refactor wxStaticText::Ellipsize so it's a static public utility function; document...

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / ipcbase.h

diff --git a/include/wx/ipcbase.h b/include/wx/ipcbase.h
index 56de3c8d35fc720f595910d818e84f9218bb4007..ae4bbca0a6c3fa6752830ca2bf24e2195cf71bdb 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/ipcbase.h
+++ b/include/wx/ipcbase.h
@@ -129,7 +129,14 @@ public:
   // Callbacks to SERVER - override at will
   virtual bool OnExec(const wxString& WXUNUSED(topic),
                       const wxString& WXUNUSED(data))
-      { return false; }
+  {
+      wxFAIL_MSG( "This method shouldn't be called, if it is, it probably "
+                  "means that you didn't update your old code overriding "
+                  "OnExecute() to use the new parameter types (\"const void *\" "
+                  "instead of \"wxChar *\" and \"size_t\" instead of \"int\"), "
+                  "you must do it or your code wouldn't be executed at all!" );
+      return false;
+  }
 
   // deprecated function kept for backwards compatibility: usually you will
   // want to override OnExec() above instead which receives its data in a more
@@ -173,10 +180,21 @@ public:
   virtual bool OnDisconnect() { delete this; return true; }
 
 
+  // return true if this is one of the formats used for textual data
+  // transmission
+  static bool IsTextFormat(wxIPCFormat format)
+  {
+      return format == wxIPC_TEXT ||
+             format == wxIPC_UTF8TEXT ||
+             format == wxIPC_UTF16TEXT ||
+             format == wxIPC_UTF32TEXT;
+  }
+
   // converts from the data and format into a wxString automatically
   //
   // this function accepts data in all of wxIPC_TEXT, wxIPC_UNICODETEXT, and
-  // wxIPC_UTF8TEXT formats but asserts if the format is anything else
+  // wxIPC_UTF8TEXT formats but asserts if the format is anything else (i.e.
+  // such that IsTextFormat(format) doesn't return true)
   //
   // notice that the size parameter here contains the total size of the data,
   // including the terminating '\0' or L'\0'