// Purpose: interface of wxIdManager
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+/**
+ The type of unique identifiers (ID) used for wxWindow-derived classes.
+*/
+typedef int wxWindowID;
+
/**
@class wxIdManager
- wxIdManager is responsible for allocating and releasing window IDs. It
- is used by wxWindow::NewControlId and
- wxWindow::UnreserveControlId, and can also
- be used be used directly.
+ wxIdManager is responsible for allocating and releasing window IDs.
+ It is used by wxWindow::NewControlId() and wxWindow::UnreserveControlId(),
+ and can also be used be used directly.
@library{wxcore}
- @category{FIXME}
+ @category{cfg}
- @see wxWindow::NewControlId, wxWindow::UnreserveControlId, @ref
- overview_windowidsoverview "Window IDs overview"
+ @see wxWindow::NewControlId(), wxWindow::UnreserveControlId(),
+ @ref overview_windowids
*/
class wxIdManager
{
public:
/**
- Called directly by wxWindow::NewControlId,
- this function will create a new ID or range of IDs. The IDs will be
- reserved until assigned to a wxWindowIDRef()
- or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
- Only ID values that are not assigned to a wxWindowIDRef()
- need to be unreserved.
+ Called directly by wxWindow::NewControlId(), this function will create
+ a new ID or range of IDs.
+ The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindowIDRef() or unreserved
+ with UnreserveControlId().
+ Only ID values that are not assigned to a wxWindowIDRef() need to be unreserved.
@param count
The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
@return The value of the first ID in the sequence, or wxID_NONE.
*/
- static wxWindowID ReserveControlId(int count = 1);
+ static wxWindowID ReserveId(int count = 1);
+
+ /**
+ Called directly by wxWindow::UnreserveControlId(), this function will
+ unreserve an ID or range of IDs that is currently reserved.
+ This should only be called for IDs returned by ReserveControlId() that
+ have NOT been assigned to a wxWindowIDRef (see @ref overview_windowids).
+
+ @param id
+ The first of the range of IDs to unreserve.
+ @param count
+ The number of sequential IDs to unreserve.
+
+ @return The value of the first ID in the sequence, or wxID_NONE.
+ */
+ static void UnreserveId(wxWindowID id, int count = 1);
};