1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: interface of wxWindow
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11 Valid values for wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() and wxWindow::HideWithEffect().
16 No effect, equivalent to normal wxWindow::Show() or Hide() call.
22 /// Roll window to the left
23 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_LEFT
,
25 /// Roll window to the right
26 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_RIGHT
,
28 /// Roll window to the top
29 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_TOP
,
31 /// Roll window to the bottom
32 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_BOTTOM
,
34 /// Slide window to the left
35 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_LEFT
,
37 /// Slide window to the right
38 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT
,
40 /// Slide window to the top
41 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_TOP
,
43 /// Slide window to the bottom
44 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_BOTTOM
,
46 /// Fade in or out effect
49 /// Expanding or collapsing effect
58 Struct containing all the visual attributes of a control.
60 struct wxVisualAttributes
62 /// The font used for control label/text inside it.
65 /// The foreground colour.
69 The background colour.
71 May be wxNullColour if the controls background colour is not solid.
78 Different window variants, on platforms like eg mac uses different
83 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL
, //!< Normal size
84 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_SMALL
, //!< Smaller size (about 25 % smaller than normal)
85 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_MINI
, //!< Mini size (about 33 % smaller than normal)
86 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_LARGE
, //!< Large size (about 25 % larger than normal)
94 wxWindow is the base class for all windows and represents any visible object
95 on screen. All controls, top level windows and so on are windows. Sizers and
96 device contexts are not, however, as they don't appear on screen themselves.
98 Please note that all children of the window will be deleted automatically by
99 the destructor before the window itself is deleted which means that you don't
100 have to worry about deleting them manually. Please see the @ref
101 overview_windowdeletion "window deletion overview" for more information.
103 Also note that in this, and many others, wxWidgets classes some
104 @c GetXXX() methods may be overloaded (as, for example,
105 wxWindow::GetSize or wxWindow::GetClientSize). In this case, the overloads
106 are non-virtual because having multiple virtual functions with the same name
107 results in a virtual function name hiding at the derived class level (in
108 English, this means that the derived class has to override all overloaded
109 variants if it overrides any of them). To allow overriding them in the derived
110 class, wxWidgets uses a unique protected virtual @c DoGetXXX() method
111 and all @c GetXXX() ones are forwarded to it, so overriding the former
112 changes the behaviour of the latter.
115 @style{wxBORDER_DEFAULT}
116 The window class will decide the kind of border to show, if any.
117 @style{wxBORDER_SIMPLE}
118 Displays a thin border around the window. wxSIMPLE_BORDER is the
119 old name for this style.
120 @style{wxBORDER_SUNKEN}
121 Displays a sunken border. wxSUNKEN_BORDER is the old name for this
123 @style{wxBORDER_RAISED}
124 Displays a raised border. wxRAISED_BORDER is the old name for this
126 @style{wxBORDER_STATIC}
127 Displays a border suitable for a static control. wxSTATIC_BORDER
128 is the old name for this style. Windows only.
129 @style{wxBORDER_THEME}
130 Displays a native border suitable for a control, on the current
131 platform. On Windows XP or Vista, this will be a themed border; on
132 most other platforms a sunken border will be used. For more
133 information for themed borders on Windows, please see Themed
135 @style{wxBORDER_NONE}
136 Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the
137 window. wxNO_BORDER is the old name for this style.
138 @style{wxBORDER_DOUBLE}
139 This style is obsolete and should not be used.
140 @style{wxTRANSPARENT_WINDOW}
141 The window is transparent, that is, it will not receive paint
142 events. Windows only.
143 @style{wxTAB_TRAVERSAL}
144 Use this to enable tab traversal for non-dialog windows.
145 @style{wxWANTS_CHARS}
146 Use this to indicate that the window wants to get all char/key
147 events for all keys - even for keys like TAB or ENTER which are
148 usually used for dialog navigation and which wouldn't be generated
149 without this style. If you need to use this style in order to get
150 the arrows or etc., but would still like to have normal keyboard
151 navigation take place, you should call Navigate in response to the
152 key events for Tab and Shift-Tab.
153 @style{wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
154 On Windows, this style used to disable repainting the window
155 completely when its size is changed. Since this behaviour is now
156 the default, the style is now obsolete and no longer has an effect.
158 Use this style to enable a vertical scrollbar. Notice that this
159 style cannot be used with native controls which don't support
160 scrollbars nor with top-level windows in most ports.
162 Use this style to enable a horizontal scrollbar. The same
163 limitations as for wxVSCROLL apply to this style.
164 @style{wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB}
165 If a window has scrollbars, disable them instead of hiding them
166 when they are not needed (i.e. when the size of the window is big
167 enough to not require the scrollbars to navigate it). This style is
168 currently implemented for wxMSW, wxGTK and wxUniversal and does
169 nothing on the other platforms.
170 @style{wxCLIP_CHILDREN}
171 Use this style to eliminate flicker caused by the background being
172 repainted, then children being painted over them. Windows only.
173 @style{wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
174 Use this style to force a complete redraw of the window whenever it
175 is resized instead of redrawing just the part of the window
176 affected by resizing. Note that this was the behaviour by default
177 before 2.5.1 release and that if you experience redraw problems
178 with code which previously used to work you may want to try this.
179 Currently this style applies on GTK+ 2 and Windows only, and full
180 repainting is always done on other platforms.
183 @beginExtraStyleTable
184 @style{wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY}
185 By default, wxWindow::Validate(), wxWindow::TransferDataTo() and
186 wxWindow::TransferDataFromWindow() only work on
187 direct children of the window (compatible behaviour).
188 Set this flag to make them recursively descend into all subwindows.
189 @style{wxWS_EX_BLOCK_EVENTS}
190 wxCommandEvents and the objects of the derived classes are
191 forwarded to the parent window and so on recursively by default.
192 Using this flag for the given window allows to block this
193 propagation at this window, i.e. prevent the events from being
194 propagated further upwards. Dialogs have this flag on by default
195 for the reasons explained in the @ref overview_events.
196 @style{wxWS_EX_TRANSIENT}
197 Don't use this window as an implicit parent for the other windows:
198 this must be used with transient windows as otherwise there is the
199 risk of creating a dialog/frame with this window as a parent, which
200 would lead to a crash if the parent were destroyed before the child.
201 @style{wxWS_EX_CONTEXTHELP}
202 Under Windows, puts a query button on the caption. When pressed,
203 Windows will go into a context-sensitive help mode and wxWidgets
204 will send a @c wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application window.
205 This style cannot be used (because of the underlying native behaviour)
206 together with @c wxMAXIMIZE_BOX or @c wxMINIMIZE_BOX, so these two styles
207 are automatically turned off if this one is used.
208 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE}
209 This window should always process idle events, even if the mode set
210 by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is @c wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
211 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES}
212 This window should always process UI update events, even if the
213 mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is @c wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
216 @beginEventEmissionTable
217 @event{EVT_ACTIVATE(id, func)}
218 Process a @c wxEVT_ACTIVATE event. See wxActivateEvent.
219 @event{EVT_CHILD_FOCUS(func)}
220 Process a @c wxEVT_CHILD_FOCUS event. See wxChildFocusEvent.
221 @event{EVT_CONTEXT_MENU(func)}
222 A right click (or other context menu command depending on platform) has been detected.
223 See wxContextMenuEvent.
224 @event{EVT_HELP(id, func)}
225 Process a @c wxEVT_HELP event. See wxHelpEvent.
226 @event{EVT_HELP_RANGE(id1, id2, func)}
227 Process a @c wxEVT_HELP event for a range of ids. See wxHelpEvent.
228 @event{EVT_DROP_FILES(func)}
229 Process a @c wxEVT_DROP_FILES event. See wxDropFilesEvent.
230 @event{EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND(func)}
231 Process a @c wxEVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND event. See wxEraseEvent.
232 @event{EVT_SET_FOCUS(func)}
233 Process a @c wxEVT_SET_FOCUS event. See wxFocusEvent.
234 @event{EVT_KILL_FOCUS(func)}
235 Process a @c wxEVT_KILL_FOCUS event. See wxFocusEvent.
236 @event{EVT_IDLE(func)}
237 Process a @c wxEVT_IDLE event. See wxIdleEvent.
238 @event{EVT_JOY_*(func)}
239 Processes joystick events. See wxJoystickEvent.
240 @event{EVT_KEY_DOWN(func)}
241 Process a @c wxEVT_KEY_DOWN event (any key has been pressed).
243 @event{EVT_KEY_UP(func)}
244 Process a @c wxEVT_KEY_UP event (any key has been released).
246 @event{EVT_CHAR(func)}
247 Process a @c wxEVT_CHAR event.
249 @event{EVT_CHAR_HOOK(func)}
250 Process a @c wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK event.
252 @event{EVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST(func)}
253 Process a @c wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event. See wxMouseCaptureLostEvent.
254 @event{EVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_CHANGED(func)}
255 Process a @c wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_CHANGED event. See wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent.
256 @event{EVT_MOUSE_*(func)}
258 @event{EVT_PAINT(func)}
259 Process a @c wxEVT_PAINT event. See wxPaintEvent.
260 @event{EVT_POWER_*(func)}
261 The system power state changed. See wxPowerEvent.
262 @event{EVT_SCROLLWIN_*(func)}
263 Process scroll events. See wxScrollWinEvent.
264 @event{EVT_SET_CURSOR(func)}
265 Process a @c wxEVT_SET_CURSOR event. See wxSetCursorEvent.
266 @event{EVT_SIZE(func)}
267 Process a @c wxEVT_SIZE event. See wxSizeEvent.
268 @event{EVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED(func)}
269 Process a @c wxEVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED event. See wxSysColourChangedEvent.
275 @see @ref overview_events, @ref overview_windowsizing
277 class wxWindow
: public wxEvtHandler
286 Constructs a window, which can be a child of a frame, dialog or any other
290 Pointer to a parent window.
292 Window identifier. If wxID_ANY, will automatically create an identifier.
294 Window position. wxDefaultPosition indicates that wxWidgets
295 should generate a default position for the window.
296 If using the wxWindow class directly, supply an actual position.
298 Window size. wxDefaultSize indicates that wxWidgets should generate
299 a default size for the window. If no suitable size can be found, the
300 window will be sized to 20x20 pixels so that the window is visible but
301 obviously not correctly sized.
303 Window style. For generic window styles, please see wxWindow.
307 wxWindow(wxWindow
* parent
, wxWindowID id
,
308 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
,
309 const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
,
311 const wxString
& name
= wxPanelNameStr
);
316 Deletes all sub-windows, then deletes itself. Instead of using
317 the @b delete operator explicitly, you should normally use Destroy()
318 so that wxWidgets can delete a window only when it is safe to do so, in idle time.
320 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
321 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
326 bool Create(wxWindow
*parent
,
328 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
,
329 const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
,
331 const wxString
& name
= wxPanelNameStr
);
334 @name Focus functions
336 See also the static function FindFocus().
341 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
342 indicate that this control doesn't accept input at all (i.e. behaves like
343 e.g. wxStaticText) and so doesn't need focus.
345 @see AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard()
347 virtual bool AcceptsFocus() const;
350 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
351 indicate that while this control can, in principle, have focus if the user
352 clicks it with the mouse, it shouldn't be included in the TAB traversal chain
353 when using the keyboard.
355 virtual bool AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard() const;
358 Overridden to indicate whether this window or one of its children accepts
359 focus. Usually it's the same as AcceptsFocus() but is overridden for
362 virtual bool AcceptsFocusRecursively() const;
365 Can this window itself have focus?
367 bool IsFocusable() const;
370 Can this window have focus right now?
372 If this method returns true, it means that calling SetFocus() will
373 put focus either to this window or one of its children, if you need
374 to know whether this window accepts focus itself, use IsFocusable()
376 bool CanAcceptFocus() const;
379 Can this window be assigned focus from keyboard right now?
381 bool CanAcceptFocusFromKeyboard() const;
385 Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
386 child window) has focus.
392 virtual bool HasFocus() const;
395 This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
396 native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0).
398 It is called by wxWidgets' container control code to give the native
399 system a hint when doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable
400 or change the effect of programmatically calling SetFocus().
402 @see wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
404 virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus
);
407 This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
409 @see HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
410 wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
412 virtual void SetFocus();
415 This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
416 gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
418 By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
419 can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
421 virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();
427 @name Child management functions
432 Adds a child window. This is called automatically by window creation
433 functions so should not be required by the application programmer.
434 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
435 called by the user code.
440 virtual void AddChild(wxWindow
* child
);
443 Destroys all children of a window. Called automatically by the destructor.
445 bool DestroyChildren();
448 Find a child of this window, by @a id.
449 May return @a this if it matches itself.
451 wxWindow
* FindWindow(long id
) const;
454 Find a child of this window, by name.
455 May return @a this if it matches itself.
457 wxWindow
* FindWindow(const wxString
& name
) const;
460 Returns a reference to the list of the window's children. @c wxWindowList
461 is a type-safe wxList-like class whose elements are of type @c wxWindow*.
463 wxWindowList
& GetChildren();
468 const wxWindowList
& GetChildren() const;
471 Removes a child window.
473 This is called automatically by window deletion functions so should not
474 be required by the application programmer.
475 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
476 called by the user code.
479 Child window to remove.
481 virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow
* child
);
487 @name Sibling and parent management functions
492 Returns the grandparent of a window, or @NULL if there isn't one.
494 wxWindow
* GetGrandParent() const;
497 Returns the next window after this one among the parent's children or @NULL
498 if this window is the last child.
502 @see GetPrevSibling()
504 wxWindow
* GetNextSibling() const;
507 Returns the parent of the window, or @NULL if there is no parent.
509 wxWindow
* GetParent() const;
512 Returns the previous window before this one among the parent's children or @c
513 @NULL if this window is the first child.
517 @see GetNextSibling()
519 wxWindow
* GetPrevSibling() const;
522 Check if the specified window is a descendant of this one.
524 Returns @true if the window is a descendant (i.e. a child or
525 grand-child or grand-grand-child or ...) of this one.
527 Notice that a window can never be a descendant of another one if they
528 are in different top level windows, i.e. a child of a wxDialog is not
529 considered to be a descendant of dialogs parent wxFrame.
531 @param win Any window, possible @NULL (@false is always returned then).
535 bool IsDescendant(wxWindowBase
* win
) const;
538 Reparents the window, i.e. the window will be removed from its
539 current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
540 and then re-inserted into another.
542 Notice that currently you need to explicitly call
543 wxNotebook::RemovePage() before reparenting a notebook page.
548 virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow
* newParent
);
554 @name Scrolling and scrollbars functions
556 Note that these methods don't work with native controls which don't use
557 wxWidgets scrolling framework (i.e. don't derive from wxScrolledWindow).
562 Call this function to force one or both scrollbars to be always shown, even if
563 the window is big enough to show its entire contents without scrolling.
568 Whether the horizontal scroll bar should always be visible.
570 Whether the vertical scroll bar should always be visible.
572 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under Mac/Carbon.
574 virtual void AlwaysShowScrollbars(bool hflag
= true, bool vflag
= true);
577 Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
581 virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation
) const;
584 Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
588 virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation
) const;
591 Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
595 virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation
) const;
598 Returns @true if this window can have a scroll bar in this orientation.
601 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
605 bool CanScroll(int orient
) const;
608 Returns @true if this window currently has a scroll bar for this
611 This method may return @false even when CanScroll() for the same
612 orientation returns @true, but if CanScroll() returns @false, i.e.
613 scrolling in this direction is not enabled at all, HasScrollbar()
614 always returns @false as well.
617 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
619 bool HasScrollbar(int orient
) const;
622 Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
625 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
627 @see AlwaysShowScrollbars()
629 virtual bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient
) const;
632 Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @a lines is
635 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
636 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
638 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
639 wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for wxScrolled classes
640 under all platforms).
644 virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines
);
647 Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @a pages is
650 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
651 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
653 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
657 virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages
);
660 Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
663 Amount to scroll horizontally.
665 Amount to scroll vertically.
667 Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
668 scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
671 @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolled instead of using this
674 virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx
, int dy
,
675 const wxRect
* rect
= NULL
);
678 Same as #ScrollLines (-1).
683 Same as #ScrollLines (1).
688 Same as #ScrollPages (-1).
693 Same as #ScrollPages (1).
698 Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
701 Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set.
702 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
704 Position in scroll units.
706 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
708 @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
709 window: it is up to the application to take note of
710 scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
712 @see SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(), wxScrollBar,
715 virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation
, int pos
,
716 bool refresh
= true);
719 Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
722 Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set.
723 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
725 The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
727 The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
729 The maximum position of the scrollbar. Value of -1 can be used to
730 ask for the scrollbar to be shown but in the disabled state: this
731 can be used to avoid removing the scrollbar even when it is not
732 needed (currently this is only implemented in wxMSW port).
734 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
737 Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
738 The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
741 SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
743 Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never
744 go above 50 minus 16, or 34. You can determine how many lines are
745 currently visible by dividing the current view size by the character
747 When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need
748 to recalculate the scrollbar settings when the window size changes.
749 You could therefore put your scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
750 call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called
751 initially and also from your wxSizeEvent handler function.
753 @see @ref overview_scrolling, wxScrollBar, wxScrolled, wxScrollWinEvent
755 virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation
, int position
,
756 int thumbSize
, int range
,
757 bool refresh
= true);
762 @name Sizing functions
764 See also the protected functions DoGetBestSize() and
765 DoGetBestClientSize().
770 Sets the cached best size value.
774 void CacheBestSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
777 Converts client area size @a size to corresponding window size.
779 In other words, the returned value is what would GetSize() return if this
780 window had client area of given size. Components with wxDefaultCoord
781 value are left unchanged. Note that the conversion is not always
782 exact, it assumes that non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't
783 take into account things like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance
788 @see WindowToClientSize()
790 virtual wxSize
ClientToWindowSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
793 Converts window size @a size to corresponding client area size
794 In other words, the returned value is what would GetClientSize() return if
795 this window had given window size. Components with wxDefaultCoord value
798 Note that the conversion is not always exact, it assumes that
799 non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't take into account things
800 like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance of the scrollbars.
804 @see ClientToWindowSize()
806 virtual wxSize
WindowToClientSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
809 Sizes the window so that it fits around its subwindows.
811 This function won't do anything if there are no subwindows and will only really
812 work correctly if sizers are used for the subwindows layout.
814 Also, if the window has exactly one subwindow it is better (faster and the result
815 is more precise as Fit() adds some margin to account for fuzziness of its calculations)
819 window->SetClientSize(child->GetSize());
822 instead of calling Fit().
824 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
829 Similar to Fit(), but sizes the interior (virtual) size of a window.
831 Mainly useful with scrolled windows to reset scrollbars after sizing
832 changes that do not trigger a size event, and/or scrolled windows without
833 an interior sizer. This function similarly won't do anything if there are
836 virtual void FitInside();
839 This functions returns the best acceptable minimal size for the window.
841 For example, for a static control, it will be the minimal size such that the
842 control label is not truncated. For windows containing subwindows (typically
843 wxPanel), the size returned by this function will be the same as the size
844 the window would have had after calling Fit().
846 Override virtual DoGetBestSize() or, better, because it's usually more
847 convenient, DoGetBestClientSize() when writing your own custom window
848 class to change the value returned by this public non-virtual method.
850 Notice that the best size respects the minimal and maximal size
851 explicitly set for the window, if any. So even if some window believes
852 that it needs 200 pixels horizontally, calling SetMaxSize() with a
853 width of 100 would ensure that GetBestSize() returns the width of at
856 @see CacheBestSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
858 wxSize
GetBestSize() const;
861 Returns the best height needed by this window if it had the given width.
863 @see DoGetBestClientHeight()
867 int GetBestHeight(int width
) const;
870 Returns the best width needed by this window if it had the given height.
872 @see DoGetBestClientWidth()
876 int GetBestWidth(int height
) const;
879 Returns the size of the window 'client area' in pixels.
881 The client area is the area which may be drawn on by the programmer,
882 excluding title bar, border, scrollbars, etc.
883 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
884 return size is empty (both width and height are 0).
887 In wxPerl this method takes no parameters and returns
888 a 2-element list (width, height).
891 @see GetSize(), GetVirtualSize()
893 void GetClientSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
898 wxSize
GetClientSize() const;
901 Merges the window's best size into the min size and returns the result.
902 This is the value used by sizers to determine the appropriate
903 amount of space to allocate for the widget.
905 This is the method called by a wxSizer when it queries the size
906 of a window or control.
908 @see GetBestSize(), SetInitialSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
910 virtual wxSize
GetEffectiveMinSize() const;
913 Returns the maximum size of window's client area.
915 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
916 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using
919 @see GetMaxSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
921 virtual wxSize
GetMaxClientSize() const;
924 Returns the maximum size of the window.
926 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
927 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using SetSize().
929 @see GetMaxClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
931 virtual wxSize
GetMaxSize() const;
934 Returns the minimum size of window's client area, an indication to the sizer
935 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of its client area.
937 It normally just returns the value set by SetMinClientSize(), but it can be
938 overridden to do the calculation on demand.
940 @see GetMinSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
942 virtual wxSize
GetMinClientSize() const;
945 Returns the minimum size of the window, an indication to the sizer layout
946 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
948 This method normally just returns the value set by SetMinSize(), but it
949 can be overridden to do the calculation on demand.
951 @see GetMinClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
953 virtual wxSize
GetMinSize() const;
955 int GetMinWidth() const;
956 int GetMinHeight() const;
957 int GetMaxWidth() const;
958 int GetMaxHeight() const;
961 Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
964 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
965 returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
968 Receives the window width.
970 Receives the window height.
973 In wxPerl this method is implemented as GetSizeWH() returning
974 a 2-element list (width, height).
977 @see GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
979 void GetSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
982 See the GetSize(int*,int*) overload for more info.
984 wxSize
GetSize() const;
987 This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
988 By default it returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
989 SetVirtualSize() it will return the size set with that method.
991 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
993 wxSize
GetVirtualSize() const;
996 Like the other GetVirtualSize() overload but uses pointers instead.
999 Receives the window virtual width.
1001 Receives the window virtual height.
1003 void GetVirtualSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
1006 Return the largest of ClientSize and BestSize (as determined
1007 by a sizer, interior children, or other means)
1009 virtual wxSize
GetBestVirtualSize() const;
1012 Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
1013 and y components of the result respectively.
1015 virtual wxSize
GetWindowBorderSize() const;
1018 wxSizer and friends use this to give a chance to a component to recalc
1019 its min size once one of the final size components is known. Override
1020 this function when that is useful (such as for wxStaticText which can
1021 stretch over several lines). Parameter availableOtherDir
1022 tells the item how much more space there is available in the opposite
1023 direction (-1 if unknown).
1026 InformFirstDirection(int direction
,
1028 int availableOtherDir
);
1031 Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
1034 @see CacheBestSize()
1036 void InvalidateBestSize();
1039 Posts a size event to the window.
1041 This is the same as SendSizeEvent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST argument.
1043 void PostSizeEvent();
1046 Posts a size event to the parent of this window.
1048 This is the same as SendSizeEventToParent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST
1051 void PostSizeEventToParent();
1054 This function sends a dummy @ref wxSizeEvent "size event" to
1055 the window allowing it to re-layout its children positions.
1057 It is sometimes useful to call this function after adding or deleting a
1058 children after the frame creation or if a child size changes. Note that
1059 if the frame is using either sizers or constraints for the children
1060 layout, it is enough to call wxWindow::Layout() directly and this
1061 function should not be used in this case.
1063 If @a flags includes @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST value, this function posts
1064 the event, i.e. schedules it for later processing, instead of
1065 dispatching it directly. You can also use PostSizeEvent() as a more
1066 readable equivalent of calling this function with this flag.
1069 May include @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST. Default value is 0.
1071 virtual void SendSizeEvent(int flags
= 0);
1074 Safe wrapper for GetParent()->SendSizeEvent().
1076 This function simply checks that the window has a valid parent which is
1077 not in process of being deleted and calls SendSizeEvent() on it. It is
1078 used internally by windows such as toolbars changes to whose state
1079 should result in parent re-layout (e.g. when a toolbar is added to the
1080 top of the window, all the other windows must be shifted down).
1082 @see PostSizeEventToParent()
1085 See description of this parameter in SendSizeEvent() documentation.
1087 void SendSizeEventToParent(int flags
= 0);
1090 This sets the size of the window client area in pixels.
1092 Using this function to size a window tends to be more device-independent
1093 than SetSize(), since the application need not worry about what dimensions
1094 the border or title bar have when trying to fit the window around panel
1097 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
1099 void SetClientSize(int width
, int height
);
1104 void SetClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
1109 void SetClientSize(const wxRect
& rect
);
1112 This normally does not need to be called by user code.
1113 It is called when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window
1114 can remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
1116 void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer
* sizer
);
1119 A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
1120 window's @e best size values.
1122 Also sets the window's minsize to the value passed in for use with sizers.
1123 This means that if a full or partial size is passed to this function then
1124 the sizers will use that size instead of the results of GetBestSize() to
1125 determine the minimum needs of the window for layout.
1127 Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
1128 size to the passed in value (if any.)
1130 @see SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize(),
1131 @ref overview_windowsizing
1133 void SetInitialSize(const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
);
1136 Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
1137 layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
1139 Note that this method is just a shortcut for:
1141 SetMaxSize(ClientToWindowSize(size));
1144 @see SetMaxSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1146 virtual void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
1149 Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
1150 that this is the maximum possible size.
1152 @see SetMaxClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1154 virtual void SetMaxSize(const wxSize
& size
);
1157 Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
1158 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
1161 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
1162 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
1164 Note, that just as with SetMinSize(), calling this method doesn't
1165 prevent the program from explicitly making the window smaller than the
1168 Note that this method is just a shortcut for:
1170 SetMinSize(ClientToWindowSize(size));
1173 @see SetMinSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1175 virtual void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
1178 Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout
1179 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
1181 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
1182 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
1184 Notice that calling this method doesn't prevent the program from making
1185 the window explicitly smaller than the specified size by calling
1186 SetSize(), it just ensures that it won't become smaller than this size
1187 during the automatic layout.
1189 @see SetMinClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1191 virtual void SetMinSize(const wxSize
& size
);
1194 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
1197 Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
1198 existing value should be used.
1200 Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
1201 existing value should be used.
1203 Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
1204 value should be used.
1206 Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
1207 existing value should be used.
1209 Indicates the interpretation of other parameters.
1210 It is a bit list of the following:
1211 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
1212 a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
1213 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
1214 a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
1215 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
1216 a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
1217 - @c wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
1218 if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
1219 - @c wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
1220 wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted as real
1221 dimensions, not default values.
1222 - @c wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
1223 already the same as the parameters of this function,
1224 nothing is done. but with this flag a window resize may
1225 be forced even in this case (supported in wx 2.6.2 and
1226 later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere
1229 @remarks This overload sets the position and optionally size, of the window.
1230 Parameters may be wxDefaultCoord to indicate either that a default
1231 should be supplied by wxWidgets, or that the current value of the
1232 dimension should be used.
1234 @see Move(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1236 void SetSize(int x
, int y
, int width
, int height
,
1237 int sizeFlags
= wxSIZE_AUTO
);
1240 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
1241 The size is specified using a wxRect, wxSize or by a couple of @c int objects.
1243 @remarks This form must be used with non-default width and height values.
1245 @see Move(), @ref overview_windowsizing
1247 void SetSize(const wxRect
& rect
);
1252 void SetSize(const wxSize
& size
);
1257 void SetSize(int width
, int height
);
1260 Use of this function for windows which are not toplevel windows
1261 (such as wxDialog or wxFrame) is discouraged.
1262 Please use SetMinSize() and SetMaxSize() instead.
1264 @see wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints, @ref overview_windowsizing
1266 virtual void SetSizeHints( const wxSize
& minSize
,
1267 const wxSize
& maxSize
=wxDefaultSize
,
1268 const wxSize
& incSize
=wxDefaultSize
);
1269 virtual void SetSizeHints( int minW
, int minH
,
1270 int maxW
= -1, int maxH
= -1,
1271 int incW
= -1, int incH
= -1 );
1274 Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
1276 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
1278 void SetVirtualSize(int width
, int height
);
1283 void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize
& size
);
1289 @name Positioning functions
1294 A synonym for Centre().
1296 void Center(int dir
= wxBOTH
);
1299 A synonym for CentreOnParent().
1301 void CenterOnParent(int dir
= wxBOTH
);
1307 Specifies the direction for the centring. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
1308 or wxBOTH. It may also include the wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN flag
1309 if you want to centre the window on the entire screen and not on its
1312 @remarks If the window is a top level one (i.e. doesn't have a parent),
1313 it will be centred relative to the screen anyhow.
1317 void Centre(int direction
= wxBOTH
);
1320 Centres the window on its parent. This is a more readable synonym for Centre().
1323 Specifies the direction for the centring. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
1326 @remarks This methods provides for a way to centre top level windows over
1327 their parents instead of the entire screen. If there
1328 is no parent or if the window is not a top level
1329 window, then behaviour is the same as Centre().
1331 @see wxTopLevelWindow::CentreOnScreen
1333 void CentreOnParent(int direction
= wxBOTH
);
1336 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1337 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1340 Receives the x position of the window if non-@NULL.
1342 Receives the y position of the window if non-@NULL.
1345 In wxPerl this method is implemented as GetPositionXY() returning
1346 a 2-element list (x, y).
1349 @see GetScreenPosition()
1351 void GetPosition(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1354 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1355 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1357 @see GetScreenPosition()
1359 wxPoint
GetPosition() const;
1362 Returns the position and size of the window as a wxRect object.
1364 @see GetScreenRect()
1366 wxRect
GetRect() const;
1369 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1370 child window or a top level one.
1373 Receives the x position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1375 Receives the y position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1379 void GetScreenPosition(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1382 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1383 child window or a top level one.
1387 wxPoint
GetScreenPosition() const;
1390 Returns the position and size of the window on the screen as a wxRect object.
1394 wxRect
GetScreenRect() const;
1397 Get the origin of the client area of the window relative to the
1398 window top left corner (the client area may be shifted because of
1399 the borders, scrollbars, other decorations...)
1401 virtual wxPoint
GetClientAreaOrigin() const;
1404 Get the client rectangle in window (i.e. client) coordinates
1406 wxRect
GetClientRect() const;
1411 Moves the window to the given position.
1414 Required x position.
1416 Required y position.
1418 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1420 @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
1421 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1423 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1428 void Move(int x
, int y
, int flags
= wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING
);
1431 Moves the window to the given position.
1434 wxPoint object representing the position.
1436 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1438 @remarks Implementations of SetSize() can also implicitly implement the
1439 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1441 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1446 void Move(const wxPoint
& pt
, int flags
= wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING
);
1448 void SetPosition(const wxPoint
& pt
);
1454 @name Coordinate conversion functions
1459 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
1462 A pointer to a integer value for the x coordinate. Pass the client
1463 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
1465 A pointer to a integer value for the y coordinate. Pass the client
1466 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
1469 In wxPerl this method returns a 2-element list instead of
1470 modifying its parameters.
1473 void ClientToScreen(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1476 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
1479 The client position for the second form of the function.
1481 wxPoint
ClientToScreen(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
1484 Converts a point or size from dialog units to pixels.
1486 For the x dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
1487 width and then divided by 4.
1488 For the y dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
1489 height and then divided by 8.
1491 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
1492 even if the font changes.
1493 You can also use these functions programmatically.
1494 A convenience macro is defined:
1496 #define wxDLG_UNIT(parent, pt) parent->ConvertDialogToPixels(pt)
1499 @see ConvertPixelsToDialog()
1501 wxPoint
ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
1506 wxSize
ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxSize
& sz
) const;
1509 Converts a point or size from pixels to dialog units.
1511 For the x dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 4 and then divided by the
1512 average character width.
1513 For the y dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 8 and then divided by the
1514 average character height.
1516 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
1517 even if the font changes.
1519 @see ConvertDialogToPixels()
1521 wxPoint
ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
1526 wxSize
ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxSize
& sz
) const;
1529 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1532 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1534 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1536 void ScreenToClient(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1539 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1542 The screen position.
1544 wxPoint
ScreenToClient(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
1550 @name Drawing-related functions
1555 Clears the window by filling it with the current background colour.
1557 Does not cause an erase background event to be generated.
1559 Notice that this uses wxClientDC to draw on the window and the results
1560 of doing it while also drawing on wxPaintDC for this window are
1561 undefined. Hence this method shouldn't be used from EVT_PAINT handlers,
1562 just use wxDC::Clear() on the wxPaintDC you already use there instead.
1564 virtual void ClearBackground();
1567 Freezes the window or, in other words, prevents any updates from taking
1568 place on screen, the window is not redrawn at all.
1570 Thaw() must be called to reenable window redrawing. Calls to these two
1571 functions may be nested but to ensure that the window is properly
1572 repainted again, you must thaw it exactly as many times as you froze it.
1574 If the window has any children, they are recursively frozen too.
1576 This method is useful for visual appearance optimization (for example,
1577 it is a good idea to use it before doing many large text insertions in
1578 a row into a wxTextCtrl under wxGTK) but is not implemented on all
1579 platforms nor for all controls so it is mostly just a hint to wxWidgets
1580 and not a mandatory directive.
1582 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Thaw(), IsFrozen()
1587 Re-enables window updating after a previous call to Freeze().
1589 To really thaw the control, it must be called exactly the same number
1590 of times as Freeze().
1592 If the window has any children, they are recursively thawed too.
1594 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Freeze(), IsFrozen()
1599 Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to Freeze().
1601 @see Freeze(), Thaw()
1603 bool IsFrozen() const;
1606 Returns the background colour of the window.
1608 @see SetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(), GetForegroundColour()
1610 wxColour
GetBackgroundColour() const;
1613 Returns the background style of the window.
1615 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
1616 SetBackgroundStyle(), SetTransparent()
1618 virtual wxBackgroundStyle
GetBackgroundStyle() const;
1621 Returns the character height for this window.
1623 virtual int GetCharHeight() const;
1626 Returns the average character width for this window.
1628 virtual int GetCharWidth() const;
1631 Currently this is the same as calling
1632 wxWindow::GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindow::GetWindowVariant()).
1634 One advantage of using this function compared to the static version is that
1635 the call is automatically dispatched to the correct class (as usual with
1636 virtual functions) and you don't have to specify the class name explicitly.
1638 The other one is that in the future this function could return different
1639 results, for example it might return a different font for an "Ok" button
1640 than for a generic button if the users GUI is configured to show such buttons
1641 in bold font. Of course, the down side is that it is impossible to call this
1642 function without actually having an object to apply it to whereas the static
1643 version can be used without having to create an object first.
1645 virtual wxVisualAttributes
GetDefaultAttributes() const;
1648 Returns the font for this window.
1652 wxFont
GetFont() const;
1655 Returns the foreground colour of the window.
1657 @remarks The meaning of foreground colour varies according to the window class;
1658 it may be the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
1660 @see SetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
1661 GetBackgroundColour()
1663 wxColour
GetForegroundColour() const;
1666 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1667 window with the currently selected font.
1669 The text extent is returned in the @a w and @a h pointers.
1672 String whose extent is to be measured.
1674 Return value for width.
1676 Return value for height.
1678 Return value for descent (optional).
1679 @param externalLeading
1680 Return value for external leading (optional).
1682 Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
1685 In wxPerl this method takes only the @a string and optionally
1686 @a font parameters, and returns a 4-element list
1687 (x, y, descent, externalLeading).
1690 void GetTextExtent(const wxString
& string
,
1692 int* descent
= NULL
,
1693 int* externalLeading
= NULL
,
1694 const wxFont
* font
= NULL
) const;
1697 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1698 window with the currently selected font.
1700 wxSize
GetTextExtent(const wxString
& string
) const;
1703 Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
1704 Should only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
1706 @see wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
1708 const wxRegion
& GetUpdateRegion() const;
1711 Get the update rectangle bounding box in client coords
1713 wxRect
GetUpdateClientRect() const;
1716 Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example,
1717 for wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
1719 This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
1720 shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
1721 wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
1723 virtual bool HasTransparentBackground();
1726 Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
1727 where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
1728 happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
1729 to update the window immediately you should use Update() instead.
1731 @param eraseBackground
1732 If @true, the background will be erased.
1734 If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will be treated as damaged.
1738 virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground
= true,
1739 const wxRect
* rect
= NULL
);
1742 Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
1745 This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax as it can be called
1746 with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
1748 void RefreshRect(const wxRect
& rect
, bool eraseBackground
= true);
1751 Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
1752 all of its children recursively (this normally only happens when the
1753 flow of control returns to the event loop).
1755 Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
1756 nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
1757 a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to immediately redraw the
1758 window unconditionally.
1760 virtual void Update();
1763 Sets the background colour of the window.
1765 Notice that as with SetForegroundColour(), setting the background
1766 colour of a native control may not affect the entire control and could
1767 be not supported at all depending on the control and platform.
1769 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
1770 this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
1773 The colour to be used as the background colour; pass
1774 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
1775 Note that you may want to use wxSystemSettings::GetColour() to retrieve
1776 a suitable colour to use rather than setting an hard-coded one.
1778 @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
1779 wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
1780 automatically under GTK.
1781 Note that setting the background colour does not cause an
1782 immediate refresh, so you may wish to call wxWindow::ClearBackground
1783 or wxWindow::Refresh after calling this function.
1784 Using this function will disable attempts to use themes for
1785 this window, if the system supports them. Use with care since
1786 usually the themes represent the appearance chosen by the user
1787 to be used for all applications on the system.
1789 @return @true if the colour was really changed, @false if it was already set
1790 to this colour and nothing was done.
1792 @see GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
1793 GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
1794 Refresh(), wxEraseEvent, wxSystemSettings
1796 virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
1799 Sets the background style of the window.
1801 The default background style is @c wxBG_STYLE_ERASE which indicates that
1802 the window background may be erased in @c EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND handler.
1803 This is a safe, compatibility default; however you may want to change it
1804 to @c wxBG_STYLE_SYSTEM if you don't define any erase background event
1805 handlers at all, to avoid unnecessary generation of erase background
1806 events and always let system erase the background. And you should
1807 change the background style to @c wxBG_STYLE_PAINT if you define an
1808 @c EVT_PAINT handler which completely overwrites the window background as
1809 in this case erasing it previously, either in @c EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND
1810 handler or in the system default handler, would result in flicker as
1811 the background pixels will be repainted twice every time the window is
1812 redrawn. Do ensure that the background is entirely erased by your
1813 @c EVT_PAINT handler in this case however as otherwise garbage may be left
1816 Notice that in previous versions of wxWidgets a common way to work
1817 around the above mentioned flickering problem was to define an empty
1818 @c EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND handler. Setting background style to
1819 @c wxBG_STYLE_PAINT is a simpler and more efficient solution to the same
1823 Under wxGTK and wxOSX, you can use ::wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT to obtain
1824 full transparency of the window background. Note that wxGTK supports
1825 this only since GTK 2.12 with a compositing manager enabled, call
1826 IsTransparentBackgroundSupported() to check whether this is the case.
1828 Also, on order for @c SetBackgroundStyle(wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT) to
1829 work, it must be called before Create(). If you're using your own
1830 wxWindow-derived class you should write your code in the following way:
1832 class MyWidget : public wxWindow
1835 MyWidget(wxWindow* parent, ...)
1836 : wxWindow() // Use default ctor here!
1839 SetBackgroundStyle(wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT);
1841 // And really create the window afterwards:
1842 Create(parent, ...);
1847 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
1848 SetTransparent(), IsTransparentBackgroundSupported()
1850 virtual bool SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style
);
1853 Checks whether using transparent background might work.
1855 If this function returns @false, calling SetBackgroundStyle() with
1856 ::wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT is not going to work. If it returns @true,
1857 setting transparent style should normally succeed.
1859 Notice that this function would typically be called on the parent of a
1860 window you want to set transparent background style for as the window
1861 for which this method is called must be fully created.
1864 If not @NULL, a reason message is provided if transparency is not
1867 @return @true if background transparency is supported.
1871 virtual bool IsTransparentBackgroundSupported(wxString
*reason
= NULL
) const;
1874 Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
1875 parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
1876 use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and see InheritAttributes() for more
1879 Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
1880 wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
1881 call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
1882 any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
1886 Font to associate with this window, pass
1887 wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
1889 @return @true if the font was really changed, @false if it was already set
1890 to this font and nothing was done.
1892 @see GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
1894 virtual bool SetFont(const wxFont
& font
);
1897 Sets the foreground colour of the window.
1899 The meaning of foreground colour varies according to the window class;
1900 it may be the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at
1901 all. Additionally, not all native controls support changing their
1902 foreground colour so this method may change their colour only partially
1905 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
1906 this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
1909 The colour to be used as the foreground colour; pass
1910 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
1912 @return @true if the colour was really changed, @false if it was already set
1913 to this colour and nothing was done.
1915 @see GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
1916 GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
1918 virtual bool SetForegroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
1921 Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
1922 by the children of this window.
1924 @see SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
1926 void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
1929 Return @true if this window inherits the background colour from its parent.
1931 @see SetOwnBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
1933 bool InheritsBackgroundColour() const;
1936 Return @true if a background colour has been set for this window.
1938 bool UseBgCol() const;
1941 Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
1942 children of this window.
1944 @see SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
1946 void SetOwnFont(const wxFont
& font
);
1949 Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
1950 by the children of this window.
1952 @see SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
1954 void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
1957 @deprecated use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
1959 void SetPalette(const wxPalette
& pal
);
1962 Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
1963 InheritAttributes(). Returning @false forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
1965 The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
1966 wxControl where it returns @true.
1968 virtual bool ShouldInheritColours() const;
1971 This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
1972 to draw the windows' background instead of its own background drawing
1973 code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
1974 obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
1975 One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
1976 defined by a user's selected theme.
1978 Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
1979 by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
1981 virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable
);
1985 virtual bool GetThemeEnabled() const;
1988 Returns @true if the system supports transparent windows and calling
1989 SetTransparent() may succeed. If this function returns @false, transparent
1990 windows are definitely not supported by the current system.
1992 virtual bool CanSetTransparent();
1995 Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
1996 returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
1997 See also CanSetTransparent().
1999 The parameter @a alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
2000 fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
2001 @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be used.
2003 virtual bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha
);
2009 @name Event-handling functions
2011 wxWindow allows you to build a (sort of) stack of event handlers which
2012 can be used to override the window's own event handling.
2017 Returns the event handler for this window.
2018 By default, the window is its own event handler.
2020 @see SetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
2021 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
2023 wxEvtHandler
* GetEventHandler() const;
2026 This function will generate the appropriate call to Navigate() if the key
2027 event is one normally used for keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
2029 @return Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
2030 handled, @false otherwise.
2034 bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent
& event
);
2039 GetEventHandler()->SafelyProcessEvent(event);
2042 @see ProcessWindowEvent()
2044 bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent
& event
) const;
2047 Convenient wrapper for ProcessEvent().
2049 This is the same as writing @code GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent(event);
2050 @endcode but more convenient. Notice that ProcessEvent() itself can't
2051 be called for wxWindow objects as it ignores the event handlers
2052 associated with the window; use this function instead.
2054 bool ProcessWindowEvent(wxEvent
& event
);
2057 Wrapper for wxEvtHandler::ProcessEventLocally().
2059 This method is similar to ProcessWindowEvent() but can be used to
2060 search for the event handler only in this window and any event handlers
2061 pushed on top of it. Unlike ProcessWindowEvent() it won't propagate the
2062 event upwards. But it will use the validator and event handlers
2063 associated with this window, if any.
2067 bool ProcessWindowEventLocally(wxEvent
& event
);
2070 Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
2072 E.g. in the case of:
2073 @image html overview_events_winstack.png
2074 when calling @c W->PopEventHandler(), the event handler @c A will be
2075 removed and @c B will be the first handler of the stack.
2077 Note that it's an error to call this function when no event handlers
2078 were pushed on this window (i.e. when the window itself is its only
2081 @param deleteHandler
2082 If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed
2083 (and the returned value will be @NULL).
2085 @see @ref overview_events_processing
2087 wxEvtHandler
* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler
= false);
2090 Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
2092 An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the events sent
2093 to a window. By default, the window is its own event handler, but an application
2094 may wish to substitute another, for example to allow central implementation
2095 of event-handling for a variety of different window classes.
2097 wxWindow::PushEventHandler allows an application to set up a @e stack
2098 of event handlers, where an event not handled by one event handler is
2099 handed to the next one in the chain.
2101 E.g. if you have two event handlers @c A and @c B and a wxWindow instance
2104 W->PushEventHandler(A);
2105 W->PushEventHandler(B);
2107 you will end up with the following situation:
2108 @image html overview_events_winstack.png
2110 Note that you can use wxWindow::PopEventHandler to remove the event handler.
2113 Specifies the handler to be pushed.
2114 It must not be part of a wxEvtHandler chain; an assert will fail
2115 if it's not unlinked (see wxEvtHandler::IsUnlinked).
2117 @see @ref overview_events_processing
2119 void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
2122 Find the given @a handler in the windows event handler stack and
2123 removes (but does not delete) it from the stack.
2125 See wxEvtHandler::Unlink() for more info.
2128 The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
2129 must be present in this windows event handlers stack.
2131 @return Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
2132 results in an assert failure so this function should
2133 only be called when the handler is supposed to be there).
2135 @see PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
2137 bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
2140 Sets the event handler for this window.
2142 Note that if you use this function you may want to use as the "next" handler
2143 of @a handler the window itself; in this way when @a handler doesn't process
2144 an event, the window itself will have a chance to do it.
2147 Specifies the handler to be set. Cannot be @NULL.
2149 @see @ref overview_events_processing
2151 void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
2154 wxWindows cannot be used to form event handler chains; this function
2155 thus will assert when called.
2157 Note that instead you can use PushEventHandler() or SetEventHandler() to
2158 implement a stack of event handlers to override wxWindow's own
2159 event handling mechanism.
2161 virtual void SetNextHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
2164 wxWindows cannot be used to form event handler chains; this function
2165 thus will assert when called.
2167 Note that instead you can use PushEventHandler() or SetEventHandler() to
2168 implement a stack of event handlers to override wxWindow's own
2169 event handling mechanism.
2171 virtual void SetPreviousHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
2178 @name Window styles functions
2183 Returns the extra style bits for the window.
2185 long GetExtraStyle() const;
2188 Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or Create()
2189 method. GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
2191 virtual long GetWindowStyleFlag() const;
2194 See GetWindowStyleFlag() for more info.
2196 long GetWindowStyle() const;
2199 Returns @true if the window has the given @a exFlag bit set in its
2202 @see SetExtraStyle()
2204 bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag
) const;
2207 Returns @true if the window has the given @a flag bit set.
2209 bool HasFlag(int flag
) const;
2212 Sets the extra style bits for the window.
2213 The currently defined extra style bits are reported in the class
2216 virtual void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle
);
2219 Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
2220 after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be called
2221 after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.
2223 See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
2225 @see GetWindowStyleFlag()
2227 virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style
);
2230 See SetWindowStyleFlag() for more info.
2232 void SetWindowStyle(long style
);
2235 Turns the given @a flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
2236 This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
2237 the case for default flags).
2239 Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
2242 @return Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
2243 if it was switched off.
2245 @see SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
2247 bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag
);
2253 @name Tab order functions
2258 Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
2259 This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
2260 the focus switches to this window.
2262 Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
2263 MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
2264 it after creating all the windows.
2267 A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
2270 void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow
* win
);
2273 Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that it inserts this window just
2274 before @a win instead of putting it right after it.
2276 void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow
* win
);
2279 Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window.
2280 This method is equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
2284 A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
2285 wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
2287 @return Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
2290 @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
2291 handler to do the default navigation behaviour for the
2292 tab key, since the standard default behaviour for a
2293 multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB style
2294 is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
2295 control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
2296 HandleAsNavigationKey.
2298 bool Navigate(int flags
= wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward
);
2301 Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
2302 See Navigate() for more information.
2304 bool NavigateIn(int flags
= wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward
);
2311 @name Z order functions
2316 Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
2319 This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
2323 virtual void Lower();
2326 Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
2328 Notice that this function only requests the window manager to raise
2329 this window to the top of Z-order. Depending on its configuration, the
2330 window manager may raise the window, not do it at all or indicate that
2331 a window requested to be raised in some other way, e.g. by flashing its
2332 icon if it is minimized.
2335 This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
2339 virtual void Raise();
2345 @name Window status functions
2351 Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
2356 This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a special visual
2359 The parameters of this function are the same as for ShowWithEffect(),
2360 please see their description there.
2364 virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect
,
2365 unsigned int timeout
= 0);
2367 Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input,
2370 Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
2371 been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled.
2372 To get the intrinsic status of this window, use IsThisEnabled()
2376 bool IsEnabled() const;
2379 Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
2380 last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
2381 only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
2383 bool IsExposed(int x
, int y
) const;
2388 bool IsExposed(wxPoint
& pt
) const;
2393 bool IsExposed(int x
, int y
, int w
, int h
) const;
2398 bool IsExposed(wxRect
& rect
) const;
2400 Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
2402 @see IsShownOnScreen()
2404 virtual bool IsShown() const;
2407 Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
2408 is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
2412 virtual bool IsShownOnScreen() const;
2415 Disables the window. Same as @ref Enable() Enable(@false).
2417 @return Returns @true if the window has been disabled, @false if it had
2418 been already disabled before the call to this function.
2423 Enable or disable the window for user input. Note that when a parent window is
2424 disabled, all of its children are disabled as well and they are reenabled again
2428 If @true, enables the window for input. If @false, disables the window.
2430 @return Returns @true if the window has been enabled or disabled, @false
2431 if nothing was done, i.e. if the window had already
2432 been in the specified state.
2434 @see IsEnabled(), Disable(), wxRadioBox::Enable
2436 virtual bool Enable(bool enable
= true);
2439 Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
2440 for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
2441 needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
2443 Notice that the default state of newly created top level windows is hidden
2444 (to allow you to create their contents without flicker) unlike for
2445 all the other, not derived from wxTopLevelWindow, windows that
2446 are by default created in the shown state.
2449 If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
2451 @return @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
2452 was done because it already was in the requested state.
2454 @see IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show, wxShowEvent.
2456 virtual bool Show(bool show
= true);
2459 This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a special visual
2466 The @a timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
2467 milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default
2468 animation time for the current platform is used.
2470 @note Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and wxOSX
2471 (for wxTopLevelWindows only in Carbon version and for any kind of
2472 windows in Cocoa) and does the same thing as Show() in the other
2477 @see HideWithEffect()
2479 virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect
,
2480 unsigned int timeout
= 0);
2486 @name Context-sensitive help functions
2491 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2492 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
2493 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
2495 @see SetHelpText(), GetHelpTextAtPoint(), wxHelpProvider
2497 wxString
GetHelpText() const;
2500 Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2501 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
2502 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
2504 @see GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider::AddHelp()
2506 void SetHelpText(const wxString
& helpText
);
2509 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2510 This method should be overridden if the help message depends on the position
2511 inside the window, otherwise GetHelpText() can be used.
2514 Coordinates of the mouse at the moment of help event emission.
2516 Help event origin, see also wxHelpEvent::GetOrigin.
2518 virtual wxString
GetHelpTextAtPoint(const wxPoint
& point
,
2519 wxHelpEvent::Origin origin
) const;
2522 Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
2524 wxToolTip
* GetToolTip() const;
2527 Get the text of the associated tooltip or empty string if none.
2529 wxString
GetToolTipText() const;
2532 Attach a tooltip to the window.
2534 wxToolTip pointer can be @NULL in the overload taking the pointer,
2535 meaning to unset any existing tooltips; however UnsetToolTip() provides
2536 a more readable alternative to this operation.
2538 Notice that these methods are always available, even if wxWidgets was
2539 compiled with @c wxUSE_TOOLTIPS set to 0, but don't do anything in this
2542 @see GetToolTip(), wxToolTip
2544 void SetToolTip(const wxString
& tipString
);
2549 void SetToolTip(wxToolTip
* tip
);
2552 Unset any existing tooltip.
2558 void UnsetToolTip();
2564 @name Popup/context menu functions
2569 This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
2570 returns the selected id.
2572 It can be more convenient than the general purpose PopupMenu() function
2573 for simple menus proposing a choice in a list of strings to the user.
2575 Notice that to avoid unexpected conflicts between the (usually
2576 consecutive range of) ids used by the menu passed to this function and
2577 the existing EVT_UPDATE_UI() handlers, this function temporarily
2578 disables UI updates for the window, so you need to manually disable
2579 (or toggle or ...) any items which should be disabled in the menu
2582 The parameter @a menu is the menu to show.
2583 The parameter @a pos (or the parameters @a x and @a y) is the
2584 position at which to show the menu in client coordinates.
2585 It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
2586 calling this method in response to mouse click, because some of
2587 the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
2588 the menu in that case.
2591 The selected menu item id or @c wxID_NONE if none selected or an
2596 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu
& menu
,
2597 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
);
2602 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu
& menu
, int x
, int y
);
2605 Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
2606 window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu.
2608 If a menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
2609 processed as usual. If coordinates are not specified, the current mouse
2610 cursor position is used.
2612 @a menu is the menu to pop up.
2614 The position where the menu will appear can be specified either as a
2615 wxPoint @a pos or by two integers (@a x and @a y).
2617 @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
2618 ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
2619 The menu does not get deleted by the window.
2620 It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
2621 calling PopupMenu in response to mouse click, because some of
2622 the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
2623 the menu in that case.
2627 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu
* menu
,
2628 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
);
2633 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu
* menu
, int x
, int y
);
2644 Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if
2647 virtual wxValidator
* GetValidator();
2650 Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
2651 called wxValidator::Clone to create a new validator of this type.
2653 virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator
& validator
);
2656 Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
2657 validators. Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2659 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2660 the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
2662 @see TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2664 virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();
2667 Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
2670 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2671 the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
2673 @return Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2675 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2677 virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();
2680 Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
2681 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2682 the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
2684 @return Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
2686 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
2689 virtual bool Validate();
2695 @name wxWindow properties functions
2700 Returns the identifier of the window.
2702 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application
2703 has not provided one (or the default wxID_ANY) a unique
2704 identifier with a negative value will be generated.
2706 @see SetId(), @ref overview_windowids
2708 wxWindowID
GetId() const;
2711 Generic way of getting a label from any window, for
2712 identification purposes.
2714 @remarks The interpretation of this function differs from class to class.
2715 For frames and dialogs, the value returned is the
2716 title. For buttons or static text controls, it is the
2717 button text. This function can be useful for
2718 meta-programs (such as testing tools or special-needs
2719 access programs) which need to identify windows by name.
2721 virtual wxString
GetLabel() const;
2724 Returns the layout direction for this window,
2725 Note that @c wxLayout_Default is returned if layout direction is not supported.
2727 virtual wxLayoutDirection
GetLayoutDirection() const;
2730 Mirror coordinates for RTL layout if this window uses it and if the
2731 mirroring is not done automatically like Win32.
2733 virtual wxCoord
AdjustForLayoutDirection(wxCoord x
,
2735 wxCoord widthTotal
) const;
2738 Returns the window's name.
2740 @remarks This name is not guaranteed to be unique; it is up to the
2741 programmer to supply an appropriate name in the window
2742 constructor or via SetName().
2746 virtual wxString
GetName() const;
2749 Returns the value previously passed to SetWindowVariant().
2751 wxWindowVariant
GetWindowVariant() const;
2754 Sets the identifier of the window.
2756 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
2757 not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
2758 Normally, the identifier should be provided on creation
2759 and should not be modified subsequently.
2761 @see GetId(), @ref overview_windowids
2763 void SetId(wxWindowID winid
);
2766 Sets the window's label.
2773 virtual void SetLabel(const wxString
& label
);
2776 Sets the layout direction for this window.
2778 virtual void SetLayoutDirection(wxLayoutDirection dir
);
2781 Sets the window's name.
2784 A name to set for the window.
2788 virtual void SetName(const wxString
& name
);
2791 This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
2792 Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
2793 exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant enum.
2795 By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
2796 be used to change this.
2798 void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant
);
2801 Gets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
2803 wxAcceleratorTable
* GetAcceleratorTable();
2806 Returns the accessible object for this window, if any.
2807 See also wxAccessible.
2809 wxAccessible
* GetAccessible();
2812 Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
2814 virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable
& accel
);
2817 Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
2818 will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
2819 See also wxAccessible.
2821 void SetAccessible(wxAccessible
* accessible
);
2827 @name Window deletion functions
2832 This function simply generates a wxCloseEvent whose handler usually tries
2833 to close the window. It doesn't close the window itself, however.
2836 @false if the window's close handler should be able to veto the destruction
2837 of this window, @true if it cannot.
2839 @return @true if the event was handled and not vetoed, @false otherwise.
2841 @remarks Close calls the close handler for the window, providing an
2842 opportunity for the window to choose whether to destroy
2843 the window. Usually it is only used with the top level
2844 windows (wxFrame and wxDialog classes) as the others
2845 are not supposed to have any special OnClose() logic.
2846 The close handler should check whether the window is being deleted
2847 forcibly, using wxCloseEvent::CanVeto, in which case it should
2848 destroy the window using wxWindow::Destroy.
2849 Note that calling Close does not guarantee that the window will
2850 be destroyed; but it provides a way to simulate a manual close
2851 of a window, which may or may not be implemented by destroying
2852 the window. The default implementation of wxDialog::OnCloseWindow
2853 does not necessarily delete the dialog, since it will simply
2854 simulate an wxID_CANCEL event which is handled by the appropriate
2855 button event handler and may do anything at all.
2856 To guarantee that the window will be destroyed, call
2857 wxWindow::Destroy instead
2859 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
2860 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
2862 bool Close(bool force
= false);
2865 Destroys the window safely. Use this function instead of the delete operator,
2866 since different window classes can be destroyed differently. Frames and dialogs
2867 are not destroyed immediately when this function is called -- they are added
2868 to a list of windows to be deleted on idle time, when all the window's events
2869 have been processed. This prevents problems with events being sent to
2870 non-existent windows.
2872 @return @true if the window has either been successfully deleted, or it
2873 has been added to the list of windows pending real deletion.
2875 virtual bool Destroy();
2878 Returns true if this window is in process of being destroyed.
2880 Top level windows are not deleted immediately but are rather
2881 scheduled for later destruction to give them time to process any
2882 pending messages; see Destroy() description.
2884 This function returns @true if this window, or one of its parent
2885 windows, is scheduled for destruction and can be useful to avoid
2886 manipulating it as it's usually useless to do something with a window
2887 which is on the point of disappearing anyhow.
2889 bool IsBeingDeleted() const;
2896 @name Drag and drop functions
2901 Returns the associated drop target, which may be @NULL.
2903 @see SetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
2905 virtual wxDropTarget
* GetDropTarget() const;
2908 Associates a drop target with this window.
2909 If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
2911 @see GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
2913 virtual void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget
* target
);
2916 Enables or disables eligibility for drop file events (OnDropFiles).
2919 If @true, the window is eligible for drop file events.
2920 If @false, the window will not accept drop file events.
2922 @remarks Windows only until version 2.8.9, available on all platforms
2923 since 2.8.10. Cannot be used together with SetDropTarget() on
2924 non-Windows platforms.
2926 @see SetDropTarget()
2928 virtual void DragAcceptFiles(bool accept
);
2934 @name Constraints, sizers and window layout functions
2939 Returns the sizer of which this window is a member, if any, otherwise @NULL.
2941 wxSizer
* GetContainingSizer() const;
2944 Returns the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
2945 SetSizer(), or @NULL.
2947 wxSizer
* GetSizer() const;
2950 Sets the window to have the given layout sizer.
2952 The window will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2953 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2954 window, it will be deleted if the @a deleteOld parameter is @true.
2956 Note that this function will also call SetAutoLayout() implicitly with @true
2957 parameter if the @a sizer is non-@NULL and @false otherwise so that the
2958 sizer will be effectively used to layout the window children whenever
2962 The sizer to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and conditionally delete
2963 the window's sizer. See below.
2965 If @true (the default), this will delete any pre-existing sizer.
2966 Pass @false if you wish to handle deleting the old sizer yourself
2967 but remember to do it yourself in this case to avoid memory leaks.
2969 @remarks SetSizer enables and disables Layout automatically.
2971 void SetSizer(wxSizer
* sizer
, bool deleteOld
= true);
2974 This method calls SetSizer() and then wxSizer::SetSizeHints which sets the initial
2975 window size to the size needed to accommodate all sizer elements and sets the
2976 size hints which, if this window is a top level one, prevent the user from
2977 resizing it to be less than this minimal size.
2979 void SetSizerAndFit(wxSizer
* sizer
, bool deleteOld
= true);
2982 Returns a pointer to the window's layout constraints, or @NULL if there are none.
2984 wxLayoutConstraints
* GetConstraints() const;
2987 Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
2988 will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2989 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2990 window, it will be deleted.
2993 The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
2996 @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
2997 the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
2998 must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
2999 setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
3000 the sizer will have effect.
3002 void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints
* constraints
);
3005 Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
3008 This function does not get called automatically when the window is resized
3009 because lots of windows deriving from wxWindow does not need this functionality.
3010 If you want to have Layout() called automatically, you should derive
3011 from wxPanel (see wxPanel::Layout).
3013 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
3015 virtual bool Layout();
3018 Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
3019 when the window is resized.
3021 This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
3022 you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
3023 updated when its size changes.
3026 Set this to @true if you wish the Layout() function to be called
3027 automatically when the window is resized.
3029 @see SetSizer(), SetConstraints()
3031 void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout
);
3033 bool GetAutoLayout() const;
3040 @name Mouse functions
3045 Directs all mouse input to this window.
3046 Call ReleaseMouse() to release the capture.
3048 Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
3049 and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
3050 captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
3051 window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
3052 as you capture it, unless the window receives the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
3054 Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
3055 must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent and cancel this operation when it receives
3056 the event. The event handler must not recapture mouse.
3058 @see ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
3060 void CaptureMouse();
3063 Returns the caret() associated with the window.
3065 wxCaret
* GetCaret() const;
3068 Return the cursor associated with this window.
3072 const wxCursor
& GetCursor() const;
3075 Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
3077 @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
3078 wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3080 virtual bool HasCapture() const;
3083 Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
3085 @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
3086 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3088 void ReleaseMouse();
3091 Sets the caret() associated with the window.
3093 void SetCaret(wxCaret
* caret
);
3096 Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
3097 children of the window implicitly.
3099 The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
3100 be reset back to default.
3103 Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
3105 @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
3107 virtual bool SetCursor(const wxCursor
& cursor
);
3110 Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
3112 @note Apple Human Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor
3113 programmatically so you should avoid using this function in Mac
3114 applications (and probably avoid using it under the other
3115 platforms without good reason as well).
3118 The new x position for the cursor.
3120 The new y position for the cursor.
3122 virtual void WarpPointer(int x
, int y
);
3130 @name Miscellaneous functions
3134 wxHitTest
HitTest(wxCoord x
, wxCoord y
) const;
3135 wxHitTest
HitTest(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
3138 Get the window border style from the given flags: this is different from
3139 simply doing flags & wxBORDER_MASK because it uses GetDefaultBorder() to
3140 translate wxBORDER_DEFAULT to something reasonable
3142 wxBorder
GetBorder(long flags
) const;
3145 Get border for the flags of this window
3147 wxBorder
GetBorder() const;
3151 Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
3152 This function is called by UpdateWindowUI() in order to check return
3153 values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and act appropriately.
3154 For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating, wxWidgets
3155 implements this function as follows:
3158 // do the window-specific processing after processing the update event
3159 void wxTopLevelWindowBase::DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event)
3161 if ( event.GetSetEnabled() )
3162 Enable(event.GetEnabled());
3164 if ( event.GetSetText() )
3166 if ( event.GetText() != GetTitle() )
3167 SetTitle(event.GetText());
3172 virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent
& event
);
3175 Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
3176 Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
3177 @b Widget for Motif or @b GtkWidget for GTK.
3180 This method will return an integer in wxPerl.
3183 virtual WXWidget
GetHandle() const;
3186 This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
3187 multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
3188 wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
3189 and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should also do so, to
3190 allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
3192 virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
3195 This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
3196 window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
3197 the font and the foreground and background colours.
3199 By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
3200 own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
3201 However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
3202 SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
3203 attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
3204 window takes the same value as used by the parent.
3205 In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
3206 the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
3208 This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
3209 different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
3210 are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
3211 different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
3212 they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
3213 desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
3214 just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
3215 do inherit the parents attributes.
3217 virtual void InheritAttributes();
3220 Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
3221 to the dialog via validators.
3223 virtual void InitDialog();
3226 Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
3227 any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
3228 and transferred to the screen all at once later.
3232 virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
3235 Turn on or off double buffering of the window if the system supports it.
3237 void SetDoubleBuffered(bool on
);
3240 Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
3242 @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
3244 virtual bool IsRetained() const;
3247 Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
3248 i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
3249 mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
3250 IsEnabled() instead.
3252 bool IsThisEnabled() const;
3255 Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
3256 dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
3259 virtual bool IsTopLevel() const;
3263 This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
3264 sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
3265 that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
3266 handler in a derived class.
3268 This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
3269 and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
3270 in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
3272 virtual void OnInternalIdle();
3275 Send idle event to window and all subwindows. Returns true if more idle
3278 virtual bool SendIdleEvents(wxIdleEvent
& event
);
3281 Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
3282 registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
3284 It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
3285 and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
3289 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
3290 and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
3291 system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
3292 This is a MSW specific detail.
3294 A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
3295 or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
3297 @param virtualKeyCode
3298 The virtual key code of the hotkey.
3300 @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
3301 other application already registered a hotkey with this
3302 modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
3304 @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
3305 event. This function is currently only implemented
3306 under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
3307 detecting hardware button presses.
3309 @see UnregisterHotKey()
3311 virtual bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId
, int modifiers
,
3312 int virtualKeyCode
);
3315 Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
3318 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
3321 @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
3324 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
3326 @see RegisterHotKey()
3328 virtual bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId
);
3331 This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
3332 The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
3333 wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
3334 and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
3336 You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
3337 UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
3338 are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
3339 wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode() or wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval() to limit
3340 the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle time.
3341 @a flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the ::wxUpdateUI enumeration.
3343 If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
3344 function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
3345 this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
3346 to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
3347 only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
3348 The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
3352 void MyWindow::OnInternalIdle()
3354 if (wxUpdateUIEvent::CanUpdate(this))
3355 UpdateWindowUI(wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE);
3359 @see wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
3361 virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags
= wxUPDATE_UI_NONE
);
3366 // NOTE: static functions must have their own group or Doxygen will screw
3367 // up the ordering of the member groups
3370 @name Miscellaneous static functions
3375 Returns the default font and colours which are used by the control.
3377 This is useful if you want to use the same font or colour in your own control
3378 as in a standard control -- which is a much better idea than hard coding specific
3379 colours or fonts which might look completely out of place on the users
3380 system, especially if it uses themes.
3382 The @a variant parameter is only relevant under Mac currently and is
3383 ignore under other platforms. Under Mac, it will change the size of the
3384 returned font. See SetWindowVariant() for more about this.
3386 This static method is "overridden" in many derived classes and so calling,
3387 for example, wxButton::GetClassDefaultAttributes() will typically
3388 return the values appropriate for a button which will be normally different
3389 from those returned by, say, wxListCtrl::GetClassDefaultAttributes().
3391 The @c wxVisualAttributes structure has at least the fields
3392 @c font, @c colFg and @c colBg. All of them may be invalid
3393 if it was not possible to determine the default control appearance or,
3394 especially for the background colour, if the field doesn't make sense as is
3395 the case for @c colBg for the controls with themed background.
3397 @see InheritAttributes()
3399 static wxVisualAttributes
GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindowVariant variant
= wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL
);
3402 Finds the window or control which currently has the keyboard focus.
3404 @remarks Note that this is a static function, so it can be called without
3405 needing a wxWindow pointer.
3407 @see SetFocus(), HasFocus()
3409 static wxWindow
* FindFocus();
3412 Find the first window with the given @e id.
3414 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
3415 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
3417 The search is recursive in both cases.
3421 @return Window with the given @a id or @NULL if not found.
3423 static wxWindow
* FindWindowById(long id
, const wxWindow
* parent
= 0);
3426 Find a window by its label.
3428 Depending on the type of window, the label may be a window title
3429 or panel item label. If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all
3430 top-level frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be
3431 limited to the given window hierarchy.
3432 The search is recursive in both cases.
3436 @return Window with the given @a label or @NULL if not found.
3438 static wxWindow
* FindWindowByLabel(const wxString
& label
,
3439 const wxWindow
* parent
= 0);
3442 Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or Create()
3445 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
3446 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
3449 The search is recursive in both cases. If no window with such name is found,
3450 FindWindowByLabel() is called.
3454 @return Window with the given @a name or @NULL if not found.
3456 static wxWindow
* FindWindowByName(const wxString
& name
,
3457 const wxWindow
* parent
= 0);
3460 Returns the currently captured window.
3462 @see HasCapture(), CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(),
3463 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3465 static wxWindow
* GetCapture();
3468 Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.
3469 The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindow ID
3470 or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
3472 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
3475 The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
3477 @return Returns the ID or the first ID of the range (i.e. the most negative),
3478 or wxID_NONE if the specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
3480 @see UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager,
3481 @ref overview_windowids
3483 static wxWindowID
NewControlId(int count
= 1);
3486 Unreserve an ID or range of IDs that was reserved by NewControlId().
3487 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
3490 The starting ID of the range of IDs to unreserve.
3492 The number of sequential IDs to unreserve.
3494 @see NewControlId(), wxIdManager, @ref overview_windowids
3496 static void UnreserveControlId(wxWindowID id
, int count
= 1);
3508 Specifies the direction for the centring. May be wxHORIZONTAL,
3509 wxVERTICAL or wxBOTH. It may also include the wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN
3512 @remarks This function is not meant to be called directly by user code,
3513 but via Centre, Center, CentreOnParent, or CenterOnParent.
3514 This function can be overridden to fine-tune centring behaviour.
3516 virtual void DoCentre(int direction
);
3519 Implementation of GetBestSize() that can be overridden.
3521 Notice that it is usually more convenient to override
3522 DoGetBestClientSize() rather than this method itself as you need to
3523 explicitly account for the window borders size if you do the latter.
3525 The default implementation of this function is designed for use in container
3526 windows, such as wxPanel, and works something like this:
3527 -# If the window has a sizer then it is used to calculate the best size.
3528 -# Otherwise if the window has layout constraints then those are used to
3529 calculate the best size.
3530 -# Otherwise if the window has children then the best size is set to be large
3531 enough to show all the children.
3532 -# Otherwise if there are no children then the window's minimal size will be
3533 used as its best size.
3534 -# Otherwise if there is no minimal size set, then the current size is used
3537 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
3539 virtual wxSize
DoGetBestSize() const;
3542 Override this method to return the best size for a custom control.
3544 A typical implementation of this method should compute the minimal size
3545 needed to fully display the control contents taking into account the
3548 The default implementation simply returns ::wxDefaultSize and
3549 GetBestSize() returns an arbitrary hardcoded size for the window, so
3550 you must override it when implementing a custom window class.
3552 Notice that the best size returned by this function is cached
3553 internally, so if anything that results in the best size changing (e.g.
3554 change to the control contents) happens, you need to call
3555 InvalidateBestSize() to notify wxWidgets about it.
3557 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
3561 virtual wxSize
DoGetBestClientSize() const;
3564 Override this method to implement height-for-width best size
3567 Return the height needed to fully display the control contents if its
3568 width is fixed to the given value. Custom classes implementing
3569 wrapping should override this method and return the height
3570 corresponding to the number of lines needed to lay out the control
3571 contents at this width.
3573 Currently this method is not used by wxWidgets yet, however it is
3574 planned that it will be used by the new sizer classes implementing
3575 height-for-width layout strategy in the future.
3577 Notice that implementing this method or even implementing both it and
3578 DoGetBestClientWidth() doesn't replace overriding DoGetBestClientSize(),
3579 i.e. you still need to implement the latter as well in order to provide
3580 the best size when neither width nor height are constrained.
3582 By default returns ::wxDefaultCoord meaning that the vertical component
3583 of DoGetBestClientSize() return value should be used.
3587 virtual int DoGetBestClientHeight(int width
) const;
3590 Override this method to implement width-for-height best size
3593 This method is exactly the same as DoGetBestClientHeight() except that
3594 it determines the width assuming the height is fixed instead of vice
3599 virtual int DoGetBestClientWidth(int height
) const;
3602 Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
3603 components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
3604 @deprecated Use SetInitialSize() instead.
3606 virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize
& size
);
3609 Generate wxWindowDestroyEvent for this window.
3611 This is called by the window itself when it is being destroyed and
3612 usually there is no need to call it but see wxWindowDestroyEvent for
3613 explanations of when you might want to do it.
3615 void SendDestroyEvent();
3618 This function is public in wxEvtHandler but protected in wxWindow
3619 because for wxWindows you should always call ProcessEvent() on the
3620 pointer returned by GetEventHandler() and not on the wxWindow object
3623 For convenience, a ProcessWindowEvent() method is provided as a synonym
3624 for @code GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent() @endcode
3626 Note that it's still possible to call these functions directly on the
3627 wxWindow object (e.g. casting it to wxEvtHandler) but doing that will
3628 create subtle bugs when windows with event handlers pushed on them are
3631 This holds also for all other wxEvtHandler functions.
3633 virtual bool ProcessEvent(wxEvent
& event
);
3637 See ProcessEvent() for more info about why you shouldn't use this function
3638 and the reason for making this function protected in wxWindow.
3640 bool SafelyProcessEvent(wxEvent
& event
);
3641 virtual void QueueEvent(wxEvent
*event
);
3642 virtual void AddPendingEvent(const wxEvent
& event
);
3643 void ProcessPendingEvents();
3644 bool ProcessThreadEvent(const wxEvent
& event
);
3650 // ============================================================================
3651 // Global functions/macros
3652 // ============================================================================
3654 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_misc */
3658 Find the deepest window at the mouse pointer position, returning the window
3659 and current pointer position in screen coordinates.
3661 @header{wx/window.h}
3663 wxWindow
* wxFindWindowAtPointer(wxPoint
& pt
);
3666 Gets the currently active window (implemented for MSW and GTK only
3667 currently, always returns @NULL in the other ports).
3669 @header{wx/window.h}
3671 wxWindow
* wxGetActiveWindow();
3674 Returns the first top level parent of the given window, or in other words,
3675 the frame or dialog containing it, or @NULL.
3677 @header{wx/window.h}
3679 wxWindow
* wxGetTopLevelParent(wxWindow
* window
);