1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: interface of wx*DataObject
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13 A wxDataFormat is an encapsulation of a platform-specific format handle
14 which is used by the system for the clipboard and drag and drop operations.
15 The applications are usually only interested in, for example, pasting data
16 from the clipboard only if the data is in a format the program understands
17 and a data format is something which uniquely identifies this format.
19 On the system level, a data format is usually just a number (@c CLIPFORMAT
20 under Windows or @c Atom under X11, for example) and the standard formats
21 are, indeed, just numbers which can be implicitly converted to wxDataFormat.
22 The standard formats are:
25 @itemdef{wxDF_INVALID,
26 An invalid format - used as default argument for functions taking
27 a wxDataFormat argument sometimes.}
29 Text format (wxString).}
32 @itemdef{wxDF_METAFILE,
33 A metafile (wxMetafile, Windows only).}
34 @itemdef{wxDF_FILENAME,
37 An HTML string. This is currently only valid on Mac and MSW.}
40 As mentioned above, these standard formats may be passed to any function
41 taking wxDataFormat argument because wxDataFormat has an implicit
42 conversion from them (or, to be precise from the type
43 @c wxDataFormat::NativeFormat which is the type used by the underlying
44 platform for data formats).
46 Aside the standard formats, the application may also use custom formats
47 which are identified by their names (strings) and not numeric identifiers.
48 Although internally custom format must be created (or @e registered) first,
49 you shouldn't care about it because it is done automatically the first time
50 the wxDataFormat object corresponding to a given format name is created.
51 The only implication of this is that you should avoid having global
52 wxDataFormat objects with non-default constructor because their
53 constructors are executed before the program has time to perform all
54 necessary initialisations and so an attempt to do clipboard format
55 registration at this time will usually lead to a crash!
60 @see @ref overview_dnd, @ref page_samples_dnd, wxDataObject
66 Constructs a data format object for one of the standard data formats or
67 an empty data object (use SetType() or SetId() later in this case).
70 In wxPerl use Wx::Bitmap->newNative(format).
73 wxDataFormat(wxDataFormatId format
= wxDF_INVALID
);
76 Constructs a data format object for a custom format identified by its
80 In wxPerl use Wx::Bitmap->newUser(format).
83 wxDataFormat(const wxString
& format
);
86 Returns the name of a custom format (this function will fail for a
89 wxString
GetId() const;
92 Returns the platform-specific number identifying the format.
94 wxDataFormatId
GetType() const;
97 Sets the format to be the custom format identified by the given name.
99 void SetId(const wxString
& format
);
102 Sets the format to the given value, which should be one of wxDF_XXX
105 void SetType(wxDataFormatId type
);
108 Returns @true if the formats are different.
110 bool operator !=(const wxDataFormat
& format
) const;
113 Returns @true if the formats are different.
115 bool operator !=(wxDataFormatId format
) const;
118 Returns @true if the formats are equal.
120 bool operator ==(const wxDataFormat
& format
) const;
123 Returns @true if the formats are equal.
125 bool operator ==(wxDataFormatId format
) const;
129 const wxDataFormat wxFormatInvalid
;
135 A wxDataObject represents data that can be copied to or from the clipboard,
136 or dragged and dropped. The important thing about wxDataObject is that this
137 is a 'smart' piece of data unlike 'dumb' data containers such as memory
138 buffers or files. Being 'smart' here means that the data object itself
139 should know what data formats it supports and how to render itself in each
140 of its supported formats.
142 A supported format, incidentally, is exactly the format in which the data
143 can be requested from a data object or from which the data object may be
144 set. In the general case, an object may support different formats on
145 'input' and 'output', i.e. it may be able to render itself in a given
146 format but not be created from data on this format or vice versa.
147 wxDataObject defines the wxDataObject::Direction enumeration type which
148 distinguishes between them.
150 See wxDataFormat documentation for more about formats.
152 Not surprisingly, being 'smart' comes at a price of added complexity. This
153 is reasonable for the situations when you really need to support multiple
154 formats, but may be annoying if you only want to do something simple like
157 To provide a solution for both cases, wxWidgets has two predefined classes
158 which derive from wxDataObject: wxDataObjectSimple and
159 wxDataObjectComposite. wxDataObjectSimple is the simplest wxDataObject
160 possible and only holds data in a single format (such as HTML or text) and
161 wxDataObjectComposite is the simplest way to implement a wxDataObject that
162 does support multiple formats because it achieves this by simply holding
163 several wxDataObjectSimple objects.
165 So, you have several solutions when you need a wxDataObject class (and you
166 need one as soon as you want to transfer data via the clipboard or drag and
169 -# Use one of the built-in classes.
170 - You may use wxTextDataObject, wxBitmapDataObject wxFileDataObject,
171 wxURLDataObject in the simplest cases when you only need to support
172 one format and your data is either text, bitmap or list of files.
173 -# Use wxDataObjectSimple
174 - Deriving from wxDataObjectSimple is the simplest solution for custom
175 data - you will only support one format and so probably won't be able
176 to communicate with other programs, but data transfer will work in
177 your program (or between different instances of it).
178 -# Use wxDataObjectComposite
179 - This is a simple but powerful solution which allows you to support
180 any number of formats (either standard or custom if you combine it
181 with the previous solution).
182 -# Use wxDataObject directly
183 - This is the solution for maximum flexibility and efficiency, but it
184 is also the most difficult to implement.
186 Please note that the easiest way to use drag and drop and the clipboard
187 with multiple formats is by using wxDataObjectComposite, but it is not the
188 most efficient one as each wxDataObjectSimple would contain the whole data
189 in its respective formats. Now imagine that you want to paste 200 pages of
190 text in your proprietary format, as well as Word, RTF, HTML, Unicode and
191 plain text to the clipboard and even today's computers are in trouble. For
192 this case, you will have to derive from wxDataObject directly and make it
193 enumerate its formats and provide the data in the requested format on
196 Note that neither the GTK+ data transfer mechanisms for clipboard and drag
197 and drop, nor OLE data transfer, @e copies any data until another application
198 actually requests the data. This is in contrast to the 'feel' offered to
199 the user of a program who would normally think that the data resides in the
200 clipboard after having pressed 'Copy' - in reality it is only declared to
203 You may also derive your own data object classes from wxCustomDataObject
204 for user-defined types. The format of user-defined data is given as a
205 mime-type string literal, such as "application/word" or "image/png". These
206 strings are used as they are under Unix (so far only GTK+) to identify a
207 format and are translated into their Windows equivalent under Win32 (using
208 the OLE IDataObject for data exchange to and from the clipboard and for
209 drag and drop). Note that the format string translation under Windows is
212 Each class derived directly from wxDataObject must override and implement
213 all of its functions which are pure virtual in the base class. The data
214 objects which only render their data or only set it (i.e. work in only one
215 direction), should return 0 from GetFormatCount().
218 This class is not currently usable from wxPerl; you may use
219 Wx::PlDataObjectSimple instead.
225 @see @ref overview_dnd, @ref page_samples_dnd, wxFileDataObject,
226 wxTextDataObject, wxBitmapDataObject, wxCustomDataObject,
227 wxDropTarget, wxDropSource, wxTextDropTarget, wxFileDropTarget
234 /** Format is supported by GetDataHere() */
237 /** Format is supported by SetData() */
241 Format is supported by both GetDataHere() and SetData()
255 virtual ~wxDataObject();
258 Copies all formats supported in the given direction @a dir to the array
259 pointed to by @a formats.
260 There must be enough space for GetFormatCount(dir) formats in it.
263 In wxPerl this method only takes the @a dir parameter. In scalar
264 context it returns the first format in the list, in list
265 context it returns a list containing all the supported
269 virtual void GetAllFormats(wxDataFormat
* formats
,
270 Direction dir
= Get
) const = 0;
273 The method will write the data of the format @a format to the buffer
274 @a buf. In other words, copy the data from this object in the given
275 format to the supplied buffer. Returns @true on success, @false on
278 virtual bool GetDataHere(const wxDataFormat
& format
, void* buf
) const = 0;
281 Returns the data size of the given format @a format.
283 virtual size_t GetDataSize(const wxDataFormat
& format
) const = 0;
286 Returns the number of available formats for rendering or setting the
289 virtual size_t GetFormatCount(Direction dir
= Get
) const = 0;
292 Returns the preferred format for either rendering the data (if @a dir
293 is @c Get, its default value) or for setting it. Usually this will be
294 the native format of the wxDataObject.
296 virtual wxDataFormat
GetPreferredFormat(Direction dir
= Get
) const = 0;
299 Set the data in the format @a format of the length @a len provided in
300 the buffer @a buf. In other words, copy length bytes of data from the
301 buffer to this data object.
304 The format for which to set the data.
306 The size of data in bytes.
308 Non-@NULL pointer to the data.
310 @true on success, @false on failure.
312 virtual bool SetData(const wxDataFormat
& format
, size_t len
, const void* buf
);
315 Returns true if this format is supported.
317 bool IsSupported(const wxDataFormat
& format
, Direction dir
= Get
) const;
322 @class wxCustomDataObject
324 wxCustomDataObject is a specialization of wxDataObjectSimple for some
325 application-specific data in arbitrary (either custom or one of the
326 standard ones). The only restriction is that it is supposed that this data
327 can be copied bitwise (i.e. with @c memcpy()), so it would be a bad idea to
328 make it contain a C++ object (though C struct is fine).
330 By default, wxCustomDataObject stores the data inside in a buffer. To put
331 the data into the buffer you may use either SetData() or TakeData()
332 depending on whether you want the object to make a copy of data or not.
334 This class may be used as is, but if you don't want store the data inside
335 the object but provide it on demand instead, you should override GetSize(),
336 GetData() and SetData() (or may be only the first two or only the last one
337 if you only allow reading/writing the data).
344 class wxCustomDataObject
: public wxDataObjectSimple
348 The constructor accepts a @a format argument which specifies the
349 (single) format supported by this object. If it isn't set here,
350 wxDataObjectSimple::SetFormat() should be used.
352 wxCustomDataObject(const wxDataFormat
& format
= wxFormatInvalid
);
355 The destructor will free the data held by the object. Notice that
356 although it calls the virtual Free() function, the base class version
357 will always be called (C++ doesn't allow calling virtual functions from
358 constructors or destructors), so if you override Free(), you should
359 override the destructor in your class as well (which would probably
360 just call the derived class' version of Free()).
362 virtual ~wxCustomDataObject();
365 This function is called to allocate @a size bytes of memory from
366 SetData(). The default version just uses the operator new.
368 virtual void* Alloc(size_t size
);
371 This function is called when the data is freed, you may override it to
372 anything you want (or may be nothing at all). The default version calls
373 operator delete[] on the data.
378 Returns a pointer to the data.
380 virtual void* GetData() const;
383 Returns the data size in bytes.
385 virtual size_t GetSize() const;
388 Set the data. The data object will make an internal copy.
390 virtual bool SetData(size_t size
, const void* data
);
393 Like SetData(), but doesn't copy the data - instead the object takes
394 ownership of the pointer.
396 void TakeData(size_t size
, void* data
);
402 @class wxDataObjectComposite
404 wxDataObjectComposite is the simplest wxDataObject derivation which may be
405 used to support multiple formats. It contains several wxDataObjectSimple
406 objects and supports any format supported by at least one of them. Only one
407 of these data objects is @e preferred (the first one if not explicitly
408 changed by using the second parameter of Add()) and its format determines
409 the preferred format of the composite data object as well.
411 See wxDataObject documentation for the reasons why you might prefer to use
412 wxDataObject directly instead of wxDataObjectComposite for efficiency
415 This example shows how a composite data object capable of storing either
416 bitmaps or file names (presumably of bitmap files) can be initialized and
420 MyDropTarget::MyDropTarget()
422 wxDataObjectComposite* dataobj = new wxDataObjectComposite();
423 dataobj->Add(new wxBitmapDataObject(), true);
424 dataobj->Add(new wxFileDataObject());
425 SetDataObject(dataobj);
428 wxDragResult MyDropTarget::OnData(wxCoord x, wxCoord y,
429 wxDragResult defaultDragResult)
431 wxDragResult dragResult = wxDropTarget::OnData(x, y, defaultDragResult);
432 if ( dragResult == defaultDragResult )
434 wxDataObjectComposite *
435 dataobjComp = static_cast<wxDataObjectComposite *>(GetDataObject());
437 wxDataFormat format = dataObjects->GetReceivedFormat();
438 wxDataObject *dataobj = dataobjComp->GetObject(format);
439 switch ( format.GetType() )
444 dataobjBitmap = static_cast<wxBitmapDataObject *>(dataobj);
446 ... use dataobj->GetBitmap() ...
453 dataobjFile = static_cast<wxFileDataObject *>(dataobj);
455 ... use dataobj->GetFilenames() ...
460 wxFAIL_MSG( "unexpected data object format" );
471 @see @ref overview_dnd, wxDataObject, wxDataObjectSimple, wxFileDataObject,
472 wxTextDataObject, wxBitmapDataObject
474 class wxDataObjectComposite
: public wxDataObject
478 The default constructor.
480 wxDataObjectComposite();
483 Adds the @a dataObject to the list of supported objects and it becomes
484 the preferred object if @a preferred is @true.
486 void Add(wxDataObjectSimple
* dataObject
, bool preferred
= false);
489 Report the format passed to the SetData() method. This should be the
490 format of the data object within the composite that received data from
491 the clipboard or the DnD operation. You can use this method to find
492 out what kind of data object was received.
494 wxDataFormat
GetReceivedFormat() const;
497 Returns the pointer to the object which supports the passed format for
498 the specified direction.
500 @NULL is returned if the specified @a format is not supported for this
501 direction @a dir. The returned pointer is owned by wxDataObjectComposite
502 itself and shouldn't be deleted by caller.
506 wxDataObjectSimple
*GetObject(const wxDataFormat
& format
,
507 wxDataObject::Direction dir
= wxDataObject::Get
) const;
513 @class wxDataObjectSimple
515 This is the simplest possible implementation of the wxDataObject class.
516 The data object of (a class derived from) this class only supports
517 <strong>one format</strong>, so the number of virtual functions to
518 be implemented is reduced.
520 Notice that this is still an abstract base class and cannot be used
521 directly, it must be derived. The objects supporting rendering the data
522 must override GetDataSize() and GetDataHere() while the objects which may
523 be set must override SetData(). Of course, the objects supporting both
524 operations must override all three methods.
527 In wxPerl, you need to derive your data object class from
528 Wx::PlDataObjectSimple.
534 @see @ref overview_dnd, @ref page_samples_dnd, wxFileDataObject,
535 wxTextDataObject, wxBitmapDataObject
537 class wxDataObjectSimple
: public wxDataObject
541 Constructor accepts the supported format (none by default) which may
542 also be set later with SetFormat().
544 wxDataObjectSimple(const wxDataFormat
& format
= wxFormatInvalid
);
547 Copy the data to the buffer, return @true on success.
548 Must be implemented in the derived class if the object supports rendering
551 virtual bool GetDataHere(void* buf
) const;
554 Gets the size of our data. Must be implemented in the derived class if
555 the object supports rendering its data.
557 virtual size_t GetDataSize() const;
560 Returns the (one and only one) format supported by this object.
561 It is assumed that the format is supported in both directions.
563 const wxDataFormat
& GetFormat() const;
566 Copy the data from the buffer, return @true on success.
567 Must be implemented in the derived class if the object supports setting
570 virtual bool SetData(size_t len
, const void* buf
);
573 Sets the supported format.
575 void SetFormat(const wxDataFormat
& format
);
581 @class wxBitmapDataObject
583 wxBitmapDataObject is a specialization of wxDataObject for bitmap data. It
584 can be used without change to paste data into the wxClipboard or a
585 wxDropSource. A user may wish to derive a new class from this class for
586 providing a bitmap on-demand in order to minimize memory consumption when
587 offering data in several formats, such as a bitmap and GIF.
589 This class may be used as is, but GetBitmap() may be overridden to increase
595 @see @ref overview_dnd, wxDataObject, wxDataObjectSimple, wxFileDataObject,
596 wxTextDataObject, wxDataObject
598 class wxBitmapDataObject
: public wxDataObjectSimple
602 Constructor, optionally passing a bitmap (otherwise use SetBitmap()
605 wxBitmapDataObject(const wxBitmap
& bitmap
= wxNullBitmap
);
608 Returns the bitmap associated with the data object. You may wish to
609 override this method when offering data on-demand, but this is not
610 required by wxWidgets' internals. Use this method to get data in bitmap
611 form from the wxClipboard.
613 virtual wxBitmap
GetBitmap() const;
616 Sets the bitmap associated with the data object. This method is called
617 when the data object receives data. Usually there will be no reason to
618 override this function.
620 virtual void SetBitmap(const wxBitmap
& bitmap
);
626 @class wxURLDataObject
628 wxURLDataObject is a wxDataObject containing an URL and can be used e.g.
629 when you need to put an URL on or retrieve it from the clipboard:
632 wxTheClipboard->SetData(new wxURLDataObject(url));
635 @note This class is derived from wxDataObjectComposite on Windows rather
636 than wxTextDataObject on all other platforms.
641 @see @ref overview_dnd, wxDataObject
643 class wxURLDataObject
: public wxTextDataObject
647 Constructor, may be used to initialize the URL. If @a url is empty,
648 SetURL() can be used later.
650 wxURLDataObject(const wxString
& url
= wxEmptyString
);
653 Returns the URL stored by this object, as a string.
655 wxString
GetURL() const;
658 Sets the URL stored by this object.
660 void SetURL(const wxString
& url
);
665 @class wxTextDataObject
667 wxTextDataObject is a specialization of wxDataObjectSimple for text data.
668 It can be used without change to paste data into the wxClipboard or a
669 wxDropSource. A user may wish to derive a new class from this class for
670 providing text on-demand in order to minimize memory consumption when
671 offering data in several formats, such as plain text and RTF because by
672 default the text is stored in a string in this class, but it might as well
673 be generated when requested. For this, GetTextLength() and GetText() will
674 have to be overridden.
676 Note that if you already have the text inside a string, you will not
677 achieve any efficiency gain by overriding these functions because copying
678 wxStrings is already a very efficient operation (data is not actually
679 copied because wxStrings are reference counted).
684 @see @ref overview_dnd, wxDataObject, wxDataObjectSimple, wxFileDataObject,
687 class wxTextDataObject
: public wxDataObjectSimple
691 Constructor, may be used to initialise the text (otherwise SetText()
692 should be used later).
694 wxTextDataObject(const wxString
& text
= wxEmptyString
);
697 Returns the text associated with the data object. You may wish to
698 override this method when offering data on-demand, but this is not
699 required by wxWidgets' internals. Use this method to get data in text
700 form from the wxClipboard.
702 virtual wxString
GetText() const;
705 Returns the data size. By default, returns the size of the text data
706 set in the constructor or using SetText(). This can be overridden to
707 provide text size data on-demand. It is recommended to return the text
708 length plus 1 for a trailing zero, but this is not strictly required.
710 virtual size_t GetTextLength() const;
713 Returns 2 under wxMac and wxGTK, where text data coming from the
714 clipboard may be provided as ANSI (@c wxDF_TEXT) or as Unicode text
715 (@c wxDF_UNICODETEXT, but only when @c wxUSE_UNICODE==1).
717 Returns 1 under other platforms (e.g. wxMSW) or when building in ANSI mode
718 (@c wxUSE_UNICODE==0).
720 virtual size_t GetFormatCount(wxDataObject::Direction dir
= wxDataObject::Get
) const;
723 Returns the preferred format supported by this object.
725 This is @c wxDF_TEXT or @c wxDF_UNICODETEXT depending on the platform
726 and from the build mode (i.e. from @c wxUSE_UNICODE).
728 const wxDataFormat
& GetFormat() const;
731 Returns all the formats supported by wxTextDataObject.
733 Under wxMac and wxGTK they are @c wxDF_TEXT and @c wxDF_UNICODETEXT,
734 under other ports returns only one of the two, depending on the build mode.
736 virtual void GetAllFormats(wxDataFormat
* formats
,
737 wxDataObject::Direction dir
= wxDataObject::Get
) const;
740 Sets the text associated with the data object. This method is called
741 when the data object receives the data and, by default, copies the text
742 into the member variable. If you want to process the text on the fly
743 you may wish to override this function.
745 virtual void SetText(const wxString
& strText
);
751 @class wxFileDataObject
753 wxFileDataObject is a specialization of wxDataObject for file names. The
754 program works with it just as if it were a list of absolute file names, but
755 internally it uses the same format as Explorer and other compatible
756 programs under Windows or GNOME/KDE filemanager under Unix which makes it
757 possible to receive files from them using this class.
759 @warning Under all non-Windows platforms this class is currently
760 "input-only", i.e. you can receive the files from another
761 application, but copying (or dragging) file(s) from a wxWidgets
762 application is not currently supported. PS: GTK2 should work as
768 @see wxDataObject, wxDataObjectSimple, wxTextDataObject,
769 wxBitmapDataObject, wxDataObject
771 class wxFileDataObject
: public wxDataObjectSimple
780 Adds a file to the file list represented by this data object (Windows only).
782 void AddFile(const wxString
& file
);
785 Returns the array of file names.
787 const wxArrayString
& GetFilenames() const;
791 @class wxHTMLDataObject
793 wxHTMLDataObject is used for working with HTML-formatted text.
798 @see wxDataObject, wxDataObjectSimple
800 class wxHTMLDataObject
: public wxDataObjectSimple
806 wxHTMLDataObject(const wxString
& html
= wxEmptyString
);
809 Returns the HTML string.
811 virtual wxString
GetHTML() const;
814 Sets the HTML string.
816 virtual void SetHTML(const wxString
& html
);