1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: interface of wxWindow
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11 Background styles. See wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle().
13 enum wxBackgroundStyle
15 /// Use the default background, as determined by
16 /// the system or the current theme.
19 /// Use a solid colour for the background, this style is set automatically if you call
20 /// SetBackgroundColour() so you only need to set it explicitly if you had
21 /// changed the background style to something else before.
24 /// Don't draw the background at all, it's supposed that it is drawn by
25 /// the user-defined erase background event handler.
26 /// This style should be used to avoid flicker when the background is entirely
30 /// The background is (partially) transparent,this style is automatically set if you call
31 /// SetTransparent() which is used to set the transparency level.
32 wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT
37 Valid values for wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() and wxWindow::HideWithEffect().
41 /// Roll window to the left
42 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_LEFT
,
44 /// Roll window to the right
45 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_RIGHT
,
47 /// Roll window to the top
48 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_TOP
,
50 /// Roll window to the bottom
51 wxSHOW_EFFECT_ROLL_TO_BOTTOM
,
53 /// Slide window to the left
54 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_LEFT
,
56 /// Slide window to the right
57 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT
,
59 /// Slide window to the top
60 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_TOP
,
62 /// Slide window to the bottom
63 wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_BOTTOM
,
65 /// Fade in or out effect
68 /// Expanding or collapsing effect
73 Different window variants, on platforms like eg mac uses different
78 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL
, //!< Normal size
79 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_SMALL
, //!< Smaller size (about 25 % smaller than normal)
80 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_MINI
, //!< Mini size (about 33 % smaller than normal)
81 wxWINDOW_VARIANT_LARGE
, //!< Large size (about 25 % larger than normal)
87 Flags which can be used in wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI().
93 wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE
/**< Invoked from On(Internal)Idle */
100 wxWindow is the base class for all windows and represents any visible object
101 om screen. All controls, top level windows and so on are windows. Sizers and
102 device contexts are not, however, as they don't appear on screen themselves.
104 Please note that all children of the window will be deleted automatically by
105 the destructor before the window itself is deleted which means that you don't
106 have to worry about deleting them manually. Please see the @ref
107 overview_windowdeletion "window deletion overview" for more information.
109 Also note that in this, and many others, wxWidgets classes some
110 @c GetXXX() methods may be overloaded (as, for example,
111 wxWindow::GetSize or wxWindow::GetClientSize). In this case, the overloads
112 are non-virtual because having multiple virtual functions with the same name
113 results in a virtual function name hiding at the derived class level (in
114 English, this means that the derived class has to override all overloaded
115 variants if it overrides any of them). To allow overriding them in the derived
116 class, wxWidgets uses a unique protected virtual @c DoGetXXX() method
117 and all @c GetXXX() ones are forwarded to it, so overriding the former
118 changes the behaviour of the latter.
121 @style{wxBORDER_DEFAULT}
122 The window class will decide the kind of border to show, if any.
123 @style{wxBORDER_SIMPLE}
124 Displays a thin border around the window. wxSIMPLE_BORDER is the
125 old name for this style.
126 @style{wxBORDER_SUNKEN}
127 Displays a sunken border. wxSUNKEN_BORDER is the old name for this
129 @style{wxBORDER_RAISED}
130 Displays a raised border. wxRAISED_BORDER is the old name for this
132 @style{wxBORDER_STATIC}
133 Displays a border suitable for a static control. wxSTATIC_BORDER
134 is the old name for this style. Windows only.
135 @style{wxBORDER_THEME}
136 Displays a native border suitable for a control, on the current
137 platform. On Windows XP or Vista, this will be a themed border; on
138 most other platforms a sunken border will be used. For more
139 information for themed borders on Windows, please see Themed
141 @style{wxBORDER_NONE}
142 Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the
143 window. wxNO_BORDER is the old name for this style.
144 @style{wxBORDER_DOUBLE}
145 This style is obsolete and should not be used.
146 @style{wxTRANSPARENT_WINDOW}
147 The window is transparent, that is, it will not receive paint
148 events. Windows only.
149 @style{wxTAB_TRAVERSAL}
150 Use this to enable tab traversal for non-dialog windows.
151 @style{wxWANTS_CHARS}
152 Use this to indicate that the window wants to get all char/key
153 events for all keys - even for keys like TAB or ENTER which are
154 usually used for dialog navigation and which wouldn't be generated
155 without this style. If you need to use this style in order to get
156 the arrows or etc., but would still like to have normal keyboard
157 navigation take place, you should call Navigate in response to the
158 key events for Tab and Shift-Tab.
159 @style{wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
160 On Windows, this style used to disable repainting the window
161 completely when its size is changed. Since this behaviour is now
162 the default, the style is now obsolete and no longer has an effect.
164 Use this style to enable a vertical scrollbar. Notice that this
165 style cannot be used with native controls which don't support
166 scrollbars nor with top-level windows in most ports.
168 Use this style to enable a horizontal scrollbar. The same
169 limitations as for wxVSCROLL apply to this style.
170 @style{wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB}
171 If a window has scrollbars, disable them instead of hiding them
172 when they are not needed (i.e. when the size of the window is big
173 enough to not require the scrollbars to navigate it). This style is
174 currently implemented for wxMSW, wxGTK and wxUniversal and does
175 nothing on the other platforms.
176 @style{wxCLIP_CHILDREN}
177 Use this style to eliminate flicker caused by the background being
178 repainted, then children being painted over them. Windows only.
179 @style{wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE}
180 Use this style to force a complete redraw of the window whenever it
181 is resized instead of redrawing just the part of the window
182 affected by resizing. Note that this was the behaviour by default
183 before 2.5.1 release and that if you experience redraw problems
184 with code which previously used to work you may want to try this.
185 Currently this style applies on GTK+ 2 and Windows only, and full
186 repainting is always done on other platforms.
189 @beginExtraStyleTable
190 @style{wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY}
191 By default, Validate/TransferDataTo/FromWindow() only work on
192 direct children of the window (compatible behaviour). Set this flag
193 to make them recursively descend into all subwindows.
194 @style{wxWS_EX_BLOCK_EVENTS}
195 wxCommandEvents and the objects of the derived classes are
196 forwarded to the parent window and so on recursively by default.
197 Using this flag for the given window allows to block this
198 propagation at this window, i.e. prevent the events from being
199 propagated further upwards. Dialogs have this flag on by default
200 for the reasons explained in the @ref overview_eventhandling "Event Handling Overview".
201 @style{wxWS_EX_TRANSIENT}
202 Don't use this window as an implicit parent for the other windows:
203 this must be used with transient windows as otherwise there is the
204 risk of creating a dialog/frame with this window as a parent which
205 would lead to a crash if the parent is destroyed before the child.
206 @style{wxWS_EX_CONTEXTHELP}
207 Under Windows, puts a query button on the caption. When pressed,
208 Windows will go into a context-sensitive help mode and wxWidgets
209 will send a wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application window.
210 This style cannot be used together with wxMAXIMIZE_BOX or wxMINIMIZE_BOX, so
211 these two styles are automatically turned of if this one is used.
212 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE}
213 This window should always process idle events, even if the mode set
214 by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
215 @style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES}
216 This window should always process UI update events, even if the
217 mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
223 @see @ref overview_eventhandling "Event handling overview",
224 @ref overview_windowsizing "Window sizing overview"
226 class wxWindow
: public wxEvtHandler
235 Constructs a window, which can be a child of a frame, dialog or any other
239 Pointer to a parent window.
241 Window identifier. If wxID_ANY, will automatically create an identifier.
243 Window position. wxDefaultPosition indicates that wxWidgets
244 should generate a default position for the window.
245 If using the wxWindow class directly, supply an actual position.
247 Window size. wxDefaultSize indicates that wxWidgets should generate
248 a default size for the window. If no suitable size can be found, the
249 window will be sized to 20x20 pixels so that the window is visible but
250 obviously not correctly sized.
252 Window style. For generic window styles, please see wxWindow.
256 wxWindow(wxWindow
* parent
, wxWindowID id
,
257 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
,
258 const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
,
260 const wxString
& name
= wxPanelNameStr
);
265 Deletes all sub-windows, then deletes itself. Instead of using
266 the @b delete operator explicitly, you should normally use Destroy()
267 so that wxWidgets can delete a window only when it is safe to do so, in idle time.
269 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
270 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
275 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
276 indicate that this control doesn't accept input at all (i.e. behaves like
277 e.g. wxStaticText) and so doesn't need focus.
279 @see AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard()
281 virtual bool AcceptsFocus() const;
284 This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
285 indicate that while this control can, in principle, have focus if the user
286 clicks it with the mouse, it shouldn't be included in the TAB traversal chain
287 when using the keyboard.
289 virtual bool AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard() const;
292 Overridden to indicate wehter this window or one of its children accepts
293 focus. Usually it's the same as AcceptsFocus() but is overridden for
296 virtual bool AcceptsFocusRecursively() const;
299 Adds a child window. This is called automatically by window creation
300 functions so should not be required by the application programmer.
301 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
302 called by the user code.
307 virtual void AddChild(wxWindow
* child
);
310 Call this function to force one or both scrollbars to be always shown, even if
311 the window is big enough to show its entire contents without scrolling.
316 Whether the horizontal scroll bar should always be visible.
318 Whether the vertical scroll bar should always be visible.
320 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under Mac/Carbon.
322 virtual void AlwaysShowScrollbars(bool hflag
= true, bool vflag
= true);
325 Sets the cached best size value.
327 void CacheBestSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
330 Returns @true if the system supports transparent windows and calling
331 SetTransparent() may succeed. If this function returns @false, transparent
332 windows are definitely not supported by the current system.
334 virtual bool CanSetTransparent();
337 Directs all mouse input to this window.
338 Call ReleaseMouse() to release the capture.
340 Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
341 and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
342 captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
343 window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
344 as you capture it, unless the window receives the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
346 Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
347 must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent and cancel this operation when it receives
348 the event. The event handler must not recapture mouse.
350 @see ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
355 A synonym for Centre().
357 void Center(int dir
= wxBOTH
);
360 A synonym for CentreOnParent().
362 void CenterOnParent(int dir
= wxBOTH
);
368 Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
369 or wxBOTH. It may also include wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN flag
370 if you want to center the window on the entire screen and not on its
373 @remarks If the window is a top level one (i.e. doesn't have a parent),
374 it will be centered relative to the screen anyhow.
378 void Centre(int direction
= wxBOTH
);
381 Centres the window on its parent. This is a more readable synonym for Centre().
384 Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
387 @remarks This methods provides for a way to center top level windows over
388 their parents instead of the entire screen. If there
389 is no parent or if the window is not a top level
390 window, then behaviour is the same as Centre().
392 @see wxTopLevelWindow::CentreOnScreen
394 void CentreOnParent(int direction
= wxBOTH
);
397 Clears the window by filling it with the current background colour. Does not
398 cause an erase background event to be generated.
400 virtual void ClearBackground();
403 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
406 A pointer to a integer value for the x coordinate. Pass the client
407 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
409 A pointer to a integer value for the y coordinate. Pass the client
410 coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
413 In place of a single overloaded method name, wxPython implements the following methods:
414 - ClientToScreen(point): Accepts and returns a wxPoint
415 - ClientToScreenXY(x, y): Returns a 2-tuple, (x, y)
418 void ClientToScreen(int* x
, int* y
) const;
421 Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
424 The client position for the second form of the function.
426 wxPoint
ClientToScreen(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
429 Converts client area size @a size to corresponding window size.
431 In other words, the returned value is what would GetSize() return if this
432 window had client area of given size. Components with wxDefaultCoord
433 value are left unchanged. Note that the conversion is not always
434 exact, it assumes that non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't
435 take into account things like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance
440 @see WindowToClientSize()
442 virtual wxSize
ClientToWindowSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
445 Converts window size @a size to corresponding client area size
446 In other words, the returned value is what would GetClientSize() return if
447 this window had given window size. Components with wxDefaultCoord value
450 Note that the conversion is not always exact, it assumes that
451 non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't take into account things
452 like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance of the scrollbars.
456 @see ClientToWindowSize()
458 virtual wxSize
WindowToClientSize(const wxSize
& size
) const;
461 This function simply generates a wxCloseEvent whose handler usually tries
462 to close the window. It doesn't close the window itself, however.
465 @false if the window's close handler should be able to veto the destruction
466 of this window, @true if it cannot.
468 @remarks Close calls the close handler for the window, providing an
469 opportunity for the window to choose whether to destroy
470 the window. Usually it is only used with the top level
471 windows (wxFrame and wxDialog classes) as the others
472 are not supposed to have any special OnClose() logic.
473 The close handler should check whether the window is being deleted
474 forcibly, using wxCloseEvent::CanVeto, in which case it should
475 destroy the window using wxWindow::Destroy.
476 Note that calling Close does not guarantee that the window will
477 be destroyed; but it provides a way to simulate a manual close
478 of a window, which may or may not be implemented by destroying
479 the window. The default implementation of wxDialog::OnCloseWindow
480 does not necessarily delete the dialog, since it will simply
481 simulate an wxID_CANCEL event which is handled by the appropriate
482 button event handler and may do anything at all.
483 To guarantee that the window will be destroyed, call
484 wxWindow::Destroy instead
486 @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
487 Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
489 bool Close(bool force
= false);
493 Converts a point or size from dialog units to pixels.
495 For the x dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
496 width and then divided by 4.
497 For the y dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
498 height and then divided by 8.
500 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
501 even if the font changes.
502 You can also use these functions programmatically.
503 A convenience macro is defined:
505 #define wxDLG_UNIT(parent, pt) parent->ConvertDialogToPixels(pt)
508 @see ConvertPixelsToDialog()
510 wxPoint
ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxPoint
& pt
);
511 wxSize
ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxSize
& sz
);
516 Converts a point or size from pixels to dialog units.
518 For the x dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 4 and then divided by the
519 average character width.
520 For the y dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 8 and then divided by the
521 average character height.
523 @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
524 even if the font changes.
526 @see ConvertDialogToPixels()
528 wxPoint
ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxPoint
& pt
);
529 wxSize
ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxSize
& sz
);
533 Destroys the window safely. Use this function instead of the delete operator,
534 since different window classes can be destroyed differently. Frames and dialogs
535 are not destroyed immediately when this function is called -- they are added
536 to a list of windows to be deleted on idle time, when all the window's events
537 have been processed. This prevents problems with events being sent to
538 non-existent windows.
540 @return @true if the window has either been successfully deleted, or it
541 has been added to the list of windows pending real deletion.
543 virtual bool Destroy();
546 Destroys all children of a window. Called automatically by the destructor.
548 bool DestroyChildren();
551 Returns true if this window is in process of being destroyed.
553 The top level windows are not deleted immediately but are rather
554 scheduled for later destruction to give them time to process any
555 pending messages, see Destroy() description.
557 This function returns @true if this window, or one of its parent
558 windows, is scheduled for destruction and can be useful to avoid
559 manipulating it as it's usually useless to do something with a window
560 which is on the point of disappearing anyhow.
562 bool IsBeingDeleted() const;
565 Disables the window. Same as @ref Enable() Enable(@false).
567 @return Returns @true if the window has been disabled, @false if it had
568 been already disabled before the call to this function.
573 Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
574 This function is called by UpdateWindowUI() in order to check return
575 values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and act appropriately.
576 For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating, wxWidgets
577 implements this function as follows:
580 // do the window-specific processing after processing the update event
581 void wxTopLevelWindowBase::DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event)
583 if ( event.GetSetEnabled() )
584 Enable(event.GetEnabled());
586 if ( event.GetSetText() )
588 if ( event.GetText() != GetTitle() )
589 SetTitle(event.GetText());
594 virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent
& event
);
597 Enables or disables eligibility for drop file events (OnDropFiles).
600 If @true, the window is eligible for drop file events.
601 If @false, the window will not accept drop file events.
603 @remarks Windows only.
605 virtual void DragAcceptFiles(bool accept
);
608 Enable or disable the window for user input. Note that when a parent window is
609 disabled, all of its children are disabled as well and they are reenabled again
613 If @true, enables the window for input. If @false, disables the window.
615 @return Returns @true if the window has been enabled or disabled, @false
616 if nothing was done, i.e. if the window had already
617 been in the specified state.
619 @see IsEnabled(), Disable(), wxRadioBox::Enable
621 virtual bool Enable(bool enable
= true);
624 Finds the window or control which currently has the keyboard focus.
626 @remarks Note that this is a static function, so it can be called without
627 needing a wxWindow pointer.
629 @see SetFocus(), HasFocus()
631 static wxWindow
* FindFocus();
634 Find a child of this window, by @a id.
635 May return @a this if it matches itself.
637 wxWindow
* FindWindow(long id
) const;
640 Find a child of this window, by name.
641 May return @a this if it matches itself.
643 wxWindow
* FindWindow(const wxString
& name
) const;
646 Find the first window with the given @e id.
648 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
649 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
651 The search is recursive in both cases.
655 static wxWindow
* FindWindowById(long id
, wxWindow
* parent
= NULL
);
658 Find a window by its label.
660 Depending on the type of window, the label may be a window title
661 or panel item label. If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all
662 top-level frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be
663 limited to the given window hierarchy.
664 The search is recursive in both cases.
668 static wxWindow
* FindWindowByLabel(const wxString
& label
,
669 wxWindow
* parent
= NULL
);
672 Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or @b Create
675 If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
676 and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
679 The search is recursive in both cases. If no window with such name is found,
680 FindWindowByLabel() is called.
684 static wxWindow
* FindWindowByName(const wxString
& name
,
685 wxWindow
* parent
= NULL
);
688 Sizes the window so that it fits around its subwindows.
690 This function won't do anything if there are no subwindows and will only really
691 work correctly if sizers are used for the subwindows layout.
693 Also, if the window has exactly one subwindow it is better (faster and the result
694 is more precise as Fit() adds some margin to account for fuzziness of its calculations)
698 window->SetClientSize(child->GetSize());
701 instead of calling Fit().
703 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
708 Similar to Fit(), but sizes the interior (virtual) size of a window.
710 Mainly useful with scrolled windows to reset scrollbars after sizing
711 changes that do not trigger a size event, and/or scrolled windows without
712 an interior sizer. This function similarly won't do anything if there are
715 virtual void FitInside();
718 Freezes the window or, in other words, prevents any updates from taking
719 place on screen, the window is not redrawn at all.
721 Thaw() must be called to reenable window redrawing. Calls to these two
722 functions may be nested but to ensure that the window is properly
723 repainted again, you must thaw it exactly as many times as you froze it.
725 If the window has any children, they are recursively frozen too.
727 This method is useful for visual appearance optimization (for example,
728 it is a good idea to use it before doing many large text insertions in
729 a row into a wxTextCtrl under wxGTK) but is not implemented on all
730 platforms nor for all controls so it is mostly just a hint to wxWidgets
731 and not a mandatory directive.
733 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Thaw(), IsFrozen()
738 Gets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
740 wxAcceleratorTable
* GetAcceleratorTable();
743 Returns the accessible object for this window, if any.
744 See also wxAccessible.
746 wxAccessible
* GetAccessible();
750 This method is deprecated, use GetEffectiveMinSize() instead.
752 wxSize
GetAdjustedBestSize() const;
755 Returns the background colour of the window.
757 @see SetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(), GetForegroundColour()
759 wxColour
GetBackgroundColour() const;
762 Returns the background style of the window.
763 The background style can be one of the wxBackgroundStyle.
765 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
766 SetBackgroundStyle(), SetTransparent()
768 virtual wxBackgroundStyle
GetBackgroundStyle() const;
771 This functions returns the best acceptable minimal size for the window.
773 For example, for a static control, it will be the minimal size such that the
774 control label is not truncated. For windows containing subwindows (typically
775 wxPanel), the size returned by this function will be the same as the size
776 the window would have had after calling Fit().
778 wxSize
GetBestSize() const;
781 Returns the currently captured window.
783 @see HasCapture(), CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(),
784 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
786 static wxWindow
* GetCapture();
789 Returns the caret() associated with the window.
791 wxCaret
* GetCaret() const;
794 Returns the character height for this window.
796 virtual int GetCharHeight() const;
799 Returns the average character width for this window.
801 virtual int GetCharWidth() const;
805 Returns a reference to the list of the window's children. @c wxWindowList
806 is a type-safe wxList-like class whose elements are of type @c wxWindow*.
808 wxWindowList
& GetChildren();
809 const wxWindowList
& GetChildren() const;
813 Returns the default font and colours which are used by the control.
815 This is useful if you want to use the same font or colour in your own control
816 as in a standard control -- which is a much better idea than hard coding specific
817 colours or fonts which might look completely out of place on the users
818 system, especially if it uses themes.
820 The @a variant parameter is only relevant under Mac currently and is
821 ignore under other platforms. Under Mac, it will change the size of the
822 returned font. See SetWindowVariant() for more about this.
824 This static method is "overridden" in many derived classes and so calling,
825 for example, wxButton::GetClassDefaultAttributes() will typically
826 return the values appropriate for a button which will be normally different
827 from those returned by, say, wxListCtrl::GetClassDefaultAttributes().
829 The @c wxVisualAttributes structure has at least the fields
830 @c font, @c colFg and @c colBg. All of them may be invalid
831 if it was not possible to determine the default control appearance or,
832 especially for the background colour, if the field doesn't make sense as is
833 the case for @c colBg for the controls with themed background.
835 @see InheritAttributes()
837 static wxVisualAttributes
GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindowVariant variant
= wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL
);
841 Returns the size of the window 'client area' in pixels.
843 The client area is the area which may be drawn on by the programmer,
844 excluding title bar, border, scrollbars, etc.
845 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
846 return size is empty (both width and height are 0).
848 @see GetSize(), GetVirtualSize()
850 void GetClientSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
851 wxSize
GetClientSize() const;
855 Returns a pointer to the window's layout constraints, or @NULL if there are none.
857 wxLayoutConstraints
* GetConstraints() const;
860 Return the sizer that this window is a member of, if any, otherwise @NULL.
862 wxSizer
* GetContainingSizer() const;
865 Return the cursor associated with this window.
869 const wxCursor
& GetCursor() const;
872 Currently this is the same as calling
873 wxWindow::GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindow::GetWindowVariant()).
875 One advantage of using this function compared to the static version is that
876 the call is automatically dispatched to the correct class (as usual with
877 virtual functions) and you don't have to specify the class name explicitly.
879 The other one is that in the future this function could return different
880 results, for example it might return a different font for an "Ok" button
881 than for a generic button if the users GUI is configured to show such buttons
882 in bold font. Of course, the down side is that it is impossible to call this
883 function without actually having an object to apply it to whereas the static
884 version can be used without having to create an object first.
886 virtual wxVisualAttributes
GetDefaultAttributes() const;
889 Returns the associated drop target, which may be @NULL.
891 @see SetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
893 virtual wxDropTarget
* GetDropTarget() const;
896 Merges the window's best size into the min size and returns the result.
897 This is the value used by sizers to determine the appropriate
898 ammount of space to allocate for the widget.
900 @see GetBestSize(), SetInitialSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
902 wxSize
GetEffectiveMinSize() const;
905 Returns the event handler for this window.
906 By default, the window is its own event handler.
908 @see SetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
909 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
911 wxEvtHandler
* GetEventHandler() const;
914 Returns the extra style bits for the window.
916 long GetExtraStyle() const;
919 Returns the font for this window.
923 wxFont
GetFont() const;
926 Returns the foreground colour of the window.
928 @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
929 interpretation according to the window class; it may be
930 the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
932 @see SetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
933 GetBackgroundColour()
935 wxColour
GetForegroundColour() const;
938 Returns the grandparent of a window, or @NULL if there isn't one.
940 wxWindow
* GetGrandParent() const;
943 Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
944 Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
945 @b Widget for Motif, @b GtkWidget for GTK or @b WinHandle for PalmOS.
947 virtual WXWidget
GetHandle() const;
950 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
951 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
952 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
954 @see SetHelpText(), GetHelpTextAtPoint(), wxHelpProvider
956 wxString
GetHelpText() const;
959 Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
960 This method should be overridden if the help message depends on the position
961 inside the window, otherwise GetHelpText() can be used.
964 Coordinates of the mouse at the moment of help event emission.
966 Help event origin, see also wxHelpEvent::GetOrigin.
968 virtual wxString
GetHelpTextAtPoint(const wxPoint
& point
,
969 wxHelpEvent::Origin origin
) const;
972 Returns the identifier of the window.
974 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application
975 has not provided one (or the default wxID_ANY) an unique
976 identifier with a negative value will be generated.
978 @see SetId(), @ref overview_windowids
980 wxWindowID
GetId() const;
983 Generic way of getting a label from any window, for
984 identification purposes.
986 @remarks The interpretation of this function differs from class to class.
987 For frames and dialogs, the value returned is the
988 title. For buttons or static text controls, it is the
989 button text. This function can be useful for
990 meta-programs (such as testing tools or special-needs
991 access programs) which need to identify windows by name.
993 virtual wxString
GetLabel() const;
996 Returns the maximum size of window's client area.
998 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
999 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using
1004 virtual wxSize
GetMaxClientSize() const;
1007 Returns the maximum size of the window.
1009 This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
1010 possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using SetSize().
1012 @see GetMaxClientSize()
1014 virtual wxSize
GetMaxSize() const;
1017 Returns the minimum size of window's client area, an indication to the sizer
1018 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of its client area.
1020 It normally just returns the value set by SetMinClientSize(), but it can be
1021 overridden to do the calculation on demand.
1025 virtual wxSize
GetMinClientSize() const;
1028 Returns the minimum size of the window, an indication to the sizer layout
1029 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
1031 This method normally just returns the value set by SetMinSize(), but it
1032 can be overridden to do the calculation on demand.
1034 @see GetMinClientSize()
1036 virtual wxSize
GetMinSize() const;
1039 Returns the window's name.
1041 @remarks This name is not guaranteed to be unique; it is up to the
1042 programmer to supply an appropriate name in the window
1043 constructor or via SetName().
1047 virtual wxString
GetName() const;
1050 Returns the next window after this one among the parent children or @NULL
1051 if this window is the last child.
1055 @see GetPrevSibling()
1057 wxWindow
* GetNextSibling() const;
1060 Returns the parent of the window, or @NULL if there is no parent.
1062 wxWindow
* GetParent() const;
1065 This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
1066 returns the selected id. It can be more convenient than the general purpose
1067 PopupMenu() function for simple menus proposing a choice in a list of
1068 strings to the user.
1073 The position at which to show the menu in client coordinates
1075 @return The selected menu item id or wxID_NONE if none selected or an
1078 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu
& menu
, const wxPoint
& pos
);
1081 See the GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu&, const wxPoint&) overload.
1082 This overload differs only because it takes two integers for the
1083 menu position instead of a wxPoint.
1085 int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu
& menu
, int x
, int y
);
1088 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1089 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1092 Receives the x position of the window if non-@NULL.
1094 Receives the y position of the window if non-@NULL.
1096 @see GetScreenPosition()
1098 void GetPosition(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1101 This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
1102 for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
1104 @see GetScreenPosition()
1106 wxPoint
GetPosition() const;
1109 Returns the previous window before this one among the parent children or @c
1110 @NULL if this window is the first child.
1114 @see GetNextSibling()
1116 wxWindow
* GetPrevSibling() const;
1119 Returns the position and size of the window as a wxRect object.
1121 @see GetScreenRect()
1123 wxRect
GetRect() const;
1126 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1127 child window or a top level one.
1130 Receives the x position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1132 Receives the y position of the window on the screen if non-@NULL.
1136 void GetScreenPosition(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1139 Returns the window position in screen coordinates, whether the window is a
1140 child window or a top level one.
1144 wxPoint
GetScreenPosition() const;
1147 Returns the position and size of the window on the screen as a wxRect object.
1151 wxRect
GetScreenRect() const;
1154 Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
1156 @see See SetScrollbar()
1158 virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation
) const;
1161 Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
1165 virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation
) const;
1168 Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
1172 virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation
) const;
1175 Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
1178 Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
1179 returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
1182 Receives the window width.
1184 Receives the window height.
1186 @see GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize()
1188 void GetSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
1191 See the GetSize(int*,int*) overload for more info.
1193 wxSize
GetSize() const;
1196 Return the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
1197 SetSizer() or @NULL.
1199 wxSizer
* GetSizer() const;
1202 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1203 window with the currently selected font.
1205 The text extent is returned in @a w and @a h pointers.
1208 String whose extent is to be measured.
1210 Return value for width.
1212 Return value for height.
1214 Return value for descent (optional).
1215 @param externalLeading
1216 Return value for external leading (optional).
1218 Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
1220 virtual void GetTextExtent(const wxString
& string
, int* w
, int* h
,
1221 int* descent
= NULL
,
1222 int* externalLeading
= NULL
,
1223 const wxFont
* font
= NULL
) const;
1226 Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
1227 window with the currently selected font.
1229 wxSize
GetTextExtent(const wxString
& string
) const;
1232 Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
1234 wxToolTip
* GetToolTip() const;
1237 Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
1238 Should only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
1240 @see wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
1242 const wxRegion
& GetUpdateRegion() const;
1245 Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if
1248 virtual wxValidator
* GetValidator();
1252 This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
1253 By default it returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
1254 SetVirtualSize() it will return the size set with that method.
1256 wxSize
GetVirtualSize() const;
1259 Like the other GetVirtualSize() overload but uses pointers instead.
1262 Receives the window virtual width.
1264 Receives the window virtual height.
1266 void GetVirtualSize(int* width
, int* height
) const;
1270 Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
1271 and y components of the result respectively.
1273 virtual wxSize
GetWindowBorderSize() const;
1276 Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or @b Create
1277 method. @b GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
1279 virtual long GetWindowStyleFlag() const;
1282 Returns the value previously passed to SetWindowVariant().
1284 wxWindowVariant
GetWindowVariant() const;
1287 This function will generate the appropriate call to
1288 Navigate() if the key event is one normally used for
1289 keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
1291 @return Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
1292 handled, @false otherwise.
1296 bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent
& event
);
1301 GetEventHandler()->SafelyProcessEvent(event);
1304 bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent
& event
) const;
1307 Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
1309 @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
1310 wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1312 virtual bool HasCapture() const;
1315 Returns @true if the window has the given @a exFlag bit set in its
1318 @see SetExtraStyle()
1320 bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag
) const;
1323 Returns @true if the window has the given @a flag bit set.
1325 bool HasFlag(int flag
) const;
1328 Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
1329 child window) has focus.
1333 virtual bool HasFocus() const;
1336 This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
1337 multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
1338 wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
1339 and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should do it as well to
1340 allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
1342 virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
1345 Returns @true if this window has a scroll bar for this orientation.
1348 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
1350 bool HasScrollbar(int orient
) const;
1353 Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example,
1354 for wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
1356 This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
1357 shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
1358 wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
1360 virtual bool HasTransparentBackground();
1363 Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
1368 This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a special visual
1371 The parameters of this function are the same as for ShowWithEffect(),
1372 please see their description there.
1376 virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect
,
1377 unsigned int timeout
= 0);
1380 This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
1381 window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
1382 the font and the foreground and background colours.
1384 By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
1385 own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
1386 However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
1387 SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
1388 attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
1389 window takes the same value as used by the parent.
1390 In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
1391 the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
1393 This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
1394 different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
1395 are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
1396 different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
1397 they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
1398 desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
1399 just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
1400 do inherit the parents attributes.
1402 virtual void InheritAttributes();
1405 Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
1406 to the dialog via validators.
1408 virtual void InitDialog();
1411 Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
1414 void InvalidateBestSize();
1417 Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
1418 any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
1419 and transferred to the screen all at once later.
1423 virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
1426 Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input,
1429 Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
1430 been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled.
1431 To get the intrinsic status of this window, use IsThisEnabled()
1435 bool IsEnabled() const;
1439 Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
1440 last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
1441 only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
1443 bool IsExposed(int x
, int y
) const;
1444 const bool IsExposed(wxPoint amp
;pt
) const;
1445 const bool IsExposed(int x
, int y
, int w
, int h
) const;
1446 const bool IsExposed(wxRect amp
;rect
) const;
1450 Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to Freeze().
1452 @see Freeze(), Thaw()
1454 bool IsFrozen() const;
1457 Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
1459 @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
1461 virtual bool IsRetained() const;
1464 Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
1467 Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
1469 @see AlwaysShowScrollbars()
1471 virtual bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient
) const;
1474 Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
1476 @see IsShownOnScreen()
1478 virtual bool IsShown() const;
1481 Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
1482 is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
1486 virtual bool IsShownOnScreen() const;
1489 Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
1490 i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
1491 mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
1492 IsEnabled() instead.
1494 bool IsThisEnabled() const;
1497 Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
1498 dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
1501 virtual bool IsTopLevel() const;
1504 Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
1507 See SetAutoLayout(): when auto layout is on, this function gets called automatically
1508 when the window is resized.
1510 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
1512 virtual bool Layout();
1515 Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
1519 virtual void Lower();
1522 Disables all other windows in the application so that
1523 the user can only interact with this window.
1526 If @true, this call disables all other windows in the application so that
1527 the user can only interact with this window. If @false, the effect is
1530 virtual void MakeModal(bool modal
= true);
1533 Moves the window to the given position.
1536 Required x position.
1538 Required y position.
1540 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1542 @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
1543 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1545 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1550 void Move(int x
, int y
, int flags
= wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING
);
1553 Moves the window to the given position.
1556 wxPoint object representing the position.
1558 See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
1560 @remarks Implementations of SetSize() can also implicitly implement the
1561 Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
1563 SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
1568 void Move(const wxPoint
& pt
, int flags
= wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING
);
1571 Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
1572 This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
1573 the focus switches to this window.
1575 Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
1576 MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
1577 it after creating all the windows.
1580 A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
1583 void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow
* win
);
1586 Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that it inserts this window just
1587 before @a win instead of putting it right after it.
1589 void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow
* win
);
1592 Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window.
1593 This method is equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
1597 A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
1598 wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
1600 @return Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
1603 @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
1604 handler to do the default navigation behaviour for the
1605 tab key, since the standard default behaviour for a
1606 multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB style
1607 is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
1608 control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
1609 HandleAsNavigationKey.
1611 bool Navigate(int flags
= IsForward
);
1614 Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
1615 See Navigate() for more information.
1617 bool NavigateIn(int flags
= IsForward
);
1620 Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.
1621 The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindow ID
1622 or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
1624 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
1627 The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
1629 @return Returns the ID or the first ID of the range, or wxID_NONE if the
1630 specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
1632 @see UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager,
1633 @ref overview_windowids
1635 static wxWindowID
NewControlId(int count
= 1);
1638 This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
1639 sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
1640 that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
1641 handler in a derived class.
1643 This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
1644 and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
1645 in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
1647 virtual void OnInternalIdle();
1650 Same as #ScrollLines (-1).
1655 Same as #ScrollLines (1).
1660 Same as #ScrollPages (-1).
1665 Same as #ScrollPages (1).
1671 Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
1673 @param deleteHandler
1674 If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed.
1675 The default value is @false.
1677 @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
1678 PushEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1680 wxEvtHandler
* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler
= false);
1684 Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
1685 window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu.
1687 If a menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
1688 processed as usually. If the coordinates are not specified, current mouse
1689 cursor position is used.
1691 @a menu is the menu to pop up.
1693 The position where the menu will appear can be specified either as a
1694 wxPoint @a pos or by two integers (@a x and @a y).
1696 @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
1697 ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
1698 The menu does not get deleted by the window.
1699 It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
1700 calling PopupMenu in response to mouse click, because some of
1701 the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
1702 the menu in that case.
1706 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu
* menu
,
1707 const wxPoint
& pos
= wxDefaultPosition
);
1708 bool PopupMenu(wxMenu
* menu
, int x
, int y
);
1712 Posts a size event to the window.
1714 This is the same as SendSizeEvent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST argument.
1716 void PostSizeEvent();
1719 Posts a size event to the parent of this window.
1721 This is the same as SendSizeEventToParent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST
1724 void PostSizeEventToParent();
1727 Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
1730 Specifies the handler to be pushed.
1732 @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
1733 events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
1734 own event handler, but an application may wish to
1735 substitute another, for example to allow central
1736 implementation of event-handling for a variety of
1737 different window classes.
1738 wxWindow::PushEventHandler allows an application to set up a
1739 chain of event handlers, where an event not handled by one event
1740 handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
1741 Use wxWindow::PopEventHandler to remove the event handler.
1743 @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
1744 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
1746 void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
1749 Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
1750 In current version of wxWidgets this works both for managed and child windows.
1754 virtual void Raise();
1757 Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
1758 where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
1759 happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
1760 to update the window immediately you should use Update() instead.
1762 @param eraseBackground
1763 If @true, the background will be erased.
1765 If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will be treated as damaged.
1769 virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground
= true,
1770 const wxRect
* rect
= NULL
);
1773 Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
1776 This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax as it can be called
1777 with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
1779 void RefreshRect(const wxRect
& rect
, bool eraseBackground
= true);
1782 Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
1783 registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
1785 It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
1786 and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
1790 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
1791 and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
1792 system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
1793 This is a MSW specific detail.
1795 A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
1796 or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
1798 @param virtualKeyCode
1799 The virtual key code of the hotkey.
1801 @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
1802 other application already registered a hotkey with this
1803 modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
1805 @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
1806 event. This function is currently only implemented
1807 under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
1808 detecting hardware button presses.
1810 @see UnregisterHotKey()
1812 bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId
, int modifiers
,
1813 int virtualKeyCode
);
1816 Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
1818 @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
1819 wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1821 void ReleaseMouse();
1824 Removes a child window.
1826 This is called automatically by window deletion functions so should not
1827 be required by the application programmer.
1828 Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
1829 called by the user code.
1832 Child window to remove.
1834 virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow
* child
);
1837 Find the given @a handler in the windows event handler chain and remove
1838 (but not delete) it from it.
1841 The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
1842 must be present in this windows event handlers chain
1844 @return Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
1845 results in an assert failure so this function should
1846 only be called when the handler is supposed to be there).
1848 @see PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
1850 bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
1853 Reparents the window, i.e the window will be removed from its
1854 current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
1855 and then re-inserted into another.
1860 virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow
* newParent
);
1863 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1866 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1868 Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
1870 void ScreenToClient(int* x
, int* y
) const;
1873 Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
1876 The screen position.
1878 wxPoint
ScreenToClient(const wxPoint
& pt
) const;
1881 Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @a lines is
1884 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
1885 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
1887 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
1888 wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for wxScrolled classes
1889 under all platforms).
1893 virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines
);
1896 Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @a pages is
1899 @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
1900 on top/bottom and nothing was done.
1902 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
1906 virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages
);
1909 Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
1912 Amount to scroll horizontally.
1914 Amount to scroll vertically.
1916 Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
1917 scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
1920 @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolled instead of using this
1923 virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx
, int dy
,
1924 const wxRect
* rect
= NULL
);
1927 This function sends a dummy @ref wxSizeEvent "size event" to
1928 the window allowing it to re-layout its children positions.
1930 It is sometimes useful to call this function after adding or deleting a
1931 children after the frame creation or if a child size changes. Note that
1932 if the frame is using either sizers or constraints for the children
1933 layout, it is enough to call wxWindow::Layout() directly and this
1934 function should not be used in this case.
1936 If @a flags includes @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST value, this function posts
1937 the event, i.e. schedules it for later processing, instead of
1938 dispatching it directly. You can also use PostSizeEvent() as a more
1939 readable equivalent of calling this function with this flag.
1942 May include @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST. Default value is 0.
1944 virtual void SendSizeEvent(int flags
= 0);
1947 Safe wrapper for GetParent()->SendSizeEvent().
1949 This function simply checks that the window has a valid parent which is
1950 not in process of being deleted and calls SendSizeEvent() on it. It is
1951 used internally by windows such as toolbars changes to whose state
1952 should result in parent re-layout (e.g. when a toolbar is added to the
1953 top of the window, all the other windows must be shifted down).
1955 @see PostSizeEventToParent()
1958 See description of this parameter in SendSizeEvent() documentation.
1960 void SendSizeEventToParent(int flags
= 0);
1963 Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
1965 virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable
& accel
);
1968 Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
1969 will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
1970 See also wxAccessible.
1972 void SetAccessible(wxAccessible
* accessible
);
1975 Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
1976 when the window is resized. Please note that this only happens for the
1977 windows usually used to contain children, namely wxPanel and wxTopLevelWindow
1978 (and the classes deriving from them).
1980 This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
1981 you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
1982 updated when its size changes.
1985 Set this to @true if you wish the Layout function to be
1986 called automatically when the window is resized.
1988 @see SetConstraints()
1990 void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout
);
1993 Sets the background colour of the window.
1994 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
1995 this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
1998 The colour to be used as the background colour, pass
1999 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
2001 @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
2002 wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
2003 automatically under GTK.
2004 Note that setting the background colour does not cause an
2005 immediate refresh, so you may wish to call wxWindow::ClearBackground
2006 or wxWindow::Refresh after calling this function.
2007 Using this function will disable attempts to use themes for
2008 this window, if the system supports them. Use with care since
2009 usually the themes represent the appearance chosen by the user
2010 to be used for all applications on the system.
2012 @see GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
2013 GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
2014 Refresh(), wxEraseEvent
2016 virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
2019 Sets the background style of the window. see GetBackgroundStyle() for
2020 the description of the possible style values.
2022 @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
2025 virtual bool SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style
);
2028 This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
2029 native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0).
2031 It is called by wxWidgets' container control code to give the native
2032 system a hint when doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable
2033 or change the effect of programmatically calling SetFocus().
2035 @see wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
2037 virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus
);
2040 Sets the caret() associated with the window.
2042 void SetCaret(wxCaret
* caret
);
2046 This sets the size of the window client area in pixels.
2048 Using this function to size a window tends to be more device-independent
2049 than SetSize(), since the application need not worry about what dimensions
2050 the border or title bar have when trying to fit the window around panel
2053 virtual void SetClientSize(int width
, int height
);
2054 virtual void SetClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2058 Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
2059 will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2060 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2061 window, it will be deleted.
2064 The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
2067 @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
2068 the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
2069 must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
2070 setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
2071 the sizer will have effect.
2073 void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints
* constraints
);
2076 This normally does not need to be called by user code.
2077 It is called when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window
2078 can remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
2080 void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer
* sizer
);
2083 Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
2084 children of the window implicitly.
2086 The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
2087 be reset back to default.
2090 Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
2092 @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
2094 virtual bool SetCursor(const wxCursor
& cursor
);
2097 Associates a drop target with this window.
2098 If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
2100 @see GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
2102 virtual void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget
* target
);
2105 Sets the event handler for this window.
2108 Specifies the handler to be set.
2110 @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
2111 events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
2112 own event handler, but an application may wish to
2113 substitute another, for example to allow central
2114 implementation of event-handling for a variety of
2115 different window classes.
2116 It is usually better to use wxWindow::PushEventHandler since
2117 this sets up a chain of event handlers, where an event not
2118 handled by one event handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
2120 @see GetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
2121 PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
2123 void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler
* handler
);
2126 Sets the extra style bits for the window.
2127 The currently defined extra style bits are reported in the class
2130 virtual void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle
);
2133 This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
2135 @see HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
2136 wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
2138 virtual void SetFocus();
2141 This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
2142 gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
2144 By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
2145 can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
2147 virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();
2150 Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
2151 parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
2152 use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and see InheritAttributes() for more
2155 Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
2156 wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
2157 call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
2158 any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
2162 Font to associate with this window, pass
2163 wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
2165 @return @true if the want was really changed, @false if it was already set
2166 to this font and so nothing was done.
2168 @see GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
2170 virtual bool SetFont(const wxFont
& font
);
2173 Sets the foreground colour of the window.
2174 Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
2175 this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
2178 The colour to be used as the foreground colour, pass
2179 wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
2181 @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
2182 interpretation according to the window class; it may be
2183 the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
2185 @see GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
2186 GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
2188 virtual bool SetForegroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
2191 Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
2192 Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
2193 implementation, and not in the window object itself.
2195 @see GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider::AddHelp()
2197 void SetHelpText(const wxString
& helpText
);
2200 Sets the identifier of the window.
2202 @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
2203 not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
2204 Normally, the identifier should be provided on creation
2205 and should not be modified subsequently.
2207 @see GetId(), @ref overview_windowids
2209 void SetId(wxWindowID winid
);
2212 A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
2213 window's @e best size values.
2215 Also sets the window's minsize to the value passed in for use with sizers.
2216 This means that if a full or partial size is passed to this function then
2217 the sizers will use that size instead of the results of GetBestSize() to
2218 determine the minimum needs of the window for layout.
2220 Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
2221 size to the passed in value (if any.)
2223 @see SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize(),
2224 @ref overview_windowsizing
2226 void SetInitialSize(const wxSize
& size
= wxDefaultSize
);
2229 Sets the window's label.
2236 virtual void SetLabel(const wxString
& label
);
2239 Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
2240 layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
2244 virtual void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2247 Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
2248 that this is the maximum possible size.
2250 @see SetMaxClientSize()
2252 virtual void SetMaxSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2255 Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
2256 layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
2259 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
2260 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
2262 Note, that just as with SetMinSize(), calling this method doesn't
2263 prevent the program from explicitly making the window smaller than the
2268 virtual void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2271 Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout
2272 mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
2274 You may need to call this if you change the window size after
2275 construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
2277 Notice that calling this method doesn't prevent the program from making
2278 the window explicitly smaller than the specified size by calling
2279 SetSize(), it just ensures that it won't become smaller than this size
2280 during the automatic layout.
2282 @see SetMinClientSize()
2284 virtual void SetMinSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2287 Sets the window's name.
2290 A name to set for the window.
2294 virtual void SetName(const wxString
& name
);
2297 Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
2298 by the children of this window.
2300 @see SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
2302 void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
2305 Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
2306 children of this window.
2308 @see SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
2310 void SetOwnFont(const wxFont
& font
);
2313 Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
2314 by the children of this window.
2316 @see SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
2318 void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour
& colour
);
2321 @deprecated use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
2323 void SetPalette(const wxPalette
& pal
);
2326 Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
2329 Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set.
2330 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
2332 Position in scroll units.
2334 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
2336 @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
2337 window: it is up to the application to take note of
2338 scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
2340 @see SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(), wxScrollBar,
2343 virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation
, int pos
,
2344 bool refresh
= true);
2347 Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
2350 Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set.
2351 May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
2353 The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
2355 The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
2357 The maximum position of the scrollbar.
2359 @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
2362 Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
2363 The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
2366 SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
2368 Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never
2369 go above 50 minus 16, or 34. You can determine how many lines are
2370 currently visible by dividing the current view size by the character
2372 When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need
2373 to recalculate the scrollbar settings when the window size changes.
2374 You could therefore put your scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
2375 call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called
2376 initially and also from your wxSizeEvent handler function.
2378 @see @ref overview_scrolling, wxScrollBar, wxScrolled, wxScrollWinEvent
2380 virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation
, int position
,
2381 int thumbSize
, int range
,
2382 bool refresh
= true);
2385 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
2388 Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2389 existing value should be used.
2391 Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2392 existing value should be used.
2394 Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
2395 value should be used.
2397 Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
2398 existing value should be used.
2400 Indicates the interpretation of other parameters.
2401 It is a bit list of the following:
2402 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
2403 a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
2404 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
2405 a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
2406 - @c wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
2407 a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
2408 - @c wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
2409 if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
2410 - @c wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
2411 wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted as real
2412 dimensions, not default values.
2413 - @c wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
2414 already the same as the parameters of this function,
2415 nothing is done. but with this flag a window resize may
2416 be forced even in this case (supported in wx 2.6.2 and
2417 later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere
2420 @remarks This overload sets the position and optionally size, of the window.
2421 Parameters may be wxDefaultCoord to indicate either that a default
2422 should be supplied by wxWidgets, or that the current value of the
2423 dimension should be used.
2427 void SetSize(int x
, int y
, int width
, int height
,
2428 int sizeFlags
= wxSIZE_AUTO
);
2432 Sets the size of the window in pixels.
2433 The size is specified using a wxRect, wxSize or by a couple of @c int objects.
2435 @remarks This form must be used with non-default width and height values.
2439 virtual void SetSize(const wxRect
& rect
);
2440 virtual void SetSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2441 virtual void SetSize(int width
, int height
);
2445 Sets the window to have the given layout sizer.
2446 The window will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
2447 If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
2448 window, it will be deleted if the deleteOld parameter is @true.
2450 Note that this function will also call SetAutoLayout() implicitly with @true
2451 parameter if the @a sizer is non-@NULL and @false otherwise.
2454 The sizer to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and conditionally delete
2455 the window's sizer. See below.
2457 If @true (the default), this will delete any pre-existing sizer.
2458 Pass @false if you wish to handle deleting the old sizer yourself.
2460 @remarks SetSizer enables and disables Layout automatically.
2462 void SetSizer(wxSizer
* sizer
, bool deleteOld
= true);
2465 This method calls SetSizer() and then wxSizer::SetSizeHints which sets the initial
2466 window size to the size needed to accommodate all sizer elements and sets the
2467 size hints which, if this window is a top level one, prevent the user from
2468 resizing it to be less than this minimial size.
2470 void SetSizerAndFit(wxSizer
* sizer
, bool deleteOld
= true);
2473 This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
2474 to draw the windows' background instead if its own background drawing
2475 code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
2476 obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
2477 One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
2478 defined by a user's selected theme.
2480 Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
2481 by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
2483 virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable
);
2487 Attach a tooltip to the window.
2489 wxToolTip pointer can be @NULL in the overload taking the pointer,
2490 meaning to unset any existing tooltips, however UnsetToolTip() provides
2491 a more readable alternative to this operation.
2493 Notice that these methods are always available, even if wxWidgets was
2494 compiled with @c wxUSE_TOOLTIPS set to 0, but don't do anything in this
2497 @see GetToolTip(), wxToolTip
2499 void SetToolTip(const wxString
& tip
);
2500 void SetToolTip(wxToolTip
* tip
);
2504 Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
2505 returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
2506 See also CanSetTransparent().
2508 The parameter @a alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
2509 fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
2510 @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be used.
2512 virtual bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha
);
2515 Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
2516 called wxValidator::Clone to create a new validator of this type.
2518 virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator
& validator
);
2522 Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
2524 void SetVirtualSize(int width
, int height
);
2525 void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2529 Identical to SetWindowStyleFlag().
2531 void SetWindowStyle(long style
);
2534 Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
2535 after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be be called
2536 after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.
2538 See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
2540 @see GetWindowStyleFlag()
2542 virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style
);
2545 This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
2546 Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
2547 exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant enum.
2549 By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
2550 be used to change this.
2552 void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant
);
2555 Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
2556 InheritAttributes(), returning @false forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
2558 The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
2559 wxControl where it returns @true.
2561 virtual bool ShouldInheritColours() const;
2564 Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
2565 for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
2566 needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
2569 If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
2571 @return @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
2572 was done because it already was in the requested state.
2574 @see IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show, wxShowEvent.
2576 virtual bool Show(bool show
= true);
2579 This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a special visual
2586 The @a timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
2587 milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default
2588 animation time for the current platform is used.
2590 @note Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and does the
2591 same thing as Show() in the other ports.
2595 @see HideWithEffect()
2597 virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect
,
2598 unsigned int timeout
= 0);
2601 Reenables window updating after a previous call to Freeze().
2603 To really thaw the control, it must be called exactly the same number
2604 of times as Freeze().
2606 If the window has any children, they are recursively thawn too.
2608 @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Freeze(), IsFrozen()
2613 Turns the given @a flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
2614 This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
2615 the case for default flags).
2617 Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
2620 @return Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
2621 if it was switched off.
2623 @see SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
2625 bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag
);
2628 Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
2629 validators. Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2631 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2632 the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
2634 @see TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2636 virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();
2639 Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
2642 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2643 the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
2645 @return Returns @false if a transfer failed.
2647 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
2649 virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();
2652 Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
2655 Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
2658 @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
2661 @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
2663 @see RegisterHotKey()
2665 virtual bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId
);
2668 Unreserve an ID or range of IDs that was reserved by NewControlId().
2669 See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
2672 The starting ID of the range of IDs to unreserve.
2674 The number of sequential IDs to unreserve.
2676 @see NewControlId(), wxIdManager, @ref overview_windowids
2678 static void UnreserveControlId(wxWindowID id
, int count
= 1);
2681 Unset any existing tooltip.
2687 void UnsetToolTip();
2690 Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
2691 all of its children recursively while this would usually only happen when the
2692 flow of control returns to the event loop.
2694 Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
2695 nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
2696 a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to immediately redraw the
2697 window unconditionally.
2699 virtual void Update();
2702 This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
2703 The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
2704 wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
2705 and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
2707 You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
2708 UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
2709 are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
2710 wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode() or wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval() to limit
2711 the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle time.
2712 @a flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the wxUpdateUI enumeration.
2714 If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
2715 function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
2716 this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
2717 to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
2718 only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
2719 The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
2723 void MyWindow::OnInternalIdle()
2725 if (wxUpdateUIEvent::CanUpdate(this))
2726 UpdateWindowUI(wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE);
2730 @see wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
2732 virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags
= wxUPDATE_UI_NONE
);
2735 Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
2736 If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
2737 the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
2739 @return Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
2741 @see TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
2744 virtual bool Validate();
2747 Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
2749 @note This function is not supported under Mac because Apple Human
2750 Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor programmatically.
2753 The new x position for the cursor.
2755 The new y position for the cursor.
2757 virtual void WarpPointer(int x
, int y
);
2763 Gets the size which best suits the window: for a control, it would be
2764 the minimal size which doesn't truncate the control, for a panel - the
2765 same size as it would have after a call to Fit().
2767 The default implementation of this function is designed for use in container
2768 windows, such as wxPanel, and works something like this:
2769 -# If the window has a sizer then it is used to calculate the best size.
2770 -# Otherwise if the window has layout constraints then those are used to
2771 calculate the best size.
2772 -# Otherwise if the window has children then the best size is set to be large
2773 enough to show all the children.
2774 -# Otherwise if there are no children then the window's minimal size will be
2775 used as its best size.
2776 -# Otherwise if there is no minimal size set, then the current size is used
2779 @see @ref overview_windowsizing
2781 virtual wxSize
DoGetBestSize() const;
2785 Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
2786 components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
2787 @deprecated @todo provide deprecation description
2789 virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize
& size
);
2794 // ============================================================================
2795 // Global functions/macros
2796 // ============================================================================
2798 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_misc */
2802 Find the deepest window at the mouse pointer position, returning the window
2803 and current pointer position in screen coordinates.
2805 @header{wx/window.h}
2807 wxWindow
* wxFindWindowAtPointer(wxPoint
& pt
);
2810 Gets the currently active window (implemented for MSW and GTK only
2811 currently, always returns @NULL in the other ports).
2813 @header{wx/window.h}
2815 wxWindow
* wxGetActiveWindow();
2818 Returns the first top level parent of the given window, or in other words,
2819 the frame or dialog containing it, or @NULL.
2821 @header{wx/window.h}
2823 wxWindow
* wxGetTopLevelParent(wxWindow
* window
);