide window to the left
54 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_LEFT
,
56 /// Slide window to the right
57 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT
,
59 /// Slide window to the top
60 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_TOP
,
62 /// Slide window to the bottom
63 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_BOTTOM
,
65 /// Fade in or out effect
68 /// Expanding or collapsing effect
73 Different window variants, on platforms like eg mac uses different
78 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL
, //!< Normal size
79 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_SMALL
, //!< Smaller size (about 25 % smaller than normal)
80 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_MINI
, //!< Mini size (about 33 % smaller than normal)
81 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_LARGE
, //!< Large size (about 25 % larger than normal)
87 Flags which can be used in wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI().
93 wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE
/**< Invoked from On(Internal)Idle */
100 wxWindow is the base class for all windows and represents any visible object
101 om screen. All controls, top level windows and so on are windows. Sizers and
102 device contexts are not, however, as they don't appear on screen themselves.
104 Please note that all children of the window will be deleted automatically by
105 the destructor before the window itself is deleted which means that you don't
106 have to worry about deleting them manually. Please see the @ref
107 overview_windowdeletion "window deletion overview" for more information.
109 Also note that in this, and many others, wxWidgets classes some
110 @c GetXXX() methods may be overloaded (as, for example,
111 wxWindow::GetSize or wxWindow::GetClientSize). In this case, the overloads
112 are non-virtual because having multiple virtual functions with the same name
113 results in a virtual function name hiding at the derived class level (in
114 English, this means that the derived class has to override all overloaded
115 variants if it overrides any of them). To allow overriding them in the derived
116 class, wxWidgets uses a unique protected virtual @c DoGetXXX() method
117 and all @c GetXXX() ones are forwarded to it, so overriding the former
118 changes the behaviour of the latter.
121 @style{wxBORDER_DEFAULT}
122 The window class will decide the kind of border to show, if any.
123 @style{wxBORDER_SIMPLE}
124 Displays a thin border around the window. wxSIMPLE_BORDER is the
125 old name for this style.
126 @style{wxBORDER_SUNKEN}
127 Displays a sunken border. wxSUNKEN_BORDER is the old name for this
129 @style{wxBORDER_RAISED}
130 Displays a raised border. wxRAISED_BORDER is the old name for this
132 @style{wxBORDER_STATIC}
133 Displays a border suitable for a static control. wxSTATIC_BORDER
134 is the old name for this style. Windows only.
135 @style{wxBORDER_THEME}
136 Displays a native border suitable for a control, on the current
137 platform. On Windows XP or Vista, this will be a themed border; on
138 most other platforms a sunken border will be used. For more
139 information for themed borders on Windows, please see Themed
141 @style{wxBORDER_NONE}
142 Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the
143 window. wxNO_BORDER is the old name for this style.
144 @style{wxBORDER_DOUBLE}
145 This style is obsolete and should not be used.
146 @style{wxTRANSPARENT_WINDOW}
147 The window is transparent, that is, it will not receive paint
148 events. Windows only.
149 @style{wxTAB_TRAVERSAL}
150 Use this to enable tab traversal for non-dialog windows.
151 @style{wxWANTS_CHARS}
152 Use this to indicate that the window wants to get all char/key
153 events for all keys - even for keys like TAB or ENTER which are
154 usually used for dialog navigation and which wouldn't be generated
155 without this style. If you need to use this style in order to get
156 the arrows or etc., but would still like to have normal keyboard
157 navigation take place, you should call Navigate in response to the
158 key events for Tab and Shift-Tab.
159 @style{wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
160 On Windows, this style used to disable repainting the window
161 completely when its size is changed. Since this behaviour is now
162 the default, the style is now obsolete and no longer has an effect.
164 Use this style to enable a vertical scrollbar. Notice that this
165 style cannot be used with native controls which don't support
166 scrollbars nor with top-level windows in most ports.
168 Use this style to enable a horizontal scrollbar. The same
169 limitations as for wxVSCROLL apply to this style.
170 @style{wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB}
171 If a window has scrollbars, disable them instead of hiding them
172 when they are not needed (i.e. when the size of the window is big
173 enough to not require the scrollbars to navigate it). This style is
174 currently implemented for wxMSW, wxGTK and wxUniversal and does
175 nothing on the other platforms.
176 @style{wxCLIP_CHILDREN}
177 Use this style to eliminate flicker caused by the background being
178 repainted, then children being painted over them. Windows only.
179 @style{wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
180 Use this style to force a complete redraw of the window whenever it
181 is resized instead of redrawing just the part of the window
182 affected by resizing. Note that this was the behaviour by default
183 before 2.5.1 release and that if you experience redraw problems
184 with code which previously used to work you may want to try this.
185 Currently this style applies on GTK+ 2 and Windows only, and full
186 repainting is always done on other platforms.
189 @beginExtraStyleTable
190 @style{wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY}
191 By default, Validate/TransferDataTo/FromWindow() only work on
192 direct children of the window (compatible behaviour). Set this flag
193 to make them recursively descend into all subwindows.
194 @style{wxWS_EX_BLOCK_EVENTS}
195 wxCommandEvents and the objects of the derived classes are
196 forwarded to the parent window and so on recursively by default.
197 Using this flag for the given window allows to block this
198 propagation at this window, i.e. prevent the events from being
199 propagated further upwards. Dialogs have this flag on by default
200 for the reasons explained in the @ref overview_eventhandling "Event Handling Overview".
201 @style{wxWS_EX_TRANSIENT}
202 Don't use this window as an implicit parent for the other windows:
203 this must be used with transient windows as otherwise there is the
204 risk of creating a dialog/frame with this window as a parent which
205 would lead to a crash if the parent is destroyed before the child.
206 @style{wxWS_EX_CONTEXTHELP}
207 Under Windows, puts a query button on the caption. When pressed,
208 Windows will go into a context-sensitive help mode and wxWidgets
209 will send a wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application window.
210 This style cannot be used together with wxMAXIMIZE_BOX or wxMINIMIZE_BOX, so
211 these two styles are automatically turned of if this one is used.
212 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE}
213 This window should always process idle events, even if the mode set
214 by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
215 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES}
216 This window should always process UI update events, even if the
217 mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
223 @see @ref overview_eventhandling "Event handling overview",
224 @ref overview_windowsizing "Window sizing overview"
226 class wxWindow
: public wxEvtHandler
235 Constructs a window, which can be a child of a frame, dialog or any other
239 Pointer to a parent window.
241 Window identifier. If wxID_ANY, will automatically create an identifier.
243 Window position. wxDefaultPosition indicates that wxWidgets
244 should generate a default position for the window.
245 If using the wxWindow class directly, supply an actual position.
247 Window size. wxDefaultSize indicates that wxWidgets should generate
248 a default size for the window. If no suitable size can be found, the
249 window will be sized to 20x20 pixels so that the window is visible but
250 obviously not correctly sized.
252 Window style. For generic window styles, please see wxWindow.
256 wxWindow(wxWindow
* parent
, wxWindowID id
,
257 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
,
258 const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
,
260 const wxString
& name
= wxPanelNameStr
);
265 Deletes all sub-windows, then deletes itself. Instead of using
266 the @b delete operator explicitly, you should normally use Destroy()
267 so that wxWidgets can delete a window only when it is safe to do so, in idle time.
269 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
270 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
275 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
276 indicate that this control doesn't accept input at all (i.e. behaves like
277 e.g. wxStaticText) and so doesn't need focus.
279 @see AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard()
281 virtual bool AcceptsFocus() const;
284 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
285 indicate that while this control can, in principle, have focus if the user
286 clicks it with the mouse, it shouldn't be included in the TAB traversal chain
287 when using the keyboard.
289 virtual bool AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard() const;
292 Overridden to indicate wehter this window or one of its children accepts
293 focus. Usually it's the same as AcceptsFocus() but is overridden for
296 virtual bool AcceptsFocusRecursively() const;
299 Adds a child window. This is called automatically by window creation
300 functions so should not be required by the application programmer.
301 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
302 called by the user code.
307 virtual void AddChild(wxWindow
* child
);
310 Call this function to force one or both scrollbars to be always shown, even if
311 the window is big enough to show its entire contents without scrolling.
316 Whether the horizontal scroll bar should always be visible.
318 Whether the vertical scroll bar should always be visible.
320 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under Mac/Carbon.
322 virtual void AlwaysShowScrollbars(bool = true, bool = true);
325 Sets the cached best size value.
327 void CacheBestSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
330 Returns @true if the system supports transparent windows and calling
331 SetTransparent() may succeed. If this function returns @false, transparent
332 windows are definitely not supported by the current system.
334 virtual bool CanSetTransparent();
337 Directs all mouse input to this window.
338 Call ReleaseMouse() to release the capture.
340 Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
341 and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
342 captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
343 window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
344 as you capture it, unless the window receives the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
346 Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
347 must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent and cancel this operation when it receives
348 the event. The event handler must not recapture mouse.
350 @see ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
355 A synonym for Centre().
357 void Center(int dir
= wxBOTH
);
360 A synonym for CentreOnParent().
362 void CenterOnParent(int dir
= wxBOTH
);
368 Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
369 or wxBOTH. It may also include wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN flag
370 if you want to center the window on the entire screen and not on its
373 @remarks If the window is a top level one (i.e. doesn't have a parent),
374 it will be centered relative to the screen anyhow.
378 void Centre(int direction
= wxBOTH
);
381 Centres the window on its parent. This is a more readable synonym for Centre().
384 Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
387 @remarks This methods provides for a way to center top level windows over
388 their parents instead of the entire screen. If there
389 is no parent or if the window is not a top level
390 window, then behaviour is the same as Centre().
392 @see wxTopLevelWindow::CentreOnScreen
394 void CentreOnParent(int direction
= wxBOTH
);
397 Clears the window by filling it with the current background colour. Does not
398 cause an erase background event to be generated.
400 virtual void ClearBackground();
403 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
406 A pointer to a integer value for the x coordinate. Pass the client
407 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
409 A pointer to a integer value for the y coordinate. Pass the client
410 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
413 In place of a single overloaded method name, wxPython implements the following methods:
414 - ClientToScreen(point): Accepts and returns a wxPoint
415 - ClientToScreenXY(x, y): Returns a 2-tuple, (x, y)
418 void ClientToScreen(int* x
, int* y
) const;
421 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
424 The client position for the second form of the function.
426 wxPoint
ClientToScreen(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
429 Converts client area size @a size to corresponding window size.
431 In other words, the returned value is what would GetSize() return if this
432 window had client area of given size. Components with wxDefaultCoord
433 value are left unchanged. Note that the conversion is not always
434 exact, it assumes that non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't
435 take into account things like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance
440 @see WindowToClientSize()
442 virtual wxSize
ClientToWindowSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
445 Converts window size @a size to corresponding client area size
446 In other words, the returned value is what would GetClientSize() return if
447 this window had given window size. Components with wxDefaultCoord value
450 Note that the conversion is not always exact, it assumes that
451 non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't take into account things
452 like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance of the scrollbars.
456 @see ClientToWindowSize()
458 virtual wxSize
WindowToClientSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
461 This function simply generates a wxCloseEvent whose handler usually tries
462 to close the window. It doesn't close the window itself, however.
465 @false if the window's close handler should be able to veto the destruction
466 of this window, @true if it cannot.
468 @remarks Close calls the close handler for the window, providing an
469 opportunity for the window to choose whether to destroy
470 the window. Usually it is only used with the top level
471 windows (wxFrame and wxDialog classes) as the others
472 are not supposed to have any special OnClose() logic.
473 The close handler should check whether the window is being deleted
474 forcibly, using wxCloseEvent::CanVeto, in which case it should
475 destroy the window using wxWindow::Destroy.
476 Note that calling Close does not guarantee that the window will
477 be destroyed; but it provides a way to simulate a manual close
478 of a window, which may or may not be implemented by destroying
479 the window. The default implementation of wxDialog::OnCloseWindow
480 does not necessarily delete the dialog, since it will simply
481 simulate an wxID_CANCEL event which is handled by the appropriate
482 button event handler and may do anything at all.
483 To guarantee that the window will be destroyed, call
484 wxWindow::Destroy instead
486 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
487 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
489 bool Close(bool force
= false);
493 Converts a point or size from dialog units to pixels.
495 For the x dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
496 width and then divided by 4.
497 For the y dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
498 height and then divided by 8.
500 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
501 even if the font changes.
502 You can also use these functions programmatically.
503 A convenience macro is defined:
505 #define wxDLG_UNIT(parent, pt) parent->ConvertDialogToPixels(pt)
508 @see ConvertPixelsToDialog()
510 wxPoint
ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxPoint
& pt
);
511 wxSize
ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxSize
& sz
);
516 Converts a point or size from pixels to dialog units.
518 For the x dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 4 and then divided by the
519 average character width.
520 For the y dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 8 and then divided by the
521 average character height.
523 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
524 even if the font changes.
526 @see ConvertDialogToPixels()
528 wxPoint
ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxPoint
& pt
);
529 wxSize
ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxSize
& sz
);
533 Destroys the window safely. Use this function instead of the delete operator,
534 since different window classes can be destroyed differently. Frames and dialogs
535 are not destroyed immediately when this function is called -- they are added
536 to a list of windows to be deleted on idle time, when all the window's events
537 have been processed. This prevents problems with events being sent to
538 non-existent windows.
540 @return @true if the window has either been successfully deleted, or it
541 has been added to the list of windows pending real deletion.
543 virtual bool Destroy();
546 Destroys all children of a window. Called automatically by the destructor.
548 bool DestroyChildren();
551 Returns true if this window is in process of being destroyed.
553 The top level windows are not deleted immediately but are rather
554 scheduled for later destruction to give them time to process any
555 pending messages, see Destroy() description.
557 This function returns @true if this window, or one of its parent
558 windows, is scheduled for destruction and can be useful to avoid
559 manipulating it as it's usually useless to do something with a window
560 which is on the point of disappearing anyhow.
562 bool IsBeingDeleted() const;
565 Disables the window. Same as @ref Enable() Enable(@false).
567 @return Returns @true if the window has been disabled, @false if it had
568 been already disabled before the call to this function.
573 Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
574 This function is called by UpdateWindowUI() in order to check return
575 values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and act appropriately.
576 For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating, wxWidgets
577 implements this function as follows:
580 // do the window-specific processing after processing the update event
581 void wxTopLevelWindowBase::DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event)
583 if ( event.GetSetEnabled() )
584 Enable(event.GetEnabled());
586 if ( event.GetSetText() )
588 if ( event.GetText() != GetTitle() )
589 SetTitle(event.GetText());
594 virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent
& event
);
597 Enables or disables eligibility for drop file events (OnDropFiles).
600 If @true, the window is eligible for drop file events.
601 If @false, the window will not accept drop file events.
603 @remarks Windows only.
605 virtual void DragAcceptFiles(bool accept
);
608 Enable or disable the window for user input. Note that when a parent window is
609 disabled, all of its children are disabled as well and they are reenabled again
613 If @true, enables the window for input. If @false, disables the window.
615 @return Returns @true if the window has been enabled or disabled, @false
616 if nothing was done, i.e. if the window had already
617 been in the specified state.
619 @see IsEnabled(), Disable(), wxRadioBox::Enable
621 virtual bool Enable(bool enable
= true);
624 Finds the window or control which currently has the keyboard focus.
626 @remarks Note that this is a static function, so it can be called without
627 needing a wxWindow pointer.
629 @see SetFocus(), HasFocus()
631 static wxWindow
* FindFocus();
634 Find a child of this window, by @a id.
635 May return @a this if it matches itself.
637 wxWindow
* FindWindow(long id
) const;
640 Find a child of this window, by name.
641 May return @a this if it matches itself.
643 wxWindow
* FindWindow(const wxString
& name
) const;
646 Find the first window with the given @e id.
648 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
649 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
651 The search is recursive in both cases.
655 static wxWindow
* FindWindowById(long id
, wxWindow
* parent
= NULL
);
658 Find a window by its label.
660 Depending on the type of window, the label may be a window title
661 or panel item label. If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all
662 top-level frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be
663 limited to the given window hierarchy.
664 The search is recursive in both cases.
668 static wxWindow
* FindWindowByLabel(const wxString
& label
,
669 wxWindow
* parent
= NULL
);
672 Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or @b Create
675 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
676 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
679 The search is recursive in both cases. If no window with such name is found,
680 FindWindowByLabel() is called.
684 static wxWindow
* FindWindowByName(const wxString
& name
,
685 wxWindow
* parent
= NULL
);
688 Sizes the window so that it fits around its subwindows.
690 This function won't do anything if there are no subwindows and will only really
691 work correctly if sizers are used for the subwindows layout.
693 Also, if the window has exactly one subwindow it is better (faster and the result
694 is more precise as Fit() adds some margin to account for fuzziness of its calculations)
698 window->SetClientSize(child->GetSize());
701 instead of calling Fit().
703 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
708 Similar to Fit(), but sizes the interior (virtual) size of a window.
710 Mainly useful with scrolled windows to reset scrollbars after sizing
711 changes that do not trigger a size event, and/or scrolled windows without
712 an interior sizer. This function similarly won't do anything if there are
715 virtual void FitInside();
718 Freezes the window or, in other words, prevents any updates from taking
719 place on screen, the window is not redrawn at all.
721 Thaw() must be called to reenable window redrawing. Calls to these two
722 functions may be nested but to ensure that the window is properly
723 repainted again, you must thaw it exactly as many times as you froze it.
725 If the window has any children, they are recursively frozen too.
727 This method is useful for visual appearance optimization (for example,
728 it is a good idea to use it before doing many large text insertions in
729 a row into a wxTextCtrl under wxGTK) but is not implemented on all
730 platforms nor for all controls so it is mostly just a hint to wxWidgets
731 and not a mandatory directive.
733 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Thaw(), IsFrozen()
738 Gets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
740 wxAcceleratorTable
* GetAcceleratorTable();
743 Returns the accessible object for this window, if any.
744 See also wxAccessible.
746 wxAccessible
* GetAccessible();
750 This method is deprecated, use GetEffectiveMinSize() instead.
752 wxSize
GetAdjustedBestSize() const;
755 Returns the background colour of the window.
757 @see SetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(), GetForegroundColour()
759 wxColour
GetBackgroundColour() const;
762 Returns the background style of the window.
763 The background style can be one of the wxBackgroundStyle.
765 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
766 SetBackgroundStyle(), SetTransparent()
768 virtual wxBackgroundStyle
GetBackgroundStyle() const;
771 This functions returns the best acceptable minimal size for the window.
773 For example, for a static control, it will be the minimal size such that the
774 control label is not truncated. For windows containing subwindows (typically
775 wxPanel), the size returned by this function will be the same as the size
776 the window would have had after calling Fit().
778 wxSize
GetBestSize() const;
781 Returns the currently captured window.
783 @see HasCapture(), CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(),
784 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
786 static wxWindow
* GetCapture();
789 Returns the caret() associated with the window.
791 wxCaret
* GetCaret() const;
794 Returns the character height for this window.
796 virtual int GetCharHeight() const;
799 Returns the average character width for this window.
801 virtual int GetCharWidth() const;
805 Returns a reference to the list of the window's children. @c wxWindowList
806 is a type-safe wxList-like class whose elements are of type @c wxWindow*.
808 wxWindowList
& GetChildren();
809 const wxWindowList
& GetChildren() const;
813 Returns the default font and colours which are used by the control.
815 This is useful if you want to use the same font or colour in your own control
816 as in a standard control -- which is a much better idea than hard coding specific
817 colours or fonts which might look completely out of place on the users
818 system, especially if it uses themes.
820 The @a variant parameter is only relevant under Mac currently and is
821 ignore under other platforms. Under Mac, it will change the size of the
822 returned font. See SetWindowVariant() for more about this.
824 This static method is "overridden" in many derived classes and so calling,
825 for example, wxButton::GetClassDefaultAttributes() will typically
826 return the values appropriate for a button which will be normally different
827 from those returned by, say, wxListCtrl::GetClassDefaultAttributes().
829 The @c wxVisualAttributes structure has at least the fields
830 @c font, @c colFg and @c colBg. All of them may be invalid
831 if it was not possible to determine the default control appearance or,
832 especially for the background colour, if the field doesn't make sense as is
833 the case for @c colBg for the controls with themed background.
835 @see InheritAttributes()
837 static wxVisualAttributes
GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindowVariant variant
= wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL
);
841 Returns the size of the window 'client area' in pixels.
842 The client area is the area which may be drawn on by the programmer,
843 excluding title bar, border, scrollbars, etc.
844 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
845 return size is empty (both width and height are 0).
848 Receives the client width in pixels.
850 Receives the client height in pixels.
852 @see GetSize(), GetVirtualSize()
854 void GetClientSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
855 wxSize
GetClientSize() const;
859 Returns a pointer to the window's layout constraints, or @NULL if there are none.
861 wxLayoutConstraints
* GetConstraints() const;
864 Return the sizer that this window is a member of, if any, otherwise @NULL.
866 wxSizer
* GetContainingSizer() const;
869 Return the cursor associated with this window.
873 const wxCursor
& GetCursor() const;
876 Currently this is the same as calling
877 wxWindow::GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindow::GetWindowVariant()).
879 One advantage of using this function compared to the static version is that
880 the call is automatically dispatched to the correct class (as usual with
881 virtual functions) and you don't have to specify the class name explicitly.
883 The other one is that in the future this function could return different
884 results, for example it might return a different font for an "Ok" button
885 than for a generic button if the users GUI is configured to show such buttons
886 in bold font. Of course, the down side is that it is impossible to call this
887 function without actually having an object to apply it to whereas the static
888 version can be used without having to create an object first.
890 virtual wxVisualAttributes
GetDefaultAttributes() const;
893 Returns the associated drop target, which may be @NULL.
895 @see SetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
897 virtual wxDropTarget
* GetDropTarget() const;
900 Merges the window's best size into the min size and returns the result.
901 This is the value used by sizers to determine the appropriate
902 ammount of space to allocate for the widget.
904 @see GetBestSize(), SetInitialSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
906 wxSize
GetEffectiveMinSize() const;
909 Returns the event handler for this window.
910 By default, the window is its own event handler.
912 @see SetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
913 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
915 wxEvtHandler
* GetEventHandler() const;
918 Returns the extra style bits for the window.
920 long GetExtraStyle() const;
923 Returns the font for this window.
927 wxFont
GetFont() const;
930 Returns the foreground colour of the window.
932 @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
933 interpretation according to the window class; it may be
934 the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
936 @see SetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
937 GetBackgroundColour()
939 wxColour
GetForegroundColour() const;
942 Returns the grandparent of a window, or @NULL if there isn't one.
944 wxWindow
* GetGrandParent() const;
947 Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
948 Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
949 @b Widget for Motif, @b GtkWidget for GTK or @b WinHandle for PalmOS.
951 virtual WXWidget
GetHandle() const;
954 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
955 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
956 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
958 @see SetHelpText(), GetHelpTextAtPoint(), wxHelpProvider
960 wxString
GetHelpText() const;
963 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
964 This method should be overridden if the help message depends on the position
965 inside the window, otherwise GetHelpText() can be used.
968 Coordinates of the mouse at the moment of help event emission.
970 Help event origin, see also wxHelpEvent::GetOrigin.
972 virtual wxString
GetHelpTextAtPoint(const wxPoint point
,
973 wxHelpEvent::Origin origin
) const;
976 Returns the identifier of the window.
978 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application
979 has not provided one (or the default wxID_ANY) an unique
980 identifier with a negative value will be generated.
982 @see SetId(), @ref overview_windowids
984 wxWindowID
GetId() const;
987 Generic way of getting a label from any window, for
988 identification purposes.
990 @remarks The interpretation of this function differs from class to class.
991 For frames and dialogs, the value returned is the
992 title. For buttons or static text controls, it is the
993 button text. This function can be useful for
994 meta-programs (such as testing tools or special-needs
995 access programs) which need to identify windows by name.
997 virtual wxString
GetLabel() const;
1000 Returns the maximum size of window's client area.
1002 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
1003 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using
1008 virtual wxSize
GetMaxClientSize() const;
1011 Returns the maximum size of the window.
1013 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
1014 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using SetSize().
1016 @see GetMaxClientSize()
1018 virtual wxSize
GetMaxSize() const;
1021 Returns the minimum size of window's client area, an indication to the sizer
1022 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of its client area.
1024 It normally just returns the value set by SetMinClientSize(), but it can be
1025 overridden to do the calculation on demand.
1029 virtual wxSize
GetMinClientSize() const;
1032 Returns the minimum size of the window, an indication to the sizer layout
1033 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
1035 This method normally just returns the value set by SetMinSize(), but it
1036 can be overridden to do the calculation on demand.
1038 @see GetMinClientSize()
1040 virtual wxSize
GetMinSize() const;
1043 Returns the window's name.
1045 @remarks This name is not guaranteed to be unique; it is up to the
1046 programmer to supply an appropriate name in the window
1047 constructor or via SetName().
1051 virtual wxString
GetName() const;
1054 Returns the next window after this one among the parent children or @NULL
1055 if this window is the last child.
1059 @see GetPrevSibling()
1061 wxWindow
* GetNextSibling() const;
1064 Returns the parent of the window, or @NULL if there is no parent.
1066 wxWindow
* GetParent() const;
1069 This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
1070 returns the selected id. It can be more convenient than the general purpose
1071 PopupMenu() function for simple menus proposing a choice in a list of
1072 strings to the user.
1077 The position at which to show the menu in client coordinates
1079 @return The selected menu item id or wxID_NONE if none selected or an
1082 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu
& menu
, const wxPoint
& pos
);
1085 See the GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu&, const wxPoint&) overload.
1086 This overload differs only because it takes two integers for the
1087 menu position instead of a wxPoint.
1089 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu
& menu
, int x
, int y
);
1092 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1093 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1096 Receives the x position of the window if non-@NULL.
1098 Receives the y position of the window if non-@NULL.
1100 @see GetScreenPosition()
1102 void GetPosition(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1105 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1106 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1108 @see GetScreenPosition()
1110 wxPoint
GetPosition() const;
1113 Returns the previous window before this one among the parent children or @c
1114 @NULL if this window is the first child.
1118 @see GetNextSibling()
1120 wxWindow
* GetPrevSibling() const;
1123 Returns the position and size of the window as a wxRect object.
1125 @see GetScreenRect()
1127 wxRect
GetRect() const;
1130 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1131 child window or a top level one.
1134 Receives the x position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1136 Receives the y position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1140 void GetScreenPosition(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1143 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1144 child window or a top level one.
1148 wxPoint
GetScreenPosition() const;
1151 Returns the position and size of the window on the screen as a wxRect object.
1155 wxRect
GetScreenRect() const;
1158 Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
1160 @see See SetScrollbar()
1162 virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation
) const;
1165 Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
1169 virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation
) const;
1172 Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
1176 virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation
) const;
1179 Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
1182 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
1183 returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
1186 Receives the window width.
1188 Receives the window height.
1190 @see GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize()
1192 void GetSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
1195 See the GetSize(int*,int*) overload for more info.
1197 wxSize
GetSize() const;
1200 Return the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
1201 SetSizer() or @NULL.
1203 wxSizer
* GetSizer() const;
1206 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1207 window with the currently selected font.
1209 The text extent is returned in @a w and @a h pointers.
1212 String whose extent is to be measured.
1214 Return value for width.
1216 Return value for height.
1218 Return value for descent (optional).
1219 @param externalLeading
1220 Return value for external leading (optional).
1222 Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
1224 virtual void GetTextExtent(const wxString
& string
, int* w
, int* h
,
1225 int* descent
= NULL
,
1226 int* externalLeading
= NULL
,
1227 const wxFont
* font
= NULL
) const;
1230 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1231 window with the currently selected font.
1233 wxSize
GetTextExtent(const wxString
& string
) const;
1236 Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
1238 wxToolTip
* GetToolTip() const;
1241 Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
1242 Should only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
1244 @see wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
1246 const wxRegion
& GetUpdateRegion() const;
1249 Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if
1252 virtual wxValidator
* GetValidator();
1256 This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
1257 By default it returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
1258 SetVirtualSize() it will return that size.
1261 Receives the window virtual width.
1263 Receives the window virtual height.
1265 void GetVirtualSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
1266 wxSize
GetVirtualSize() const;
1270 Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
1271 and y components of the result respectively.
1273 virtual wxSize
GetWindowBorderSize() const;
1276 Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or @b Create
1277 method. @b GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
1279 virtual long GetWindowStyleFlag() const;
1282 Returns the value previously passed to SetWindowVariant().
1284 wxWindowVariant
GetWindowVariant() const;
1287 This function will generate the appropriate call to
1288 Navigate() if the key event is one normally used for
1289 keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
1291 @return Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
1292 handled, @false otherwise.
1296 bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent
& event
);
1301 GetEventHandler()->SafelyProcessEvent(event);
1304 bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent
& event
) const;
1307 Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
1309 @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
1310 wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1312 virtual bool HasCapture() const;
1315 Returns @true if the window has the given @a exFlag bit set in its
1318 @see SetExtraStyle()
1320 bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag
) const;
1323 Returns @true if the window has the given @a flag bit set.
1325 bool HasFlag(int flag
) const;
1328 Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
1329 child window) has focus.
1333 virtual bool HasFocus() const;
1336 This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
1337 multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
1338 wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
1339 and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should do it as well to
1340 allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
1342 virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
1345 Returns @true if this window has a scroll bar for this orientation.
1348 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
1350 bool HasScrollbar(int orient
) const;
1353 Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example,
1354 for wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
1356 This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
1357 shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
1358 wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
1360 virtual bool HasTransparentBackground();
1363 Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
1368 This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a special visual
1371 The parameters of this function are the same as for ShowWithEffect(),
1372 please see their description there.
1376 virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect
,
1377 unsigned int timeout
= 0);
1380 This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
1381 window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
1382 the font and the foreground and background colours.
1384 By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
1385 own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
1386 However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
1387 SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
1388 attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
1389 window takes the same value as used by the parent.
1390 In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
1391 the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
1393 This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
1394 different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
1395 are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
1396 different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
1397 they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
1398 desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
1399 just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
1400 do inherit the parents attributes.
1402 virtual void InheritAttributes();
1405 Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
1406 to the dialog via validators.
1408 virtual void InitDialog();
1411 Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
1414 void InvalidateBestSize();
1417 Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
1418 any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
1419 and transferred to the screen all at once later.
1423 virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
1426 Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input,
1429 Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
1430 been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled.
1431 To get the intrinsic status of this window, use IsThisEnabled()
1435 bool IsEnabled() const;
1439 Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
1440 last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
1441 only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
1443 bool IsExposed(int x
, int y
) const;
1444 const bool IsExposed(wxPoint amp
;pt
) const;
1445 const bool IsExposed(int x
, int y
, int w
, int h
) const;
1446 const bool IsExposed(wxRect amp
;rect
) const;
1450 Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to Freeze().
1452 @see Freeze(), Thaw()
1454 bool IsFrozen() const;
1457 Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
1459 @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
1461 virtual bool IsRetained() const;
1464 Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
1467 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
1469 @see AlwaysShowScrollbars()
1471 virtual bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient
) const;
1474 Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
1476 @see IsShownOnScreen()
1478 virtual bool IsShown() const;
1481 Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
1482 is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
1486 virtual bool IsShownOnScreen() const;
1489 Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
1490 i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
1491 mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
1492 IsEnabled() instead.
1494 bool IsThisEnabled() const;
1497 Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
1498 dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
1501 virtual bool IsTopLevel() const;
1504 Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
1507 See SetAutoLayout(): when auto layout is on, this function gets called automatically
1508 when the window is resized.
1510 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
1512 virtual bool Layout();
1515 Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
1519 virtual void Lower();
1522 Disables all other windows in the application so that
1523 the user can only interact with this window.
1526 If @true, this call disables all other windows in the application so that
1527 the user can only interact with this window. If @false, the effect is
1530 virtual void MakeModal(bool modal
= true);
1533 Moves the window to the given position.
1536 Required x position.
1538 Required y position.
1540 @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
1541 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1543 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1548 void Move(int x
, int y
, int flags
= 0);
1551 Moves the window to the given position.
1554 wxPoint object representing the position.
1556 @remarks Implementations of SetSize() can also implicitly implement the
1557 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1559 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1564 void Move(const wxPoint
& pt
, int flags
= 0);
1567 Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
1568 This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
1569 the focus switches to this window.
1571 Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
1572 MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
1573 it after creating all the windows.
1576 A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
1579 void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow
* win
);
1582 Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that it inserts this window just
1583 before @a win instead of putting it right after it.
1585 void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow
* win
);
1588 Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window.
1589 This method is equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
1593 A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
1594 wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
1596 @return Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
1599 @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
1600 handler to do the default navigation behaviour for the
1601 tab key, since the standard default behaviour for a
1602 multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB style
1603 is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
1604 control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
1605 HandleAsNavigationKey.
1607 bool Navigate(int flags
= IsForward
);
1610 Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
1611 See Navigate() for more information.
1613 bool NavigateIn(int flags
= IsForward
);
1616 Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.
1617 The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindow ID
1618 or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
1620 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
1623 The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
1625 @return Returns the ID or the first ID of the range, or wxID_NONE if the
1626 specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
1628 @see UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager,
1629 @ref overview_windowids
1631 static wxWindowID
NewControlId(int count
= 1);
1634 This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
1635 sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
1636 that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
1637 handler in a derived class.
1639 This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
1640 and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
1641 in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
1643 virtual void OnInternalIdle();
1646 Same as #ScrollLines (-1).
1651 Same as #ScrollLines (1).
1656 Same as #ScrollPages (-1).
1661 Same as #ScrollPages (1).
1667 Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
1669 @param deleteHandler
1670 If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed.
1671 The default value is @false.
1673 @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
1674 PushEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1676 wxEvtHandler
* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler
= false);
1680 Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
1681 window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu.
1683 If a menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
1684 processed as usually. If the coordinates are not specified, current mouse
1685 cursor position is used.
1690 The position where the menu will appear.
1692 Required x position for the menu to appear.
1694 Required y position for the menu to appear.
1696 @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
1697 ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
1698 The menu does not get deleted by the window.
1699 It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
1700 calling PopupMenu in response to mouse click, because some of
1701 the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
1702 the menu in that case.
1706 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu
* menu
,
1707 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
);
1708 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu
* menu
, int x
, int y
);
1712 Posts a size event to the window.
1714 This is the same as SendSizeEvent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST argument.
1716 void PostSizeEvent();
1719 Posts a size event to the parent of this window.
1721 This is the same as SendSizeEventToParent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST
1724 void PostSizeEventToParent();
1727 Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
1730 Specifies the handler to be pushed.
1732 @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
1733 events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
1734 own event handler, but an application may wish to
1735 substitute another, for example to allow central
1736 implementation of event-handling for a variety of
1737 different window classes.
1738 wxWindow::PushEventHandler allows an application to set up a
1739 chain of event handlers, where an event not handled by one event
1740 handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
1741 Use wxWindow::PopEventHandler to remove the event handler.
1743 @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
1744 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1746 void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
1749 Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
1750 In current version of wxWidgets this works both for managed and child windows.
1754 virtual void Raise();
1757 Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
1758 where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
1759 happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
1760 to update the window immediately you should use Update() instead.
1762 @param eraseBackground
1763 If @true, the background will be erased.
1765 If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will be treated as damaged.
1769 virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground
= true,
1770 const wxRect
* rect
= NULL
);
1773 Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
1776 This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax as it can be called
1777 with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
1779 void RefreshRect(const wxRect
& rect
, bool eraseBackground
= true);
1782 Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
1783 registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
1785 It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
1786 and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
1790 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
1791 and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
1792 system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
1793 This is a MSW specific detail.
1795 A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
1796 or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
1798 @param virtualKeyCode
1799 The virtual key code of the hotkey.
1801 @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
1802 other application already registered a hotkey with this
1803 modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
1805 @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
1806 event. This function is currently only implemented
1807 under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
1808 detecting hardware button presses.
1810 @see UnregisterHotKey()
1812 bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId
, int modifiers
,
1813 int virtualKeyCode
);
1816 Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
1818 @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
1819 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1821 void ReleaseMouse();
1824 Removes a child window.
1826 This is called automatically by window deletion functions so should not
1827 be required by the application programmer.
1828 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
1829 called by the user code.
1832 Child window to remove.
1834 virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow
* child
);
1837 Find the given @a handler in the windows event handler chain and remove
1838 (but not delete) it from it.
1841 The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
1842 must be present in this windows event handlers chain
1844 @return Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
1845 results in an assert failure so this function should
1846 only be called when the handler is supposed to be there).
1848 @see PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
1850 bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
1853 Reparents the window, i.e the window will be removed from its
1854 current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
1855 and then re-inserted into another.
1860 virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow
* newParent
);
1864 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1867 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1869 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1871 The screen position for the second form of the function.
1873 virtual void ScreenToClient(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1874 virtual wxPoint
ScreenToClient(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
1878 Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @a lines is
1881 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
1882 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
1884 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
1885 wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for wxScrolled classes
1886 under all platforms).
1890 virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines
);
1893 Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @a pages is
1896 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
1897 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
1899 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
1903 virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages
);
1906 Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
1909 Amount to scroll horizontally.
1911 Amount to scroll vertically.
1913 Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
1914 scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
1917 @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolled instead of using this
1920 virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx
, int dy
,
1921 const wxRect
* rect
= NULL
);
1924 This function sends a dummy @ref overview_wxsizeevent "size event" to
1925 the window allowing it to re-layout its children positions.
1927 It is sometimes useful to call this function after adding or deleting a
1928 children after the frame creation or if a child size changes. Note that
1929 if the frame is using either sizers or constraints for the children
1930 layout, it is enough to call wxWindow::Layout() directly and this
1931 function should not be used in this case.
1933 If @a flags includes @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST value, this function posts
1934 the event, i.e. schedules it for later processing, instead of
1935 dispatching it directly. You can also use PostSizeEvent() as a more
1936 readable equivalent of calling this function with this flag.
1939 May include @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST. Default value is 0.
1941 virtual void SendSizeEvent(int flags
= 0);
1944 Safe wrapper for GetParent()->SendSizeEvent().
1946 This function simply checks that the window has a valid parent which is
1947 not in process of being deleted and calls SendSizeEvent() on it. It is
1948 used internally by windows such as toolbars changes to whose state
1949 should result in parent re-layout (e.g. when a toolbar is added to the
1950 top of the window, all the other windows must be shifted down).
1952 @see PostSizeEventToParent()
1955 See description of this parameter in SendSizeEvent() documentation.
1957 void SendSizeEventToParent(int flags
= 0);
1960 Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
1962 virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable
& accel
);
1965 Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
1966 will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
1967 See also wxAccessible.
1969 void SetAccessible(wxAccessible
* accessible
);
1972 Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
1973 when the window is resized. Please note that this only happens for the
1974 windows usually used to contain children, namely wxPanel and wxTopLevelWindow
1975 (and the classes deriving from them).
1977 This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
1978 you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
1979 updated when its size changes.
1982 Set this to @true if you wish the Layout function to be
1983 called automatically when the window is resized.
1985 @see SetConstraints()
1987 void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout
);
1990 Sets the background colour of the window.
1991 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
1992 this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
1995 The colour to be used as the background colour, pass
1996 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
1998 @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
1999 wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
2000 automatically under GTK.
2001 Note that setting the background colour does not cause an
2002 immediate refresh, so you may wish to call wxWindow::ClearBackground
2003 or wxWindow::Refresh after calling this function.
2004 Using this function will disable attempts to use themes for
2005 this window, if the system supports them. Use with care since
2006 usually the themes represent the appearance chosen by the user
2007 to be used for all applications on the system.
2009 @see GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
2010 GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
2011 Refresh(), wxEraseEvent
2013 virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
2016 Sets the background style of the window. see GetBackgroundStyle() for
2017 the description of the possible style values.
2019 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
2022 virtual bool SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style
);
2025 This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
2026 native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0).
2028 It is called by wxWidgets' container control code to give the native
2029 system a hint when doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable
2030 or change the effect of programmatically calling SetFocus().
2032 @see wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
2034 virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus
);
2037 Sets the caret() associated with the window.
2039 void SetCaret(wxCaret
* caret
);
2043 This sets the size of the window client area in pixels.
2045 Using this function to size a window tends to be more device-independent
2046 than SetSize(), since the application need not worry about what dimensions
2047 the border or title bar have when trying to fit the window around panel
2051 The required client area width.
2053 The required client area height.
2055 The required client size.
2057 virtual void SetClientSize(int width
, int height
);
2058 virtual void SetClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2062 Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
2063 will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2064 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2065 window, it will be deleted.
2068 The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
2071 @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
2072 the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
2073 must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
2074 setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
2075 the sizer will have effect.
2077 void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints
* constraints
);
2080 This normally does not need to be called by user code.
2081 It is called when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window
2082 can remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
2084 void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer
* sizer
);
2087 Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
2088 children of the window implicitly.
2090 The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
2091 be reset back to default.
2094 Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
2096 @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
2098 virtual bool SetCursor(const wxCursor
& cursor
);
2101 Associates a drop target with this window.
2102 If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
2104 @see GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
2106 virtual void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget
* target
);
2109 Sets the event handler for this window.
2112 Specifies the handler to be set.
2114 @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
2115 events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
2116 own event handler, but an application may wish to
2117 substitute another, for example to allow central
2118 implementation of event-handling for a variety of
2119 different window classes.
2120 It is usually better to use wxWindow::PushEventHandler since
2121 this sets up a chain of event handlers, where an event not
2122 handled by one event handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
2124 @see GetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
2125 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
2127 void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
2130 Sets the extra style bits for the window.
2131 The currently defined extra style bits are reported in the class
2134 virtual void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle
);
2137 This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
2139 @see HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
2140 wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
2142 virtual void SetFocus();
2145 This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
2146 gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
2148 By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
2149 can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
2151 virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();
2154 Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
2155 parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
2156 use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and see InheritAttributes() for more
2159 Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
2160 wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
2161 call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
2162 any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
2166 Font to associate with this window, pass
2167 wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
2169 @return @true if the want was really changed, @false if it was already set
2170 to this font and so nothing was done.
2172 @see GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
2174 virtual bool SetFont(const wxFont
& font
);
2177 Sets the foreground colour of the window.
2178 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
2179 this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
2182 The colour to be used as the foreground colour, pass
2183 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
2185 @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
2186 interpretation according to the window class; it may be
2187 the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
2189 @see GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
2190 GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
2192 virtual bool SetForegroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
2195 Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2196 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
2197 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
2199 @see GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider::AddHelp()
2201 void SetHelpText(const wxString
& helpText
);
2204 Sets the identifier of the window.
2206 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
2207 not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
2208 Normally, the identifier should be provided on creation
2209 and should not be modified subsequently.
2211 @see GetId(), @ref overview_windowids
2213 void SetId(wxWindowID winid
);
2216 A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
2217 window's @e best size values.
2219 Also sets the window's minsize to the value passed in for use with sizers.
2220 This means that if a full or partial size is passed to this function then
2221 the sizers will use that size instead of the results of GetBestSize() to
2222 determine the minimum needs of the window for layout.
2224 Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
2225 size to the passed in value (if any.)
2227 @see SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize(),
2228 @ref overview_windowsizing
2230 void SetInitialSize(const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
);
2233 Sets the window's label.
2240 virtual void SetLabel(const wxString
& label
);
2243 Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
2244 layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
2248 virtual void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2251 Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
2252 that this is the maximum possible size.
2254 @see SetMaxClientSize()
2256 virtual void SetMaxSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2259 Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
2260 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
2263 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
2264 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
2266 Note, that just as with SetMinSize(), calling this method doesn't
2267 prevent the program from explicitly making the window smaller than the
2272 virtual void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2275 Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout
2276 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
2278 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
2279 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
2281 Notice that calling this method doesn't prevent the program from making
2282 the window explicitly smaller than the specified size by calling
2283 SetSize(), it just ensures that it won't become smaller than this size
2284 during the automatic layout.
2286 @see SetMinClientSize()
2288 virtual void SetMinSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2291 Sets the window's name.
2294 A name to set for the window.
2298 virtual void SetName(const wxString
& name
);
2301 Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
2302 by the children of this window.
2304 @see SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
2306 void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
2309 Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
2310 children of this window.
2312 @see SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
2314 void SetOwnFont(const wxFont
& font
);
2317 Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
2318 by the children of this window.
2320 @see SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
2322 void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
2325 @deprecated use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
2327 void SetPalette(const wxPalette
& pal
);
2330 Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
2333 Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set.
2334 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
2336 Position in scroll units.
2338 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
2340 @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
2341 window: it is up to the application to take note of
2342 scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
2344 @see SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(), wxScrollBar,
2347 virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation
, int pos
,
2348 bool refresh
= true);
2351 Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
2354 Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set.
2355 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
2357 The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
2359 The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
2361 The maximum position of the scrollbar.
2363 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
2366 Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
2367 The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
2370 SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
2372 Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never
2373 go above 50 minus 16, or 34. You can determine how many lines are
2374 currently visible by dividing the current view size by the character
2376 When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need
2377 to recalculate the scrollbar settings when the window size changes.
2378 You could therefore put your scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
2379 call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called
2380 initially and also from your wxSizeEvent handler function.
2382 @see @ref overview_scrolling, wxScrollBar, wxScrolled, wxScrollWinEvent
2384 virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation
, int position
,
2385 int thumbSize
, int range
,
2386 bool refresh
= true);
2389 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
2392 Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2393 existing value should be used.
2395 Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2396 existing value should be used.
2398 Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
2399 value should be used.
2401 Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2402 existing value should be used.
2404 Indicates the interpretation of other parameters.
2405 It is a bit list of the following:
2406 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
2407 a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
2408 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
2409 a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
2410 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
2411 a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
2412 - @c wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
2413 if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
2414 - @c wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
2415 wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted as real
2416 dimensions, not default values.
2417 - @c wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
2418 already the same as the parameters of this function,
2419 nothing is done. but with this flag a window resize may
2420 be forced even in this case (supported in wx 2.6.2 and
2421 later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere
2424 @remarks This overload sets the position and optionally size, of the window.
2425 Parameters may be wxDefaultCoord to indicate either that a default
2426 should be supplied by wxWidgets, or that the current value of the
2427 dimension should be used.
2431 void SetSize(int x
, int y
, int width
, int height
,
2432 int sizeFlags
= wxSIZE_AUTO
);
2436 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
2437 The size is specified using a wxRect, wxSize or by a couple of @c int objects.
2439 @remarks This form must be used with non-default width and height values.
2443 virtual void SetSize(const wxRect
& rect
);
2444 virtual void SetSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2445 virtual void SetSize(int width
, int height
);
2449 Sets the window to have the given layout sizer.
2450 The window will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2451 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2452 window, it will be deleted if the deleteOld parameter is @true.
2454 Note that this function will also call SetAutoLayout() implicitly with @true
2455 parameter if the @a sizer is non-@NULL and @false otherwise.
2458 The sizer to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and conditionally delete
2459 the window's sizer. See below.
2461 If @true (the default), this will delete any pre-existing sizer.
2462 Pass @false if you wish to handle deleting the old sizer yourself.
2464 @remarks SetSizer enables and disables Layout automatically.
2466 void SetSizer(wxSizer
* sizer
, bool deleteOld
= true);
2469 This method calls SetSizer() and then wxSizer::SetSizeHints which sets the initial
2470 window size to the size needed to accommodate all sizer elements and sets the
2471 size hints which, if this window is a top level one, prevent the user from
2472 resizing it to be less than this minimial size.
2474 void SetSizerAndFit(wxSizer
* sizer
, bool deleteOld
= true);
2477 This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
2478 to draw the windows' background instead if its own background drawing
2479 code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
2480 obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
2481 One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
2482 defined by a user's selected theme.
2484 Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
2485 by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
2487 virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable
);
2491 Attach a tooltip to the window.
2493 wxToolTip pointer can be @NULL in the overload taking the pointer,
2494 meaning to unset any existing tooltips, however UnsetToolTip() provides
2495 a more readable alternative to this operation.
2497 Notice that these methods are always available, even if wxWidgets was
2498 compiled with @c wxUSE_TOOLTIPS set to 0, but don't do anything in this
2501 @see GetToolTip(), wxToolTip
2503 void SetToolTip(const wxString
& tip
);
2504 void SetToolTip(wxToolTip
* tip
);
2508 Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
2509 returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
2510 See also CanSetTransparent().
2512 The parameter @a alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
2513 fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
2514 @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be used.
2516 virtual bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha
);
2519 Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
2520 called wxValidator::Clone to create a new validator of this type.
2522 virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator
& validator
);
2526 Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
2528 void SetVirtualSize(int width
, int height
);
2529 void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2533 Identical to SetWindowStyleFlag().
2535 void SetWindowStyle(long style
);
2538 Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
2539 after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be be called
2540 after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.
2542 See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
2544 @see GetWindowStyleFlag()
2546 virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style
);
2549 This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
2550 Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
2551 exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant enum.
2553 By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
2554 be used to change this.
2556 void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant
);
2559 Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
2560 InheritAttributes(), returning @false forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
2562 The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
2563 wxControl where it returns @true.
2565 virtual bool ShouldInheritColours() const;
2568 Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
2569 for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
2570 needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
2573 If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
2575 @return @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
2576 was done because it already was in the requested state.
2578 @see IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show, wxShowEvent.
2580 virtual bool Show(bool show
= true);
2583 This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a special visual
2590 The @a timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
2591 milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default
2592 animation time for the current platform is used.
2594 @note Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and does the
2595 same thing as Show() in the other ports.
2599 @see HideWithEffect()
2601 virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect
,
2602 unsigned int timeout
= 0);
2605 Reenables window updating after a previous call to Freeze().
2607 To really thaw the control, it must be called exactly the same number
2608 of times as Freeze().
2610 If the window has any children, they are recursively thawn too.
2612 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Freeze(), IsFrozen()
2617 Turns the given @a flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
2618 This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
2619 the case for default flags).
2621 Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
2624 @return Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
2625 if it was switched off.
2627 @see SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
2629 bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag
);
2632 Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
2633 validators. Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2635 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2636 the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
2638 @see TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2640 virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();
2643 Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
2646 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2647 the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
2649 @return Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2651 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2653 virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();
2656 Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
2659 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
2662 @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
2665 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
2667 @see RegisterHotKey()
2669 bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId
);
2672 Unreserve an ID or range of IDs that was reserved by NewControlId().
2673 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
2676 The starting ID of the range of IDs to unreserve.
2678 The number of sequential IDs to unreserve.
2680 @see NewControlId(), wxIdManager, @ref overview_windowids
2682 static void UnreserveControlId(wxWindowID id
, int count
= 1);
2685 Unset any existing tooltip.
2691 void UnsetToolTip();
2694 Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
2695 all of its children recursively while this would usually only happen when the
2696 flow of control returns to the event loop.
2698 Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
2699 nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
2700 a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to immediately redraw the
2701 window unconditionally.
2703 virtual void Update();
2706 This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
2707 The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
2708 wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
2709 and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
2711 You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
2712 UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
2713 are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
2714 wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode() or wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval() to limit
2715 the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle time.
2716 @a flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the wxUpdateUI enumeration.
2718 If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
2719 function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
2720 this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
2721 to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
2722 only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
2723 The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
2727 void MyWindow::OnInternalIdle()
2729 if (wxUpdateUIEvent::CanUpdate(this))
2730 UpdateWindowUI(wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE);
2734 @see wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
2736 virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags
= wxUPDATE_UI_NONE
);
2739 Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
2740 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2741 the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
2743 @return Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
2745 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
2748 virtual bool Validate();
2751 Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
2753 @note This function is not supported under Mac because Apple Human
2754 Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor programmatically.
2757 The new x position for the cursor.
2759 The new y position for the cursor.
2761 virtual void WarpPointer(int x
, int y
);
2767 Gets the size which best suits the window: for a control, it would be
2768 the minimal size which doesn't truncate the control, for a panel - the
2769 same size as it would have after a call to Fit().
2771 The default implementation of this function is designed for use in container
2772 windows, such as wxPanel, and works something like this:
2773 -# If the window has a sizer then it is used to calculate the best size.
2774 -# Otherwise if the window has layout constraints then those are used to
2775 calculate the best size.
2776 -# Otherwise if the window has children then the best size is set to be large
2777 enough to show all the children.
2778 -# Otherwise if there are no children then the window's minimal size will be
2779 used as its best size.
2780 -# Otherwise if there is no minimal size set, then the current size is used
2783 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
2785 virtual wxSize
DoGetBestSize() const;
2789 Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
2790 components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
2791 @deprecated @todo provide deprecation description
2793 virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2798 // ============================================================================
2799 // Global functions/macros
2800 // ============================================================================
2802 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_misc */
2806 Find the deepest window at the mouse pointer position, returning the window
2807 and current pointer position in screen coordinates.
2809 @header{wx/window.h}
2811 wxWindow
* wxFindWindowAtPointer(wxPoint
& pt
);
2814 Gets the currently active window (implemented for MSW and GTK only
2815 currently, always returns @NULL in the other ports).
2817 @header{wx/window.h}
2819 wxWindow
* wxGetActiveWindow();
2822 Returns the first top level parent of the given window, or in other words,
2823 the frame or dialog containing it, or @NULL.
2825 @header{wx/window.h}
2827 wxWindow
* wxGetTopLevelParent(wxWindow
* window
);