extension and wish to find out the corresponding MIME type or, conversely, it
might want to find the right extension for the file to which it writes the
contents of given MIME type. Depending on how it was created some fields may be
-unknown so the return value of all the accessors {\bf must} be checked: {\tt FALSE}
+unknown so the return value of all the accessors {\bf must} be checked: {\tt false}
will be returned if the corresponding information couldn't be found.
The objects of this class are never created by the application code but are
\begin{verbatim}
wxString command;
if ( filetype->GetOpenCommand(&command,
- MailMessageParamaters("foo.txt", "text/plain")) )
+ MailMessageParameters("foo.txt", "text/plain")) )
{
// the full command for opening the text documents is in 'command'
// (it might be "notepad foo.txt" under Windows or "cat foo.txt" under Unix)
\func{bool}{GetMimeType}{\param{wxString*}{ mimeType}}
-If the function returns {\tt TRUE}, the string pointed to by {\it mimeType} is filled
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the string pointed to by {\it mimeType} is filled
with full MIME type specification for this file type: for example, "text/plain".
\membersection{wxFileType::GetMimeTypes}\label{wxfiletypegetmimetypes}
\func{bool}{GetExtensions}{\param{wxArrayString\&}{ extensions}}
-If the function returns {\tt TRUE}, the array {\it extensions} is filled
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the array {\it extensions} is filled
with all extensions associated with this file type: for example, it may
contain the following two elements for the MIME type "text/html" (notice the
absence of the leading dot): "html" and "htm".
{\bf Windows:} This function is currently not implemented: there is no
(efficient) way to retrieve associated extensions from the given MIME type on
-this platform, so it will only return {\tt TRUE} if the wxFileType object was created
+this platform, so it will only return {\tt true} if the wxFileType object was created
by \helpref{GetFileTypeFromExtension}{wxmimetypesmanagergetfiletypefromextension}
function in the first place.
\membersection{wxFileType::GetIcon}\label{wxfiletypegeticon}
-\func{bool}{GetIcon}{\param{wxIcon*}{ icon}}
+\func{bool}{GetIcon}{\param{wxIconLocation *}{ iconLoc}}
-If the function returns {\tt TRUE}, the icon associated with this file type will be
-created and assigned to the {\it icon} parameter.
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the {\tt iconLoc} is filled with the
+location of the icon for this MIME type. A \helpref{wxIcon}{wxicon} may be
+created from {\it iconLoc} later.
+
+{\bf Windows:} The function returns the icon shown by Explorer for the files of
+the specified type.
+
+{\bf Mac:} This function is not implemented and always returns {\tt false}.
{\bf Unix:} MIME manager gathers information about icons from GNOME
and KDE settings and thus GetIcon's success depends on availability
\func{bool}{GetDescription}{\param{wxString*}{ desc}}
-If the function returns {\tt TRUE}, the string pointed to by {\it desc} is filled
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the string pointed to by {\it desc} is filled
with a brief description for this file type: for example, "text document" for
the "text/plain" MIME type.
\func{wxString}{GetOpenCommand}{\param{const wxString\&}{ filename}}
-With the first version of this method, if the {\tt TRUE} is returned, the
+With the first version of this method, if the {\tt true} is returned, the
string pointed to by {\it command} is filled with the command which must be
executed (see \helpref{wxExecute}{wxexecute}) in order to open the file of the
given type. In this case, the name of the file as well as any other parameters
In the second case, only the filename is specified and the command to be used
to open this kind of file is returned directly. An empty string is returned to
-indicate that an error occured (typically meaning that there is no standard way
+indicate that an error occurred (typically meaning that there is no standard way
to open this kind of files).
\membersection{wxFileType::GetPrintCommand}\label{wxfiletypegetprintcommand}
\func{bool}{GetPrintCommand}{\param{wxString*}{ command},\param{MessageParameters\&}{ params}}
-If the function returns {\tt TRUE}, the string pointed to by {\it command} is filled
+If the function returns {\tt true}, the string pointed to by {\it command} is filled
with the command which must be executed (see \helpref{wxExecute}{wxexecute}) in
order to print the file of the given type. The name of the file is
retrieved from \helpref{MessageParameters}{wxfiletypemessageparameters} class.