+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// deprecated wxColourDatabase methods
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+wxColour *wxColourDatabase::FindColour(const wxString& name)
+{
+ // This function is deprecated, use Find() instead.
+ // Formerly this function sometimes would return a deletable pointer and
+ // sometimes a non-deletable one (when returning a colour from the database).
+ // Trying to delete the latter anyway results in problems, so probably
+ // nobody ever freed the pointers. Currently it always returns a new
+ // instance, which means there will be memory leaks.
+ wxLogDebug(wxT("wxColourDataBase::FindColour():")
+ wxT(" Please use wxColourDataBase::Find() instead"));
+
+ // using a static variable here is not the most elegant solution but unless
+ // we want to make wxStringToColourHashMap public (i.e. move it to the
+ // header) so that we could have a member function returning
+ // wxStringToColourHashMap::iterator, there is really no good way to do it
+ // otherwise
+ //
+ // and knowing that this function is going to disappear in the next release
+ // anyhow I don't want to waste time on this
+
+ static wxColour s_col;
+
+ s_col = Find(name);
+ if ( !s_col.Ok() )
+ return NULL;