Added wxWindow::IsDescendant() helper.
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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: window.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxWindow
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9
10 /**
11 Valid values for wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() and wxWindow::HideWithEffect().
12 */
13 enum wxShowEffect
14 {
15 /**
16 No effect, equivalent to normal wxWindow::Show() or Hide() call.
17
18 @since 2.9.1
19 */
20 wxSHOW_EFFECT_NONE,
21
22 /// Roll window to the left
23 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_LEFT,
24
25 /// Roll window to the right
26 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_RIGHT,
27
28 /// Roll window to the top
29 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_TOP,
30
31 /// Roll window to the bottom
32 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_BOTTOM,
33
34 /// Slide window to the left
35 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_LEFT,
36
37 /// Slide window to the right
38 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT,
39
40 /// Slide window to the top
41 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_TOP,
42
43 /// Slide window to the bottom
44 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_BOTTOM,
45
46 /// Fade in or out effect
47 wxSHOW_EFFECT_BLEND,
48
49 /// Expanding or collapsing effect
50 wxSHOW_EFFECT_EXPAND
51 };
52
53
54
55 /**
56 Struct containing all the visual attributes of a control.
57 */
58 struct wxVisualAttributes
59 {
60 /// The font used for control label/text inside it.
61 wxFont font;
62
63 /// The foreground colour.
64 wxColour colFg;
65
66 /**
67 The background colour.
68
69 May be wxNullColour if the controls background colour is not solid.
70 */
71 wxColour colBg;
72 };
73
74
75 /**
76 Different window variants, on platforms like eg mac uses different
77 rendering sizes.
78 */
79 enum wxWindowVariant
80 {
81 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL, //!< Normal size
82 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_SMALL, //!< Smaller size (about 25 % smaller than normal)
83 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_MINI, //!< Mini size (about 33 % smaller than normal)
84 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_LARGE, //!< Large size (about 25 % larger than normal)
85 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_MAX
86 };
87
88
89 /**
90 @class wxWindow
91
92 wxWindow is the base class for all windows and represents any visible object
93 on screen. All controls, top level windows and so on are windows. Sizers and
94 device contexts are not, however, as they don't appear on screen themselves.
95
96 Please note that all children of the window will be deleted automatically by
97 the destructor before the window itself is deleted which means that you don't
98 have to worry about deleting them manually. Please see the @ref
99 overview_windowdeletion "window deletion overview" for more information.
100
101 Also note that in this, and many others, wxWidgets classes some
102 @c GetXXX() methods may be overloaded (as, for example,
103 wxWindow::GetSize or wxWindow::GetClientSize). In this case, the overloads
104 are non-virtual because having multiple virtual functions with the same name
105 results in a virtual function name hiding at the derived class level (in
106 English, this means that the derived class has to override all overloaded
107 variants if it overrides any of them). To allow overriding them in the derived
108 class, wxWidgets uses a unique protected virtual @c DoGetXXX() method
109 and all @c GetXXX() ones are forwarded to it, so overriding the former
110 changes the behaviour of the latter.
111
112 @beginStyleTable
113 @style{wxBORDER_DEFAULT}
114 The window class will decide the kind of border to show, if any.
115 @style{wxBORDER_SIMPLE}
116 Displays a thin border around the window. wxSIMPLE_BORDER is the
117 old name for this style.
118 @style{wxBORDER_SUNKEN}
119 Displays a sunken border. wxSUNKEN_BORDER is the old name for this
120 style.
121 @style{wxBORDER_RAISED}
122 Displays a raised border. wxRAISED_BORDER is the old name for this
123 style.
124 @style{wxBORDER_STATIC}
125 Displays a border suitable for a static control. wxSTATIC_BORDER
126 is the old name for this style. Windows only.
127 @style{wxBORDER_THEME}
128 Displays a native border suitable for a control, on the current
129 platform. On Windows XP or Vista, this will be a themed border; on
130 most other platforms a sunken border will be used. For more
131 information for themed borders on Windows, please see Themed
132 borders on Windows.
133 @style{wxBORDER_NONE}
134 Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the
135 window. wxNO_BORDER is the old name for this style.
136 @style{wxBORDER_DOUBLE}
137 This style is obsolete and should not be used.
138 @style{wxTRANSPARENT_WINDOW}
139 The window is transparent, that is, it will not receive paint
140 events. Windows only.
141 @style{wxTAB_TRAVERSAL}
142 Use this to enable tab traversal for non-dialog windows.
143 @style{wxWANTS_CHARS}
144 Use this to indicate that the window wants to get all char/key
145 events for all keys - even for keys like TAB or ENTER which are
146 usually used for dialog navigation and which wouldn't be generated
147 without this style. If you need to use this style in order to get
148 the arrows or etc., but would still like to have normal keyboard
149 navigation take place, you should call Navigate in response to the
150 key events for Tab and Shift-Tab.
151 @style{wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
152 On Windows, this style used to disable repainting the window
153 completely when its size is changed. Since this behaviour is now
154 the default, the style is now obsolete and no longer has an effect.
155 @style{wxVSCROLL}
156 Use this style to enable a vertical scrollbar. Notice that this
157 style cannot be used with native controls which don't support
158 scrollbars nor with top-level windows in most ports.
159 @style{wxHSCROLL}
160 Use this style to enable a horizontal scrollbar. The same
161 limitations as for wxVSCROLL apply to this style.
162 @style{wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB}
163 If a window has scrollbars, disable them instead of hiding them
164 when they are not needed (i.e. when the size of the window is big
165 enough to not require the scrollbars to navigate it). This style is
166 currently implemented for wxMSW, wxGTK and wxUniversal and does
167 nothing on the other platforms.
168 @style{wxCLIP_CHILDREN}
169 Use this style to eliminate flicker caused by the background being
170 repainted, then children being painted over them. Windows only.
171 @style{wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
172 Use this style to force a complete redraw of the window whenever it
173 is resized instead of redrawing just the part of the window
174 affected by resizing. Note that this was the behaviour by default
175 before 2.5.1 release and that if you experience redraw problems
176 with code which previously used to work you may want to try this.
177 Currently this style applies on GTK+ 2 and Windows only, and full
178 repainting is always done on other platforms.
179 @endStyleTable
180
181 @beginExtraStyleTable
182 @style{wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY}
183 By default, wxWindow::Validate(), wxWindow::TransferDataTo() and
184 wxWindow::TransferDataFromWindow() only work on
185 direct children of the window (compatible behaviour).
186 Set this flag to make them recursively descend into all subwindows.
187 @style{wxWS_EX_BLOCK_EVENTS}
188 wxCommandEvents and the objects of the derived classes are
189 forwarded to the parent window and so on recursively by default.
190 Using this flag for the given window allows to block this
191 propagation at this window, i.e. prevent the events from being
192 propagated further upwards. Dialogs have this flag on by default
193 for the reasons explained in the @ref overview_events.
194 @style{wxWS_EX_TRANSIENT}
195 Don't use this window as an implicit parent for the other windows:
196 this must be used with transient windows as otherwise there is the
197 risk of creating a dialog/frame with this window as a parent, which
198 would lead to a crash if the parent were destroyed before the child.
199 @style{wxWS_EX_CONTEXTHELP}
200 Under Windows, puts a query button on the caption. When pressed,
201 Windows will go into a context-sensitive help mode and wxWidgets
202 will send a @c wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application window.
203 This style cannot be used (because of the underlying native behaviour)
204 together with @c wxMAXIMIZE_BOX or @c wxMINIMIZE_BOX, so these two styles
205 are automatically turned off if this one is used.
206 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE}
207 This window should always process idle events, even if the mode set
208 by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is @c wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
209 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES}
210 This window should always process UI update events, even if the
211 mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is @c wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
212 @endExtraStyleTable
213
214 @beginEventEmissionTable
215 @event{EVT_ACTIVATE(id, func)}
216 Process a @c wxEVT_ACTIVATE event. See wxActivateEvent.
217 @event{EVT_CHILD_FOCUS(func)}
218 Process a @c wxEVT_CHILD_FOCUS event. See wxChildFocusEvent.
219 @event{EVT_CONTEXT_MENU(func)}
220 A right click (or other context menu command depending on platform) has been detected.
221 See wxContextMenuEvent.
222 @event{EVT_HELP(id, func)}
223 Process a @c wxEVT_HELP event. See wxHelpEvent.
224 @event{EVT_HELP_RANGE(id1, id2, func)}
225 Process a @c wxEVT_HELP event for a range of ids. See wxHelpEvent.
226 @event{EVT_DROP_FILES(func)}
227 Process a @c wxEVT_DROP_FILES event. See wxDropFilesEvent.
228 @event{EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND(func)}
229 Process a @c wxEVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND event. See wxEraseEvent.
230 @event{EVT_SET_FOCUS(func)}
231 Process a @c wxEVT_SET_FOCUS event. See wxFocusEvent.
232 @event{EVT_KILL_FOCUS(func)}
233 Process a @c wxEVT_KILL_FOCUS event. See wxFocusEvent.
234 @event{EVT_IDLE(func)}
235 Process a @c wxEVT_IDLE event. See wxIdleEvent.
236 @event{EVT_JOY_*(func)}
237 Processes joystick events. See wxJoystickEvent.
238 @event{EVT_KEY_DOWN(func)}
239 Process a @c wxEVT_KEY_DOWN event (any key has been pressed).
240 See wxKeyEvent.
241 @event{EVT_KEY_UP(func)}
242 Process a @c wxEVT_KEY_UP event (any key has been released).
243 See wxKeyEvent.
244 @event{EVT_CHAR(func)}
245 Process a @c wxEVT_CHAR event.
246 See wxKeyEvent.
247 @event{EVT_CHAR_HOOK(func)}
248 Process a @c wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK event.
249 See wxKeyEvent.
250 @event{EVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST(func)}
251 Process a @c wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event. See wxMouseCaptureLostEvent.
252 @event{EVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_CHANGED(func)}
253 Process a @c wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_CHANGED event. See wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent.
254 @event{EVT_MOUSE_*(func)}
255 See wxMouseEvent.
256 @event{EVT_PAINT(func)}
257 Process a @c wxEVT_PAINT event. See wxPaintEvent.
258 @event{EVT_POWER_*(func)}
259 The system power state changed. See wxPowerEvent.
260 @event{EVT_SCROLLWIN_*(func)}
261 Process scroll events. See wxScrollWinEvent.
262 @event{EVT_SET_CURSOR(func)}
263 Process a @c wxEVT_SET_CURSOR event. See wxSetCursorEvent.
264 @event{EVT_SIZE(func)}
265 Process a @c wxEVT_SIZE event. See wxSizeEvent.
266 @event{EVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED(func)}
267 Process a @c wxEVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED event. See wxSysColourChangedEvent.
268 @endEventTable
269
270 @library{wxcore}
271 @category{miscwnd}
272
273 @see @ref overview_events, @ref overview_windowsizing
274 */
275 class wxWindow : public wxEvtHandler
276 {
277 public:
278 /**
279 Default constructor
280 */
281 wxWindow();
282
283 /**
284 Constructs a window, which can be a child of a frame, dialog or any other
285 non-control window.
286
287 @param parent
288 Pointer to a parent window.
289 @param id
290 Window identifier. If wxID_ANY, will automatically create an identifier.
291 @param pos
292 Window position. wxDefaultPosition indicates that wxWidgets
293 should generate a default position for the window.
294 If using the wxWindow class directly, supply an actual position.
295 @param size
296 Window size. wxDefaultSize indicates that wxWidgets should generate
297 a default size for the window. If no suitable size can be found, the
298 window will be sized to 20x20 pixels so that the window is visible but
299 obviously not correctly sized.
300 @param style
301 Window style. For generic window styles, please see wxWindow.
302 @param name
303 Window name.
304 */
305 wxWindow(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id,
306 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
307 const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize,
308 long style = 0,
309 const wxString& name = wxPanelNameStr);
310
311 /**
312 Destructor.
313
314 Deletes all sub-windows, then deletes itself. Instead of using
315 the @b delete operator explicitly, you should normally use Destroy()
316 so that wxWidgets can delete a window only when it is safe to do so, in idle time.
317
318 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
319 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
320 */
321 virtual ~wxWindow();
322
323
324 bool Create(wxWindow *parent,
325 wxWindowID id,
326 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
327 const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize,
328 long style = 0,
329 const wxString& name = wxPanelNameStr);
330
331 /**
332 @name Focus functions
333
334 See also the static function FindFocus().
335 */
336 //@{
337
338 /**
339 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
340 indicate that this control doesn't accept input at all (i.e. behaves like
341 e.g. wxStaticText) and so doesn't need focus.
342
343 @see AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard()
344 */
345 virtual bool AcceptsFocus() const;
346
347 /**
348 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
349 indicate that while this control can, in principle, have focus if the user
350 clicks it with the mouse, it shouldn't be included in the TAB traversal chain
351 when using the keyboard.
352 */
353 virtual bool AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard() const;
354
355 /**
356 Overridden to indicate whether this window or one of its children accepts
357 focus. Usually it's the same as AcceptsFocus() but is overridden for
358 container windows.
359 */
360 virtual bool AcceptsFocusRecursively() const;
361
362 /**
363 Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
364 child window) has focus.
365
366 @see FindFocus()
367 */
368 virtual bool HasFocus() const;
369
370 /**
371 This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
372 native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0).
373
374 It is called by wxWidgets' container control code to give the native
375 system a hint when doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable
376 or change the effect of programmatically calling SetFocus().
377
378 @see wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
379 */
380 virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus);
381
382 /**
383 This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
384
385 @see HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
386 wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
387 */
388 virtual void SetFocus();
389
390 /**
391 This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
392 gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
393
394 By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
395 can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
396 */
397 virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();
398
399 //@}
400
401
402 /**
403 @name Child management functions
404 */
405 //@{
406
407 /**
408 Adds a child window. This is called automatically by window creation
409 functions so should not be required by the application programmer.
410 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
411 called by the user code.
412
413 @param child
414 Child window to add.
415 */
416 virtual void AddChild(wxWindow* child);
417
418 /**
419 Destroys all children of a window. Called automatically by the destructor.
420 */
421 bool DestroyChildren();
422
423 /**
424 Find a child of this window, by @a id.
425 May return @a this if it matches itself.
426 */
427 wxWindow* FindWindow(long id) const;
428
429 /**
430 Find a child of this window, by name.
431 May return @a this if it matches itself.
432 */
433 wxWindow* FindWindow(const wxString& name) const;
434
435 /**
436 Returns a reference to the list of the window's children. @c wxWindowList
437 is a type-safe wxList-like class whose elements are of type @c wxWindow*.
438 */
439 wxWindowList& GetChildren();
440
441 /**
442 @overload
443 */
444 const wxWindowList& GetChildren() const;
445
446 /**
447 Removes a child window.
448
449 This is called automatically by window deletion functions so should not
450 be required by the application programmer.
451 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
452 called by the user code.
453
454 @param child
455 Child window to remove.
456 */
457 virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow* child);
458
459 //@}
460
461
462 /**
463 @name Sibling and parent management functions
464 */
465 //@{
466
467 /**
468 Returns the grandparent of a window, or @NULL if there isn't one.
469 */
470 wxWindow* GetGrandParent() const;
471
472 /**
473 Returns the next window after this one among the parent's children or @NULL
474 if this window is the last child.
475
476 @since 2.8.8
477
478 @see GetPrevSibling()
479 */
480 wxWindow* GetNextSibling() const;
481
482 /**
483 Returns the parent of the window, or @NULL if there is no parent.
484 */
485 wxWindow* GetParent() const;
486
487 /**
488 Returns the previous window before this one among the parent's children or @c
489 @NULL if this window is the first child.
490
491 @since 2.8.8
492
493 @see GetNextSibling()
494 */
495 wxWindow* GetPrevSibling() const;
496
497 /**
498 Check if the specified window is a descendant of this one.
499
500 Returns @true if the window is a descendant (i.e. a child or
501 grand-child or grand-grand-child or ...) of this one.
502
503 Notice that a window can never be a descendant of another one if they
504 are in different top level windows, i.e. a child of a wxDialog is not
505 considered to be a descendant of dialogs parent wxFrame.
506
507 @param win Any window, possible @NULL (@false is always returned then).
508
509 @since 2.9.4
510 */
511 bool IsDescendant(wxWindowBase* win) const;
512
513 /**
514 Reparents the window, i.e. the window will be removed from its
515 current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
516 and then re-inserted into another.
517
518 Notice that currently you need to explicitly call
519 wxNotebook::RemovePage() before reparenting a notebook page.
520
521 @param newParent
522 New parent.
523 */
524 virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow* newParent);
525
526 //@}
527
528
529 /**
530 @name Scrolling and scrollbars functions
531
532 Note that these methods don't work with native controls which don't use
533 wxWidgets scrolling framework (i.e. don't derive from wxScrolledWindow).
534 */
535 //@{
536
537 /**
538 Call this function to force one or both scrollbars to be always shown, even if
539 the window is big enough to show its entire contents without scrolling.
540
541 @since 2.9.0
542
543 @param hflag
544 Whether the horizontal scroll bar should always be visible.
545 @param vflag
546 Whether the vertical scroll bar should always be visible.
547
548 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under Mac/Carbon.
549 */
550 virtual void AlwaysShowScrollbars(bool hflag = true, bool vflag = true);
551
552 /**
553 Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
554
555 @see SetScrollbar()
556 */
557 virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation) const;
558
559 /**
560 Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
561
562 @see SetScrollbar()
563 */
564 virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation) const;
565
566 /**
567 Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
568
569 @see SetScrollbar()
570 */
571 virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation) const;
572
573 /**
574 Returns @true if this window can have a scroll bar in this orientation.
575
576 @param orient
577 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
578
579 @since 2.9.1
580 */
581 bool CanScroll(int orient) const;
582
583 /**
584 Returns @true if this window currently has a scroll bar for this
585 orientation.
586
587 This method may return @false even when CanScroll() for the same
588 orientation returns @true, but if CanScroll() returns @false, i.e.
589 scrolling in this direction is not enabled at all, HasScrollbar()
590 always returns @false as well.
591
592 @param orient
593 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
594 */
595 bool HasScrollbar(int orient) const;
596
597 /**
598 Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
599
600 @param orient
601 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
602
603 @see AlwaysShowScrollbars()
604 */
605 virtual bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient) const;
606
607 /**
608 Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @a lines is
609 positive) or up.
610
611 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
612 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
613
614 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
615 wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for wxScrolled classes
616 under all platforms).
617
618 @see ScrollPages()
619 */
620 virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines);
621
622 /**
623 Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @a pages is
624 positive) or up.
625
626 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
627 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
628
629 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
630
631 @see ScrollLines()
632 */
633 virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages);
634
635 /**
636 Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
637
638 @param dx
639 Amount to scroll horizontally.
640 @param dy
641 Amount to scroll vertically.
642 @param rect
643 Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
644 scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
645 parameter)
646
647 @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolled instead of using this
648 function directly.
649 */
650 virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx, int dy,
651 const wxRect* rect = NULL);
652
653 /**
654 Same as #ScrollLines (-1).
655 */
656 bool LineUp();
657
658 /**
659 Same as #ScrollLines (1).
660 */
661 bool LineDown();
662
663 /**
664 Same as #ScrollPages (-1).
665 */
666 bool PageUp();
667
668 /**
669 Same as #ScrollPages (1).
670 */
671 bool PageDown();
672
673 /**
674 Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
675
676 @param orientation
677 Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set.
678 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
679 @param pos
680 Position in scroll units.
681 @param refresh
682 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
683
684 @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
685 window: it is up to the application to take note of
686 scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
687
688 @see SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(), wxScrollBar,
689 wxScrolled
690 */
691 virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation, int pos,
692 bool refresh = true);
693
694 /**
695 Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
696
697 @param orientation
698 Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set.
699 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
700 @param position
701 The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
702 @param thumbSize
703 The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
704 @param range
705 The maximum position of the scrollbar. Value of -1 can be used to
706 ask for the scrollbar to be shown but in the disabled state: this
707 can be used to avoid removing the scrollbar even when it is not
708 needed (currently this is only implemented in wxMSW port).
709 @param refresh
710 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
711
712 @remarks
713 Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
714 The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
715 You would use:
716 @code
717 SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
718 @endcode
719 Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never
720 go above 50 minus 16, or 34. You can determine how many lines are
721 currently visible by dividing the current view size by the character
722 height in pixels.
723 When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need
724 to recalculate the scrollbar settings when the window size changes.
725 You could therefore put your scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
726 call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called
727 initially and also from your wxSizeEvent handler function.
728
729 @see @ref overview_scrolling, wxScrollBar, wxScrolled, wxScrollWinEvent
730 */
731 virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation, int position,
732 int thumbSize, int range,
733 bool refresh = true);
734 //@}
735
736
737 /**
738 @name Sizing functions
739
740 See also the protected functions DoGetBestSize() and SetInitialBestSize().
741 */
742 //@{
743
744 /**
745 Sets the cached best size value.
746
747 @see GetBestSize()
748 */
749 void CacheBestSize(const wxSize& size) const;
750
751 /**
752 Converts client area size @a size to corresponding window size.
753
754 In other words, the returned value is what would GetSize() return if this
755 window had client area of given size. Components with wxDefaultCoord
756 value are left unchanged. Note that the conversion is not always
757 exact, it assumes that non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't
758 take into account things like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance
759 of the scrollbars.
760
761 @since 2.8.8
762
763 @see WindowToClientSize()
764 */
765 virtual wxSize ClientToWindowSize(const wxSize& size) const;
766
767 /**
768 Converts window size @a size to corresponding client area size
769 In other words, the returned value is what would GetClientSize() return if
770 this window had given window size. Components with wxDefaultCoord value
771 are left unchanged.
772
773 Note that the conversion is not always exact, it assumes that
774 non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't take into account things
775 like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance of the scrollbars.
776
777 @since 2.8.8
778
779 @see ClientToWindowSize()
780 */
781 virtual wxSize WindowToClientSize(const wxSize& size) const;
782
783 /**
784 Sizes the window so that it fits around its subwindows.
785
786 This function won't do anything if there are no subwindows and will only really
787 work correctly if sizers are used for the subwindows layout.
788
789 Also, if the window has exactly one subwindow it is better (faster and the result
790 is more precise as Fit() adds some margin to account for fuzziness of its calculations)
791 to call:
792
793 @code
794 window->SetClientSize(child->GetSize());
795 @endcode
796
797 instead of calling Fit().
798
799 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
800 */
801 virtual void Fit();
802
803 /**
804 Similar to Fit(), but sizes the interior (virtual) size of a window.
805
806 Mainly useful with scrolled windows to reset scrollbars after sizing
807 changes that do not trigger a size event, and/or scrolled windows without
808 an interior sizer. This function similarly won't do anything if there are
809 no subwindows.
810 */
811 virtual void FitInside();
812
813 /**
814 This functions returns the best acceptable minimal size for the window.
815
816 For example, for a static control, it will be the minimal size such that the
817 control label is not truncated. For windows containing subwindows (typically
818 wxPanel), the size returned by this function will be the same as the size
819 the window would have had after calling Fit().
820
821 Note that when you write your own widget you need to override the
822 DoGetBestSize() function instead of this (non-virtual!) function.
823
824 @see CacheBestSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
825 */
826 wxSize GetBestSize() const;
827
828 /**
829 Returns the size of the window 'client area' in pixels.
830
831 The client area is the area which may be drawn on by the programmer,
832 excluding title bar, border, scrollbars, etc.
833 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
834 return size is empty (both width and height are 0).
835
836 @beginWxPerlOnly
837 In wxPerl this method takes no parameters and returns
838 a 2-element list (width, height).
839 @endWxPerlOnly
840
841 @see GetSize(), GetVirtualSize()
842 */
843 void GetClientSize(int* width, int* height) const;
844
845 /**
846 @overload
847 */
848 wxSize GetClientSize() const;
849
850 /**
851 Merges the window's best size into the min size and returns the result.
852 This is the value used by sizers to determine the appropriate
853 amount of space to allocate for the widget.
854
855 This is the method called by a wxSizer when it queries the size
856 of a window or control.
857
858 @see GetBestSize(), SetInitialSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
859 */
860 virtual wxSize GetEffectiveMinSize() const;
861
862 /**
863 Returns the maximum size of window's client area.
864
865 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
866 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using
867 SetClientSize().
868
869 @see GetMaxSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
870 */
871 virtual wxSize GetMaxClientSize() const;
872
873 /**
874 Returns the maximum size of the window.
875
876 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
877 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using SetSize().
878
879 @see GetMaxClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
880 */
881 virtual wxSize GetMaxSize() const;
882
883 /**
884 Returns the minimum size of window's client area, an indication to the sizer
885 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of its client area.
886
887 It normally just returns the value set by SetMinClientSize(), but it can be
888 overridden to do the calculation on demand.
889
890 @see GetMinSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
891 */
892 virtual wxSize GetMinClientSize() const;
893
894 /**
895 Returns the minimum size of the window, an indication to the sizer layout
896 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
897
898 This method normally just returns the value set by SetMinSize(), but it
899 can be overridden to do the calculation on demand.
900
901 @see GetMinClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
902 */
903 virtual wxSize GetMinSize() const;
904
905 int GetMinWidth() const;
906 int GetMinHeight() const;
907 int GetMaxWidth() const;
908 int GetMaxHeight() const;
909
910 /**
911 Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
912 scrollbars, etc.
913
914 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
915 returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
916
917 @param width
918 Receives the window width.
919 @param height
920 Receives the window height.
921
922 @beginWxPerlOnly
923 In wxPerl this method is implemented as GetSizeWH() returning
924 a 2-element list (width, height).
925 @endWxPerlOnly
926
927 @see GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
928 */
929 void GetSize(int* width, int* height) const;
930
931 /**
932 See the GetSize(int*,int*) overload for more info.
933 */
934 wxSize GetSize() const;
935
936 /**
937 This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
938 By default it returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
939 SetVirtualSize() it will return the size set with that method.
940
941 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
942 */
943 wxSize GetVirtualSize() const;
944
945 /**
946 Like the other GetVirtualSize() overload but uses pointers instead.
947
948 @param width
949 Receives the window virtual width.
950 @param height
951 Receives the window virtual height.
952 */
953 void GetVirtualSize(int* width, int* height) const;
954
955 /**
956 Return the largest of ClientSize and BestSize (as determined
957 by a sizer, interior children, or other means)
958 */
959 virtual wxSize GetBestVirtualSize() const;
960
961 /**
962 Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
963 and y components of the result respectively.
964 */
965 virtual wxSize GetWindowBorderSize() const;
966
967 /**
968 wxSizer and friends use this to give a chance to a component to recalc
969 its min size once one of the final size components is known. Override
970 this function when that is useful (such as for wxStaticText which can
971 stretch over several lines). Parameter availableOtherDir
972 tells the item how much more space there is available in the opposite
973 direction (-1 if unknown).
974 */
975 virtual bool
976 InformFirstDirection(int direction,
977 int size,
978 int availableOtherDir);
979
980 /**
981 Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
982 is needed.
983
984 @see CacheBestSize()
985 */
986 void InvalidateBestSize();
987
988 /**
989 Posts a size event to the window.
990
991 This is the same as SendSizeEvent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST argument.
992 */
993 void PostSizeEvent();
994
995 /**
996 Posts a size event to the parent of this window.
997
998 This is the same as SendSizeEventToParent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST
999 argument.
1000 */
1001 void PostSizeEventToParent();
1002
1003 /**
1004 This function sends a dummy @ref wxSizeEvent "size event" to
1005 the window allowing it to re-layout its children positions.
1006
1007 It is sometimes useful to call this function after adding or deleting a
1008 children after the frame creation or if a child size changes. Note that
1009 if the frame is using either sizers or constraints for the children
1010 layout, it is enough to call wxWindow::Layout() directly and this
1011 function should not be used in this case.
1012
1013 If @a flags includes @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST value, this function posts
1014 the event, i.e. schedules it for later processing, instead of
1015 dispatching it directly. You can also use PostSizeEvent() as a more
1016 readable equivalent of calling this function with this flag.
1017
1018 @param flags
1019 May include @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST. Default value is 0.
1020 */
1021 virtual void SendSizeEvent(int flags = 0);
1022
1023 /**
1024 Safe wrapper for GetParent()->SendSizeEvent().
1025
1026 This function simply checks that the window has a valid parent which is
1027 not in process of being deleted and calls SendSizeEvent() on it. It is
1028 used internally by windows such as toolbars changes to whose state
1029 should result in parent re-layout (e.g. when a toolbar is added to the
1030 top of the window, all the other windows must be shifted down).
1031
1032 @see PostSizeEventToParent()
1033
1034 @param flags
1035 See description of this parameter in SendSizeEvent() documentation.
1036 */
1037 void SendSizeEventToParent(int flags = 0);
1038
1039 /**
1040 This sets the size of the window client area in pixels.
1041
1042 Using this function to size a window tends to be more device-independent
1043 than SetSize(), since the application need not worry about what dimensions
1044 the border or title bar have when trying to fit the window around panel
1045 items, for example.
1046
1047 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
1048 */
1049 void SetClientSize(int width, int height);
1050
1051 /**
1052 @overload
1053 */
1054 void SetClientSize(const wxSize& size);
1055
1056 /**
1057 @overload
1058 */
1059 void SetClientSize(const wxRect& rect);
1060
1061 /**
1062 This normally does not need to be called by user code.
1063 It is called when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window
1064 can remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
1065 */
1066 void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer* sizer);
1067
1068 /**
1069 A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
1070 window's @e best size values.
1071
1072 Also sets the window's minsize to the value passed in for use with sizers.
1073 This means that if a full or partial size is passed to this function then
1074 the sizers will use that size instead of the results of GetBestSize() to
1075 determine the minimum needs of the window for layout.
1076
1077 Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
1078 size to the passed in value (if any.)
1079
1080 @see SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize(),
1081 @ref overview_windowsizing
1082 */
1083 void SetInitialSize(const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);
1084
1085 /**
1086 Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
1087 layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
1088
1089 Note that this method is just a shortcut for:
1090 @code
1091 SetMaxSize(ClientToWindowSize(size));
1092 @endcode
1093
1094 @see SetMaxSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1095 */
1096 virtual void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize& size);
1097
1098 /**
1099 Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
1100 that this is the maximum possible size.
1101
1102 @see SetMaxClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1103 */
1104 virtual void SetMaxSize(const wxSize& size);
1105
1106 /**
1107 Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
1108 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
1109 area.
1110
1111 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
1112 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
1113
1114 Note, that just as with SetMinSize(), calling this method doesn't
1115 prevent the program from explicitly making the window smaller than the
1116 specified size.
1117
1118 Note that this method is just a shortcut for:
1119 @code
1120 SetMinSize(ClientToWindowSize(size));
1121 @endcode
1122
1123 @see SetMinSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1124 */
1125 virtual void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize& size);
1126
1127 /**
1128 Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout
1129 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
1130
1131 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
1132 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
1133
1134 Notice that calling this method doesn't prevent the program from making
1135 the window explicitly smaller than the specified size by calling
1136 SetSize(), it just ensures that it won't become smaller than this size
1137 during the automatic layout.
1138
1139 @see SetMinClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1140 */
1141 virtual void SetMinSize(const wxSize& size);
1142
1143 /**
1144 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
1145
1146 @param x
1147 Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
1148 existing value should be used.
1149 @param y
1150 Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
1151 existing value should be used.
1152 @param width
1153 Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
1154 value should be used.
1155 @param height
1156 Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
1157 existing value should be used.
1158 @param sizeFlags
1159 Indicates the interpretation of other parameters.
1160 It is a bit list of the following:
1161 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
1162 a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
1163 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
1164 a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
1165 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
1166 a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
1167 - @c wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
1168 if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
1169 - @c wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
1170 wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted as real
1171 dimensions, not default values.
1172 - @c wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
1173 already the same as the parameters of this function,
1174 nothing is done. but with this flag a window resize may
1175 be forced even in this case (supported in wx 2.6.2 and
1176 later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere
1177 currently).
1178
1179 @remarks This overload sets the position and optionally size, of the window.
1180 Parameters may be wxDefaultCoord to indicate either that a default
1181 should be supplied by wxWidgets, or that the current value of the
1182 dimension should be used.
1183
1184 @see Move(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1185 */
1186 void SetSize(int x, int y, int width, int height,
1187 int sizeFlags = wxSIZE_AUTO);
1188
1189 /**
1190 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
1191 The size is specified using a wxRect, wxSize or by a couple of @c int objects.
1192
1193 @remarks This form must be used with non-default width and height values.
1194
1195 @see Move(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1196 */
1197 void SetSize(const wxRect& rect);
1198
1199 /**
1200 @overload
1201 */
1202 void SetSize(const wxSize& size);
1203
1204 /**
1205 @overload
1206 */
1207 void SetSize(int width, int height);
1208
1209 /**
1210 Use of this function for windows which are not toplevel windows
1211 (such as wxDialog or wxFrame) is discouraged.
1212 Please use SetMinSize() and SetMaxSize() instead.
1213
1214 @see wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints, @ref overview_windowsizing
1215 */
1216 virtual void SetSizeHints( const wxSize& minSize,
1217 const wxSize& maxSize=wxDefaultSize,
1218 const wxSize& incSize=wxDefaultSize);
1219 virtual void SetSizeHints( int minW, int minH,
1220 int maxW = -1, int maxH = -1,
1221 int incW = -1, int incH = -1 );
1222
1223 /**
1224 Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
1225
1226 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
1227 */
1228 void SetVirtualSize(int width, int height);
1229
1230 /**
1231 @overload
1232 */
1233 void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize& size);
1234
1235 //@}
1236
1237
1238 /**
1239 @name Positioning functions
1240 */
1241 //@{
1242
1243 /**
1244 A synonym for Centre().
1245 */
1246 void Center(int dir = wxBOTH);
1247
1248 /**
1249 A synonym for CentreOnParent().
1250 */
1251 void CenterOnParent(int dir = wxBOTH);
1252
1253 /**
1254 Centres the window.
1255
1256 @param direction
1257 Specifies the direction for the centring. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
1258 or wxBOTH. It may also include the wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN flag
1259 if you want to centre the window on the entire screen and not on its
1260 parent window.
1261
1262 @remarks If the window is a top level one (i.e. doesn't have a parent),
1263 it will be centred relative to the screen anyhow.
1264
1265 @see Center()
1266 */
1267 void Centre(int direction = wxBOTH);
1268
1269 /**
1270 Centres the window on its parent. This is a more readable synonym for Centre().
1271
1272 @param direction
1273 Specifies the direction for the centring. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
1274 or wxBOTH.
1275
1276 @remarks This methods provides for a way to centre top level windows over
1277 their parents instead of the entire screen. If there
1278 is no parent or if the window is not a top level
1279 window, then behaviour is the same as Centre().
1280
1281 @see wxTopLevelWindow::CentreOnScreen
1282 */
1283 void CentreOnParent(int direction = wxBOTH);
1284
1285 /**
1286 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1287 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1288
1289 @param x
1290 Receives the x position of the window if non-@NULL.
1291 @param y
1292 Receives the y position of the window if non-@NULL.
1293
1294 @beginWxPerlOnly
1295 In wxPerl this method is implemented as GetPositionXY() returning
1296 a 2-element list (x, y).
1297 @endWxPerlOnly
1298
1299 @see GetScreenPosition()
1300 */
1301 void GetPosition(int* x, int* y) const;
1302
1303 /**
1304 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1305 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1306
1307 @see GetScreenPosition()
1308 */
1309 wxPoint GetPosition() const;
1310
1311 /**
1312 Returns the position and size of the window as a wxRect object.
1313
1314 @see GetScreenRect()
1315 */
1316 wxRect GetRect() const;
1317
1318 /**
1319 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1320 child window or a top level one.
1321
1322 @param x
1323 Receives the x position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1324 @param y
1325 Receives the y position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1326
1327 @see GetPosition()
1328 */
1329 void GetScreenPosition(int* x, int* y) const;
1330
1331 /**
1332 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1333 child window or a top level one.
1334
1335 @see GetPosition()
1336 */
1337 wxPoint GetScreenPosition() const;
1338
1339 /**
1340 Returns the position and size of the window on the screen as a wxRect object.
1341
1342 @see GetRect()
1343 */
1344 wxRect GetScreenRect() const;
1345
1346 /**
1347 Get the origin of the client area of the window relative to the
1348 window top left corner (the client area may be shifted because of
1349 the borders, scrollbars, other decorations...)
1350 */
1351 virtual wxPoint GetClientAreaOrigin() const;
1352
1353 /**
1354 Get the client rectangle in window (i.e. client) coordinates
1355 */
1356 wxRect GetClientRect() const;
1357
1358
1359
1360 /**
1361 Moves the window to the given position.
1362
1363 @param x
1364 Required x position.
1365 @param y
1366 Required y position.
1367 @param flags
1368 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1369
1370 @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
1371 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1372 @code
1373 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1374 @endcode
1375
1376 @see SetSize()
1377 */
1378 void Move(int x, int y, int flags = wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1379
1380 /**
1381 Moves the window to the given position.
1382
1383 @param pt
1384 wxPoint object representing the position.
1385 @param flags
1386 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1387
1388 @remarks Implementations of SetSize() can also implicitly implement the
1389 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1390 @code
1391 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1392 @endcode
1393
1394 @see SetSize()
1395 */
1396 void Move(const wxPoint& pt, int flags = wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1397
1398 void SetPosition(const wxPoint& pt);
1399
1400 //@}
1401
1402
1403 /**
1404 @name Coordinate conversion functions
1405 */
1406 //@{
1407
1408 /**
1409 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
1410
1411 @param x
1412 A pointer to a integer value for the x coordinate. Pass the client
1413 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
1414 @param y
1415 A pointer to a integer value for the y coordinate. Pass the client
1416 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
1417
1418 @beginWxPythonOnly
1419 In place of a single overloaded method name, wxPython implements the following methods:
1420 - ClientToScreen(point): Accepts and returns a wxPoint
1421 - ClientToScreenXY(x, y): Returns a 2-tuple, (x, y)
1422 @endWxPythonOnly
1423
1424 @beginWxPerlOnly
1425 In wxPerl this method returns a 2-element list instead of
1426 modifying its parameters.
1427 @endWxPerlOnly
1428 */
1429 void ClientToScreen(int* x, int* y) const;
1430
1431 /**
1432 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
1433
1434 @param pt
1435 The client position for the second form of the function.
1436 */
1437 wxPoint ClientToScreen(const wxPoint& pt) const;
1438
1439 /**
1440 Converts a point or size from dialog units to pixels.
1441
1442 For the x dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
1443 width and then divided by 4.
1444 For the y dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
1445 height and then divided by 8.
1446
1447 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
1448 even if the font changes.
1449 You can also use these functions programmatically.
1450 A convenience macro is defined:
1451 @code
1452 #define wxDLG_UNIT(parent, pt) parent->ConvertDialogToPixels(pt)
1453 @endcode
1454
1455 @see ConvertPixelsToDialog()
1456 */
1457 wxPoint ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxPoint& pt) const;
1458
1459 /**
1460 @overload
1461 */
1462 wxSize ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxSize& sz) const;
1463
1464 /**
1465 Converts a point or size from pixels to dialog units.
1466
1467 For the x dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 4 and then divided by the
1468 average character width.
1469 For the y dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 8 and then divided by the
1470 average character height.
1471
1472 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
1473 even if the font changes.
1474
1475 @see ConvertDialogToPixels()
1476 */
1477 wxPoint ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxPoint& pt) const;
1478
1479 /**
1480 @overload
1481 */
1482 wxSize ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxSize& sz) const;
1483
1484 /**
1485 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1486
1487 @param x
1488 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1489 @param y
1490 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1491 */
1492 void ScreenToClient(int* x, int* y) const;
1493
1494 /**
1495 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1496
1497 @param pt
1498 The screen position.
1499 */
1500 wxPoint ScreenToClient(const wxPoint& pt) const;
1501
1502 //@}
1503
1504
1505 /**
1506 @name Drawing-related functions
1507 */
1508 //@{
1509
1510 /**
1511 Clears the window by filling it with the current background colour.
1512
1513 Does not cause an erase background event to be generated.
1514
1515 Notice that this uses wxClientDC to draw on the window and the results
1516 of doing it while also drawing on wxPaintDC for this window are
1517 undefined. Hence this method shouldn't be used from EVT_PAINT handlers,
1518 just use wxDC::Clear() on the wxPaintDC you already use there instead.
1519 */
1520 virtual void ClearBackground();
1521
1522 /**
1523 Freezes the window or, in other words, prevents any updates from taking
1524 place on screen, the window is not redrawn at all.
1525
1526 Thaw() must be called to reenable window redrawing. Calls to these two
1527 functions may be nested but to ensure that the window is properly
1528 repainted again, you must thaw it exactly as many times as you froze it.
1529
1530 If the window has any children, they are recursively frozen too.
1531
1532 This method is useful for visual appearance optimization (for example,
1533 it is a good idea to use it before doing many large text insertions in
1534 a row into a wxTextCtrl under wxGTK) but is not implemented on all
1535 platforms nor for all controls so it is mostly just a hint to wxWidgets
1536 and not a mandatory directive.
1537
1538 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Thaw(), IsFrozen()
1539 */
1540 void Freeze();
1541
1542 /**
1543 Re-enables window updating after a previous call to Freeze().
1544
1545 To really thaw the control, it must be called exactly the same number
1546 of times as Freeze().
1547
1548 If the window has any children, they are recursively thawed too.
1549
1550 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Freeze(), IsFrozen()
1551 */
1552 void Thaw();
1553
1554 /**
1555 Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to Freeze().
1556
1557 @see Freeze(), Thaw()
1558 */
1559 bool IsFrozen() const;
1560
1561 /**
1562 Returns the background colour of the window.
1563
1564 @see SetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(), GetForegroundColour()
1565 */
1566 wxColour GetBackgroundColour() const;
1567
1568 /**
1569 Returns the background style of the window.
1570
1571 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
1572 SetBackgroundStyle(), SetTransparent()
1573 */
1574 virtual wxBackgroundStyle GetBackgroundStyle() const;
1575
1576 /**
1577 Returns the character height for this window.
1578 */
1579 virtual int GetCharHeight() const;
1580
1581 /**
1582 Returns the average character width for this window.
1583 */
1584 virtual int GetCharWidth() const;
1585
1586 /**
1587 Currently this is the same as calling
1588 wxWindow::GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindow::GetWindowVariant()).
1589
1590 One advantage of using this function compared to the static version is that
1591 the call is automatically dispatched to the correct class (as usual with
1592 virtual functions) and you don't have to specify the class name explicitly.
1593
1594 The other one is that in the future this function could return different
1595 results, for example it might return a different font for an "Ok" button
1596 than for a generic button if the users GUI is configured to show such buttons
1597 in bold font. Of course, the down side is that it is impossible to call this
1598 function without actually having an object to apply it to whereas the static
1599 version can be used without having to create an object first.
1600 */
1601 virtual wxVisualAttributes GetDefaultAttributes() const;
1602
1603 /**
1604 Returns the font for this window.
1605
1606 @see SetFont()
1607 */
1608 wxFont GetFont() const;
1609
1610 /**
1611 Returns the foreground colour of the window.
1612
1613 @remarks The meaning of foreground colour varies according to the window class;
1614 it may be the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
1615
1616 @see SetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
1617 GetBackgroundColour()
1618 */
1619 wxColour GetForegroundColour() const;
1620
1621 /**
1622 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1623 window with the currently selected font.
1624
1625 The text extent is returned in the @a w and @a h pointers.
1626
1627 @param string
1628 String whose extent is to be measured.
1629 @param w
1630 Return value for width.
1631 @param h
1632 Return value for height.
1633 @param descent
1634 Return value for descent (optional).
1635 @param externalLeading
1636 Return value for external leading (optional).
1637 @param font
1638 Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
1639
1640 @beginWxPerlOnly
1641 In wxPerl this method takes only the @a string and optionally
1642 @a font parameters, and returns a 4-element list
1643 (x, y, descent, externalLeading).
1644 @endWxPerlOnly
1645 */
1646 void GetTextExtent(const wxString& string,
1647 int* w, int* h,
1648 int* descent = NULL,
1649 int* externalLeading = NULL,
1650 const wxFont* font = NULL) const;
1651
1652 /**
1653 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1654 window with the currently selected font.
1655 */
1656 wxSize GetTextExtent(const wxString& string) const;
1657
1658 /**
1659 Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
1660 Should only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
1661
1662 @see wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
1663 */
1664 const wxRegion& GetUpdateRegion() const;
1665
1666 /**
1667 Get the update rectangle bounding box in client coords
1668 */
1669 wxRect GetUpdateClientRect() const;
1670
1671 /**
1672 Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example,
1673 for wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
1674
1675 This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
1676 shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
1677 wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
1678 */
1679 virtual bool HasTransparentBackground();
1680
1681 /**
1682 Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
1683 where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
1684 happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
1685 to update the window immediately you should use Update() instead.
1686
1687 @param eraseBackground
1688 If @true, the background will be erased.
1689 @param rect
1690 If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will be treated as damaged.
1691
1692 @see RefreshRect()
1693 */
1694 virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground = true,
1695 const wxRect* rect = NULL);
1696
1697 /**
1698 Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
1699 repainted.
1700
1701 This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax as it can be called
1702 with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
1703 */
1704 void RefreshRect(const wxRect& rect, bool eraseBackground = true);
1705
1706 /**
1707 Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
1708 all of its children recursively (this normally only happens when the
1709 flow of control returns to the event loop).
1710
1711 Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
1712 nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
1713 a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to immediately redraw the
1714 window unconditionally.
1715 */
1716 virtual void Update();
1717
1718 /**
1719 Sets the background colour of the window.
1720
1721 Notice that as with SetForegroundColour(), setting the background
1722 colour of a native control may not affect the entire control and could
1723 be not supported at all depending on the control and platform.
1724
1725 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
1726 this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
1727
1728 @param colour
1729 The colour to be used as the background colour; pass
1730 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
1731 Note that you may want to use wxSystemSettings::GetColour() to retrieve
1732 a suitable colour to use rather than setting an hard-coded one.
1733
1734 @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
1735 wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
1736 automatically under GTK.
1737 Note that setting the background colour does not cause an
1738 immediate refresh, so you may wish to call wxWindow::ClearBackground
1739 or wxWindow::Refresh after calling this function.
1740 Using this function will disable attempts to use themes for
1741 this window, if the system supports them. Use with care since
1742 usually the themes represent the appearance chosen by the user
1743 to be used for all applications on the system.
1744
1745 @return @true if the colour was really changed, @false if it was already set
1746 to this colour and nothing was done.
1747
1748 @see GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
1749 GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
1750 Refresh(), wxEraseEvent, wxSystemSettings
1751 */
1752 virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
1753
1754 /**
1755 Sets the background style of the window.
1756
1757 The default background style is @c wxBG_STYLE_ERASE which indicates that
1758 the window background may be erased in @c EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND handler.
1759 This is a safe, compatibility default; however you may want to change it
1760 to @c wxBG_STYLE_SYSTEM if you don't define any erase background event
1761 handlers at all, to avoid unnecessary generation of erase background
1762 events and always let system erase the background. And you should
1763 change the background style to @c wxBG_STYLE_PAINT if you define an
1764 @c EVT_PAINT handler which completely overwrites the window background as
1765 in this case erasing it previously, either in @c EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND
1766 handler or in the system default handler, would result in flicker as
1767 the background pixels will be repainted twice every time the window is
1768 redrawn. Do ensure that the background is entirely erased by your
1769 @c EVT_PAINT handler in this case however as otherwise garbage may be left
1770 on screen.
1771
1772 Notice that in previous versions of wxWidgets a common way to work
1773 around the above mentioned flickering problem was to define an empty
1774 @c EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND handler. Setting background style to
1775 @c wxBG_STYLE_PAINT is a simpler and more efficient solution to the same
1776 problem.
1777
1778
1779 Under wxGTK and wxOSX, you can use ::wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT to obtain
1780 full transparency of the window background. Note that wxGTK supports
1781 this only since GTK 2.12 with a compositing manager enabled, call
1782 IsTransparentBackgroundSupported() to check whether this is the case.
1783
1784 Also, on order for @c SetBackgroundStyle(wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT) to
1785 work, it must be called before Create(). If you're using your own
1786 wxWindow-derived class you should write your code in the following way:
1787 @code
1788 class MyWidget : public wxWindow
1789 {
1790 public:
1791 MyWidget(wxWindow* parent, ...)
1792 : wxWindow() // Use default ctor here!
1793 {
1794 // Do this first:
1795 SetBackgroundStyle(wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT);
1796
1797 // And really create the window afterwards:
1798 Create(parent, ...);
1799 }
1800 };
1801 @endcode
1802
1803 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
1804 SetTransparent(), IsTransparentBackgroundSupported()
1805 */
1806 virtual bool SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style);
1807
1808 /**
1809 Checks whether using transparent background might work.
1810
1811 If this function returns @false, calling SetBackgroundStyle() with
1812 ::wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT is not going to work. If it returns @true,
1813 setting transparent style should normally succeed.
1814
1815 Notice that this function would typically be called on the parent of a
1816 window you want to set transparent background style for as the window
1817 for which this method is called must be fully created.
1818
1819 @param reason
1820 If not @NULL, a reason message is provided if transparency is not
1821 supported.
1822
1823 @return @true if background transparency is supported.
1824
1825 @since 2.9.4
1826 */
1827 virtual bool IsTransparentBackgroundSupported(wxString *reason = NULL) const;
1828
1829 /**
1830 Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
1831 parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
1832 use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and see InheritAttributes() for more
1833 explanations.
1834
1835 Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
1836 wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
1837 call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
1838 any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
1839 GetTextExtent().
1840
1841 @param font
1842 Font to associate with this window, pass
1843 wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
1844
1845 @return @true if the font was really changed, @false if it was already set
1846 to this font and nothing was done.
1847
1848 @see GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
1849 */
1850 virtual bool SetFont(const wxFont& font);
1851
1852 /**
1853 Sets the foreground colour of the window.
1854
1855 The meaning of foreground colour varies according to the window class;
1856 it may be the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at
1857 all. Additionally, not all native controls support changing their
1858 foreground colour so this method may change their colour only partially
1859 or even not at all.
1860
1861 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
1862 this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
1863
1864 @param colour
1865 The colour to be used as the foreground colour; pass
1866 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
1867
1868 @return @true if the colour was really changed, @false if it was already set
1869 to this colour and nothing was done.
1870
1871 @see GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
1872 GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
1873 */
1874 virtual bool SetForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
1875
1876 /**
1877 Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
1878 by the children of this window.
1879
1880 @see SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
1881 */
1882 void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
1883
1884 /**
1885 Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
1886 children of this window.
1887
1888 @see SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
1889 */
1890 void SetOwnFont(const wxFont& font);
1891
1892 /**
1893 Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
1894 by the children of this window.
1895
1896 @see SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
1897 */
1898 void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
1899
1900 /**
1901 @deprecated use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
1902 */
1903 void SetPalette(const wxPalette& pal);
1904
1905 /**
1906 Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
1907 InheritAttributes(). Returning @false forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
1908
1909 The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
1910 wxControl where it returns @true.
1911 */
1912 virtual bool ShouldInheritColours() const;
1913
1914 /**
1915 This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
1916 to draw the windows' background instead of its own background drawing
1917 code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
1918 obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
1919 One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
1920 defined by a user's selected theme.
1921
1922 Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
1923 by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
1924 */
1925 virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable);
1926
1927 /**
1928 */
1929 virtual bool GetThemeEnabled() const;
1930
1931 /**
1932 Returns @true if the system supports transparent windows and calling
1933 SetTransparent() may succeed. If this function returns @false, transparent
1934 windows are definitely not supported by the current system.
1935 */
1936 virtual bool CanSetTransparent();
1937
1938 /**
1939 Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
1940 returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
1941 See also CanSetTransparent().
1942
1943 The parameter @a alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
1944 fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
1945 @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be used.
1946 */
1947 virtual bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha);
1948
1949 //@}
1950
1951
1952 /**
1953 @name Event-handling functions
1954
1955 wxWindow allows you to build a (sort of) stack of event handlers which
1956 can be used to override the window's own event handling.
1957 */
1958 //@{
1959
1960 /**
1961 Returns the event handler for this window.
1962 By default, the window is its own event handler.
1963
1964 @see SetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
1965 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1966 */
1967 wxEvtHandler* GetEventHandler() const;
1968
1969 /**
1970 This function will generate the appropriate call to Navigate() if the key
1971 event is one normally used for keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
1972
1973 @return Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
1974 handled, @false otherwise.
1975
1976 @see Navigate()
1977 */
1978 bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent& event);
1979
1980 /**
1981 Shorthand for:
1982 @code
1983 GetEventHandler()->SafelyProcessEvent(event);
1984 @endcode
1985
1986 @see ProcessWindowEvent()
1987 */
1988 bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent& event) const;
1989
1990 /**
1991 Convenient wrapper for ProcessEvent().
1992
1993 This is the same as writing @code GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent(event);
1994 @endcode but more convenient. Notice that ProcessEvent() itself can't
1995 be called for wxWindow objects as it ignores the event handlers
1996 associated with the window; use this function instead.
1997 */
1998 bool ProcessWindowEvent(wxEvent& event);
1999
2000 /**
2001 Wrapper for wxEvtHandler::ProcessEventLocally().
2002
2003 This method is similar to ProcessWindowEvent() but can be used to
2004 search for the event handler only in this window and any event handlers
2005 pushed on top of it. Unlike ProcessWindowEvent() it won't propagate the
2006 event upwards. But it will use the validator and event handlers
2007 associated with this window, if any.
2008
2009 @since 2.9.1
2010 */
2011 bool ProcessWindowEventLocally(wxEvent& event);
2012
2013 /**
2014 Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
2015
2016 E.g. in the case of:
2017 @image html overview_events_winstack.png
2018 when calling @c W->PopEventHandler(), the event handler @c A will be
2019 removed and @c B will be the first handler of the stack.
2020
2021 Note that it's an error to call this function when no event handlers
2022 were pushed on this window (i.e. when the window itself is its only
2023 event handler).
2024
2025 @param deleteHandler
2026 If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed
2027 (and the returned value will be @NULL).
2028
2029 @see @ref overview_events_processing
2030 */
2031 wxEvtHandler* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler = false);
2032
2033 /**
2034 Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
2035
2036 An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the events sent
2037 to a window. By default, the window is its own event handler, but an application
2038 may wish to substitute another, for example to allow central implementation
2039 of event-handling for a variety of different window classes.
2040
2041 wxWindow::PushEventHandler allows an application to set up a @e stack
2042 of event handlers, where an event not handled by one event handler is
2043 handed to the next one in the chain.
2044
2045 E.g. if you have two event handlers @c A and @c B and a wxWindow instance
2046 @c W and you call:
2047 @code
2048 W->PushEventHandler(A);
2049 W->PushEventHandler(B);
2050 @endcode
2051 you will end up with the following situation:
2052 @image html overview_events_winstack.png
2053
2054 Note that you can use wxWindow::PopEventHandler to remove the event handler.
2055
2056 @param handler
2057 Specifies the handler to be pushed.
2058 It must not be part of a wxEvtHandler chain; an assert will fail
2059 if it's not unlinked (see wxEvtHandler::IsUnlinked).
2060
2061 @see @ref overview_events_processing
2062 */
2063 void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
2064
2065 /**
2066 Find the given @a handler in the windows event handler stack and
2067 removes (but does not delete) it from the stack.
2068
2069 See wxEvtHandler::Unlink() for more info.
2070
2071 @param handler
2072 The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
2073 must be present in this windows event handlers stack.
2074
2075 @return Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
2076 results in an assert failure so this function should
2077 only be called when the handler is supposed to be there).
2078
2079 @see PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
2080 */
2081 bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
2082
2083 /**
2084 Sets the event handler for this window.
2085
2086 Note that if you use this function you may want to use as the "next" handler
2087 of @a handler the window itself; in this way when @a handler doesn't process
2088 an event, the window itself will have a chance to do it.
2089
2090 @param handler
2091 Specifies the handler to be set. Cannot be @NULL.
2092
2093 @see @ref overview_events_processing
2094 */
2095 void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
2096
2097 /**
2098 wxWindows cannot be used to form event handler chains; this function
2099 thus will assert when called.
2100
2101 Note that instead you can use PushEventHandler() or SetEventHandler() to
2102 implement a stack of event handlers to override wxWindow's own
2103 event handling mechanism.
2104 */
2105 virtual void SetNextHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
2106
2107 /**
2108 wxWindows cannot be used to form event handler chains; this function
2109 thus will assert when called.
2110
2111 Note that instead you can use PushEventHandler() or SetEventHandler() to
2112 implement a stack of event handlers to override wxWindow's own
2113 event handling mechanism.
2114 */
2115 virtual void SetPreviousHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
2116
2117 //@}
2118
2119
2120
2121 /**
2122 @name Window styles functions
2123 */
2124 //@{
2125
2126 /**
2127 Returns the extra style bits for the window.
2128 */
2129 long GetExtraStyle() const;
2130
2131 /**
2132 Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or Create()
2133 method. GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
2134 */
2135 virtual long GetWindowStyleFlag() const;
2136
2137 /**
2138 See GetWindowStyleFlag() for more info.
2139 */
2140 long GetWindowStyle() const;
2141
2142 /**
2143 Returns @true if the window has the given @a exFlag bit set in its
2144 extra styles.
2145
2146 @see SetExtraStyle()
2147 */
2148 bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag) const;
2149
2150 /**
2151 Returns @true if the window has the given @a flag bit set.
2152 */
2153 bool HasFlag(int flag) const;
2154
2155 /**
2156 Sets the extra style bits for the window.
2157 The currently defined extra style bits are reported in the class
2158 description.
2159 */
2160 virtual void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle);
2161
2162 /**
2163 Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
2164 after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be called
2165 after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.
2166
2167 See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
2168
2169 @see GetWindowStyleFlag()
2170 */
2171 virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style);
2172
2173 /**
2174 See SetWindowStyleFlag() for more info.
2175 */
2176 void SetWindowStyle(long style);
2177
2178 /**
2179 Turns the given @a flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
2180 This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
2181 the case for default flags).
2182
2183 Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
2184 creation.
2185
2186 @return Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
2187 if it was switched off.
2188
2189 @see SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
2190 */
2191 bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag);
2192
2193 //@}
2194
2195
2196 /**
2197 @name Tab order functions
2198 */
2199 //@{
2200
2201 /**
2202 Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
2203 This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
2204 the focus switches to this window.
2205
2206 Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
2207 MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
2208 it after creating all the windows.
2209
2210 @param win
2211 A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
2212 must not be @NULL
2213 */
2214 void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
2215
2216 /**
2217 Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that it inserts this window just
2218 before @a win instead of putting it right after it.
2219 */
2220 void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
2221
2222 /**
2223 Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window.
2224 This method is equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
2225 parent window.
2226
2227 @param flags
2228 A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
2229 wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
2230
2231 @return Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
2232 if nothing changed.
2233
2234 @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
2235 handler to do the default navigation behaviour for the
2236 tab key, since the standard default behaviour for a
2237 multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB style
2238 is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
2239 control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
2240 HandleAsNavigationKey.
2241 */
2242 bool Navigate(int flags = wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward);
2243
2244 /**
2245 Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
2246 See Navigate() for more information.
2247 */
2248 bool NavigateIn(int flags = wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward);
2249
2250 //@}
2251
2252
2253
2254 /**
2255 @name Z order functions
2256 */
2257 //@{
2258
2259 /**
2260 Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
2261
2262 @remarks
2263 This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
2264
2265 @see Raise()
2266 */
2267 virtual void Lower();
2268
2269 /**
2270 Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
2271
2272 Notice that this function only requests the window manager to raise
2273 this window to the top of Z-order. Depending on its configuration, the
2274 window manager may raise the window, not do it at all or indicate that
2275 a window requested to be raised in some other way, e.g. by flashing its
2276 icon if it is minimized.
2277
2278 @remarks
2279 This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
2280
2281 @see Lower()
2282 */
2283 virtual void Raise();
2284
2285 //@}
2286
2287
2288 /**
2289 @name Window status functions
2290 */
2291 //@{
2292
2293
2294 /**
2295 Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
2296 */
2297 bool Hide();
2298
2299 /**
2300 This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a special visual
2301 effect if possible.
2302
2303 The parameters of this function are the same as for ShowWithEffect(),
2304 please see their description there.
2305
2306 @since 2.9.0
2307 */
2308 virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
2309 unsigned int timeout = 0);
2310 /**
2311 Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input,
2312 @false otherwise.
2313
2314 Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
2315 been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled.
2316 To get the intrinsic status of this window, use IsThisEnabled()
2317
2318 @see Enable()
2319 */
2320 bool IsEnabled() const;
2321
2322 /**
2323 Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
2324 last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
2325 only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
2326 */
2327 bool IsExposed(int x, int y) const;
2328
2329 /**
2330 @overload
2331 */
2332 bool IsExposed(wxPoint& pt) const;
2333
2334 /**
2335 @overload
2336 */
2337 bool IsExposed(int x, int y, int w, int h) const;
2338
2339 /**
2340 @overload
2341 */
2342 bool IsExposed(wxRect& rect) const;
2343 /**
2344 Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
2345
2346 @see IsShownOnScreen()
2347 */
2348 virtual bool IsShown() const;
2349
2350 /**
2351 Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
2352 is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
2353
2354 @see IsShown()
2355 */
2356 virtual bool IsShownOnScreen() const;
2357
2358 /**
2359 Disables the window. Same as @ref Enable() Enable(@false).
2360
2361 @return Returns @true if the window has been disabled, @false if it had
2362 been already disabled before the call to this function.
2363 */
2364 bool Disable();
2365
2366 /**
2367 Enable or disable the window for user input. Note that when a parent window is
2368 disabled, all of its children are disabled as well and they are reenabled again
2369 when the parent is.
2370
2371 @param enable
2372 If @true, enables the window for input. If @false, disables the window.
2373
2374 @return Returns @true if the window has been enabled or disabled, @false
2375 if nothing was done, i.e. if the window had already
2376 been in the specified state.
2377
2378 @see IsEnabled(), Disable(), wxRadioBox::Enable
2379 */
2380 virtual bool Enable(bool enable = true);
2381
2382 /**
2383 Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
2384 for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
2385 needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
2386
2387 Notice that the default state of newly created top level windows is hidden
2388 (to allow you to create their contents without flicker) unlike for
2389 all the other, not derived from wxTopLevelWindow, windows that
2390 are by default created in the shown state.
2391
2392 @param show
2393 If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
2394
2395 @return @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
2396 was done because it already was in the requested state.
2397
2398 @see IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show, wxShowEvent.
2399 */
2400 virtual bool Show(bool show = true);
2401
2402 /**
2403 This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a special visual
2404 effect if possible.
2405
2406 @param effect
2407 The effect to use.
2408
2409 @param timeout
2410 The @a timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
2411 milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default
2412 animation time for the current platform is used.
2413
2414 @note Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and wxOSX
2415 (for wxTopLevelWindows only in Carbon version and for any kind of
2416 windows in Cocoa) and does the same thing as Show() in the other
2417 ports.
2418
2419 @since 2.9.0
2420
2421 @see HideWithEffect()
2422 */
2423 virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
2424 unsigned int timeout = 0);
2425
2426 //@}
2427
2428
2429 /**
2430 @name Context-sensitive help functions
2431 */
2432 //@{
2433
2434 /**
2435 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2436 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
2437 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
2438
2439 @see SetHelpText(), GetHelpTextAtPoint(), wxHelpProvider
2440 */
2441 wxString GetHelpText() const;
2442
2443 /**
2444 Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2445 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
2446 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
2447
2448 @see GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider::AddHelp()
2449 */
2450 void SetHelpText(const wxString& helpText);
2451
2452 /**
2453 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2454 This method should be overridden if the help message depends on the position
2455 inside the window, otherwise GetHelpText() can be used.
2456
2457 @param point
2458 Coordinates of the mouse at the moment of help event emission.
2459 @param origin
2460 Help event origin, see also wxHelpEvent::GetOrigin.
2461 */
2462 virtual wxString GetHelpTextAtPoint(const wxPoint& point,
2463 wxHelpEvent::Origin origin) const;
2464
2465 /**
2466 Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
2467 */
2468 wxToolTip* GetToolTip() const;
2469
2470 /**
2471 Get the text of the associated tooltip or empty string if none.
2472 */
2473 wxString GetToolTipText() const;
2474
2475 /**
2476 Attach a tooltip to the window.
2477
2478 wxToolTip pointer can be @NULL in the overload taking the pointer,
2479 meaning to unset any existing tooltips; however UnsetToolTip() provides
2480 a more readable alternative to this operation.
2481
2482 Notice that these methods are always available, even if wxWidgets was
2483 compiled with @c wxUSE_TOOLTIPS set to 0, but don't do anything in this
2484 case.
2485
2486 @see GetToolTip(), wxToolTip
2487 */
2488 void SetToolTip(const wxString& tipString);
2489
2490 /**
2491 @overload
2492 */
2493 void SetToolTip(wxToolTip* tip);
2494
2495 /**
2496 Unset any existing tooltip.
2497
2498 @since 2.9.0
2499
2500 @see SetToolTip()
2501 */
2502 void UnsetToolTip();
2503
2504 //@}
2505
2506
2507 /**
2508 @name Popup/context menu functions
2509 */
2510 //@{
2511
2512 /**
2513 This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
2514 returns the selected id.
2515
2516 It can be more convenient than the general purpose PopupMenu() function
2517 for simple menus proposing a choice in a list of strings to the user.
2518
2519 Notice that to avoid unexpected conflicts between the (usually
2520 consecutive range of) ids used by the menu passed to this function and
2521 the existing EVT_UPDATE_UI() handlers, this function temporarily
2522 disables UI updates for the window, so you need to manually disable
2523 (or toggle or ...) any items which should be disabled in the menu
2524 before showing it.
2525
2526 The parameter @a menu is the menu to show.
2527 The parameter @a pos (or the parameters @a x and @a y) is the
2528 position at which to show the menu in client coordinates.
2529 It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
2530 calling this method in response to mouse click, because some of
2531 the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
2532 the menu in that case.
2533
2534 @return
2535 The selected menu item id or @c wxID_NONE if none selected or an
2536 error occurred.
2537
2538 @since 2.9.0
2539 */
2540 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu,
2541 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition);
2542
2543 /**
2544 @overload
2545 */
2546 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, int x, int y);
2547
2548 /**
2549 Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
2550 window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu.
2551
2552 If a menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
2553 processed as usual. If coordinates are not specified, the current mouse
2554 cursor position is used.
2555
2556 @a menu is the menu to pop up.
2557
2558 The position where the menu will appear can be specified either as a
2559 wxPoint @a pos or by two integers (@a x and @a y).
2560
2561 @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
2562 ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
2563 The menu does not get deleted by the window.
2564 It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
2565 calling PopupMenu in response to mouse click, because some of
2566 the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
2567 the menu in that case.
2568
2569 @see wxMenu
2570 */
2571 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu,
2572 const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition);
2573
2574 /**
2575 @overload
2576 */
2577 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu, int x, int y);
2578
2579 //@}
2580
2581
2582 /**
2583 Validator functions
2584 */
2585 //@{
2586
2587 /**
2588 Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if
2589 there is none.
2590 */
2591 virtual wxValidator* GetValidator();
2592
2593 /**
2594 Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
2595 called wxValidator::Clone to create a new validator of this type.
2596 */
2597 virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator& validator);
2598
2599 /**
2600 Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
2601 validators. Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2602
2603 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2604 the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
2605
2606 @see TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2607 */
2608 virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();
2609
2610 /**
2611 Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
2612 validators.
2613
2614 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2615 the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
2616
2617 @return Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2618
2619 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2620 */
2621 virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();
2622
2623 /**
2624 Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
2625 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2626 the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
2627
2628 @return Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
2629
2630 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
2631 wxValidator
2632 */
2633 virtual bool Validate();
2634
2635 //@}
2636
2637
2638 /**
2639 @name wxWindow properties functions
2640 */
2641 //@{
2642
2643 /**
2644 Returns the identifier of the window.
2645
2646 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application
2647 has not provided one (or the default wxID_ANY) a unique
2648 identifier with a negative value will be generated.
2649
2650 @see SetId(), @ref overview_windowids
2651 */
2652 wxWindowID GetId() const;
2653
2654 /**
2655 Generic way of getting a label from any window, for
2656 identification purposes.
2657
2658 @remarks The interpretation of this function differs from class to class.
2659 For frames and dialogs, the value returned is the
2660 title. For buttons or static text controls, it is the
2661 button text. This function can be useful for
2662 meta-programs (such as testing tools or special-needs
2663 access programs) which need to identify windows by name.
2664 */
2665 virtual wxString GetLabel() const;
2666
2667 /**
2668 Returns the layout direction for this window,
2669 Note that @c wxLayout_Default is returned if layout direction is not supported.
2670 */
2671 virtual wxLayoutDirection GetLayoutDirection() const;
2672
2673 /**
2674 Returns the window's name.
2675
2676 @remarks This name is not guaranteed to be unique; it is up to the
2677 programmer to supply an appropriate name in the window
2678 constructor or via SetName().
2679
2680 @see SetName()
2681 */
2682 virtual wxString GetName() const;
2683
2684 /**
2685 Returns the value previously passed to SetWindowVariant().
2686 */
2687 wxWindowVariant GetWindowVariant() const;
2688
2689 /**
2690 Sets the identifier of the window.
2691
2692 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
2693 not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
2694 Normally, the identifier should be provided on creation
2695 and should not be modified subsequently.
2696
2697 @see GetId(), @ref overview_windowids
2698 */
2699 void SetId(wxWindowID winid);
2700
2701 /**
2702 Sets the window's label.
2703
2704 @param label
2705 The window label.
2706
2707 @see GetLabel()
2708 */
2709 virtual void SetLabel(const wxString& label);
2710
2711 /**
2712 Sets the layout direction for this window.
2713 */
2714 virtual void SetLayoutDirection(wxLayoutDirection dir);
2715
2716 /**
2717 Sets the window's name.
2718
2719 @param name
2720 A name to set for the window.
2721
2722 @see GetName()
2723 */
2724 virtual void SetName(const wxString& name);
2725
2726 /**
2727 This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
2728 Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
2729 exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant enum.
2730
2731 By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
2732 be used to change this.
2733 */
2734 void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant);
2735
2736 /**
2737 Gets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
2738 */
2739 wxAcceleratorTable* GetAcceleratorTable();
2740
2741 /**
2742 Returns the accessible object for this window, if any.
2743 See also wxAccessible.
2744 */
2745 wxAccessible* GetAccessible();
2746
2747 /**
2748 Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
2749 */
2750 virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable& accel);
2751
2752 /**
2753 Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
2754 will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
2755 See also wxAccessible.
2756 */
2757 void SetAccessible(wxAccessible* accessible);
2758
2759 //@}
2760
2761
2762 /**
2763 @name Window deletion functions
2764 */
2765 //@{
2766
2767 /**
2768 This function simply generates a wxCloseEvent whose handler usually tries
2769 to close the window. It doesn't close the window itself, however.
2770
2771 @param force
2772 @false if the window's close handler should be able to veto the destruction
2773 of this window, @true if it cannot.
2774
2775 @remarks Close calls the close handler for the window, providing an
2776 opportunity for the window to choose whether to destroy
2777 the window. Usually it is only used with the top level
2778 windows (wxFrame and wxDialog classes) as the others
2779 are not supposed to have any special OnClose() logic.
2780 The close handler should check whether the window is being deleted
2781 forcibly, using wxCloseEvent::CanVeto, in which case it should
2782 destroy the window using wxWindow::Destroy.
2783 Note that calling Close does not guarantee that the window will
2784 be destroyed; but it provides a way to simulate a manual close
2785 of a window, which may or may not be implemented by destroying
2786 the window. The default implementation of wxDialog::OnCloseWindow
2787 does not necessarily delete the dialog, since it will simply
2788 simulate an wxID_CANCEL event which is handled by the appropriate
2789 button event handler and may do anything at all.
2790 To guarantee that the window will be destroyed, call
2791 wxWindow::Destroy instead
2792
2793 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
2794 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
2795 */
2796 bool Close(bool force = false);
2797
2798 /**
2799 Destroys the window safely. Use this function instead of the delete operator,
2800 since different window classes can be destroyed differently. Frames and dialogs
2801 are not destroyed immediately when this function is called -- they are added
2802 to a list of windows to be deleted on idle time, when all the window's events
2803 have been processed. This prevents problems with events being sent to
2804 non-existent windows.
2805
2806 @return @true if the window has either been successfully deleted, or it
2807 has been added to the list of windows pending real deletion.
2808 */
2809 virtual bool Destroy();
2810
2811 /**
2812 Returns true if this window is in process of being destroyed.
2813
2814 Top level windows are not deleted immediately but are rather
2815 scheduled for later destruction to give them time to process any
2816 pending messages; see Destroy() description.
2817
2818 This function returns @true if this window, or one of its parent
2819 windows, is scheduled for destruction and can be useful to avoid
2820 manipulating it as it's usually useless to do something with a window
2821 which is on the point of disappearing anyhow.
2822 */
2823 bool IsBeingDeleted() const;
2824
2825 //@}
2826
2827
2828
2829 /**
2830 @name Drag and drop functions
2831 */
2832 //@{
2833
2834 /**
2835 Returns the associated drop target, which may be @NULL.
2836
2837 @see SetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
2838 */
2839 virtual wxDropTarget* GetDropTarget() const;
2840
2841 /**
2842 Associates a drop target with this window.
2843 If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
2844
2845 @see GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
2846 */
2847 virtual void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget* target);
2848
2849 /**
2850 Enables or disables eligibility for drop file events (OnDropFiles).
2851
2852 @param accept
2853 If @true, the window is eligible for drop file events.
2854 If @false, the window will not accept drop file events.
2855
2856 @remarks Windows only until version 2.8.9, available on all platforms
2857 since 2.8.10. Cannot be used together with SetDropTarget() on
2858 non-Windows platforms.
2859
2860 @see SetDropTarget()
2861 */
2862 virtual void DragAcceptFiles(bool accept);
2863
2864 //@}
2865
2866
2867 /**
2868 @name Constraints, sizers and window layout functions
2869 */
2870 //@{
2871
2872 /**
2873 Returns the sizer of which this window is a member, if any, otherwise @NULL.
2874 */
2875 wxSizer* GetContainingSizer() const;
2876
2877 /**
2878 Returns the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
2879 SetSizer(), or @NULL.
2880 */
2881 wxSizer* GetSizer() const;
2882
2883 /**
2884 Sets the window to have the given layout sizer.
2885
2886 The window will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2887 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2888 window, it will be deleted if the @a deleteOld parameter is @true.
2889
2890 Note that this function will also call SetAutoLayout() implicitly with @true
2891 parameter if the @a sizer is non-@NULL and @false otherwise so that the
2892 sizer will be effectively used to layout the window children whenever
2893 it is resized.
2894
2895 @param sizer
2896 The sizer to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and conditionally delete
2897 the window's sizer. See below.
2898 @param deleteOld
2899 If @true (the default), this will delete any pre-existing sizer.
2900 Pass @false if you wish to handle deleting the old sizer yourself
2901 but remember to do it yourself in this case to avoid memory leaks.
2902
2903 @remarks SetSizer enables and disables Layout automatically.
2904 */
2905 void SetSizer(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld = true);
2906
2907 /**
2908 This method calls SetSizer() and then wxSizer::SetSizeHints which sets the initial
2909 window size to the size needed to accommodate all sizer elements and sets the
2910 size hints which, if this window is a top level one, prevent the user from
2911 resizing it to be less than this minimal size.
2912 */
2913 void SetSizerAndFit(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld = true);
2914
2915 /**
2916 Returns a pointer to the window's layout constraints, or @NULL if there are none.
2917 */
2918 wxLayoutConstraints* GetConstraints() const;
2919
2920 /**
2921 Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
2922 will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2923 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2924 window, it will be deleted.
2925
2926 @param constraints
2927 The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
2928 constraints.
2929
2930 @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
2931 the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
2932 must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
2933 setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
2934 the sizer will have effect.
2935 */
2936 void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints* constraints);
2937
2938 /**
2939 Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
2940 for this window.
2941
2942 This function does not get called automatically when the window is resized
2943 because lots of windows deriving from wxWindow does not need this functionality.
2944 If you want to have Layout() called automatically, you should derive
2945 from wxPanel (see wxPanel::Layout).
2946
2947 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
2948 */
2949 virtual bool Layout();
2950
2951 /**
2952 Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
2953 when the window is resized.
2954
2955 This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
2956 you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
2957 updated when its size changes.
2958
2959 @param autoLayout
2960 Set this to @true if you wish the Layout() function to be called
2961 automatically when the window is resized.
2962
2963 @see SetSizer(), SetConstraints()
2964 */
2965 void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout);
2966
2967 bool GetAutoLayout() const;
2968
2969 //@}
2970
2971
2972
2973 /**
2974 @name Mouse functions
2975 */
2976 //@{
2977
2978 /**
2979 Directs all mouse input to this window.
2980 Call ReleaseMouse() to release the capture.
2981
2982 Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
2983 and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
2984 captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
2985 window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
2986 as you capture it, unless the window receives the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
2987
2988 Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
2989 must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent and cancel this operation when it receives
2990 the event. The event handler must not recapture mouse.
2991
2992 @see ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
2993 */
2994 void CaptureMouse();
2995
2996 /**
2997 Returns the caret() associated with the window.
2998 */
2999 wxCaret* GetCaret() const;
3000
3001 /**
3002 Return the cursor associated with this window.
3003
3004 @see SetCursor()
3005 */
3006 const wxCursor& GetCursor() const;
3007
3008 /**
3009 Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
3010
3011 @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
3012 wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3013 */
3014 virtual bool HasCapture() const;
3015
3016 /**
3017 Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
3018
3019 @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
3020 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3021 */
3022 void ReleaseMouse();
3023
3024 /**
3025 Sets the caret() associated with the window.
3026 */
3027 void SetCaret(wxCaret* caret);
3028
3029 /**
3030 Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
3031 children of the window implicitly.
3032
3033 The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
3034 be reset back to default.
3035
3036 @param cursor
3037 Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
3038
3039 @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
3040 */
3041 virtual bool SetCursor(const wxCursor& cursor);
3042
3043 /**
3044 Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
3045
3046 @note Apple Human Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor
3047 programmatically so you should avoid using this function in Mac
3048 applications (and probably avoid using it under the other
3049 platforms without good reason as well).
3050
3051 @param x
3052 The new x position for the cursor.
3053 @param y
3054 The new y position for the cursor.
3055 */
3056 virtual void WarpPointer(int x, int y);
3057
3058 //@}
3059
3060
3061
3062
3063 /**
3064 @name Miscellaneous functions
3065 */
3066 //@{
3067
3068 wxHitTest HitTest(wxCoord x, wxCoord y) const;
3069 wxHitTest HitTest(const wxPoint& pt) const;
3070
3071 /**
3072 Get the window border style from the given flags: this is different from
3073 simply doing flags & wxBORDER_MASK because it uses GetDefaultBorder() to
3074 translate wxBORDER_DEFAULT to something reasonable
3075 */
3076 wxBorder GetBorder(long flags) const;
3077
3078 /**
3079 Get border for the flags of this window
3080 */
3081 wxBorder GetBorder() const;
3082
3083
3084 /**
3085 Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
3086 This function is called by UpdateWindowUI() in order to check return
3087 values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and act appropriately.
3088 For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating, wxWidgets
3089 implements this function as follows:
3090
3091 @code
3092 // do the window-specific processing after processing the update event
3093 void wxTopLevelWindowBase::DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event)
3094 {
3095 if ( event.GetSetEnabled() )
3096 Enable(event.GetEnabled());
3097
3098 if ( event.GetSetText() )
3099 {
3100 if ( event.GetText() != GetTitle() )
3101 SetTitle(event.GetText());
3102 }
3103 }
3104 @endcode
3105 */
3106 virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event);
3107
3108 /**
3109 Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
3110 Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
3111 @b Widget for Motif or @b GtkWidget for GTK.
3112
3113 @beginWxPerlOnly
3114 This method will return an integer in wxPerl.
3115 @endWxPerlOnly
3116 */
3117 virtual WXWidget GetHandle() const;
3118
3119 /**
3120 This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
3121 multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
3122 wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
3123 and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should also do so, to
3124 allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
3125 */
3126 virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
3127
3128 /**
3129 This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
3130 window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
3131 the font and the foreground and background colours.
3132
3133 By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
3134 own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
3135 However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
3136 SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
3137 attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
3138 window takes the same value as used by the parent.
3139 In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
3140 the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
3141
3142 This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
3143 different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
3144 are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
3145 different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
3146 they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
3147 desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
3148 just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
3149 do inherit the parents attributes.
3150 */
3151 virtual void InheritAttributes();
3152
3153 /**
3154 Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
3155 to the dialog via validators.
3156 */
3157 virtual void InitDialog();
3158
3159 /**
3160 Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
3161 any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
3162 and transferred to the screen all at once later.
3163
3164 @see wxBufferedDC
3165 */
3166 virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
3167
3168 void SetDoubleBuffered(bool on);
3169
3170 /**
3171 Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
3172
3173 @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
3174 */
3175 virtual bool IsRetained() const;
3176
3177 /**
3178 Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
3179 i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
3180 mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
3181 IsEnabled() instead.
3182 */
3183 bool IsThisEnabled() const;
3184
3185 /**
3186 Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
3187 dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
3188 window).
3189 */
3190 virtual bool IsTopLevel() const;
3191
3192
3193 /**
3194 This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
3195 sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
3196 that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
3197 handler in a derived class.
3198
3199 This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
3200 and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
3201 in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
3202 */
3203 virtual void OnInternalIdle();
3204
3205 /**
3206 Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
3207 registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
3208
3209 It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
3210 and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
3211 other application.
3212
3213 @param hotkeyId
3214 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
3215 and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
3216 system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
3217 This is a MSW specific detail.
3218 @param modifiers
3219 A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
3220 or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
3221 with the key.
3222 @param virtualKeyCode
3223 The virtual key code of the hotkey.
3224
3225 @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
3226 other application already registered a hotkey with this
3227 modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
3228
3229 @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
3230 event. This function is currently only implemented
3231 under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
3232 detecting hardware button presses.
3233
3234 @see UnregisterHotKey()
3235 */
3236 virtual bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId, int modifiers,
3237 int virtualKeyCode);
3238
3239 /**
3240 Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
3241
3242 @param hotkeyId
3243 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
3244 RegisterHotKey().
3245
3246 @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
3247 id was invalid.
3248
3249 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
3250
3251 @see RegisterHotKey()
3252 */
3253 virtual bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId);
3254
3255 /**
3256 This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
3257 The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
3258 wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
3259 and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
3260
3261 You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
3262 UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
3263 are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
3264 wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode() or wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval() to limit
3265 the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle time.
3266 @a flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the ::wxUpdateUI enumeration.
3267
3268 If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
3269 function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
3270 this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
3271 to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
3272 only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
3273 The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
3274 an idle function.
3275
3276 @code
3277 void MyWindow::OnInternalIdle()
3278 {
3279 if (wxUpdateUIEvent::CanUpdate(this))
3280 UpdateWindowUI(wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE);
3281 }
3282 @endcode
3283
3284 @see wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
3285 */
3286 virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags = wxUPDATE_UI_NONE);
3287
3288 //@}
3289
3290
3291 // NOTE: static functions must have their own group or Doxygen will screw
3292 // up the ordering of the member groups
3293
3294 /**
3295 @name Miscellaneous static functions
3296 */
3297 //@{
3298
3299 /**
3300 Returns the default font and colours which are used by the control.
3301
3302 This is useful if you want to use the same font or colour in your own control
3303 as in a standard control -- which is a much better idea than hard coding specific
3304 colours or fonts which might look completely out of place on the users
3305 system, especially if it uses themes.
3306
3307 The @a variant parameter is only relevant under Mac currently and is
3308 ignore under other platforms. Under Mac, it will change the size of the
3309 returned font. See SetWindowVariant() for more about this.
3310
3311 This static method is "overridden" in many derived classes and so calling,
3312 for example, wxButton::GetClassDefaultAttributes() will typically
3313 return the values appropriate for a button which will be normally different
3314 from those returned by, say, wxListCtrl::GetClassDefaultAttributes().
3315
3316 The @c wxVisualAttributes structure has at least the fields
3317 @c font, @c colFg and @c colBg. All of them may be invalid
3318 if it was not possible to determine the default control appearance or,
3319 especially for the background colour, if the field doesn't make sense as is
3320 the case for @c colBg for the controls with themed background.
3321
3322 @see InheritAttributes()
3323 */
3324 static wxVisualAttributes GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindowVariant variant = wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL);
3325
3326 /**
3327 Finds the window or control which currently has the keyboard focus.
3328
3329 @remarks Note that this is a static function, so it can be called without
3330 needing a wxWindow pointer.
3331
3332 @see SetFocus(), HasFocus()
3333 */
3334 static wxWindow* FindFocus();
3335
3336 /**
3337 Find the first window with the given @e id.
3338
3339 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
3340 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
3341 window hierarchy.
3342 The search is recursive in both cases.
3343
3344 @see FindWindow()
3345
3346 @return Window with the given @a id or @NULL if not found.
3347 */
3348 static wxWindow* FindWindowById(long id, const wxWindow* parent = 0);
3349
3350 /**
3351 Find a window by its label.
3352
3353 Depending on the type of window, the label may be a window title
3354 or panel item label. If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all
3355 top-level frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be
3356 limited to the given window hierarchy.
3357 The search is recursive in both cases.
3358
3359 @see FindWindow()
3360
3361 @return Window with the given @a label or @NULL if not found.
3362 */
3363 static wxWindow* FindWindowByLabel(const wxString& label,
3364 const wxWindow* parent = 0);
3365
3366 /**
3367 Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or Create()
3368 function call).
3369
3370 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
3371 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
3372 window hierarchy.
3373
3374 The search is recursive in both cases. If no window with such name is found,
3375 FindWindowByLabel() is called.
3376
3377 @see FindWindow()
3378
3379 @return Window with the given @a name or @NULL if not found.
3380 */
3381 static wxWindow* FindWindowByName(const wxString& name,
3382 const wxWindow* parent = 0);
3383
3384 /**
3385 Returns the currently captured window.
3386
3387 @see HasCapture(), CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(),
3388 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3389 */
3390 static wxWindow* GetCapture();
3391
3392 /**
3393 Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.
3394 The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindow ID
3395 or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
3396
3397 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
3398
3399 @param count
3400 The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
3401
3402 @return Returns the ID or the first ID of the range (i.e. the most negative),
3403 or wxID_NONE if the specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
3404
3405 @see UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager,
3406 @ref overview_windowids
3407 */
3408 static wxWindowID NewControlId(int count = 1);
3409
3410 /**
3411 Unreserve an ID or range of IDs that was reserved by NewControlId().
3412 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
3413
3414 @param id
3415 The starting ID of the range of IDs to unreserve.
3416 @param count
3417 The number of sequential IDs to unreserve.
3418
3419 @see NewControlId(), wxIdManager, @ref overview_windowids
3420 */
3421 static void UnreserveControlId(wxWindowID id, int count = 1);
3422
3423 //@}
3424
3425
3426
3427 protected:
3428
3429 /**
3430 Centres the window.
3431
3432 @param direction
3433 Specifies the direction for the centring. May be wxHORIZONTAL,
3434 wxVERTICAL or wxBOTH. It may also include the wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN
3435 flag.
3436
3437 @remarks This function is not meant to be called directly by user code,
3438 but via Centre, Center, CentreOnParent, or CenterOnParent.
3439 This function can be overridden to fine-tune centring behaviour.
3440 */
3441 virtual void DoCentre(int direction);
3442
3443 /**
3444 Gets the size which best suits the window: for a control, it would be
3445 the minimal size which doesn't truncate the control, for a panel - the
3446 same size as it would have after a call to Fit().
3447
3448 The default implementation of this function is designed for use in container
3449 windows, such as wxPanel, and works something like this:
3450 -# If the window has a sizer then it is used to calculate the best size.
3451 -# Otherwise if the window has layout constraints then those are used to
3452 calculate the best size.
3453 -# Otherwise if the window has children then the best size is set to be large
3454 enough to show all the children.
3455 -# Otherwise if there are no children then the window's minimal size will be
3456 used as its best size.
3457 -# Otherwise if there is no minimal size set, then the current size is used
3458 for the best size.
3459
3460 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
3461 */
3462 virtual wxSize DoGetBestSize() const;
3463
3464
3465 /**
3466 Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
3467 components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
3468 @deprecated @todo provide deprecation description
3469 */
3470 virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize& size);
3471
3472 /**
3473 Generate wxWindowDestroyEvent for this window.
3474
3475 This is called by the window itself when it is being destroyed and
3476 usually there is no need to call it but see wxWindowDestroyEvent for
3477 explanations of when you might want to do it.
3478 */
3479 void SendDestroyEvent();
3480
3481 /**
3482 This function is public in wxEvtHandler but protected in wxWindow
3483 because for wxWindows you should always call ProcessEvent() on the
3484 pointer returned by GetEventHandler() and not on the wxWindow object
3485 itself.
3486
3487 For convenience, a ProcessWindowEvent() method is provided as a synonym
3488 for @code GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent() @endcode
3489
3490 Note that it's still possible to call these functions directly on the
3491 wxWindow object (e.g. casting it to wxEvtHandler) but doing that will
3492 create subtle bugs when windows with event handlers pushed on them are
3493 involved.
3494
3495 This holds also for all other wxEvtHandler functions.
3496 */
3497 virtual bool ProcessEvent(wxEvent& event);
3498
3499 //@{
3500 /**
3501 See ProcessEvent() for more info about why you shouldn't use this function
3502 and the reason for making this function protected in wxWindow.
3503 */
3504 bool SafelyProcessEvent(wxEvent& event);
3505 virtual void QueueEvent(wxEvent *event);
3506 virtual void AddPendingEvent(const wxEvent& event);
3507 void ProcessPendingEvents();
3508 bool ProcessThreadEvent(const wxEvent& event);
3509 //@}
3510 };
3511
3512
3513
3514 // ============================================================================
3515 // Global functions/macros
3516 // ============================================================================
3517
3518 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_misc */
3519 //@{
3520
3521 /**
3522 Find the deepest window at the mouse pointer position, returning the window
3523 and current pointer position in screen coordinates.
3524
3525 @header{wx/window.h}
3526 */
3527 wxWindow* wxFindWindowAtPointer(wxPoint& pt);
3528
3529 /**
3530 Gets the currently active window (implemented for MSW and GTK only
3531 currently, always returns @NULL in the other ports).
3532
3533 @header{wx/window.h}
3534 */
3535 wxWindow* wxGetActiveWindow();
3536
3537 /**
3538 Returns the first top level parent of the given window, or in other words,
3539 the frame or dialog containing it, or @NULL.
3540
3541 @header{wx/window.h}
3542 */
3543 wxWindow* wxGetTopLevelParent(wxWindow* window);
3544
3545 //@}
3546