[wxWidgets.git] / interface / window.h

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// Name:        window.h
// Purpose:     documentation for wxWindow class
// Author:      wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID:      $Id$
// Licence:     wxWindows license
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/**
    @class wxWindow
    @wxheader{window.h}

    wxWindow is the base class for all windows and represents any visible object on
    screen. All controls, top level windows and so on are windows. Sizers and
    device contexts are not, however, as they don't appear on screen themselves.

    Please note that all children of the window will be deleted automatically by
    the destructor before the window itself is deleted which means that you don't
    have to worry about deleting them manually. Please see the @ref
    overview_windowdeletionoverview "window
    deletion overview" for more information.

    Also note that in this, and many others, wxWidgets classes some
    @c GetXXX() methods may be overloaded (as, for example,
    wxWindow::GetSize or
    wxWindow::GetClientSize). In this case, the overloads
    are non-virtual because having multiple virtual functions with the same name
    results in a virtual function name hiding at the derived class level (in
    English, this means that the derived class has to override all overloaded
    variants if it overrides any of them). To allow overriding them in the derived
    class, wxWidgets uses a unique protected virtual @c DoGetXXX() method
    and all @c GetXXX() ones are forwarded to it, so overriding the former
    changes the behaviour of the latter.

    @beginStyleTable
    @style{wxBORDER_DEFAULT}:
           The window class will decide the kind of border to show, if any.
    @style{wxBORDER_SIMPLE}:
           Displays a thin border around the window. wxSIMPLE_BORDER is the
           old name for this style.
    @style{wxBORDER_SUNKEN}:
           Displays a sunken border. wxSUNKEN_BORDER is the old name for this
           style.
    @style{wxBORDER_RAISED}:
           Displays a raised border. wxRAISED_BORDER is the old name for this
           style.
    @style{wxBORDER_STATIC}:
           Displays a border suitable for a static control.  wxSTATIC_BORDER
           is the old name for this style. Windows only.
    @style{wxBORDER_THEME}:
           Displays a native border suitable for a control, on the current
           platform. On Windows XP or Vista, this will be a themed border; on
           most other platforms a sunken border will be used. For more
           information for themed borders on Windows, please see Themed
           borders on Windows.
    @style{wxBORDER_NONE}:
           Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the
           window. wxNO_BORDER is the old name for this style.
    @style{wxBORDER_DOUBLE}:
           This style is obsolete and should not be used.
    @style{wxTRANSPARENT_WINDOW}:
           The window is transparent, that is, it will not receive paint
           events. Windows only.
    @style{wxTAB_TRAVERSAL}:
           Use this to enable tab traversal for non-dialog windows.
    @style{wxWANTS_CHARS}:
           Use this to indicate that the window wants to get all char/key
           events for all keys - even for keys like TAB or ENTER which are
           usually used for dialog navigation and which wouldn't be generated
           without this style.  If you need to use this style in order to get
           the arrows or etc., but would still like to have normal keyboard
           navigation take place, you should call Navigate in response to the
           key events for Tab and Shift-Tab.
    @style{wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}:
           On Windows, this style used to disable repainting the window
           completely when its size is changed. Since this behaviour is now
           the default, the style is now obsolete and no longer has an effect.
    @style{wxVSCROLL}:
           Use this style to enable a vertical scrollbar. Notice that this
           style cannot be used with native controls which don't support
           scrollbars nor with top-level windows in most ports.
    @style{wxHSCROLL}:
           Use this style to enable a horizontal scrollbar. The same
           limitations as for wxVSCROLL apply to this style.
    @style{wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB}:
           If a window has scrollbars, disable them instead of hiding them
           when they are not needed (i.e. when the size of the window is big
           enough to not require the scrollbars to navigate it). This style is
           currently implemented for wxMSW, wxGTK and wxUniversal and does
           nothing on the other platforms.
    @style{wxCLIP_CHILDREN}:
           Use this style to eliminate flicker caused by the background being
           repainted, then children being painted over them. Windows only.
    @style{wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}:
           Use this style to force a complete redraw of the window whenever it
           is resized instead of redrawing just the part of the window
           affected by resizing. Note that this was the behaviour by default
           before 2.5.1 release and that if you experience redraw problems
           with code which previously used to work you may want to try this.
           Currently this style applies on GTK+ 2 and Windows only, and full
           repainting is always done on other platforms.
    @endStyleTable

    @beginExtraStyleTable
    @style{wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY}:
           By default, Validate/TransferDataTo/FromWindow() only work on
           direct children of the window (compatible behaviour). Set this flag
           to make them recursively descend into all subwindows.
    @style{wxWS_EX_BLOCK_EVENTS}:
           wxCommandEvents and the objects of the derived classes are
           forwarded to the parent window and so on recursively by default.
           Using this flag for the given window allows to block this
           propagation at this window, i.e. prevent the events from being
           propagated further upwards. Dialogs have this flag on by default.
    @style{wxWS_EX_TRANSIENT}:
           Don't use this window as an implicit parent for the other windows:
           this must be used with transient windows as otherwise there is the
           risk of creating a dialog/frame with this window as a parent which
           would lead to a crash if the parent is destroyed before the child.
    @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE}:
           This window should always process idle events, even if the mode set
           by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
    @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES}:
           This window should always process UI update events, even if the
           mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is
           wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
    @endExtraStyleTable

    @library{wxcore}
    @category{FIXME}

    @seealso
    @ref overview_eventhandlingoverview "Event handling overview", @ref
    overview_windowsizingoverview "Window sizing overview"
*/
class wxWindow : public wxEvtHandler
{
public:
    //@{
    /**
        Constructs a window, which can be a child of a frame, dialog or any other
        non-control window.
        
        @param parent
        Pointer to a parent window.
        
        @param id
        Window identifier. If wxID_ANY, will automatically create an identifier.
        
        @param pos
        Window position. wxDefaultPosition indicates that wxWidgets
        should generate a default position for the window. If using the wxWindow class
        directly, supply
        an actual position.
        
        @param size
        Window size. wxDefaultSize indicates that wxWidgets
        should generate a default size for the window. If no suitable size can  be
        found, the
        window will be sized to 20x20 pixels so that the window is visible but
        obviously not
        correctly sized.
        
        @param style
        Window style. For generic window styles, please see wxWindow.
        
        @param name
        Window name.
    */
    wxWindow();
    wxWindow(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id,
             const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
             const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize,
             long style = 0,
             const wxString& name = wxPanelNameStr);
    //@}

    /**
        Destructor. Deletes all sub-windows, then deletes itself. Instead of using
        the @b delete operator explicitly, you should normally
        use Destroy() so that wxWidgets
        can delete a window only when it is safe to do so, in idle time.
        
        @sa @ref overview_windowdeletionoverview "Window deletion overview",
              Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
    */
    ~wxWindow();

    /**
        This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
        indicate that this control doesn't accept input at all (i.e. behaves like e.g.
        wxStaticText) and so doesn't need focus.
        
        @sa AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard()
    */
    bool AcceptsFocus();

    /**
        This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
        indicate that while this control can, in principle, have focus if the user
        clicks it with the mouse, it shouldn't be included in the TAB traversal chain
        when using the keyboard.
    */
    bool AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard();

    /**
        Adds a child window.  This is called automatically by window creation
        functions so should not be required by the application programmer.
        
        Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
        called by the user code.
        
        @param child
        Child window to add.
    */
    virtual void AddChild(wxWindow* child);

    /**
        Call this function to force one or both scrollbars to be always shown, even if
        the window is big enough to show its entire contents without scrolling.
        
        This function is new since wxWidgets version 2.9.0
        
        @param hflag
        Whether the horizontal scroll bar should always be visible.
        
        @param vflag
        Whether the vertical scroll bar should always be visible.
        
        @remarks This function is currently only implemented under Mac/Carbon.
    */
    void AlwaysShowScrollbars(bool hflag, bool vflag);

    /**
        Sets the cached best size value.
    */
    void CacheBestSize(const wxSize& size);

    /**
        Returns @true if the system supports transparent windows and calling
        SetTransparent() may succeed. If this function
        returns @false, transparent windows are definitely not supported by the
        current
        system.
    */
    bool CanSetTransparent();

    /**
        Directs all mouse input to this window. Call ReleaseMouse() to
        release the capture.
        
        Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
        and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
        captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
        window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
        as you capture it, unless the window receives
        the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
        
        Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
        must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
        and cancel this operation when it receives the event. The event handler must
        not recapture mouse.
        
        @sa ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
    */
    virtual void CaptureMouse();

    /**
        A synonym for Centre().
    */
    void Center(int direction);

    /**
        A synonym for CentreOnParent().
    */
    void CenterOnParent(int direction);

    /**
        Centres the window.
        
        @param direction
        Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
        or wxBOTH. It may also include wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN flag
        if you want to center the window on the entire screen and not on its
        parent window.
        
        @remarks If the window is a top level one (i.e. doesn't have a parent),
                   it will be centered relative to the screen anyhow.
        
        @sa Center()
    */
    void Centre(int direction = wxBOTH);

    /**
        Centres the window on its parent. This is a more readable synonym for
        Centre().
        
        @param direction
        Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
        or wxBOTH.
        
        @remarks This methods provides for a way to center top level windows over
                   their parents instead of the entire screen.  If there
                   is no parent or if the window is not a top level
                   window, then behaviour is the same as
                   Centre().
        
        @sa wxTopLevelWindow::CentreOnScreen
    */
    void CentreOnParent(int direction = wxBOTH);

    /**
        Clears the window by filling it with the current background colour. Does not
        cause an erase background event to be generated.
    */
    void ClearBackground();

    //@{
    /**
        Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
        
        
        @param x
        A pointer to a integer value for the x coordinate. Pass the client coordinate
        in, and
        a screen coordinate will be passed out.
        
        @param y
        A pointer to a integer value for the y coordinate. Pass the client coordinate
        in, and
        a screen coordinate will be passed out.
        
        @param pt
        The client position for the second form of the function.
    */
    virtual void ClientToScreen(int* x, int* y);
    virtual wxPoint ClientToScreen(const wxPoint& pt);
    //@}

    /**
        Converts client area size @e size to corresponding window size. In other
        words, the returned value is what would GetSize()
        return if this window had client area of given size.
        Components with wxDefaultCoord value are left unchanged.
        
        Note that the conversion is not always exact, it assumes that non-client area
        doesn't change and so doesn't take into account things like menu bar
        (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance of the scrollbars.
        
        @sa WindowToClientSize()
    */
    virtual wxSize ClientToWindowSize(const wxSize& size);

    /**
        This function simply generates a wxCloseEvent whose
        handler usually tries to close the window. It doesn't close the window itself,
        however.
        
        @param force
        @false if the window's close handler should be able to veto the destruction
        of this window, @true if it cannot.
        
        @remarks Close calls the close handler for the window, providing an
                   opportunity for the window to choose whether to
                   destroy the window. Usually it is only used with the
                   top level windows (wxFrame and wxDialog classes) as
                   the others are not supposed to have any special
                   OnClose() logic.
        
        @sa @ref overview_windowdeletionoverview "Window deletion overview",
              Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
    */
    bool Close(bool force = @false);

    //@{
    /**
        Converts a point or size from dialog units to pixels.
        
        For the x dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
        width
        and then divided by 4.
        
        For the y dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
        height
        and then divided by 8.
        
        @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
                   even if the font changes.
        
        @sa ConvertPixelsToDialog()
    */
    wxPoint ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxPoint& pt);
    wxSize ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxSize& sz);
    //@}

    //@{
    /**
        Converts a point or size from pixels to dialog units.
        
        For the x dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 4 and then divided by the
        average
        character width.
        
        For the y dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 8 and then divided by the
        average
        character height.
        
        @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
                   even if the font changes.
        
        @sa ConvertDialogToPixels()
    */
    wxPoint ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxPoint& pt);
    wxSize ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxSize& sz);
    //@}

    /**
        Destroys the window safely. Use this function instead of the delete operator,
        since
        different window classes can be destroyed differently. Frames and dialogs
        are not destroyed immediately when this function is called -- they are added
        to a list of windows to be deleted on idle time, when all the window's events
        have been processed. This prevents problems with events being sent to
        non-existent
        windows.
        
        @returns @true if the window has either been successfully deleted, or it
                   has been added to the list of windows pending real
                   deletion.
    */
    virtual bool Destroy();

    /**
        Destroys all children of a window.  Called automatically by the destructor.
    */
    virtual void DestroyChildren();

    /**
        Disables the window, same as @ref enable() Enable(@false).
        
        @returns Returns @true if the window has been disabled, @false if it had
                   been already disabled before the call to this
                   function.
    */
    bool Disable();

    /**
        Gets the size which best suits the window: for a control, it would be
        the minimal size which doesn't truncate the control, for a panel - the
        same size as it would have after a call to Fit().
    */
    virtual wxSize DoGetBestSize();

    /**
        Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
        This function is called by UpdateWindowUI()
        in order to check return values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and
        act appropriately. For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating,
        wxWidgets
        implements this function as follows:
    */
    virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event);

    /**
        Enables or disables eligibility for drop file events (OnDropFiles).
        
        @param accept
        If @true, the window is eligible for drop file events. If @false, the window
        will not accept drop file events.
        
        @remarks Windows only.
    */
    virtual void DragAcceptFiles(bool accept);

    /**
        Enable or disable the window for user input. Note that when a parent window is
        disabled, all of its children are disabled as well and they are reenabled again
        when the parent is.
        
        @param enable
        If @true, enables the window for input. If @false, disables the window.
        
        @returns Returns @true if the window has been enabled or disabled, @false
                   if nothing was done, i.e. if the window had already
                   been in the specified state.
        
        @sa IsEnabled(), Disable(), wxRadioBox::Enable
    */
    virtual bool Enable(bool enable = @true);

    /**
        Finds the window or control which currently has the keyboard focus.
        
        @remarks Note that this is a static function, so it can be called without
                   needing a wxWindow pointer.
        
        @sa SetFocus(), HasFocus()
    */
    static wxWindow* FindFocus();

    //@{
    /**
        Find a child of this window, by name.
    */
    wxWindow* FindWindow(long id);
    wxWindow* FindWindow(const wxString& name);
    //@}

    /**
        Find the first window with the given @e id.
        
        If @e parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level
        frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
        window hierarchy.
        The search is recursive in both cases.
        
        @sa FindWindow()
    */
    static wxWindow* FindWindowById(long id, wxWindow* parent = @NULL);

    /**
        Find a window by its label. Depending on the type of window, the label may be a
        window title
        or panel item label. If @e parent is @NULL, the search will start from all
        top-level
        frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
        window hierarchy.
        The search is recursive in both cases.
        
        @sa FindWindow()
    */
    static wxWindow* FindWindowByLabel(const wxString& label,
                                       wxWindow* parent = @NULL);

    /**
        Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or @b Create
        function call).
        If @e parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level
        frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
        window hierarchy.
        The search is recursive in both cases.
        
        If no window with such name is found,
        FindWindowByLabel() is called.
        
        @sa FindWindow()
    */
    static wxWindow* FindWindowByName(const wxString& name,
                                      wxWindow* parent = @NULL);

    /**
        Sizes the window so that it fits around its subwindows. This function won't do
        anything if there are no subwindows and will only really work correctly if
        sizers are used for the subwindows layout. Also, if the window has exactly one
        subwindow it is better (faster and the result is more precise as Fit adds some
        margin to account for fuzziness of its calculations) to call
        instead of calling Fit.
    */
#define virtual void Fit()     /* implementation is private */

    /**
        Similar to Fit(), but sizes the interior (virtual) size
        of a window.  Mainly useful with scrolled windows to reset scrollbars after
        sizing changes that do not trigger a size event, and/or scrolled windows without
        an interior sizer.  This function similarly won't do anything if there are no
        subwindows.
    */
    virtual void FitInside();

    /**
        Freezes the window or, in other words, prevents any updates from taking place
        on screen, the window is not redrawn at all. Thaw() must
        be called to reenable window redrawing. Calls to these two functions may be
        nested but to ensure that the window is properly repainted again, you must thaw
        it exactly as many times as you froze it.
        
        This method is useful for visual appearance optimization (for example, it
        is a good idea to use it before doing many large text insertions in a row into
        a wxTextCtrl under wxGTK) but is not implemented on all platforms nor for all
        controls so it is mostly just a hint to wxWidgets and not a mandatory
        directive.
        
        @sa wxWindowUpdateLocker
    */
    virtual void Freeze();

    /**
        Gets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
    */
    wxAcceleratorTable* GetAcceleratorTable();

    /**
        Returns the accessible object for this window, if any.
        
        See also wxAccessible.
    */
    wxAccessible* GetAccessible();

    /**
        This method is deprecated, use GetEffectiveMinSize()
        instead.
    */
    wxSize GetAdjustedBestSize();

    /**
        Returns the background colour of the window.
        
        @sa SetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
              GetForegroundColour()
    */
    virtual wxColour GetBackgroundColour();

    /**
        Returns the background style of the window. The background style can be one of:
        
        
        wxBG_STYLE_SYSTEM
        
        
        Use the default background, as determined by
        the system or the current theme.
        
        wxBG_STYLE_COLOUR
        
        
        Use a solid colour for the background, this
        style is set automatically if you call
        SetBackgroundColour() so you only need to
        set it explicitly if you had changed the background style to something else
        before.
        
        wxBG_STYLE_CUSTOM
        
        
        Don't draw the background at all, it's
        supposed that it is drawn by the user-defined erase background event handler.
        This style should be used to avoid flicker when the background is entirely
        custom-drawn.
        
        wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARET
        
        
        The background is (partially) transparent,
        this style is automatically set if you call
        SetTransparent() which is used to set the
        transparency level.
        
        
        @sa SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
              SetBackgroundStyle(), SetTransparent()
    */
    virtual wxBackgroundStyle GetBackgroundStyle();

    /**
        This functions returns the best acceptable minimal size for the window. For
        example, for a static control, it will be the minimal size such that the
        control label is not truncated. For windows containing subwindows (typically
        wxPanel), the size returned by this function will be the
        same as the size the window would have had after calling
        Fit().
    */
    wxSize GetBestSize();

    /**
        Returns the currently captured window.
        
        @sa HasCapture(), CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(),
              wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
    */
    static wxWindow * GetCapture();

    /**
        Returns the caret associated with the window.
    */
    wxCaret * GetCaret();

    /**
        Returns the character height for this window.
    */
    virtual int GetCharHeight();

    /**
        Returns the average character width for this window.
    */
    virtual int GetCharWidth();

    //@{
    /**
        Returns a reference to the list of the window's children. @c wxWindowList
        is a type-safe wxList-like class whose elements are of type
        @c wxWindow *.
    */
    wxWindowList GetChildren();
    const wxWindowList GetChildren();
    //@}

    /**
        Returns the default font and colours which are used by the control. This is
        useful if you want to use the same font or colour in your own control as in a
        standard control -- which is a much better idea than hard coding specific
        colours or fonts which might look completely out of place on the users
        system, especially if it uses themes.
        
        The @e variant parameter is only relevant under Mac currently and is
        ignore under other platforms. Under Mac, it will change the size of the
        returned font. See SetWindowVariant()
        for more about this.
        
        This static method is "overridden'' in many derived classes and so calling,
        for example, wxButton::GetClassDefaultAttributes() will typically
        return the values appropriate for a button which will be normally different
        from those returned by, say, wxListCtrl::GetClassDefaultAttributes().
        
        The @c wxVisualAttributes structure has at least the fields
        @c font, @c colFg and @c colBg. All of them may be invalid
        if it was not possible to determine the default control appearance or,
        especially for the background colour, if the field doesn't make sense as is
        the case for @c colBg for the controls with themed background.
        
        @sa InheritAttributes()
    */
    static wxVisualAttributes GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindowVariant variant = wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL);

    //@{
    /**
        Returns the size of the window 'client area' in pixels. The client area is the
        area which may be drawn on by the programmer, excluding title bar, border,
        scrollbars, etc.
        
        Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
        return size is empty (both width and height are 0).
        
        @param width
        Receives the client width in pixels.
        
        @param height
        Receives the client height in pixels.
        
        @sa GetSize(), GetVirtualSize()
    */
    void GetClientSize(int* width, int* height);
    wxSize GetClientSize();
    //@}

    /**
        Returns a pointer to the window's layout constraints, or @NULL if there are none.
    */
    wxLayoutConstraints* GetConstraints();

    /**
        Return the sizer that this window is a member of, if any, otherwise
        @NULL.
    */
    const wxSizer * GetContainingSizer();

    /**
        Return the cursor associated with this window.
        
        @sa SetCursor()
    */
    const wxCursor GetCursor();

    /**
        Currently this is the same as calling
        wxWindow::GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindow::GetWindowVariant()).
        
        One advantage of using this function compared to the static version is that
        the call is automatically dispatched to the correct class (as usual with
        virtual functions) and you don't have to specify the class name explicitly.
        
        The other one is that in the future this function could return different
        results, for example it might return a different font for an "Ok'' button
        than for a generic button if the users GUI is configured to show such buttons
        in bold font. Of course, the down side is that it is impossible to call this
        function without actually having an object to apply it to whereas the static
        version can be used without having to create an object first.
    */
    virtual wxVisualAttributes GetDefaultAttributes();

    /**
        Returns the associated drop target, which may be @NULL.
        
        @sa SetDropTarget(), @ref overview_wxdndoverview "Drag and drop
              overview"
    */
    wxDropTarget* GetDropTarget();

    /**
        Merges the window's best size into the min size and returns the
        result.  This is the value used by sizers to determine the appropriate
        ammount of space to allocate for the widget.
        
        @sa GetBestSize(), SetInitialSize()
    */
    wxSize GetEffectiveMinSize();

    /**
        Returns the event handler for this window. By default, the window is its
        own event handler.
        
        @sa SetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
              PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
    */
    wxEvtHandler* GetEventHandler();

    /**
        Returns the extra style bits for the window.
    */
    long GetExtraStyle();

    /**
        Returns the font for this window.
        
        @sa SetFont()
    */
    wxFont GetFont();

    /**
        Returns the foreground colour of the window.
        
        @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
                   interpretation according to the window class; it may
                   be the text colour or other colour, or it may not be
                   used at all.
        
        @sa SetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
              GetBackgroundColour()
    */
    virtual wxColour GetForegroundColour();

    /**
        Returns the grandparent of a window, or @NULL if there isn't one.
    */
    wxWindow* GetGrandParent();

    /**
        Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window. Cast it to an
        appropriate
        handle, such as @b HWND for Windows, @b Widget for Motif, @b GtkWidget for GTK
        or @b WinHandle for PalmOS.
    */
    void* GetHandle();

    /**
        Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
        
        Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
        implementation,
        and not in the window object itself.
        
        @sa SetHelpText(), GetHelpTextAtPoint(), wxHelpProvider
    */
    virtual wxString GetHelpText();

    /**
        Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window. This
        method should be overridden if the help message depends on the position inside
        the window, otherwise GetHelpText() can be used.
        
        @param point
        Coordinates of the mouse at the moment of help event emission.
        
        @param origin
        Help event origin, see also wxHelpEvent::GetOrigin.
    */
    virtual wxString GetHelpTextAtPoint(const wxPoint point,
                                        wxHelpEvent::Origin origin);

    /**
        Returns the identifier of the window.
        
        @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
                   not provided one (or the default wxID_ANY) an unique
                   identifier with a negative value will be generated.
        
        @sa SetId(), @ref overview_windowids "Window identifiers"
    */
    int GetId();

    /**
        Generic way of getting a label from any window, for
        identification purposes.
        
        @remarks The interpretation of this function differs from class to class.
                   For frames and dialogs, the value returned is the
                   title. For buttons or static text controls, it is the
                   button text. This function can be useful for
                   meta-programs (such as testing tools or special-needs
                   access programs) which need to identify windows by
                   name.
    */
    virtual wxString GetLabel();

    /**
        Returns the maximum size of window's client area.
        This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
        possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using
        SetClientSize().
        
        @sa GetMaxSize()
    */
    wxSize GetMaxClientSize();

    /**
        Returns the maximum size of the window. This is an indication to the sizer
        layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size as well as the upper
        bound on window's size settable using SetSize().
        
        @sa GetMaxClientSize()
    */
    wxSize GetMaxSize();

    /**
        Returns the minimum size of window's client area, an indication to the sizer
        layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of its client area. It
        normally just returns the value set by
        SetMinClientSize(), but it can be overridden
        to do the calculation on demand.
        
        @sa GetMinSize()
    */
    virtual wxSize GetMinClientSize();

    /**
        Returns the minimum size of the window, an indication to the sizer layout
        mechanism
        that this is the minimum required size. It normally just returns the value set
        by SetMinSize(), but it can be overridden to do the
        calculation on demand.
        
        @sa GetMinClientSize()
    */
    virtual wxSize GetMinSize();

    /**
        Returns the window's name.
        
        @remarks This name is not guaranteed to be unique; it is up to the
                   programmer to supply an appropriate name in the
                   window constructor or via SetName().
        
        @sa SetName()
    */
    virtual wxString GetName();

    /**
        Returns the next window after this one among the parent children or @NULL if
        this window is the last child.
        
        This function is new since wxWidgets version 2.8.8
        
        @sa GetPrevSibling()
    */
    wxWindow * GetNextSibling();

    /**
        Returns the parent of the window, or @NULL if there is no parent.
    */
    virtual wxWindow* GetParent();

    //@{
    /**
        This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
        returns the selected id. It can be more convenient than the general purpose
        PopupMenu() function for simple menus proposing a
        choice in a list of strings to the user.
        
        @param menu
        The menu to show
        
        @param pos
        The position at which to show the menu in client coordinates
        
        @param x
        The horizontal position of the menu
        
        @param y
        The vertical position of the menu
        
        @returns The selected menu item id or wxID_NONE if none selected or an
                   error occurred.
    */
    int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu,
                                      const wxPoint& pos);
    int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, int x, int y);
    //@}

    //@{
    /**
        This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
        for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level
        windows.
        
        @param x
        Receives the x position of the window if non-@NULL.
        
        @param y
        Receives the y position of the window if non-@NULL.
        
        @sa GetScreenPosition()
    */
    virtual void GetPosition(int* x, int* y);
    wxPoint GetPosition();
    //@}

    /**
        Returns the previous window before this one among the parent children or @c
        @NULL if
        this window is the first child.
        
        This function is new since wxWidgets version 2.8.8
        
        @sa GetNextSibling()
    */
    wxWindow * GetPrevSibling();

    /**
        Returns the position and size of the window as a wxRect object.
        
        @sa GetScreenRect()
    */
    virtual wxRect GetRect();

    //@{
    /**
        Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
        child window or a top level one.
        
        @param x
        Receives the x position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
        
        @param y
        Receives the y position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
        
        @sa GetPosition()
    */
    virtual void GetScreenPosition(int* x, int* y);
    wxPoint GetScreenPosition();
    //@}

    /**
        Returns the position and size of the window on the screen as a
        wxRect object.
        
        @sa GetRect()
    */
    virtual wxRect GetScreenRect();

    /**
        Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
        
        @sa See SetScrollbar()
    */
    virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation);

    /**
        Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
        
        @sa SetScrollbar()
    */
    virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation);

    /**
        Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
        
        @sa SetScrollbar()
    */
    virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation);

    //@{
    /**
        Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
        scrollbars, etc.
        
        Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
        returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
        
        @param width
        Receives the window width.
        
        @param height
        Receives the window height.
        
        @sa GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize()
    */
    void GetSize(int* width, int* height);
    wxSize GetSize();
    //@}

    /**
        Return the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
        SetSizer() or @NULL.
    */
    wxSizer * GetSizer();

    //@{
    /**
        Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
        window with the currently selected font.
        
        The text extent is returned in @e w and @e h pointers (first form) or as a
        wxSize object (second form).
        
        @param string
        String whose extent is to be measured.
        
        @param w
        Return value for width.
        
        @param h
        Return value for height.
        
        @param descent
        Return value for descent (optional).
        
        @param externalLeading
        Return value for external leading (optional).
        
        @param font
        Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
        
        @param use16
        If @true, string contains 16-bit characters. The default is @false.
    */
    virtual void GetTextExtent(const wxString& string, int* w,
                               int* h,
                               int* descent = @NULL,
                               int* externalLeading = @NULL,
                               const wxFont* font = @NULL,
                               bool use16 = @false);
    wxSize GetTextExtent(const wxString& string);
    //@}

    /**
        Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
    */
    wxToolTip* GetToolTip();

    /**
        Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
        Should
        only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
        
        @sa wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
    */
    virtual wxRegion GetUpdateRegion();

    /**
        Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if there is
        none.
    */
    wxValidator* GetValidator();

    //@{
    /**
        This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels. By default it
        returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
        SetVirtualSize() it will return
        that size.
        
        @param width
        Receives the window virtual width.
        
        @param height
        Receives the window virtual height.
    */
    void GetVirtualSize(int* width, int* height);
    wxSize GetVirtualSize();
    //@}

    /**
        Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
        and y components of the result respectively.
    */
    wxSize GetWindowBorderSize();

    /**
        Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or @b Create
        method. @b GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
    */
    long GetWindowStyleFlag();

    /**
        Returns the value previously passed to
        SetWindowVariant().
    */
    wxWindowVariant GetWindowVariant();

    /**
        This function will generate the appropriate call to
        Navigate() if the key event is one normally used for
        keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
        
        @returns Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
                   handled, @false otherwise.
        
        @sa Navigate()
    */
    bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent& event);

    /**
        Shorthand for @c
        wxWindow::GetEventHandler()-wxEvtHandler::SafelyProcessEvent(event).
    */
    bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent& event);

    /**
        Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
        
        @sa CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
              wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
    */
    virtual bool HasCapture();

    /**
        Returns @true if the window has the given @e exFlag bit set in its
        extra styles.
        
        @sa SetExtraStyle()
    */
    bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag);

    /**
        Returns @true if the window has the given @e flag bit set.
    */
    bool HasFlag(int flag);

    /**
        Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
        child window) has focus.
        
        @sa FindFocus()
    */
    virtual bool HasFocus();

    /**
        This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
        multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
        wxNotebook, wxListbook and
        wxTreebook already override it to return @true
        and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should do it as well to allow
        the library to handle such windows appropriately.
    */
    virtual bool HasMultiplePages();

    /**
        Returns @true if this window has a scroll bar for this orientation.
        
        @param orient
        Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
    */
    virtual bool HasScrollbar(int orient);

    /**
        Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example, for
        wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
        
        This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
        shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
        wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
    */
    virtual bool HasTransparentBackground();

    /**
        Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
    */
    bool Hide();

    /**
        This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a
        special visual effect if possible.
        
        The parameters of this function are the same as for
        ShowWithEffect(), please see their
        description there.
        
        This function is new since wxWidgets version 2.9.0
    */
    virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
                                unsigned timeout = 0,
                                wxDirection dir = wxBOTTOM);

    /**
        This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
        window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
        the font and the foreground and background colours.
        
        By "intelligently'' the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
        own @ref getclassdefaultattributes() default attributes. However
        if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
        SetFont() and not
        wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the
        corresponding attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself,
        then this window takes the same value as used by the parent. In addition, if
        the window overrides ShouldInheritColours()
        to return @false, the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the
        font might.
        
        This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
        different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
        are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
        different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
        they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
        desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
        just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
        do inherit the parents attributes.
    */
    void InheritAttributes();

    /**
        Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
        to the dialog via validators.
    */
    void InitDialog();

    /**
        Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
        is needed.
    */
    void InvalidateBestSize();

    /**
        Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
        any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
        and transferred to the screen all at once later.
        
        @sa wxBufferedDC
    */
    virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered();

    /**
        Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input, @c
        @false
        otherwise.
        
        Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
        been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled. To get the
        intrinsic status of this window, use
        IsThisEnabled()
        
        @sa Enable()
    */
    virtual bool IsEnabled();

    //@{
    /**
        Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
        last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
        only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
    */
    bool IsExposed(int x, int y);
    bool IsExposed(wxPoint amp;pt);
    bool IsExposed(int x, int y, int w, int h);
    bool IsExposed(wxRect amp;rect);
    //@}

    /**
        Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to
        Freeze().
        
        @sa Thaw()
    */
    virtual bool IsFrozen();

    /**
        Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
        
        @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
    */
    virtual bool IsRetained();

    /**
        Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
        
        @param orient
        Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
        
        @sa AlwaysShowScrollbars()
    */
    bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient);

    /**
        Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
        
        @sa IsShownOnScreen()
    */
    virtual bool IsShown();

    /**
        Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
        is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
        
        @sa IsShown()
    */
    virtual bool IsShownOnScreen();

    /**
        Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
        i.e.
        if @ref enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
        mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
        IsEnabled() instead.
    */
    bool IsThisEnabled();

    /**
        Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
        dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
        window).
    */
    bool IsTopLevel();

    /**
        Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
        for this window.
        
        See SetAutoLayout(): when auto
        layout is on, this function gets called automatically when the window is
        resized.
    */
    void Layout();

    /**
        This is just a wrapper for wxWindow::ScrollLines(1).
    */


    /**
        This is just a wrapper for wxWindow::ScrollLines(-1).
    */


    /**
        Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
        
        @sa Raise()
    */
    void Lower();

    /**
        Disables all other windows in the application so that
        the user can only interact with this window.
        
        @param flag
        If @true, this call disables all other windows in the application so that
        the user can only interact with this window. If @false, the effect is reversed.
    */
    virtual void MakeModal(bool flag);

    //@{
    /**
        Moves the window to the given position.
        
        @param x
        Required x position.
        
        @param y
        Required y position.
        
        @param pt
        wxPoint object representing the position.
        
        @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
                   Move() function, which is defined in the base
                   wxWindow class as the call:
        
        @sa SetSize()
    */
    void Move(int x, int y);
    void Move(const wxPoint& pt);
    //@}

    /**
        Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
        This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
        the focus switches to this window.
        
        Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
        MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
        it after creating all the windows.
        
        @param win
        A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
        must not be @NULL
    */
    void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow * win);

    /**
        Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that
        it inserts this window just before @e win instead of putting it right after
        it.
    */
    void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow * win);

    /**
        Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window. This method is
        equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
        parent window.
        
        @param flags
        A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
        wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
        
        @returns Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
                   if nothing changed.
        
        @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
                   handler to do the default navigation behaviour for
                   the tab key, since the standard default behaviour for
                   a multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB
                   style is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
                   control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
                   HandleAsNavigationKey.
    */
    bool Navigate(int flags = wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward);

    /**
        Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
        
        See Navigate() for more information.
    */
    bool NavigateIn(int flags = wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward);

    /**
        Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.  The
        IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindowIDRef
        or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
        
        See @ref overview_windowidsoverview "Window IDs overview" for more information.
        
        @param count
        The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
        
        @returns Returns the ID or the first ID of the range, or wxID_NONE if the
                   specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
        
        @sa UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager, @ref overview_windowidsoverview
              "Window IDs overview"
    */
    static wxWindowID NewControlId(int count = 1);

    /**
        This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
        sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
        that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
        handler in a derived class.
        
        This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
        and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
        in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
    */
    virtual void OnInternalIdle();

    /**
        This is just a wrapper for wxWindow::ScrollPages(1).
    */


    /**
        This is just a wrapper for wxWindow::ScrollPages(-1).
    */


    /**
        Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
        
        @param deleteHandler
        If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed. The
        default value is @false.
        
        @sa SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
              PushEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
    */
    wxEvtHandler* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler = @false);

    //@{
    /**
        Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
        window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu. If a
        menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
        processed as usually. If the coordinates are not specified, current mouse
        cursor position is used.
        
        @param menu
        Menu to pop up.
        
        @param pos
        The position where the menu will appear.
        
        @param x
        Required x position for the menu to appear.
        
        @param y
        Required y position for the menu to appear.
        
        @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
                   ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
                   The menu does not get deleted by the window.
        
        @sa wxMenu
    */
    bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu,
                   const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition);
    bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu, int x, int y);
    //@}

    /**
        Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
        
        @param handler
        Specifies the handler to be pushed.
        
        @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
                   events sent to a window. By default, the window is
                   its own event handler, but an application may wish to
                   substitute another, for example to allow central
                   implementation of event-handling for a variety of
                   different window classes.
        
        @sa SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
              PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
    */
    void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);

    /**
        Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
        
        In current version of wxWidgets this works both for managed and child windows.
        
        @sa Lower()
    */
    void Raise();

    /**
        Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
        where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
        happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
        to update the window immediately you should use Update()
        instead.
        
        @param eraseBackground
        If @true, the background will be
        erased.
        
        @param rect
        If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will
        be treated as damaged.
        
        @sa RefreshRect()
    */
    virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground = @true,
                         const wxRect* rect = @NULL);

    /**
        Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
        repainted.
        
        This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax
        as it can be called with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this
        @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
    */
    void RefreshRect(const wxRect& rect, bool eraseBackground = @true);

    /**
        Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
        registered here, this window
        will receive a hotkey event. It will receive the event even if the application
        is in the background
        and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some other
        application.
        
        @param hotkeyId
        Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0 and
        0xBFFF. If
        this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a system wide unique
        identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
        This is a MSW specific detail.
        
        @param modifiers
        A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
        or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along with
        the key.
        
        @param virtualKeyCode
        The virtual key code of the hotkey.
        
        @returns @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
                   other application already registered a hotkey with
                   this modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
        
        @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
                   event. This function is currently only implemented
                   under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
                   detecting hardware button presses.
        
        @sa UnregisterHotKey()
    */
    bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId, int modifiers,
                        int virtualKeyCode);

    /**
        Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
        
        @sa CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
              wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
    */
    virtual void ReleaseMouse();

    /**
        Removes a child window.  This is called automatically by window deletion
        functions so should not be required by the application programmer.
        
        Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
        called by the user code.
        
        @param child
        Child window to remove.
    */
    virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow* child);

    /**
        Find the given @e handler in the windows event handler chain and remove (but
        not delete) it from it.
        
        @param handler
        The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
        must be present in this windows event handlers chain
        
        @returns Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
                   results in an assert failure so this function should
                   only be called when the handler is supposed to be
                   there).
        
        @sa PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
    */
    bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler * handler);

    /**
        Reparents the window, i.e the window will be removed from its
        current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
        and then re-inserted into another.
        
        @param newParent
        New parent.
    */
    virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow* newParent);

    //@{
    /**
        Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
        
        @param x
        Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
        
        @param y
        Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
        
        @param pt
        The screen position for the second form of the function.
    */
    virtual void ScreenToClient(int* x, int* y);
    virtual wxPoint ScreenToClient(const wxPoint& pt);
    //@}

    /**
        Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @e lines is
        positive) or up.
        
        @returns Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
                   on top/bottom and nothing was done.
        
        @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
                   wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for
                   wxScrolledWindow derived classes under all platforms).
        
        @sa ScrollPages()
    */
    virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines);

    /**
        Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @e pages is
        positive) or up.
        
        @returns Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
                   on top/bottom and nothing was done.
        
        @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
        
        @sa ScrollLines()
    */
    virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages);

    /**
        Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
        
        @param dx
        Amount to scroll horizontally.
        
        @param dy
        Amount to scroll vertically.
        
        @param rect
        Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
        scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
        parameter)
        
        @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolledWindow instead of using
                   this function directly.
    */
    virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx, int dy,
                              const wxRect* rect = @NULL);

    /**
        Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
    */
    virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable& accel);

    /**
        Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
        will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
        
        See also wxAccessible.
    */
    void SetAccessible(wxAccessible* accessible);

    /**
        Determines whether the Layout() function will
        be called automatically when the window is resized. Please note that this only
        happens for the windows usually used to contain children, namely
        wxPanel and wxTopLevelWindow
        (and the classes deriving from them).
        
        This method is called implicitly by
        SetSizer() but if you use
        SetConstraints() you should call it
        manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly updated when its
        size changes.
        
        @param autoLayout
        Set this to @true if you wish the Layout function to be
        called automatically when the window is resized.
        
        @sa SetConstraints()
    */
    void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout);

    /**
        Sets the background colour of the window.
        
        Please see InheritAttributes() for
        explanation of the difference between this method and
        SetOwnBackgroundColour().
        
        @param colour
        The colour to be used as the background colour, pass
          wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
        
        @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
                   wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
                   automatically under GTK.
        
        @sa GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
              GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
              Refresh(), wxEraseEvent
    */
    virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);

    /**
        Sets the background style of the window. see
        GetBackgroundStyle() for the description
        of the possible style values.
        
        @sa SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
              SetTransparent()
    */
    virtual void SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style);

    /**
        This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
        native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0). It is called by wxWidgets'
        container control code to give the native system a hint when
        doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable or change
        the effect of programmatically calling
        SetFocus().
        
        @sa wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
    */
    virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus);

    /**
        Sets the caret associated with the window.
    */
    void SetCaret(wxCaret * caret);

    //@{
    /**
        This sets the size of the window client area in pixels. Using this function to
        size a window
        tends to be more device-independent than SetSize(), since the application need
        not
        worry about what dimensions the border or title bar have when trying to fit the
        window
        around panel items, for example.
        
        @param width
        The required client area width.
        
        @param height
        The required client area height.
        
        @param size
        The required client size.
    */
    virtual void SetClientSize(int width, int height);
    virtual void SetClientSize(const wxSize& size);
    //@}

    /**
        Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
        will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
        If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
        window, it will be deleted.
        
        @param constraints
        The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
        constraints.
        
        @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
                   the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise,
                   you must override OnSize and call Layout()
                   explicitly. When setting both a wxLayoutConstraints
                   and a wxSizer, only the sizer will have effect.
    */
    void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints* constraints);

    /**
        This normally does not need to be called by user code.  It is called
        when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window can
        remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
    */
    void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer* sizer);

    /**
        Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
        children of the window implicitly.
        
        The @e cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
        be reset back to default.
        
        @param cursor
        Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
        
        @sa ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
    */
    virtual void SetCursor(const wxCursor& cursor);

    /**
        Associates a drop target with this window.
        
        If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
        
        @sa GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_wxdndoverview "Drag and drop
              overview"
    */
    void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget* target);

    /**
        Sets the event handler for this window.
        
        @param handler
        Specifies the handler to be set.
        
        @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
                   events sent to a window. By default, the window is
                   its own event handler, but an application may wish to
                   substitute another, for example to allow central
                   implementation of event-handling for a variety of
                   different window classes.
        
        @sa GetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
              PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
    */
    void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);

    /**
        Sets the extra style bits for the window. The currently defined extra style
        bits are:
        
        @b wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY
        
        
        TransferDataTo/FromWindow()
        and Validate() methods will recursively descend into all children of the
        window if it has this style flag set.
        
        @b wxWS_EX_BLOCK_EVENTS
        
        
        Normally, the command
        events are propagated upwards to the window parent recursively until a handler
        for them is found. Using this style allows to prevent them from being
        propagated beyond this window. Notice that wxDialog has this style on by
        default for the reasons explained in the
        @ref overview_eventprocessing "event processing overview".
        
        @b wxWS_EX_TRANSIENT
        
        
        This can be used to prevent a
        window from being used as an implicit parent for the dialogs which were
        created without a parent. It is useful for the windows which can disappear at
        any moment as creating children of such windows results in fatal problems.
        
        @b wxWS_EX_CONTEXTHELP
        
        
        Under Windows, puts a query
        button on the caption. When pressed, Windows will go into a context-sensitive
        help mode and wxWidgets will send a wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an
        application window.
        This style cannot be used together with wxMAXIMIZE_BOX or wxMINIMIZE_BOX, so
        these two styles are automatically turned of if this one is used.
        
        @b wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE
        
        
        This window should always process idle events, even
        if the mode set by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
        
        @b wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES
        
        
        This window should always process UI update events,
        even if the mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is
        wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
    */
    void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle);

    /**
        This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
        
        @sa HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
              wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
    */
    virtual void SetFocus();

    /**
        This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
        gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
        By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
        can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
    */
    virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();

    /**
        Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
        parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
        use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and
        see InheritAttributes() for more
        explanations.
        
        Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
        wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
        call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
        any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
        GetTextExtent().
        
        @param font
        Font to associate with this window, pass
        wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
        
        @returns @true if the want was really changed, @false if it was already set
                   to this  font and so nothing was done.
        
        @sa GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
    */
    bool SetFont(const wxFont& font);

    /**
        Sets the foreground colour of the window.
        
        Please see InheritAttributes() for
        explanation of the difference between this method and
        SetOwnForegroundColour().
        
        @param colour
        The colour to be used as the foreground colour, pass
          wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
        
        @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
                   interpretation according to the window class; it may
                   be the text colour or other colour, or it may not be
                   used at all.
        
        @sa GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
              GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
    */
    virtual void SetForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);

    /**
        Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
        
        Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
        implementation,
        and not in the window object itself.
        
        @sa GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider
    */
    virtual void SetHelpText(const wxString& helpText);

    /**
        Sets the identifier of the window.
        
        @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
                   not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
                   Normally, the identifier should be provided on
                   creation and should not be modified subsequently.
        
        @sa GetId(), @ref overview_windowids "Window identifiers"
    */
    void SetId(int id);

    /**
        Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
        components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
    */
    virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize& size);

    /**
        A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
        window's @e best size values.  Also sets the window's minsize to
        the value passed in for use with sizers.  This means that if a full or
        partial size is passed to this function then the sizers will use that
        size instead of the results of GetBestSize to determine the minimum
        needs of the window for layout.
        
        Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
        size to the passed in value (if any.)
        
        @sa SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize()
    */
    void SetInitialSize(const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

    /**
        Sets the window's label.
        
        @param label
        The window label.
        
        @sa GetLabel()
    */
    virtual void SetLabel(const wxString& label);

    /**
        Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
        layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
        
        @sa SetMaxSize()
    */
    void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize& size);

    /**
        Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
        that this is the maximum possible size.
        
        @sa SetMaxClientSize()
    */
    void SetMaxSize(const wxSize& size);

    /**
        Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
        layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
        area. You may need to call this if you change the window size after
        construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
        
        @sa SetMinSize()
    */
    void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize& size);

    /**
        Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
        that this is the minimum required size. You may need to call this
        if you change the window size after construction and before adding
        to its parent sizer.
        
        @sa SetMinClientSize()
    */
    void SetMinSize(const wxSize& size);

    /**
        Sets the window's name.
        
        @param name
        A name to set for the window.
        
        @sa GetName()
    */
    virtual void SetName(const wxString& name);

    /**
        Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
        by the children of this window.
        
        @sa SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
    */
    void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);

    /**
        Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
        children of this window.
        
        @sa SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
    */
    void SetOwnFont(const wxFont& font);

    /**
        Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
        by the children of this window.
        
        @sa SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
    */
    void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);

    /**
        Obsolete - use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
    */
    virtual void SetPalette(wxPalette* palette);

    /**
        Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
        
        @param orientation
        Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set. May be wxHORIZONTAL or
        wxVERTICAL.
        
        @param pos
        Position in scroll units.
        
        @param refresh
        @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
        
        @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
                   window: it is up to the application to take note of
                   scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
        
        @sa SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(),
              wxScrollBar, wxScrolledWindow
    */
    virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation, int pos,
                              bool refresh = @true);

    /**
        Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
        
        @param orientation
        Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set. May be wxHORIZONTAL or
        wxVERTICAL.
        
        @param position
        The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
        
        @param thumbSize
        The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
        
        @param range
        The maximum position of the scrollbar.
        
        @param refresh
        @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
        
        @remarks Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same
                   font. The window is sized so that you can only see 16
                   lines at a time.
        
        @sa @ref overview_scrollingoverview "Scrolling overview", wxScrollBar,
              wxScrolledWindow, wxScrollWinEvent
    */
    virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation, int position,
                              int thumbSize,
                              int range,
                              bool refresh = @true);

    //@{
    /**
        Sets the size of the window in pixels.
        
        @param x
        Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
        value should be used.
        
        @param y
        Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
        value should be used.
        
        @param width
        Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
        value should be used.
        
        @param height
        Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
        existing
        value should be used.
        
        @param size
        wxSize object for setting the size.
        
        @param rect
        wxRect object for setting the position and size.
        
        @param sizeFlags
        Indicates the interpretation of other parameters. It is a bit list of the
        following:
        
        wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
        a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
        
        wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
        a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
        
        wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
        a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
        
        wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
        if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
        
        wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
        wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted
        as real dimensions, not default values.
        wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
        already the same as the parameters of this function, nothing is done. but with
        this flag a window resize may be forced even in this case (supported in wx
        2.6.2 and later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere currently)
        
        @remarks The second form is a convenience for calling the first form with
                   default x and y parameters, and must be used with
                   non-default width and height values.
        
        @sa Move()
    */
    virtual void SetSize(int x, int y, int width, int height,
                         int sizeFlags = wxSIZE_AUTO);
    virtual void SetSize(const wxRect& rect);
    virtual void SetSize(int width, int height);
    virtual void SetSize(const wxSize& size);
    //@}

    /**
        Use of this function for windows which are not toplevel windows
        (such as wxDialog or wxFrame) is discouraged. Please use
        SetMinSize() and SetMaxSize()
        instead.
        
        @sa wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints.
    */


    /**
        Sets the window to have the given layout sizer. The window
        will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
        If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
        window, it will be deleted if the deleteOld parameter is @true.
        
        Note that this function will also call
        SetAutoLayout() implicitly with @true
        parameter if the @e sizer is non-@NULL and @false otherwise.
        
        @param sizer
        The sizer to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and conditionally delete
        the window's sizer.  See below.
        
        @param deleteOld
        If @true (the default), this will delete any pre-existing sizer.
        Pass @false if you wish to handle deleting the old sizer yourself.
        
        @remarks SetSizer now enables and disables Layout automatically, but
                   prior to wxWidgets 2.3.3 the following applied:
    */
    void SetSizer(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld=@true);

    /**
        This method calls SetSizer() and then
        wxSizer::SetSizeHints which sets the initial
        window size to the size needed to accommodate all sizer elements and sets the
        size hints which, if this window is a top level one, prevent the user from
        resizing it to be less than this minimial size.
    */
    void SetSizerAndFit(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld=@true);

    /**
        This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
        to draw the windows' background instead if its own background drawing
        code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
        obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
        One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
        defined by a user's selected theme.
        
        Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
        by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
    */
    virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable);

    //@{
    /**
        Attach a tooltip to the window.
        
        See also: GetToolTip(),
         wxToolTip
    */
    void SetToolTip(const wxString& tip);
    void SetToolTip(wxToolTip* tip);
    //@}

    /**
        Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
        returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
        See also CanSetTransparent().
        
        The parameter @e alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
        fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
        @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be
        used.
    */
    bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha);

    /**
        Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
        called wxValidator::Clone to
        create a new validator of this type.
    */
    virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator& validator);

    //@{
    /**
        Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
    */
    void SetVirtualSize(int width, int height);
    void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize& size);
    //@}

    //@{
    /**
        Allows specification of minimum and maximum virtual window sizes.
        If a pair of values is not set (or set to -1), the default values
        will be used.
        
        @param minW
        Specifies the minimum width allowable.
        
        @param minH
        Specifies the minimum height allowable.
        
        @param maxW
        Specifies the maximum width allowable.
        
        @param maxH
        Specifies the maximum height allowable.
        
        @param minSize
        Minimum size.
        
        @param maxSize
        Maximum size.
        
        @remarks If this function is called, the user will not be able to size
                   the virtual area of the window outside the given
                   bounds.
    */
    virtual void SetVirtualSizeHints(int minW, int minH, int maxW=-1,
                                     int maxH=-1);
    void SetVirtualSizeHints(const wxSize& minSize=wxDefaultSize,
                             const wxSize& maxSize=wxDefaultSize);
    //@}

    /**
        Identical to SetWindowStyleFlag().
    */
    void SetWindowStyle(long style);

    /**
        Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
        after the window creation and that Refresh() might
        need to be be called after changing the others for the change to take place
        immediately.
        
        See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
        
        @sa GetWindowStyleFlag()
    */
    virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style);

    /**
        This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
        Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
        exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant
        enum:
        
        By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
        be used to change this.
    */
    void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant);

    /**
        Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
        InheritAttributes(), returning @false
        forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
        
        The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
        wxControl where it returns @true.
    */
    virtual bool ShouldInheritColours();

    /**
        Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
        for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
        needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
        
        @param show
        If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
        
        @returns @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
                   was done because it already was in the requested
                   state.
        
        @sa IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show
    */
    virtual bool Show(bool show = @true);

    /**
        This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a
        special visual effect if possible.
        
        Possible values for @e effect are:
        
        
        wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL
        
        
        Roll window effect
        
        wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE
        
        
        Sliding window effect
        
        wxSHOW_EFFECT_BLEND
        
        
        Fade in or out effect
        
        wxSHOW_EFFECT_EXPAND
        
        
        Expanding or collapsing effect
        
        For the roll and slide effects the @e dir parameter specifies the animation
        direction: it can be one of @c wxTOP, @c wxBOTTOM, @c wxLEFT
        or @c wxRIGHT. For the other effects, this parameter is unused.
        
        The @e timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
        milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default animation time
        for the current platform is used.
        
        Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and does the same thing as
        Show() in the other ports.
        
        This function is new since wxWidgets version 2.9.0
        
        @sa HideWithEffect()
    */
    virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
                                unsigned timeout = 0,
                                wxDirection dir = wxBOTTOM);

    /**
        Reenables window updating after a previous call to
        Freeze(). To really thaw the control, it must be called
        exactly the same number of times as Freeze().
        
        @sa wxWindowUpdateLocker
    */
    virtual void Thaw();

    /**
        Turns the given @e flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
        This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
        the case for default flags).
        
        Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
        creation.
        
        @returns Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
                   if it was switched off.
        
        @sa SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
    */
    bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag);

    /**
        Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
        validators. Returns
        @false if a transfer failed.
        
        If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
        the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
        
        @sa TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
    */
    virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();

    /**
        Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
        validators.
        
        If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
        the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
        
        @returns Returns @false if a transfer failed.
        
        @sa TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
    */
    virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();

    /**
        Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
        
        @param hotkeyId
        Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
        RegisterHotKey.
        
        @returns @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
                   id was invalid.
        
        @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
        
        @sa RegisterHotKey()
    */
    bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId);

    /**
        Unreserve an ID or range of IDs that was reserved by NewControlId().
        
        See @ref overview_windowidsoverview "Window IDs overview" for more information.
        
        @param id
        The starting ID of the range of IDs to unreserve.
        
        @param count
        The number of sequential IDs to unreserve.
        
        @sa NewControlId(), wxIdManager, @ref overview_windowidsoverview
              "Window IDs overview"
    */
    static void UnreserveControlId(wxWindowID id, int count = 1);

    /**
        Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
        all of its children recursively while this would usually only happen when the
        flow of control returns to the event loop.
        Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
        nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
        a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to
        immediately redraw the window unconditionally.
    */
    virtual void Update();

    /**
        This function sends wxUpdateUIEvents to
        the window. The particular implementation depends on the window; for
        example a wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
        and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
        You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
        UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
        are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
        wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode or
        wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval to
        limit the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle
        time.
        
        @e flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the following values.
        If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
        function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
        this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
        to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
        only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
        The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
        an idle function.
        
        @sa wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
    */
    virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags = wxUPDATE_UI_NONE);

    /**
        Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
        
        If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
        the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
        
        @returns Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
        
        @sa TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
              wxValidator
    */
    virtual bool Validate();

    /**
        Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
        
        @b NB: This function is not supported under Mac because Apple Human
        Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor programmatically.
        
        @param x
        The new x position for the cursor.
        
        @param y
        The new y position for the cursor.
    */
    void WarpPointer(int x, int y);
};


// ============================================================================
// Global functions/macros
// ============================================================================

/**
    Find the deepest window at the given mouse position in screen coordinates,
    returning the window if found, or @NULL if not.
*/
wxWindow * wxFindWindowAtPoint(const wxPoint& pt);

/**
    Find the deepest window at the mouse pointer position, returning the window
    and current pointer position in screen coordinates.
*/
wxWindow * wxFindWindowAtPointer(wxPoint& pt);

/**
    Gets the currently active window (implemented for MSW and GTK only currently,
    always returns @NULL in the other ports).
*/
wxWindow * wxGetActiveWindow();

/**
    Returns the first top level parent of the given window, or in other words, the
    frame or dialog containing it, or @NULL.
*/
wxWindow * wxGetTopLevelParent(wxWindow win);