undo the last change as it results in buildbot configuration error

[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / image.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/image.h b/interface/wx/image.h
index 08911e6edfba9b56114631ebadb336c2cca2c578..80c8100f2c4678f67802a2d64a5c355721125907 100644 (file)
--- a/interface/wx/image.h
+++ b/interface/wx/image.h
@@ -1,11 +1,40 @@
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // Name:        image.h
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // Name:        image.h

-// Purpose:     interface of wxImageHandler
+// Purpose:     interface of wxImageHandler and wxImage

 // Author:      wxWidgets team
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
 // Licence:     wxWindows license
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 // Author:      wxWidgets team
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
 // Licence:     wxWindows license
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 

+/**
+    Possible values for the image resolution option.
+
+    @see wxImage::GetOptionInt().
+ */
+enum wxImageResolution
+{
+    /// Resolution not specified.
+    wxIMAGE_RESOLUTION_NONE = 0,
+
+    /// Resolution specified in inches.
+    wxIMAGE_RESOLUTION_INCHES = 1,
+
+    /// Resolution specified in centimetres.
+    wxIMAGE_RESOLUTION_CM = 2
+};
+
+/**
+    Possible values for PNG image type option.
+
+    @see wxImage::GetOptionInt().
+ */
+enum wxImagePNGType
+{
+    wxPNG_TYPE_COLOUR = 0,      ///< Colour PNG image.
+    wxPNG_TYPE_GREY = 2,        ///< Greyscale PNG image converted from RGB.
+    wxPNG_TYPE_GREY_RED = 3     ///< Greyscale PNG image using red as grey.
+};
+

 /**
     @class wxImageHandler
 
 /**
     @class wxImageHandler
 


@@ -15,23 +44,36 @@
 
     If you wish to extend the capabilities of wxImage, derive a class from
     wxImageHandler and add the handler using wxImage::AddHandler in your
 
     If you wish to extend the capabilities of wxImage, derive a class from
     wxImageHandler and add the handler using wxImage::AddHandler in your

-    application initialisation.
+    application initialization.
+
+    Note that all wxImageHandlers provided by wxWidgets are part of
+    the @ref page_libs_wxcore library.
+    For details about the default handlers, please see the section
+    @ref image_handlers in the wxImage class documentation.
+
+
+    @section imagehandler_note Note (Legal Issue)
+
+    This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
+    (Applies when wxWidgets is linked with JPEG support.
+    wxJPEGHandler uses libjpeg created by IJG.)
+

 
     @stdobjects
     ::wxNullImage
 
     @library{wxcore}
 
     @stdobjects
     ::wxNullImage
 
     @library{wxcore}

-    @category{FIXME}
+    @category{gdi}

 
     @see wxImage, wxInitAllImageHandlers()
 
     @see wxImage, wxInitAllImageHandlers()

-
-    @todo Document all image handler types, indicating their library.

 */
 class wxImageHandler : public wxObject
 {
 public:
     /**
 */
 class wxImageHandler : public wxObject
 {
 public:
     /**

-        Default constructor. In your own default constructor, initialise the members
+        Default constructor.
+
+        In your own default constructor, initialise the members

         m_name, m_extension and m_type.
     */
     wxImageHandler();
         m_name, m_extension and m_type.
     */
     wxImageHandler();


@@ -39,12 +81,23 @@ public:
     /**
         Destroys the wxImageHandler object.
     */
     /**
         Destroys the wxImageHandler object.
     */

-    ~wxImageHandler();
+    virtual ~wxImageHandler();
+
+    /**
+        Gets the preferred file extension associated with this handler.
+
+        @see GetAltExtensions()
+    */
+    const wxString& GetExtension() const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Gets the file extension associated with this handler.
+        Returns the other file extensions associated with this handler.
+
+        The preferred extension for this handler is returned by GetExtension().
+
+        @since 2.9.0

     */
     */

-    const wxString GetExtension() const;
+    const wxArrayString& GetAltExtensions() const;

 
     /**
         If the image file contains more than one image and the image handler is capable
 
     /**
         If the image file contains more than one image and the image handler is capable


@@ -52,23 +105,25 @@ public:
         available images.
 
         @param stream
         available images.
 
         @param stream

-            Opened input stream for reading image data. Currently, the stream must
-        support seeking.
+            Opened input stream for reading image data.
+            Currently, the stream must support seeking.

 
         @return Number of available images. For most image handlers, this is 1
 
         @return Number of available images. For most image handlers, this is 1

-                 (exceptions are TIFF and ICO formats).
+                (exceptions are TIFF and ICO formats as well as animated GIFs
+                for which this function returns the number of frames in the
+                animation).

     */
     */

-    int GetImageCount(wxInputStream& stream);
+    virtual int GetImageCount(wxInputStream& stream);

 
     /**
         Gets the MIME type associated with this handler.
     */
 
     /**
         Gets the MIME type associated with this handler.
     */

-    const wxString GetMimeType() const;
+    const wxString& GetMimeType() const;

 
     /**
         Gets the name of this handler.
     */
 
     /**
         Gets the name of this handler.
     */

-    const wxString GetName() const;
+    const wxString& GetName() const;

 
     /**
         Gets the image type associated with this handler.
 
     /**
         Gets the image type associated with this handler.


@@ -76,11 +131,11 @@ public:
     wxBitmapType GetType() const;
 
     /**
     wxBitmapType GetType() const;
 
     /**

-        Loads a image from a stream, putting the resulting data into @e image. If the
-        image file contains
-        more than one image and the image handler is capable of retrieving these
-        individually, @e index
-        indicates which image to read from the stream.
+        Loads a image from a stream, putting the resulting data into @a image.
+
+        If the image file contains more than one image and the image handler is
+        capable of retrieving these individually, @a index indicates which image
+        to read from the stream.

 
         @param image
             The image object which is to be affected by this operation.
 
         @param image
             The image object which is to be affected by this operation.


@@ -88,7 +143,7 @@ public:
             Opened input stream for reading image data.
         @param verbose
             If set to @true, errors reported by the image handler will produce
             Opened input stream for reading image data.
         @param verbose
             If set to @true, errors reported by the image handler will produce

-        wxLogMessages.
+            wxLogMessages.

         @param index
             The index of the image in the file (starting from zero).
 
         @param index
             The index of the image in the file (starting from zero).
 


@@ -96,8 +151,8 @@ public:
 
         @see wxImage::LoadFile, wxImage::SaveFile, SaveFile()
     */
 
         @see wxImage::LoadFile, wxImage::SaveFile, SaveFile()
     */

-    bool LoadFile(wxImage* image, wxInputStream& stream,
-                  bool verbose = true, int index = 0);
+    virtual bool LoadFile(wxImage* image, wxInputStream& stream,
+                          bool verbose = true, int index = -1);

 
     /**
         Saves a image in the output stream.
 
     /**
         Saves a image in the output stream.


@@ -106,25 +161,43 @@ public:
             The image object which is to be affected by this operation.
         @param stream
             Opened output stream for writing the data.
             The image object which is to be affected by this operation.
         @param stream
             Opened output stream for writing the data.

+        @param verbose
+            If set to @true, errors reported by the image handler will produce
+            wxLogMessages.

 
         @return @true if the operation succeeded, @false otherwise.
 
         @see wxImage::LoadFile, wxImage::SaveFile, LoadFile()
     */
 
         @return @true if the operation succeeded, @false otherwise.
 
         @see wxImage::LoadFile, wxImage::SaveFile, LoadFile()
     */

-    bool SaveFile(wxImage* image, wxOutputStream& stream);
+    virtual bool SaveFile(wxImage* image, wxOutputStream& stream,
+                          bool verbose = true);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Sets the handler extension.
+        Sets the preferred file extension associated with this handler.

 
         @param extension
 
         @param extension

-            Handler extension.
+            File extension without leading dot.
+
+        @see SetAltExtensions()

     */
     void SetExtension(const wxString& extension);
 
     */
     void SetExtension(const wxString& extension);
 

+    /**
+        Sets the alternative file extensions associated with this handler.
+
+        @param extensions
+            Array of file extensions.
+
+        @see SetExtension()
+
+        @since 2.9.0
+    */
+    void SetAltExtensions(const wxArrayString& extensions);
+

     /**
         Sets the handler MIME type.
 
     /**
         Sets the handler MIME type.
 

-        @param mimename
+        @param mimetype

             Handler MIME type.
     */
     void SetMimeType(const wxString& mimetype);
             Handler MIME type.
     */
     void SetMimeType(const wxString& mimetype);


@@ -139,24 +212,85 @@ public:
 };
 
 
 };
 
 

+/**
+    Constant used to indicate the alpha value conventionally defined as
+    the complete transparency.
+*/
+const unsigned char wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT = 0;
+
+/**
+    Constant used to indicate the alpha value conventionally defined as
+    the complete opacity.
+*/
+const unsigned char wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE = 0xff;

 
 /**
     @class wxImage
 
 
 /**
     @class wxImage
 

-    This class encapsulates a platform-independent image. An image can be
-    created from data, or using wxBitmap::ConvertToImage. An image can be
-    loaded from a file in a variety of formats, and is extensible to new
-    formats via image format handlers. Functions are available to set and
+    This class encapsulates a platform-independent image.
+
+    An image can be created from data, or using wxBitmap::ConvertToImage.
+    An image can be loaded from a file in a variety of formats, and is extensible
+    to new formats via image format handlers. Functions are available to set and

     get image bits, so it can be used for basic image manipulation.
 
     get image bits, so it can be used for basic image manipulation.
 

-    A wxImage cannot (currently) be drawn directly to a wxDC. Instead,
-    a platform-specific wxBitmap object must be created from it using
+    A wxImage cannot (currently) be drawn directly to a wxDC.
+    Instead, a platform-specific wxBitmap object must be created from it using

     the wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage,int depth) constructor.
     This bitmap can then be drawn in a device context, using wxDC::DrawBitmap.
 
     One colour value of the image may be used as a mask colour which will lead to
     the automatic creation of a wxMask object associated to the bitmap object.
 
     the wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage,int depth) constructor.
     This bitmap can then be drawn in a device context, using wxDC::DrawBitmap.
 
     One colour value of the image may be used as a mask colour which will lead to
     the automatic creation of a wxMask object associated to the bitmap object.
 

+
+    @section image_alpha Alpha channel support
+
+    Starting from wxWidgets 2.5.0 wxImage supports alpha channel data, that is
+    in addition to a byte for the red, green and blue colour components for each
+    pixel it also stores a byte representing the pixel opacity.
+
+    An alpha value of 0 corresponds to a transparent pixel (null opacity) while
+    a value of 255 means that the pixel is 100% opaque.
+    The constants ::wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and ::wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be
+    used to indicate those values in a more readable form.
+
+    Unlike RGB data, not all images have an alpha channel and before using
+    wxImage::GetAlpha you should check if this image contains an alpha channel
+    with wxImage::HasAlpha. Note that currently only the PNG format has full
+    alpha channel support so only the images loaded from PNG files can have
+    alpha and, if you initialize the image alpha channel yourself using
+    wxImage::SetAlpha, you should save it in PNG format to avoid losing it.
+
+
+    @section image_handlers Available image handlers
+
+    The following image handlers are available.
+    wxBMPHandler is always installed by default.
+    To use other image formats, install the appropriate handler with
+    wxImage::AddHandler or call ::wxInitAllImageHandlers().
+
+    - wxBMPHandler: For loading and saving, always installed.
+    - wxPNGHandler: For loading (including alpha support) and saving.
+    - wxJPEGHandler: For loading and saving.
+    - wxGIFHandler: Only for loading, due to legal issues.
+    - wxPCXHandler: For loading and saving (see below).
+    - wxPNMHandler: For loading and saving (see below).
+    - wxTIFFHandler: For loading and saving.
+    - wxTGAHandler: For loading only.
+    - wxIFFHandler: For loading only.
+    - wxXPMHandler: For loading and saving.
+    - wxICOHandler: For loading and saving.
+    - wxCURHandler: For loading and saving.
+    - wxANIHandler: For loading only.
+
+    When saving in PCX format, wxPCXHandler will count the number of different
+    colours in the image; if there are 256 or less colours, it will save as 8 bit,
+    else it will save as 24 bit.
+
+    Loading PNMs only works for ASCII or raw RGB images.
+    When saving in PNM format, wxPNMHandler will always save as raw RGB.
+
+

     @library{wxcore}
     @category{gdi}
 
     @library{wxcore}
     @category{gdi}
 


@@ -168,27 +302,65 @@ public:
 class wxImage : public wxObject
 {
 public:
 class wxImage : public wxObject
 {
 public:

+    /**
+        A simple class which stores red, green and blue values as 8 bit unsigned integers 
+        in the range of 0-255.
+    */
+    class RGBValue
+    {
+    public:
+        /**
+            Constructor for RGBValue, an object that contains values for red, green
+            and blue which represent the value of a color.
+
+            It is used by wxImage::HSVtoRGB and wxImage::RGBtoHSV, which convert
+            between HSV color space and RGB color space.
+        */
+        RGBValue(unsigned char r=0, unsigned char g=0, unsigned char b=0);
+    };
+
+    /**
+        A simple class which stores hue, saturation and value as doubles in the range 0.0-1.0.
+    */
+    class HSVValue
+    {
+    public:
+        /**
+            Constructor for HSVValue, an object that contains values for hue, saturation
+            and value which represent the value of a color.
+
+            It is used by wxImage::HSVtoRGB() and wxImage::RGBtoHSV(), which convert
+            between HSV color space and RGB color space.
+        */
+        HSVValue(double h=0.0, double s=0.0, double v=0.0);
+    };

 
     /**
 
     /**

-         Creates an empty wxImage object without an alpha channel.
+        Creates an empty wxImage object without an alpha channel.

     */
     wxImage();
 
     /**
     */
     wxImage();
 
     /**

-         Creates an image with the given size and clears it if requested.
-         Does not create an alpha channel.
+        Creates an image with the given size and clears it if requested.
+
+        Does not create an alpha channel.

 
         @param width
             Specifies the width of the image.
         @param height
             Specifies the height of the image.
 
         @param width
             Specifies the width of the image.
         @param height
             Specifies the height of the image.

-        @clear
-            Clear the image with zeros.
+        @param clear
+            If @true, initialize the image to black.

     */
     wxImage(int width, int height, bool clear = true);
     */
     wxImage(int width, int height, bool clear = true);

+    
+    /**
+        @overload
+    */
+    wxImage(const wxSize& sz, bool clear = true);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Creates an image from data in memory. If static_data is false
+        Creates an image from data in memory. If @a static_data is @false

         then the wxImage will take ownership of the data and free it
         afterwards. For this, it has to be allocated with @e malloc.
 
         then the wxImage will take ownership of the data and free it
         afterwards. For this, it has to be allocated with @e malloc.
 


@@ -202,10 +374,15 @@ public:
             Indicates if the data should be free'd after use
 
     */
             Indicates if the data should be free'd after use
 
     */

-    wxImage(int width, int height, unsigned char* data,  bool static_data = false);
+    wxImage(int width, int height, unsigned char* data, bool static_data = false);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Creates an image from data in memory. If static_data is false
+        @overload
+    */
+    wxImage(const wxSize& sz, unsigned char* data, bool static_data = false);
+    
+    /**
+        Creates an image from data in memory. If @a static_data is @false

         then the wxImage will take ownership of the data and free it
         afterwards. For this, it has to be allocated with @e malloc.
 
         then the wxImage will take ownership of the data and free it
         afterwards. For this, it has to be allocated with @e malloc.
 


@@ -221,8 +398,15 @@ public:
             Indicates if the data should be free'd after use
 
     */
             Indicates if the data should be free'd after use
 
     */

-    wxImage(int width, int height, unsigned char* data, unsigned char* alpha, bool static_data = false );
+    wxImage(int width, int height, unsigned char* data, unsigned char* alpha,
+            bool static_data = false );

 
 

+    /**
+        @overload
+    */
+    wxImage(const wxSize& sz, unsigned char* data, unsigned char* data, unsigned char* alpha,
+            bool static_data = false);
+    

     /**
         Creates an image from XPM data.
 
     /**
         Creates an image from XPM data.
 


@@ -258,8 +442,17 @@ public:
             interpreted as the first image (index=0) by the GIF and TIFF handler
             and as the largest and most colourful one by the ICO handler.
 
             interpreted as the first image (index=0) by the GIF and TIFF handler
             and as the largest and most colourful one by the ICO handler.
 

-        @remarks Depending on how wxWidgets has been configured, not all formats
-                 may be available.
+        @remarks Depending on how wxWidgets has been configured and by which
+                 handlers have been loaded, not all formats may be available.
+                 Any handler other than BMP must be previously initialized with
+                wxImage::AddHandler or wxInitAllImageHandlers.
+
+        @note
+            You can use GetOptionInt() to get the hotspot when loading cursor files:
+            @code
+            int hotspot_x = image.GetOptionInt(wxIMAGE_OPTION_CUR_HOTSPOT_X);
+            int hotspot_y = image.GetOptionInt(wxIMAGE_OPTION_CUR_HOTSPOT_Y);
+            @endcode

 
         @see LoadFile()
     */
 
         @see LoadFile()
     */


@@ -270,12 +463,10 @@ public:
 
         @param name
             Name of the file from which to load the image.
 
         @param name
             Name of the file from which to load the image.

-        @param type
-            See above

         @param mimetype
             MIME type string (for example 'image/jpeg')
         @param index
         @param mimetype
             MIME type string (for example 'image/jpeg')
         @param index

-            See above
+            See description in wxImage(const wxString&, wxBitmapType, int) overload.

     */
     wxImage(const wxString& name, const wxString& mimetype, int index = -1);
 
     */
     wxImage(const wxString& name, const wxString& mimetype, int index = -1);
 


@@ -286,9 +477,9 @@ public:
             Opened input stream from which to load the image. Currently,
             the stream must support seeking.
         @param type
             Opened input stream from which to load the image. Currently,
             the stream must support seeking.
         @param type

-            See above
+            See description in wxImage(const wxString&, wxBitmapType, int) overload.

         @param index
         @param index

-            See above.
+            See description in wxImage(const wxString&, wxBitmapType, int) overload.

     */
     wxImage(wxInputStream& stream, wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY, int index = -1);
 
     */
     wxImage(wxInputStream& stream, wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY, int index = -1);
 


@@ -301,317 +492,431 @@ public:
         @param mimetype
             MIME type string (for example 'image/jpeg')
         @param index
         @param mimetype
             MIME type string (for example 'image/jpeg')
         @param index

-            See above.
+            See description in wxImage(const wxString&, wxBitmapType, int) overload.

     */
     wxImage(wxInputStream& stream, const wxString& mimetype, int index = -1);
 
     */
     wxImage(wxInputStream& stream, const wxString& mimetype, int index = -1);
 

-

     /**
         Destructor.
     /**
         Destructor.

-        See @ref overview_refcountdestruct "reference-counted object destruction" for
-        more info.
-    */
-    ~wxImage();

 
 

-    /**
-        Register an image handler.
+        See @ref overview_refcount_destruct "reference-counted object destruction"
+        for more info.

     */
     */

-    static void AddHandler(wxImageHandler* handler);
+    virtual ~wxImage();

 
 

+    
+    

     /**
     /**

-        Blurs the image in both horizontal and vertical directions by the
-        specified pixel @e blurRadius. This should not be used when using
-        a single mask colour for transparency.
-
-        @see BlurHorizontal(), BlurVertical()
+        @name Image creation, initialization and deletion functions

     */
     */

-    wxImage Blur(int blurRadius);
-
+    //@{
+    

     /**
     /**

-        Blurs the image in the horizontal direction only. This should not be used
-        when using a single mask colour for transparency.
-
-        @see Blur(), BlurVertical()
+        Returns an identical copy of this image.

     */
     */

-    wxImage BlurHorizontal(int blurRadius);
+    wxImage Copy() const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Blurs the image in the vertical direction only. This should not be used
-        when using a single mask colour for transparency.
+        Creates a fresh image.
+        See wxImage::wxImage(int,int,bool) for more info.

 
 

-        @see Blur(), BlurHorizontal()
+        @return @true if the call succeeded, @false otherwise.

     */
     */

-    wxImage BlurVertical(int blurRadius);
+    bool Create(int width, int height, bool clear = true);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns @true if the current image handlers can read this file
+        @overload

     */
     */

-    bool CanRead(const wxString& filename);
+    bool Create( const wxSize& sz, bool clear = true );

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Deletes all image handlers.
-        This function is called by wxWidgets on exit.
+        Creates a fresh image.
+        See wxImage::wxImage(int,int,unsigned char*,bool) for more info.
+        
+        @return @true if the call succeeded, @false otherwise.

     */
     */

-    static void CleanUpHandlers();
+    bool Create( int width, int height, unsigned char* data, bool static_data = false );

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Computes the histogram of the image. @a histogram is a reference to
-        wxImageHistogram object. wxImageHistogram is a specialization of
-        wxHashMap "template" and is defined as follows:
-
-        @return Returns number of colours in the histogram.
+        @overload

     */
     */

-    unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram& histogram) const;
+    bool Create( const wxSize& sz, unsigned char* data, bool static_data = false );

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        If the image has alpha channel, this method converts it to mask. All pixels
-        with alpha value less than @a threshold are replaced with mask colour
-        and the alpha channel is removed. Mask colour is chosen automatically using
-        FindFirstUnusedColour().
-        If the image image doesn't have alpha channel,
-        ConvertAlphaToMask does nothing.
-
-        @return @false if FindFirstUnusedColour returns @false, @true otherwise.
+        Creates a fresh image.
+        See wxImage::wxImage(int,int,unsigned char*,unsigned char*,bool) for more info.
+        
+        @return @true if the call succeeded, @false otherwise.

     */
     */

-    bool ConvertAlphaToMask(unsigned char threshold = 128);
-
+    bool Create( int width, int height, unsigned char* data, unsigned char* alpha, bool static_data = false );
+    

     /**
     /**

-        Deprecated, use equivalent @ref wxBitmap::ctor "wxBitmap constructor"
-        (which takes wxImage and depth as its arguments) instead.
+        @overload

     */
     */

-    wxBitmap ConvertToBitmap() const;
-
+    bool Create( const wxSize& sz, unsigned char* data, unsigned char* alpha, bool static_data = false );
+        

     /**
     /**

-        Returns a greyscale version of the image. The returned image uses the luminance
-        component of the original to calculate the greyscale. Defaults to using
-        ITU-T BT.601 when converting to YUV, where every pixel equals
-        (R * @e lr) + (G * @e lg) + (B * @e lb).
-    */
-    wxImage ConvertToGreyscale(double lr = 0.299, double lg = 0.587,
-                               double lb = 0.114) const;
+        Initialize the image data with zeroes (the default) or with the
+        byte value given as @a value.

 
 

-    /**
-        Returns monochromatic version of the image. The returned image has white
-        colour where the original has @e (r,g,b) colour and black colour
-        everywhere else.
+        @since 2.9.0

     */
     */

-    wxImage ConvertToMono(unsigned char r, unsigned char g,
-                          unsigned char b) const;
+    void Clear(unsigned char value = 0);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns an identical copy of the image.
+        Destroys the image data.

     */
     */

-    wxImage Copy() const;
-
+    void Destroy();
+    

     /**
     /**

-        Creates a fresh image.  If @a clear is @true, the new image will be initialized
-        to black.
-        Otherwise, the image data will be uninitialized.
+        Initializes the image alpha channel data.

 
 

-        @param width
-            The width of the image in pixels.
-        @param height
-            The height of the image in pixels.
-
-        @return @true if the call succeeded, @false otherwise.
+        It is an error to call it if the image already has alpha data.
+        If it doesn't, alpha data will be by default initialized to all pixels
+        being fully opaque. But if the image has a mask colour, all mask pixels
+        will be completely transparent.

     */
     */

-    bool Create(int width, int height, bool clear = true);
+    void InitAlpha();
+
+    //@}
+

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Destroys the image data.
+        @name Image manipulation functions

     */
     */

-    void Destroy();
+    //@{

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        @param r,g,b
-            Pointers to variables to save the colour.
-        @param startR,startG,startB
-            Initial values of the colour. Returned colour
-            will have RGB values equal to or greater than these.
+        Blurs the image in both horizontal and vertical directions by the
+        specified pixel @a blurRadius. This should not be used when using
+        a single mask colour for transparency.

 
 

-        @return Returns @false if there is no unused colour left, @true on success.
+        @see BlurHorizontal(), BlurVertical()

     */
     */

-    bool FindFirstUnusedColour(unsigned char* r, unsigned char* g,
-                               unsigned char* b,
-                               unsigned char startR = 1,
-                               unsigned char startG = 0,
-                               unsigned char startB = 0);
+    wxImage Blur(int blurRadius) const;

 
 

-    //@{

     /**
     /**

-        Finds the handler associated with the given MIME type.
-
-        @param name
-            The handler name.
-        @param extension
-            The file extension, such as "bmp".
-        @param imageType
-            The image type, such as wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP.
-        @param mimetype
-            MIME type.
-
-        @return A pointer to the handler if found, @NULL otherwise.
+        Blurs the image in the horizontal direction only. This should not be used
+        when using a single mask colour for transparency.

 
 

-        @see wxImageHandler
+        @see Blur(), BlurVertical()

     */
     */

-    static wxImageHandler* FindHandler(const wxString& name);
-    static wxImageHandler* FindHandler(const wxString& extension,
-                                       wxBitmapType imageType);
-    static wxImageHandler* FindHandler(wxBitmapType imageType);
-    static wxImageHandler* FindHandlerMime(const wxString& mimetype);
-    //@}
+    wxImage BlurHorizontal(int blurRadius) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Return alpha value at given pixel location.
-    */
-    unsigned char GetAlpha(int x, int y) const;
+        Blurs the image in the vertical direction only. This should not be used
+        when using a single mask colour for transparency.

 
 

-    /**
-        Returns pointer to the array storing the alpha values for this image. This
-        pointer is @NULL for the images without the alpha channel. If the image
-        does have it, this pointer may be used to directly manipulate the alpha values
-        which are stored as the RGB ones.
+        @see Blur(), BlurHorizontal()

     */
     */

-    const unsigned char * GetAlpha() const;
+    wxImage BlurVertical(int blurRadius) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns the blue intensity at the given coordinate.
+        Returns a mirrored copy of the image.
+        The parameter @a horizontally indicates the orientation.

     */
     */

-    unsigned char GetBlue(int x, int y) const;
+    wxImage Mirror(bool horizontally = true) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns the image data as an array. This is most often used when doing
-        direct image manipulation. The return value points to an array of
-        characters in RGBRGBRGB... format in the top-to-bottom, left-to-right
-        order, that is the first RGB triplet corresponds to the pixel first pixel of
-        the first row, the second one --- to the second pixel of the first row and so
-        on until the end of the first row, with second row following after it and so
-        on.
-        You should not delete the returned pointer nor pass it to
-        SetData().
+        Copy the data of the given @a image to the specified position in this image.

     */
     */

-    unsigned char* GetData() const;
+    void Paste(const wxImage& image, int x, int y);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns the green intensity at the given coordinate.
+        Replaces the colour specified by @e r1,g1,b1 by the colour @e r2,g2,b2.

     */
     */

-    unsigned char GetGreen(int x, int y) const;
+    void Replace(unsigned char r1, unsigned char g1,
+                 unsigned char b1, unsigned char r2,
+                 unsigned char g2, unsigned char b2);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns the static list of image format handlers.
+        Changes the size of the image in-place by scaling it: after a call to this
+        function,the image will have the given width and height.

 
 

-        @see wxImageHandler
-    */
-    static wxList GetHandlers();
+        For a description of the @a quality parameter, see the Scale() function.
+        Returns the (modified) image itself.

 
 

-    /**
-        Gets the height of the image in pixels.
+        @see Scale()

     */
     */

-    int GetHeight() const;
+    wxImage& Rescale(int width, int height,
+                    int quality = wxIMAGE_QUALITY_NORMAL);

 
 

-    //@{

     /**
     /**

-        If the image file contains more than one image and the image handler is capable
-        of retrieving these individually, this function will return the number of
-        available images.
+        Changes the size of the image in-place without scaling it by adding either a
+        border with the given colour or cropping as necessary.

 
 

-        @param name
-            Name of the file to query.
-        @param stream
-            Opened input stream with image data. Currently, the stream must
-            support seeking.
-        @param type
-            May be one of the following:
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP: Load a Windows bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_GIF: Load a GIF bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_JPEG: Load a JPEG bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNG: Load a PNG bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PCX: Load a PCX bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNM: Load a PNM bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_TIF: Load a TIFF bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_TGA: Load a TGA bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_XPM: Load a XPM bitmap file.
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO: Load a Windows icon file (ICO).
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_CUR: Load a Windows cursor file (CUR).
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANI: Load a Windows animated cursor file (ANI).
-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY: Will try to autodetect the format.
+        The image is pasted into a new image with the given @a size and background
+        colour at the position @a pos relative to the upper left of the new image.

 
 

-        @return Number of available images. For most image handlers, this is 1
-                 (exceptions are TIFF and ICO formats).
+        If @a red = green = blue = -1 then use either the  current mask colour
+        if set or find, use, and set a suitable mask colour for any newly exposed
+        areas.
+
+        @return The (modified) image itself.
+
+        @see Size()

     */
     */

-    static int GetImageCount(const wxString& filename,
-                             wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY);
-    static int GetImageCount(wxInputStream& stream,
-                             wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY);
-    //@}
+    wxImage& Resize(const wxSize& size, const wxPoint& pos, int red = -1,
+                    int green = -1, int blue = -1);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Iterates all registered wxImageHandler objects, and returns a string containing
-        file extension masks
-        suitable for passing to file open/save dialog boxes.
+        Rotates the image about the given point, by @a angle radians.

 
 

-        @return The format of the returned string is
-                 "(*.ext1;*.ext2)|*.ext1;*.ext2".
+        Passing @true to @a interpolating results in better image quality, but is slower.

 
 

-        @see wxImageHandler
-    */
-    static wxString GetImageExtWildcard();
+        If the image has a mask, then the mask colour is used for the uncovered
+        pixels in the rotated image background. Else, black (rgb 0, 0, 0) will be used.

 
 

-    /**
-        Gets the blue value of the mask colour.
+        Returns the rotated image, leaving this image intact.

     */
     */

-    unsigned char GetMaskBlue() const;
+    wxImage Rotate(double angle, const wxPoint& rotationCentre,
+                   bool interpolating = true,
+                   wxPoint* offsetAfterRotation = NULL) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Gets the green value of the mask colour.
+        Returns a copy of the image rotated 90 degrees in the direction
+        indicated by @a clockwise.

     */
     */

-    unsigned char GetMaskGreen() const;
+    wxImage Rotate90(bool clockwise = true) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Gets the red value of the mask colour.
+        Rotates the hue of each pixel in the image by @e angle, which is a double in
+        the range of -1.0 to +1.0, where -1.0 corresponds to -360 degrees and +1.0
+        corresponds to +360 degrees.

     */
     */

-    unsigned char GetMaskRed() const;
+    void RotateHue(double angle);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Gets a user-defined option. The function is case-insensitive to @e name.
-        For example, when saving as a JPEG file, the option @b quality is
-        used, which is a number between 0 and 100 (0 is terrible, 100 is very good).
-
-        @see SetOption(), GetOptionInt(), HasOption()
-    */
-    wxString GetOption(const wxString& name) const;
+        Returns a scaled version of the image.

 
 

-    /**
-        Gets a user-defined option as an integer. The function is case-insensitive
-        to @e name. If the given option is not present, the function returns 0.
-        Use HasOption() is 0 is a possibly valid value for the option.
-        Options for wxPNGHandler
-        @li wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FORMAT: Format for saving a PNG file.
-        @li wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_BITDEPTH: Bit depth for every channel (R/G/B/A).
+        This is also useful for scaling bitmaps in general as the only other way
+        to scale bitmaps is to blit a wxMemoryDC into another wxMemoryDC.

 
 

-        Supported values for wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FORMAT:
-        @li wxPNG_TYPE_COLOUR: Stores RGB image.
-        @li wxPNG_TYPE_GREY: Stores grey image, converts from RGB.
-        @li wxPNG_TYPE_GREY_RED: Stores grey image, uses red value as grey.
+        The parameter @a quality determines what method to use for resampling the image.
+        Can be one of the following:
+        - wxIMAGE_QUALITY_NORMAL: Uses the normal default scaling method of pixel
+                                  replication
+        - wxIMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH: Uses bicubic and box averaging resampling methods
+                                for upsampling and downsampling respectively

 
 

-        @see SetOption(), GetOption()
-    */
-    int GetOptionInt(const wxString& name) const;
+        It should be noted that although using @c wxIMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH produces much nicer
+        looking results it is a slower method. Downsampling will use the box averaging
+        method which seems to operate very fast. If you are upsampling larger images using
+        this method you will most likely notice that it is a bit slower and in extreme
+        cases it will be quite substantially slower as the bicubic algorithm has to process a
+        lot of data.

 
 

-    /**
-        Get the current mask colour or find a suitable unused colour that could be
-        used as a mask colour. Returns @true if the image currently has a mask.
+        It should also be noted that the high quality scaling may not work as expected
+        when using a single mask colour for transparency, as the scaling will blur the
+        image and will therefore remove the mask partially. Using the alpha channel
+        will work.
+
+        Example:
+        @code
+        // get the bitmap from somewhere
+        wxBitmap bmp = ...;
+
+        // rescale it to have size of 32*32
+        if ( bmp.GetWidth() != 32 || bmp.GetHeight() != 32 )
+        {
+            wxImage image = bmp.ConvertToImage();
+            bmp = wxBitmap(image.Scale(32, 32));
+
+            // another possibility:
+            image.Rescale(32, 32);
+            bmp = image;
+        }
+        @endcode
+
+        @see Rescale()
+    */
+    wxImage Scale(int width, int height,
+                  int quality = wxIMAGE_QUALITY_NORMAL) const;
+    
+    /**
+        Returns a resized version of this image without scaling it by adding either a
+        border with the given colour or cropping as necessary.
+
+        The image is pasted into a new image with the given @a size and background
+        colour at the position @a pos relative to the upper left of the new image.
+
+        If @a red = green = blue = -1 then the areas of the larger image not covered
+        by this image are made transparent by filling them with the image mask colour
+        (which will be allocated automatically if it isn't currently set).
+
+        Otherwise, the areas will be filled with the colour with the specified RGB components.
+
+        @see Resize()
+    */
+    wxImage Size(const wxSize& size, const wxPoint& pos, int red = -1,
+                 int green = -1, int blue = -1) const;
+
+    //@}
+
+
+    /**
+        @name Conversion functions
+    */
+    //@{
+
+    /**
+        If the image has alpha channel, this method converts it to mask.
+
+        If the image has an alpha channel, all pixels with alpha value less
+        than @a threshold are replaced with the mask colour and the alpha
+        channel is removed. Otherwise nothing is done.
+
+        The mask colour is chosen automatically using
+        FindFirstUnusedColour() by this function, see the overload below if you
+        this is not appropriate.
+
+        @return @false if FindFirstUnusedColour returns @false, @true otherwise.
+    */
+    bool ConvertAlphaToMask(unsigned char threshold = wxIMAGE_ALPHA_THRESHOLD);
+
+    /**
+        If the image has alpha channel, this method converts it to mask using
+        the specified colour as the mask colour.
+
+        If the image has an alpha channel, all pixels with alpha value less
+        than @a threshold are replaced with the mask colour and the alpha
+        channel is removed. Otherwise nothing is done.
+
+        @since 2.9.0
+
+        @param mr
+            The red component of the mask colour.
+        @param mg
+            The green component of the mask colour.
+        @param mb
+            The blue component of the mask colour.
+        @param threshold
+            Pixels with alpha channel values below the given threshold are
+            considered to be transparent, i.e. the corresponding mask pixels
+            are set. Pixels with the alpha values above the threshold are
+            considered to be opaque.
+
+     */
+    void ConvertAlphaToMask(unsigned char mr, unsigned char mg, unsigned char mb,
+                            unsigned char threshold = wxIMAGE_ALPHA_THRESHOLD);
+
+    /**
+        Returns a greyscale version of the image.
+
+        The returned image uses the luminance component of the original to
+        calculate the greyscale. Defaults to using the standard ITU-T BT.601
+        when converting to YUV, where every pixel equals
+        (R * @a lr) + (G * @a lg) + (B * @a lb).
+    */
+    wxImage ConvertToGreyscale(double lr = 0.299, double lg = 0.587, double lb = 1.114) const;
+
+    /**
+        Returns monochromatic version of the image.
+
+        The returned image has white colour where the original has @e (r,g,b)
+        colour and black colour everywhere else.
+    */
+    wxImage ConvertToMono(unsigned char r, unsigned char g, unsigned char b) const;
+    
+    //@}
+    
+    
+    /**
+        @name Miscellaneous functions
+    */
+    //@{
+    
+    /**
+        Computes the histogram of the image. @a histogram is a reference to
+        wxImageHistogram object. wxImageHistogram is a specialization of
+        wxHashMap "template" and is defined as follows:
+
+        @code
+        class WXDLLEXPORT wxImageHistogramEntry
+        {
+        public:
+            wxImageHistogramEntry() : index(0), value(0) {}
+            unsigned long index;
+            unsigned long value;
+        };
+
+        WX_DECLARE_EXPORTED_HASH_MAP(unsigned long, wxImageHistogramEntry,
+                                    wxIntegerHash, wxIntegerEqual,
+                                    wxImageHistogram);
+        @endcode
+
+        @return Returns number of colours in the histogram.

     */
     */

-    bool GetOrFindMaskColour(unsigned char r, unsigned char g,
-                             unsigned char b) const;
+    unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram& histogram) const;
+    
+    /**
+        Finds the first colour that is never used in the image.
+        The search begins at given initial colour and continues by increasing
+        R, G and B components (in this order) by 1 until an unused colour is
+        found or the colour space exhausted.
+
+        The parameters @a r, @a g, @a b are pointers to variables to save the colour.
+
+        The parameters @a startR, @a startG, @a startB define the initial values
+        of the colour.
+        The returned colour will have RGB values equal to or greater than these.
+
+        @return Returns @false if there is no unused colour left, @true on success.
+
+        @note
+            This method involves computing the histogram, which is a
+            computationally intensive operation.
+    */
+    bool FindFirstUnusedColour(unsigned char* r, unsigned char* g,
+                               unsigned char* b, unsigned char startR = 1,
+                               unsigned char startG = 0,
+                               unsigned char startB = 0) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns the palette associated with the image. Currently the palette is only
-        used when converting to wxBitmap under Windows. Some of the wxImage handlers
-        have been modified to set the palette if one exists in the image file (usually
-        256 or less colour images in GIF or PNG format).
+        Assignment operator, using @ref overview_refcount "reference counting".
+
+        @param image
+            Image to assign.
+
+        @return Returns 'this' object.
+    */
+    wxImage& operator=(const wxImage& image);
+    
+    //@}
+    
+    
+    /**
+        @name Getters

     */
     */

-    const wxPalette GetPalette() const;
+    //@{
+
+    /**
+        Returns pointer to the array storing the alpha values for this image.
+
+        This pointer is @NULL for the images without the alpha channel. If the image
+        does have it, this pointer may be used to directly manipulate the alpha values
+        which are stored as the RGB ones.
+    */
+    unsigned char* GetAlpha() const;
+
+    /**
+        Returns the image data as an array.
+
+        This is most often used when doing direct image manipulation.
+        The return value points to an array of characters in RGBRGBRGB... format
+        in the top-to-bottom, left-to-right order, that is the first RGB triplet
+        corresponds to the pixel first pixel of the first row, the second one ---
+        to the second pixel of the first row and so on until the end of the first
+        row, with second row following after it and so on.
+
+        You should not delete the returned pointer nor pass it to SetData().
+    */
+    unsigned char* GetData() const;
+
+    /**
+        Return alpha value at given pixel location.
+    */
+    unsigned char GetAlpha(int x, int y) const;

 
     /**
         Returns the red intensity at the given coordinate.
 
     /**
         Returns the red intensity at the given coordinate.


@@ -619,86 +924,196 @@ public:
     unsigned char GetRed(int x, int y) const;
 
     /**
     unsigned char GetRed(int x, int y) const;
 
     /**

-        Returns a sub image of the current one as long as the rect belongs entirely to
-        the image.
+        Returns the green intensity at the given coordinate.

     */
     */

-    wxImage GetSubImage(const wxRect& rect) const;
+    unsigned char GetGreen(int x, int y) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Gets the type of image found by LoadFile or specified with SaveFile
-        @since 2.9.0
+        Returns the blue intensity at the given coordinate.

     */
     */

-    wxBitmapType GetType() const;
+    unsigned char GetBlue(int x, int y) const;
+
+    /**
+        Gets the red value of the mask colour.
+    */
+    unsigned char GetMaskRed() const;
+
+    /**
+        Gets the green value of the mask colour.
+    */
+    unsigned char GetMaskGreen() const;
+
+    /**
+        Gets the blue value of the mask colour.
+    */
+    unsigned char GetMaskBlue() const;

 
     /**
         Gets the width of the image in pixels.
 
 
     /**
         Gets the width of the image in pixels.
 

-        @see GetHeight()
+        @see GetHeight(), GetSize()

     */
     int GetWidth() const;
 
     /**
     */
     int GetWidth() const;
 
     /**

-        Constructor for HSVValue, an object that contains values for hue, saturation
-        and value which
-        represent the value of a color. It is used by HSVtoRGB()
-        and RGBtoHSV(), which
-        converts between HSV color space and RGB color space.
+        Gets the height of the image in pixels.
+
+        @see GetWidth(), GetSize()

     */
     */

-    HSVValue(double h = 0.0, double s = 0.0, double v = 0.0);
+    int GetHeight() const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Converts a color in HSV color space to RGB color space.
+        Returns the size of the image in pixels.
+
+        @since 2.9.0
+
+        @see GetHeight(), GetWidth()

     */
     */

-#define wxImage::RGBValue HSVtoRGB(const HSVValue& hsv)     /* implementation is private */
+    wxSize GetSize() const;
+    
+    /**
+        Gets a user-defined string-valued option.
+
+        Currently the only defined string option is
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_FILENAME: The name of the file from which the image
+            was loaded.
+
+        @param name
+            The name of the option, case-insensitive.
+        @return
+            The value of the option or an empty string if not found. Use
+            HasOption() if an empty string can be a valid option value.
+
+        @see SetOption(), GetOptionInt(), HasOption()
+    */
+    wxString GetOption(const wxString& name) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns @true if this image has alpha channel, @false otherwise.
+        Gets a user-defined integer-valued option.

 
 

-        @see GetAlpha(), SetAlpha()
+        The function is case-insensitive to @a name.
+        If the given option is not present, the function returns 0.
+        Use HasOption() is 0 is a possibly valid value for the option.
+
+        Generic options:
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_MAX_WIDTH and @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_MAX_HEIGHT: If either
+            of these options is specified, the loaded image will be scaled down
+            (preserving its aspect ratio) so that its width is less than the
+            max width given if it is not 0 @em and its height is less than the
+            max height given if it is not 0. This is typically used for loading
+            thumbnails and the advantage of using these options compared to
+            calling Rescale() after loading is that some handlers (only JPEG
+            one right now) support rescaling the image during loading which is
+            vastly more efficient than loading the entire huge image and
+            rescaling it later (if these options are not supported by the
+            handler, this is still what happens however). These options must be
+            set before calling LoadFile() to have any effect.
+
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_QUALITY: JPEG quality used when saving. This is an
+            integer in 0..100 range with 0 meaning very poor and 100 excellent
+            (but very badly compressed). This option is currently ignored for
+            the other formats.
+
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_RESOLUTIONUNIT: The value of this option determines
+            whether the resolution of the image is specified in centimetres or
+            inches, see wxImageResolution enum elements.
+
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_RESOLUTION, @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_RESOLUTIONX and
+            @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_RESOLUTIONY: These options define the resolution of
+            the image in the units corresponding to @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_RESOLUTIONUNIT
+            options value. The first option can be set before saving the image
+            to set both horizontal and vertical resolution to the same value.
+            The X and Y options are set by the image handlers if they support
+            the image resolution (currently BMP, JPEG and TIFF handlers do) and
+            the image provides the resolution information and can be queried
+            after loading the image.
+
+        Options specific to wxPNGHandler:
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FORMAT: Format for saving a PNG file, see
+            wxImagePNGType for the supported values.
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_BITDEPTH: Bit depth for every channel (R/G/B/A).
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER: Filter for saving a PNG file, see libpng
+            (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng-1.2.5-manual.html) for possible values
+            (e.g. PNG_FILTER_NONE, PNG_FILTER_SUB, PNG_FILTER_UP, etc).
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_LEVEL: Compression level (0..9) for
+            saving a PNG file. An high value creates smaller-but-slower PNG file.
+            Note that unlike other formats (e.g. JPEG) the PNG format is always
+            lossless and thus this compression level doesn't tradeoff the image
+            quality.
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_MEM_LEVEL: Compression memory usage
+            level (1..9) for saving a PNG file. An high value means the saving
+            process consumes more memory, but may create smaller PNG file.
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_STRATEGY: Possible values are 0 for
+            default strategy, 1 for filter, and 2 for Huffman-only.
+            You can use OptiPNG (http://optipng.sourceforge.net/) to get a suitable
+            value for your application.
+        @li @c wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_BUFFER_SIZE: Internal buffer size
+            (in bytes) for saving a PNG file. Ideally this should be as big as
+            the resulting PNG file. Use this option if your application produces
+            images with small size variation.
+
+        @param name
+            The name of the option, case-insensitive.
+        @return
+            The value of the option or 0 if not found.
+            Use HasOption() if 0 can be a valid option value.
+
+        @see SetOption(), GetOption()

     */
     */

-    bool HasAlpha() const;
+    int GetOptionInt(const wxString& name) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns @true if there is a mask active, @false otherwise.
+        Get the current mask colour or find a suitable unused colour that could be
+        used as a mask colour. Returns @true if the image currently has a mask.

     */
     */

-    bool HasMask() const;
+    bool GetOrFindMaskColour(unsigned char* r, unsigned char* g,
+                             unsigned char* b) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns @true if the given option is present. The function is case-insensitive
-        to @e name.
+        Returns the palette associated with the image.
+        Currently the palette is only used when converting to wxBitmap under Windows.

 
 

-        @see SetOption(), GetOption(), GetOptionInt()
+        Some of the wxImage handlers have been modified to set the palette if
+        one exists in the image file (usually 256 or less colour images in
+        GIF or PNG format).

     */
     */

-    bool HasOption(const wxString& name) const;
+    const wxPalette& GetPalette() const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Initializes the image alpha channel data. It is an error to call it
-        if the image already has alpha data. If it doesn't, alpha data will be
-        by default initialized to all pixels being fully opaque. But if the image has a
-        a mask colour, all mask pixels will be completely transparent.
+        Returns a sub image of the current one as long as the rect belongs entirely
+        to the image.

     */
     */

-    void InitAlpha();
+    wxImage GetSubImage(const wxRect& rect) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Internal use only. Adds standard image format handlers. It only install BMP
-        for the time being, which is used by wxBitmap.
-        This function is called by wxWidgets on startup, and shouldn't be called by
-        the user.
+        Gets the type of image found by LoadFile() or specified with SaveFile().

 
 

-        @see wxImageHandler, wxInitAllImageHandlers(), wxQuantize
+        @since 2.9.0

     */
     */

-    static void InitStandardHandlers();
+    wxBitmapType GetType() const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Adds a handler at the start of the static list of format handlers.
+        Returns @true if this image has alpha channel, @false otherwise.

 
 

-        @param handler
-            A new image format handler object. There is usually only one instance
-            of a given handler class in an application session.
+        @see GetAlpha(), SetAlpha()
+    */
+    bool HasAlpha() const;

 
 

-        @see wxImageHandler
+    /**
+        Returns @true if there is a mask active, @false otherwise.

     */
     */

-    static void InsertHandler(wxImageHandler* handler);
+    bool HasMask() const;
+
+    /**
+        Returns @true if the given option is present.
+        The function is case-insensitive to @a name.
+
+        The lists of the currently supported options are in GetOption() and
+        GetOptionInt() function docs.
+
+        @see SetOption(), GetOption(), GetOptionInt()
+    */
+    bool HasOption(const wxString& name) const;

 
     /**
         Returns @true if image data is present.
 
     /**
         Returns @true if image data is present.


@@ -708,19 +1123,25 @@ public:
     /**
         Returns @true if the given pixel is transparent, i.e. either has the mask
         colour if this image has a mask or if this image has alpha channel and alpha
     /**
         Returns @true if the given pixel is transparent, i.e. either has the mask
         colour if this image has a mask or if this image has alpha channel and alpha

-        value of this pixel is strictly less than @e threshold.
+        value of this pixel is strictly less than @a threshold.

     */
     */

-    bool IsTransparent(int x, int y, unsigned char threshold = 128) const;
+    bool IsTransparent(int x, int y,
+                       unsigned char threshold = wxIMAGE_ALPHA_THRESHOLD) const;

 
 

+    //@}
+
+
+    /**
+        @name Loading and saving functions
+    */

     //@{
     //@{

+

     /**
         Loads an image from an input stream.
 
     /**
         Loads an image from an input stream.
 

-        @param name
-            Name of the file from which to load the image.

         @param stream
         @param stream

-            Opened input stream from which to load the image. Currently, the
-            stream must support seeking.
+            Opened input stream from which to load the image.
+            Currently, the stream must support seeking.

         @param type
             May be one of the following:
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP: Load a Windows bitmap file.
         @param type
             May be one of the following:
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP: Load a Windows bitmap file.


@@ -736,8 +1157,6 @@ public:
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_CUR: Load a Windows cursor file (CUR).
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANI: Load a Windows animated cursor file (ANI).
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY: Will try to autodetect the format.
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_CUR: Load a Windows cursor file (CUR).
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANI: Load a Windows animated cursor file (ANI).
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY: Will try to autodetect the format.

-        @param mimetype
-            MIME type string (for example 'image/jpeg')

         @param index
             Index of the image to load in the case that the image file contains
             multiple images. This is only used by GIF, ICO and TIFF handlers.
         @param index
             Index of the image to load in the case that the image file contains
             multiple images. This is only used by GIF, ICO and TIFF handlers.


@@ -745,231 +1164,207 @@ public:
             interpreted as the first image (index=0) by the GIF and TIFF handler
             and as the largest and most colourful one by the ICO handler.
 
             interpreted as the first image (index=0) by the GIF and TIFF handler
             and as the largest and most colourful one by the ICO handler.
 

-        @return @true if the operation succeeded, @false otherwise. If the
-                 optional index parameter is out of range, @false is
-                 returned and a call to wxLogError() takes place.
+        @return @true if the operation succeeded, @false otherwise.
+                If the optional index parameter is out of range, @false is
+                returned and a call to wxLogError() takes place.

 
         @remarks Depending on how wxWidgets has been configured, not all formats
                  may be available.
 
 
         @remarks Depending on how wxWidgets has been configured, not all formats
                  may be available.
 

-        @see SaveFile()
-    */
-    bool LoadFile(const wxString& name,
-                  wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY,
-                  int index = -1);
-    bool LoadFile(const wxString& name, const wxString& mimetype,
-                  int index = -1);
-    bool LoadFile(wxInputStream& stream, wxBitmapType type,
-                  int index = -1);
-    bool LoadFile(wxInputStream& stream,
-                  const wxString& mimetype,
-                  int index = -1);
-    //@}
+        @note
+            You can use GetOptionInt() to get the hotspot when loading cursor files:
+            @code
+            int hotspot_x = image.GetOptionInt(wxIMAGE_OPTION_CUR_HOTSPOT_X);
+            int hotspot_y = image.GetOptionInt(wxIMAGE_OPTION_CUR_HOTSPOT_Y);
+            @endcode

 
 

-    /**
-        Returns a mirrored copy of the image. The parameter @e horizontally
-        indicates the orientation.
+        @see SaveFile()

     */
     */

-    wxImage Mirror(bool horizontally = true) const;
+    virtual bool LoadFile(wxInputStream& stream,
+                          wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY,
+                          int index = -1);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Copy the data of the given @a image to the specified position in this image.
-    */
-    void Paste(const wxImage& image, int x, int y);
+        Loads an image from a file.
+        If no handler type is provided, the library will try to autodetect the format.

 
 

-    /**
-        Constructor for RGBValue, an object that contains values for red, green and
-        blue which
-        represent the value of a color. It is used by HSVtoRGB()
-        and RGBtoHSV(), which
-        converts between HSV color space and RGB color space.
-    */
-    RGBValue(unsigned char r = 0, unsigned char g = 0,
-             unsigned char b = 0);
-
-    /**
-        Converts a color in RGB color space to HSV color space.
+        @param name
+            Name of the file from which to load the image.
+        @param type
+            See the description in the LoadFile(wxInputStream&, wxBitmapType, int) overload.
+        @param index
+            See the description in the LoadFile(wxInputStream&, wxBitmapType, int) overload.

     */
     */

-#define wxImage::HSVValue RGBtoHSV(const RGBValue& rgb)     /* implementation is private */
+    virtual bool LoadFile(const wxString& name,
+                          wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY,
+                          int index = -1);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Finds the handler with the given name, and removes it. The handler
-        is not deleted.
+        Loads an image from a file.
+        If no handler type is provided, the library will try to autodetect the format.

 
         @param name
 
         @param name

-            The handler name.
-
-        @return @true if the handler was found and removed, @false otherwise.
-
-        @see wxImageHandler
-    */
-    static bool RemoveHandler(const wxString& name);
-
-    /**
-        Replaces the colour specified by @e r1,g1,b1 by the colour @e r2,g2,b2.
+            Name of the file from which to load the image.
+        @param mimetype
+            MIME type string (for example 'image/jpeg')
+        @param index
+            See the description in the LoadFile(wxInputStream&, wxBitmapType, int) overload.

     */
     */

-    void Replace(unsigned char r1, unsigned char g1,
-                 unsigned char b1, unsigned char r2,
-                 unsigned char g2, unsigned char b2);
+    virtual bool LoadFile(const wxString& name, const wxString& mimetype,
+                          int index = -1);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Changes the size of the image in-place by scaling it: after a call to this
-        function,
-        the image will have the given width and height.
-        For a description of the @a quality parameter, see the Scale() function.
-        Returns the (modified) image itself.
+        Loads an image from an input stream.

 
 

-        @see Scale()
+        @param stream
+            Opened input stream from which to load the image.
+            Currently, the stream must support seeking.
+        @param mimetype
+            MIME type string (for example 'image/jpeg')
+        @param index
+            See the description in the LoadFile(wxInputStream&, wxBitmapType, int) overload.

     */
     */

-    wxImage Rescale(int width, int height,
-                    int quality = wxIMAGE_QUALITY_NORMAL);
+    virtual bool LoadFile(wxInputStream& stream, const wxString& mimetype,
+                          int index = -1);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Changes the size of the image in-place without scaling it by adding either a
-        border
-        with the given colour or cropping as necessary. The image is pasted into a new
-        image with the given @a size and background colour at the position @e pos
-        relative to the upper left of the new image. If @a red = green = blue = -1
-        then use either the  current mask colour if set or find, use, and set a
-        suitable mask colour for any newly exposed areas.
-        Returns the (modified) image itself.
+        Saves an image in the given stream.

 
 

-        @see Size()
-    */
-    wxImage Resize(const wxSize& size, const wxPoint pos,
-                   int red = -1, int green = -1,
-                   int blue = -1);
+        @param stream
+            Opened output stream to save the image to.
+        @param mimetype
+            MIME type.

 
 

-    /**
-        Rotates the image about the given point, by @a angle radians. Passing @true
-        to @a interpolating results in better image quality, but is slower. If the
-        image has a mask, then the mask colour is used for the uncovered pixels in the
-        rotated image background. Else, black (rgb 0, 0, 0) will be used.
-        Returns the rotated image, leaving this image intact.
-    */
-    wxImage Rotate(double angle, const wxPoint& rotationCentre,
-                   bool interpolating = true,
-                   wxPoint* offsetAfterRotation = NULL);
+        @return @true if the operation succeeded, @false otherwise.

 
 

-    /**
-        Returns a copy of the image rotated 90 degrees in the direction
-        indicated by @e clockwise.
-    */
-    wxImage Rotate90(bool clockwise = true) const;
+        @remarks Depending on how wxWidgets has been configured, not all formats
+                 may be available.

 
 

-    /**
-        Rotates the hue of each pixel in the image by @e angle, which is a double in
-        the range of -1.0 to +1.0, where -1.0 corresponds to -360 degrees and +1.0
-        corresponds
-        to +360 degrees.
+        @note
+            You can use SetOption() to set the hotspot when saving an image
+            into a cursor file (default hotspot is in the centre of the image):
+            @code
+            image.SetOption(wxIMAGE_OPTION_CUR_HOTSPOT_X, hotspotX);
+            image.SetOption(wxIMAGE_OPTION_CUR_HOTSPOT_Y, hotspotY);
+            @endcode
+
+        @see LoadFile()

     */
     */

-    void RotateHue(double angle);
+    virtual bool SaveFile(wxOutputStream& stream,
+                          const wxString& mimetype) const;

 
 

-    //@{

     /**
     /**

-        Saves an image in the given stream.
+        Saves an image in the named file.

 
         @param name
             Name of the file to save the image to.
 
         @param name
             Name of the file to save the image to.

-        @param stream
-            Opened output stream to save the image to.

         @param type
             Currently these types can be used:
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP: Save a BMP image file.
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_JPEG: Save a JPEG image file.
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNG: Save a PNG image file.
         @param type
             Currently these types can be used:
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP: Save a BMP image file.
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_JPEG: Save a JPEG image file.
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNG: Save a PNG image file.

-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PCX: Save a PCX image file (tries to save as 8-bit if possible,
-                falls back to 24-bit otherwise).
+            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PCX: Save a PCX image file
+                (tries to save as 8-bit if possible, falls back to 24-bit otherwise).

             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNM: Save a PNM image file (as raw RGB always).
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_TIFF: Save a TIFF image file.
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_XPM: Save a XPM image file.
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNM: Save a PNM image file (as raw RGB always).
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_TIFF: Save a TIFF image file.
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_XPM: Save a XPM image file.

-            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO: Save a Windows icon file (ICO) (the size may
-                be up to 255 wide by 127 high. A single image is saved in 8 colors
-                at the size supplied).
+            @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO: Save a Windows icon file (ICO).
+                The size may be up to 255 wide by 127 high. A single image is saved
+                in 8 colors at the size supplied.

             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_CUR: Save a Windows cursor file (CUR).
             @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_CUR: Save a Windows cursor file (CUR).

+    */
+    virtual bool SaveFile(const wxString& name, wxBitmapType type) const;
+
+    /**
+        Saves an image in the named file.
+
+        @param name
+            Name of the file to save the image to.

         @param mimetype
             MIME type.
         @param mimetype
             MIME type.

+    */
+    virtual bool SaveFile(const wxString& name, const wxString& mimetype) const;

 
 

-        @return @true if the operation succeeded, @false otherwise.
+    /**
+        Saves an image in the named file.

 
 

-        @remarks Depending on how wxWidgets has been configured, not all formats
-                 may be available.
+        File type is determined from the extension of the file name.
+        Note that this function may fail if the extension is not recognized!
+        You can use one of the forms above to save images to files with
+        non-standard extensions.

 
 

-        @see LoadFile()
+        @param name
+            Name of the file to save the image to.

     */
     */

-    bool SaveFile(const wxString& name, int type) const;
-    const bool SaveFile(const wxString& name,
-                        const wxString& mimetype) const;
-    const bool SaveFile(const wxString& name) const;
-    const bool SaveFile(wxOutputStream& stream, int type) const;
-    const bool SaveFile(wxOutputStream& stream,
-                        const wxString& mimetype) const;
-    //@}
+    virtual bool SaveFile(const wxString& name) const;

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Returns a scaled version of the image. This is also useful for
-        scaling bitmaps in general as the only other way to scale bitmaps
-        is to blit a wxMemoryDC into another wxMemoryDC.
-        It should be noted that although using wxIMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH produces much nicer
-        looking results it is a slower method.  Downsampling will use the box averaging
-        method
-        which seems to operate very fast.  If you are upsampling larger images using
-        this method you will most likely notice that it is a bit slower and in extreme
-        cases
-        it will be quite substantially slower as the bicubic algorithm has to process a
-        lot of
-        data.
-        It should also be noted that the high quality scaling may not work as expected
-        when using a single mask colour for transparency, as the scaling will blur the
-        image and will therefore remove the mask partially. Using the alpha channel
-        will work.
-        Example:
+        Saves an image in the given stream.

 
 

-        @param quality
-            Determines what method to use for resampling the image.
+        @param stream
+            Opened output stream to save the image to.
+        @param type
+            MIME type.
+    */
+    virtual bool SaveFile(wxOutputStream& stream, wxBitmapType type) const;

 
 

-            Can be one of the following:
-            @li wxIMAGE_QUALITY_NORMAL: Uses the normal default scaling method of
-                pixel replication
-            @li wxIMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH: Uses bicubic and box averaging resampling
-                methods for upsampling and downsampling respectively
+    //@}

 
 

-        @see Rescale()
+
+
+    /**
+        @name Setters

     */
     */

-    wxImage Scale(int width, int height,
-                  int quality = wxIMAGE_QUALITY_NORMAL) const;
+    //@{

 
     /**
 
     /**

-       Assigns new data as alpha channel to the image.
-       If @e static_data is false the data will be
-       free()'d after use.
+       This function is similar to SetData() and has similar restrictions.
+
+        The pointer passed to it may however be @NULL in which case the function
+        will allocate the alpha array internally -- this is useful to add alpha
+        channel data to an image which doesn't have any.
+
+        If the pointer is not @NULL, it must have one byte for each image pixel
+        and be allocated with malloc().
+        wxImage takes ownership of the pointer and will free it unless @a static_data
+        parameter is set to @true -- in this case the caller should do it.

     */
     void SetAlpha(unsigned char* alpha = NULL,
                   bool static_data = false);
 
     /**
     */
     void SetAlpha(unsigned char* alpha = NULL,
                   bool static_data = false);
 
     /**

-        Sets the alpha value for the given pixel. This function should only be
-        called if the image has alpha channel data, use HasAlpha() to
-        check for this.
+        Sets the alpha value for the given pixel.
+        This function should only be called if the image has alpha channel data,
+        use HasAlpha() to check for this.

     */
     void SetAlpha(int x, int y, unsigned char alpha);
 
     /**
     */
     void SetAlpha(int x, int y, unsigned char alpha);
 
     /**

-        Sets the image data without performing checks. The data given must have
-        the size (width*height*3) or results will be unexpected. Don't use this
-        method if you aren't sure you know what you are doing.
+        Sets the image data without performing checks.
+
+        The data given must have the size (width*height*3) or results will be
+        unexpected. Don't use this method if you aren't sure you know what you
+        are doing.
+

         The data must have been allocated with @c malloc(), @b NOT with
         @c operator new.
         The data must have been allocated with @c malloc(), @b NOT with
         @c operator new.

-        After this call the pointer to the data is owned by the wxImage object,
-        that will be responsible for deleting it.
-        Do not pass to this function a pointer obtained through
-        GetData().
+
+        If @a static_data is @false, after this call the pointer to the data is 
+        owned by the wxImage object, that will be responsible for deleting it.
+        Do not pass to this function a pointer obtained through GetData().
+    */
+    void SetData(unsigned char* data, bool static_data = false);
+    
+    /**
+        @overload

     */
     */

-    void SetData(unsigned char* data);
+    void SetData(unsigned char* data, int new_width, int new_height,
+                 bool static_data = false);

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Specifies whether there is a mask or not. The area of the mask is determined by
-        the current mask colour.
+        Specifies whether there is a mask or not.
+
+        The area of the mask is determined by the current mask colour.

     */
     void SetMask(bool hasMask = true);
 
     */
     void SetMask(bool hasMask = true);
 


@@ -980,86 +1375,292 @@ public:
                        unsigned char blue);
 
     /**
                        unsigned char blue);
 
     /**

-        @param mask
-            The mask image to extract mask shape from. Must have same dimensions as the
-        image.
-        @param mr,mg,mb
-            RGB value of pixels in mask that will be used to create the mask.
+        Sets image's mask so that the pixels that have RGB value of mr,mg,mb in
+        mask will be masked in the image.
+
+        This is done by first finding an unused colour in the image, setting
+        this colour as the mask colour and then using this colour to draw all
+        pixels in the image who corresponding pixel in mask has given RGB value.
+
+        The parameter @a mask is the mask image to extract mask shape from.
+        It must have the same dimensions as the image.
+
+        The parameters @a mr, @a mg, @a mb are the RGB values of the pixels in
+        mask that will be used to create the mask.

 
         @return Returns @false if mask does not have same dimensions as the image
 
         @return Returns @false if mask does not have same dimensions as the image

-                 or if there is no unused colour left. Returns @true if
-                 the mask was successfully applied.
+                or if there is no unused colour left. Returns @true if the mask
+                was successfully applied.
+
+        @note
+            Note that this method involves computing the histogram, which is a
+            computationally intensive operation.

     */
     bool SetMaskFromImage(const wxImage& mask, unsigned char mr,
                           unsigned char mg,
                           unsigned char mb);
 
     */
     bool SetMaskFromImage(const wxImage& mask, unsigned char mr,
                           unsigned char mg,
                           unsigned char mb);
 

-    //@{

     /**
     /**

-        Sets a user-defined option. The function is case-insensitive to @e name.
+        Sets a user-defined option. The function is case-insensitive to @a name.
+

         For example, when saving as a JPEG file, the option @b quality is
         used, which is a number between 0 and 100 (0 is terrible, 100 is very good).
 
         For example, when saving as a JPEG file, the option @b quality is
         used, which is a number between 0 and 100 (0 is terrible, 100 is very good).
 

+        The lists of the currently supported options are in GetOption() and
+        GetOptionInt() function docs.
+

         @see GetOption(), GetOptionInt(), HasOption()
     */
     void SetOption(const wxString& name, const wxString& value);
         @see GetOption(), GetOptionInt(), HasOption()
     */
     void SetOption(const wxString& name, const wxString& value);

+    
+    /** 
+        @overload
+    */

     void SetOption(const wxString& name, int value);
     void SetOption(const wxString& name, int value);

-    //@}

 
     /**
 
     /**

-        Associates a palette with the image. The palette may be used when converting
-        wxImage to wxBitmap (MSW only at present) or in file save operations (none as
-        yet).
+        Associates a palette with the image.
+
+        The palette may be used when converting wxImage to wxBitmap (MSW only at present)
+        or in file save operations (none as yet).

     */
     void SetPalette(const wxPalette& palette);
 
     /**
     */
     void SetPalette(const wxPalette& palette);
 
     /**

-        Sets the colour of the pixels within the given rectangle. This routine performs
-        bounds-checks for the coordinate so it can be considered a safe way to
-        manipulate the
-        data.
+        Sets the colour of the pixels within the given rectangle.
+
+        This routine performs bounds-checks for the coordinate so it can be considered
+        a safe way to manipulate the data.

     */
     */

-    void SetRGB(wxRect& rect, unsigned char red,
+    void SetRGB(const wxRect& rect,
+                unsigned char red,

                 unsigned char green,
                 unsigned char blue);
 
     /**
                 unsigned char green,
                 unsigned char blue);
 
     /**

-        Returns a resized version of this image without scaling it by adding either a
-        border
-        with the given colour or cropping as necessary. The image is pasted into a new
-        image with the given @a size and background colour at the position @e pos
-        relative to the upper left of the new image. If @a red = green = blue = -1
-        then the areas of the larger image not covered by this image are made
-        transparent by filling them with the image mask colour (which will be allocated
-        automatically if it isn't currently set). Otherwise, the areas will be filled
-        with the colour with the specified RGB components.
+        Set the type of image returned by GetType().

 
 

-        @see Resize()
+        This method is mostly used internally by the library but can also be
+        called from the user code if the image was created from data in the
+        given bitmap format without using LoadFile() (which would set the type
+        correctly automatically).
+
+        Notice that the image must be created before this function is called.
+
+        @since 2.9.0
+
+        @param type
+            One of bitmap type constants, @c wxBITMAP_TYPE_INVALID is a valid
+            value for it and can be used to reset the bitmap type to default
+            but @c wxBITMAP_TYPE_MAX is not allowed here.

     */
     */

-    wxImage Size(const wxSize& size, const wxPoint pos, int red = -1,
-                 int green = -1, int blue = -1) const;
+    void SetType(wxBitmapType type);

 
 

+    //@}
+    
+    
+    
+    /**
+        @name Handler management functions
+    */
+    //@{
+    

     /**
     /**

-        Assignment operator, using @ref overview_trefcount "reference counting".
+        Register an image handler.
+        See @ref image_handlers for a list of the available handlers.
+    */
+    static void AddHandler(wxImageHandler* handler);

 
 

-        @param image
-            Image to assign.
+    /**
+        Deletes all image handlers.
+        This function is called by wxWidgets on exit.
+    */
+    static void CleanUpHandlers();
+    
+    /**
+        Finds the handler with the given name.

 
 

-        @return Returns 'this' object.
+        @param name
+            The handler name.
+
+        @return A pointer to the handler if found, @NULL otherwise.
+
+        @see wxImageHandler

     */
     */

-    wxImage operator =(const wxImage& image);
+    static wxImageHandler* FindHandler(const wxString& name);
+
+    /**
+        Finds the handler associated with the given extension and type.
+
+        @param extension
+            The file extension, such as "bmp".
+        @param imageType
+            The image type; one of the ::wxBitmapType values.
+
+        @return A pointer to the handler if found, @NULL otherwise.
+
+        @see wxImageHandler
+    */
+    static wxImageHandler* FindHandler(const wxString& extension,
+                                       wxBitmapType imageType);
+
+    /**
+        Finds the handler associated with the given image type.
+
+        @param imageType
+            The image type; one of the ::wxBitmapType values.
+
+        @return A pointer to the handler if found, @NULL otherwise.
+
+        @see wxImageHandler
+    */
+    static wxImageHandler* FindHandler(wxBitmapType imageType);
+
+    /**
+        Finds the handler associated with the given MIME type.
+
+        @param mimetype
+            MIME type.
+
+        @return A pointer to the handler if found, @NULL otherwise.
+
+        @see wxImageHandler
+    */
+    static wxImageHandler* FindHandlerMime(const wxString& mimetype);
+
+    /**
+        Returns the static list of image format handlers.
+
+        @see wxImageHandler
+    */
+    static wxList& GetHandlers();
+
+    /**
+        Internal use only. Adds standard image format handlers.
+        It only install wxBMPHandler for the time being, which is used by wxBitmap.
+
+        This function is called by wxWidgets on startup, and shouldn't be called by
+        the user.
+
+        @see wxImageHandler, wxInitAllImageHandlers(), wxQuantize
+    */
+    static void InitStandardHandlers();
+
+    /**
+        Adds a handler at the start of the static list of format handlers.
+
+        @param handler
+            A new image format handler object. There is usually only one instance
+            of a given handler class in an application session.
+
+        @see wxImageHandler
+    */
+    static void InsertHandler(wxImageHandler* handler);
+
+    /**
+        Finds the handler with the given name, and removes it.
+        The handler is not deleted.
+
+        @param name
+            The handler name.
+
+        @return @true if the handler was found and removed, @false otherwise.
+
+        @see wxImageHandler
+    */
+    static bool RemoveHandler(const wxString& name);
+    
+    //@}
+    
+    
+    /**
+        Returns @true if the current image handlers can read this file
+    */
+    static bool CanRead(const wxString& filename);
+
+    //@{
+    /**
+        If the image file contains more than one image and the image handler is
+        capable of retrieving these individually, this function will return the
+        number of available images.
+
+        For the overload taking the parameter @a filename, that's the name
+        of the file to query.
+        For the overload taking the parameter @a stream, that's the ppened input
+        stream with image data. Currently, the stream must support seeking.
+
+        The parameter @a type may be one of the following values:
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP: Load a Windows bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_GIF: Load a GIF bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_JPEG: Load a JPEG bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNG: Load a PNG bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PCX: Load a PCX bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNM: Load a PNM bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_TIF: Load a TIFF bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_TGA: Load a TGA bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_XPM: Load a XPM bitmap file.
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO: Load a Windows icon file (ICO).
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_CUR: Load a Windows cursor file (CUR).
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANI: Load a Windows animated cursor file (ANI).
+        @li wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY: Will try to autodetect the format.
+
+        @return Number of available images. For most image handlers, this is 1
+                (exceptions are TIFF and ICO formats as well as animated GIFs
+                for which this function returns the number of frames in the
+                animation).
+    */
+    static int GetImageCount(const wxString& filename,
+                             wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY);
+    static int GetImageCount(wxInputStream& stream,
+                             wxBitmapType type = wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY);
+    //@}
+
+    /**
+        Iterates all registered wxImageHandler objects, and returns a string containing
+        file extension masks suitable for passing to file open/save dialog boxes.
+
+        @return The format of the returned string is @c "(*.ext1;*.ext2)|*.ext1;*.ext2".
+                It is usually a good idea to prepend a description before passing
+                the result to the dialog.
+                Example:
+                @code
+                wxFileDialog FileDlg( this, "Choose Image", ::wxGetCwd(), "",
+                                      _("Image Files ") + wxImage::GetImageExtWildcard(),
+                                      wxFD_OPEN );
+                @endcode
+
+        @see wxImageHandler
+    */
+    static wxString GetImageExtWildcard();
+    
+    /**
+        Converts a color in RGB color space to HSV color space.
+    */
+    static wxImage::HSVValue RGBtoHSV(const wxImage::RGBValue& rgb);
+    
+    /**
+        Converts a color in HSV color space to RGB color space.
+    */
+    static wxImage::RGBValue HSVtoRGB(const wxImage::HSVValue& hsv);

 };
 
 };
 

+/**
+    An instance of an empty image without an alpha channel.
+*/
+wxImage wxNullImage;
+
+

 // ============================================================================
 // Global functions/macros
 // ============================================================================
 
 // ============================================================================
 // Global functions/macros
 // ============================================================================
 

-/** @ingroup group_funcmacro_appinitterm */
+/** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_appinitterm */

 //@{
 
 /**
     Initializes all available image handlers. For a list of available handlers,
     see wxImage.
 //@{
 
 /**
     Initializes all available image handlers. For a list of available handlers,
     see wxImage.

+    If you don't need/want all image handlers loaded 

 
     @see wxImage, wxImageHandler
 
 
     @see wxImage, wxImageHandler