Expand wxString overview and document some problems due to its dual nature.
[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / xlocale.h
1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: xlocale.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxXLocale
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9
10 /**
11 @class wxXLocale
12
13 This class represents a locale object used by so-called xlocale API.
14
15 Unlike wxLocale it doesn't provide any non-trivial operations but simply
16 provides a portable wrapper for POSIX @c locale_t type.
17
18 It exists solely to be provided as an argument to various @c wxFoo_l() functions
19 which are the extensions of the standard locale-dependent functions (hence the
20 name xlocale). These functions do exactly the same thing as the corresponding
21 standard @c foo() except that instead of using the global program locale
22 they use the provided wxXLocale object.
23
24 See @ref group_funcmacro_locale for a list of wxXLocale-enabled functions.
25
26 Conversely, if a program wanted to output the number in French locale, even if
27 the current locale is different, it could use wxXLocale(wxLANGUAGE_FRENCH).
28
29
30 @section xlocale_avail Availability
31
32 This class is fully implemented only under the platforms where xlocale POSIX
33 API or equivalent is available. Currently the xlocale API is available under
34 most of the recent Unix systems (including Linux, various BSD and Mac OS X) and
35 Microsoft Visual C++ standard library provides a similar API starting from
36 version 8 (Visual Studio 2005).
37
38 If neither POSIX API nor Microsoft proprietary equivalent are available, this
39 class is still available but works in degraded mode: the only supported locale
40 is the C one and attempts to create wxXLocale object for any other locale will
41 fail. You can use the preprocessor macro @c wxHAS_XLOCALE_SUPPORT to test if
42 full xlocale API is available or only skeleton C locale support is present.
43
44 Notice that wxXLocale is new in wxWidgets 2.9.0 and is not compiled in if
45 @c wxUSE_XLOCALE was set to 0 during the library compilation.
46
47
48 @library{wxbase}
49 @category{cfg}
50
51 @stdobjects
52 @li ::wxNullXLocale
53
54 @see wxLocale
55 */
56 class wxXLocale
57 {
58 public:
59 /**
60 Creates an uninitialized locale object, IsOk() method will return @false.
61 */
62 wxXLocale();
63
64 /**
65 Creates the locale object corresponding to the specified language.
66 */
67 wxXLocale(wxLanguage lang);
68
69 /**
70 Creates the locale object corresponding to the specified locale string.
71 The locale string is system-dependent, use constructor taking wxLanguage
72 for better portability.
73 */
74 wxXLocale(const char* loc);
75
76 /**
77 Returns the global object representing the "C" locale.
78 For an even shorter access to this object a global @c wxCLocale variable
79 (implemented as a macro) is provided and can be used instead of calling
80 this method.
81 */
82 static wxXLocale& GetCLocale();
83
84 /**
85 Returns @true if this object is initialized, i.e.\ represents a valid locale
86 or @false otherwise.
87 */
88 bool IsOk() const;
89
90 /**
91 Comparison operator.
92 */
93 bool operator==(const wxXLocale& loc) const;
94 };
95
96 /**
97 An empty and invalid wxXLocale object.
98 */
99 wxXLocale wxNullXLocale;
100
101
102
103 // ============================================================================
104 // Global functions/macros
105 // ============================================================================
106
107 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_locale */
108 //@{
109
110 int wxIsalnum_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
111 int wxIsalpha_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
112 int wxIscntrl_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
113 int wxIsdigit_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
114 int wxIsgraph_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
115 int wxIslower_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
116 int wxIsprint_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
117 int wxIspunct_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
118 int wxIsspace_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
119 int wxIsupper_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
120 int wxIsxdigit_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
121 wchar_t wxTolower_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
122 wchar_t wxToupper_l(wchar_t c, const wxXLocale& loc);
123
124 double wxStrtod_l(const wchar_t *c, wchar_t **endptr, const wxXLocale& loc);
125 long wxStrtol_l(const wchar_t *c, wchar_t **endptr, int base, const wxXLocale& loc);
126 unsigned long wxStrtoul_l(const wchar_t *c, wchar_t **endptr, int base, const wxXLocale& loc);
127
128 //@}
129