Robert Lang's patch [ 1583183 ] Fixes printing/print preview inconsistencies

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / latex / wx / font.tex

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/font.tex b/docs/latex/wx/font.tex
index 0767d3c045214a282035ec08cd92348713fc540e..001deb82097bca97f3078c652a44ba4c7f072c0a 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/font.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/font.tex
@@ -165,11 +165,15 @@ wxSWISS\_FONT}
 
 Default constructor.
 
+\func{}{wxFont}{\param{const wxFont\&}{ font}}
+
+Copy constructor, uses \helpref{reference counting}{trefcount}.
+
 \func{}{wxFont}{\param{int}{ pointSize}, \param{wxFontFamily}{ family}, \param{int}{ style}, \param{wxFontWeight}{ weight},
  \param{const bool}{ underline = false}, \param{const wxString\& }{faceName = ""},
  \param{wxFontEncoding }{encoding = wxFONTENCODING\_DEFAULT}}
 
-\func{}{wxFont}{\param{int}{ pixelSize}, \param{wxFontFamily}{ family}, \param{int}{ style}, \param{wxFontWeight}{ weight},
+\func{}{wxFont}{\param{const wxSize\&}{ pixelSize}, \param{wxFontFamily}{ family}, \param{int}{ style}, \param{wxFontWeight}{ weight},
  \param{const bool}{ underline = false}, \param{const wxString\& }{faceName = ""},
  \param{wxFontEncoding }{encoding = wxFONTENCODING\_DEFAULT}}
 
@@ -304,12 +308,26 @@ family identifiers.
 
 \constfunc{wxString}{GetNativeFontInfoDesc}{\void}
 
-Returns the platform-dependent string completely describing this font or an
-empty string if the font wasn't constructed using the native font description.
+Returns the platform-dependent string completely describing this font.
+Returned string is always non-empty.
+Note that the returned string is not meant to be shown or edited by the user: a typical
+use of this function is for serializing in string-form a wxFont object.
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
-\helpref{wxFont::SetNativeFontInfo}{wxfontsetnativefontinfo}
+\helpref{wxFont::SetNativeFontInfo}{wxfontsetnativefontinfo},\helpref{wxFont::GetNativeFontInfoUserDesc}{wxfontgetnativefontinfouserdesc}
+
+
+\membersection{wxFont::GetNativeFontInfoUserDesc}\label{wxfontgetnativefontinfouserdesc}
+
+\func{wxString}{GetNativeFontInfoUserDesc}{\void}
+
+Returns a user-friendly string for this font object. Returned string is always non-empty.
+Some examples of the formats of returned strings (which are platform-dependent) are in \helpref{SetNativeFontInfoUserDesc}{wxfontsetnativefontinfouserdesc}.
+
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{wxFont::GetNativeFontInfoDesc}{wxfontgetnativefontinfodesc}
 
 
 \membersection{wxFont::GetPointSize}\label{wxfontgetpointsize}
@@ -383,9 +401,9 @@ Using \texttt{New()} is currently the only way to directly create a font with
 the given size in pixels on platforms other than wxMSW.
 
 
-\membersection{wxFont::Ok}\label{wxfontok}
+\membersection{wxFont::IsOk}\label{wxfontisok}
 
-\constfunc{bool}{Ok}{\void}
+\constfunc{bool}{IsOk}{\void}
 
 Returns {\tt true} if this object is a valid font, {\tt false} otherwise.
 
@@ -404,9 +422,10 @@ Sets the default font encoding.
 
 \membersection{wxFont::SetFaceName}\label{wxfontsetfacename}
 
-\func{void}{SetFaceName}{\param{const wxString\& }{faceName}}
+\func{bool}{SetFaceName}{\param{const wxString\& }{faceName}}
 
 Sets the facename for the font.
+Returns \true if the given face name exists; \false otherwise.
 
 \wxheading{Parameters}
 
@@ -452,12 +471,44 @@ Sets the font family.
 
 \membersection{wxFont::SetNativeFontInfo}\label{wxfontsetnativefontinfo}
 
-\func{void}{SetNativeFontInfo}{\param{const wxString\& }{info}}
+\func{bool}{SetNativeFontInfo}{\param{const wxString\& }{info}}
 
-Creates the font corresponding to the given native font description string
+Creates the font corresponding to the given native font description string and returns \true if
+the creation was successful.
 which must have been previously returned by
 \helpref{GetNativeFontInfoDesc}{wxfontgetnativefontinfodesc}. If the string is
-invalid, font is unchanged.
+invalid, font is unchanged. This function is typically used for de-serializing a wxFont
+object previously saved in a string-form.
+
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{wxFont::SetNativeFontInfoUserDesc}{wxfontsetnativefontinfouserdesc}
+
+
+\membersection{wxFont::SetNativeFontInfoUserDesc}\label{wxfontsetnativefontinfouserdesc}
+
+\func{bool}{SetNativeFontInfoUserDesc}{\param{const wxString\& }{info}}
+
+Creates the font corresponding to the given native font description string and returns \true if
+the creation was successful.
+Unlike \helpref{SetNativeFontInfo}{wxfontsetnativefontinfo}, this function accepts
+strings which are user-friendly.
+Examples of accepted string formats are:
+
+\twocolwidtha{15cm}
+\begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
+\twocolitem{Generic syntax}{Example}
+\twocolitem{on {\bf wxGTK2}: {\tt $[FACE-NAME]$ $[bold]$ $[oblique|italic]$ $[POINTSIZE]$}}{Monospace bold 10}
+\twocolitem{on {\bf wxMSW}: {\tt $[light|bold]$ $[italic]$ $[FACE-NAME]$ $[POINTSIZE]$ $[ENCODING]$}}{Tahoma 10 WINDOWS-1252}
+\twocolitem{on {\bf wxMac}: FIXME}{FIXME}
+\end{twocollist}
+
+For more detailed information about the allowed syntaxes you can look at the documentation of the native API used for font-rendering (e.g. \urlref{pango\_font\_description\_from\_string}{http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/pango-Fonts.html\#pango-font-description-from-string}).
+
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{wxFont::SetNativeFontInfo}{wxfontsetnativefontinfo}
+
 
 
 \membersection{wxFont::SetPointSize}\label{wxfontsetpointsize}
@@ -531,8 +582,7 @@ Sets the font weight.
 
 \func{wxFont\&}{operator $=$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}}
 
-Assignment operator, using reference counting. Returns a reference
-to `this'.
+Assignment operator, using \helpref{reference counting}{trefcount}.
 
 
 \membersection{wxFont::operator $==$}\label{wxfontequals}