A text control allows text to be displayed and edited.
- It may be single line or multi-line.
+ It may be single line or multi-line. Notice that a lot of methods of the
+ text controls are found in the base wxTextEntry class which is a common
+ base class for wxTextCtrl and other controls using a single line text entry
+ field (e.g. wxComboBox).
@beginStyleTable
@style{wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER}
instead. For the control created with this style, you can still use
Ctrl-Enter to pass to the next control from the keyboard.
@style{wxTE_MULTILINE}
- The text control allows multiple lines.
+ The text control allows multiple lines. If this style is not
+ specified, line break characters should not be used in the controls
+ value.
@style{wxTE_PASSWORD}
The text will be echoed as asterisks.
@style{wxTE_READONLY}
@see wxTextCtrl::Create, wxValidator
*/
-class wxTextCtrl : public wxControl
+class wxTextCtrl : public wxControl,
+ public wxTextEntry
{
public:
/**
*/
virtual ~wxTextCtrl();
- /**
- Appends the text to the end of the text control.
-
- @param text
- Text to write to the text control.
-
- @remarks
- After the text is appended, the insertion point will be at the
- end of the text control. If this behaviour is not desired, the
- programmer should use GetInsertionPoint() and SetInsertionPoint().
-
- @see WriteText()
- */
- virtual void AppendText(const wxString& text);
-
- /**
- Call this function to enable auto-completion of the text typed in a
- single-line text control using the given @a choices.
-
- Notice that currently this function is only implemented in wxGTK2 and
- wxMSW ports and does nothing under the other platforms.
-
- @since 2.9.0
-
- @return
- @true if the auto-completion was enabled or @false if the operation
- failed, typically because auto-completion is not supported by the
- current platform.
-
- @see AutoCompleteFileNames()
- */
- virtual bool AutoComplete(const wxArrayString& choices);
-
- /**
- Call this function to enable auto-completion of the text typed in a
- single-line text control using all valid file system paths.
-
- Notice that currently this function is only implemented in wxGTK2 port
- and does nothing under the other platforms.
-
- @since 2.9.0
-
- @return
- @true if the auto-completion was enabled or @false if the operation
- failed, typically because auto-completion is not supported by the
- current platform.
-
- @see AutoComplete()
- */
- virtual bool AutoCompleteFileNames();
-
- /**
- Returns @true if the selection can be copied to the clipboard.
- */
- virtual bool CanCopy() const;
-
- /**
- Returns @true if the selection can be cut to the clipboard.
- */
- virtual bool CanCut() const;
-
- /**
- Returns @true if the contents of the clipboard can be pasted into the
- text control.
-
- On some platforms (Motif, GTK) this is an approximation and returns
- @true if the control is editable, @false otherwise.
- */
- virtual bool CanPaste() const;
-
- /**
- Returns @true if there is a redo facility available and the last
- operation can be redone.
- */
- virtual bool CanRedo() const;
-
- /**
- Returns @true if there is an undo facility available and the last
- operation can be undone.
- */
- virtual bool CanUndo() const;
-
- /**
- Sets the new text control value.
-
- It also marks the control as not-modified which means that IsModified()
- would return @false immediately after the call to SetValue().
-
- The insertion point is set to the start of the control (i.e. position
- 0) by this function.
-
- This functions does not generate the @c wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED
- event but otherwise is identical to SetValue().
-
- See @ref overview_events_prog for more information.
-
- @since 2.7.1
-
- @param value
- The new value to set. It may contain newline characters if the text
- control is multi-line.
- */
- virtual void ChangeValue(const wxString& value);
-
- /**
- Clears the text in the control.
-
- Note that this function will generate a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED
- event, i.e. its effect is identical to calling @c SetValue("").
- */
- virtual void Clear();
-
- /**
- Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
- */
- virtual void Copy();
-
/**
Creates the text control for two-step construction.
virtual void DiscardEdits();
/**
- This functions inserts into the control the character which would have
+ This function inserts into the control the character which would have
been inserted if the given key event had occurred in the text control.
The @a event object should be the same as the one passed to @c EVT_KEY_DOWN
*/
virtual const wxTextAttr& GetDefaultStyle() const;
- /**
- Returns the insertion point, or cursor, position.
-
- This is defined as the zero based index of the character position to
- the right of the insertion point. For example, if the insertion point
- is at the end of the single-line text control, it is equal to both
- GetLastPosition() and @c "GetValue().Length()" (but notice that the latter
- equality is not necessarily true for multiline edit controls which may
- use multiple new line characters).
-
- The following code snippet safely returns the character at the insertion
- point or the zero character if the point is at the end of the control.
-
- @code
- char GetCurrentChar(wxTextCtrl *tc) {
- if (tc->GetInsertionPoint() == tc->GetLastPosition())
- return '\0';
- return tc->GetValue[tc->GetInsertionPoint()];
- }
- @endcode
- */
- virtual long GetInsertionPoint() const;
-
- /**
- Returns the zero based index of the last position in the text control,
- which is equal to the number of characters in the control.
- */
- virtual wxTextPos GetLastPosition() const;
-
/**
Gets the length of the specified line, not including any trailing
newline character(s).
*/
virtual int GetNumberOfLines() const;
- /**
- Returns the string containing the text starting in the positions
- @a from and up to @a to in the control.
-
- The positions must have been returned by another wxTextCtrl method.
- Please note that the positions in a multiline wxTextCtrl do @b not
- correspond to the indices in the string returned by GetValue() because
- of the different new line representations (@c CR or @c CR LF) and so
- this method should be used to obtain the correct results instead of
- extracting parts of the entire value. It may also be more efficient,
- especially if the control contains a lot of data.
- */
- virtual wxString GetRange(long from, long to) const;
-
- /**
- Gets the current selection span.
-
- If the returned values are equal, there was no selection. Please note
- that the indices returned may be used with the other wxTextCtrl methods
- but don't necessarily represent the correct indices into the string
- returned by GetValue() for multiline controls under Windows (at least,)
- you should use GetStringSelection() to get the selected text.
-
- @param from
- The returned first position.
- @param to
- The returned last position.
- */
- virtual void GetSelection(long* from, long* to) const;
-
- /**
- Gets the text currently selected in the control.
-
- If there is no selection, the returned string is empty.
- */
- virtual wxString GetStringSelection() const;
-
/**
Returns the style at this position in the text control.
*/
virtual bool GetStyle(long position, wxTextAttr& style);
- /**
- Gets the contents of the control.
-
- Notice that for a multiline text control, the lines will be separated
- by (Unix-style) @c \\n characters, even under Windows where they are
- separated by a @c \\r\\n sequence in the native control.
- */
- virtual wxString GetValue() const;
-
/**
This function finds the character at the specified position expressed
in pixels.
Please note that this function is currently only implemented in wxUniv, wxMSW
and wxGTK2 ports.
+ @beginWxPerlOnly
+ In wxPerl this function takes only the @a pt argument and
+ returns a 3-element list (result, col, row).
+ @endWxPerlOnly
+
@see PositionToXY(), XYToPosition()
*/
wxTextCtrlHitTestResult HitTest(const wxPoint& pt,
wxTextCoord col,
wxTextCoord row) const;
- /**
- Returns @true if the controls contents may be edited by user (note that
- it always can be changed by the program).
-
- In other words, this functions returns @true if the control hasn't been
- put in read-only mode by a previous call to SetEditable().
- */
- virtual bool IsEditable() const;
-
- /**
- Returns @true if the control is currently empty.
-
- This is the same as @c GetValue().empty() but can be much more
- efficient for the multiline controls containing big amounts of text.
-
- @since 2.7.1
- */
- virtual bool IsEmpty() const;
-
/**
Returns @true if the text has been modified by user.
*/
void OnDropFiles(wxDropFilesEvent& event);
- /**
- Pastes text from the clipboard to the text item.
- */
- virtual void Paste();
-
/**
Converts given position to a zero-based column, line number pair.
@true on success, @false on failure (most likely due to a too large
position parameter).
+ @beginWxPerlOnly
+ In wxPerl this function takes only the @a pos argument and
+ returns a 2-element list (x, y).
+ @endWxPerlOnly
+
@see XYToPosition()
*/
virtual bool PositionToXY(long pos, long* x, long* y) const;
- /**
- If there is a redo facility and the last operation can be redone,
- redoes the last operation.
-
- Does nothing if there is no redo facility.
- */
- virtual void Redo();
-
- /**
- Removes the text starting at the first given position up to
- (but not including) the character at the last position.
-
- This function puts the current insertion point position at @a to as a
- side effect.
-
- @param from
- The first position.
- @param to
- The last position.
- */
- virtual void Remove(long from, long to);
-
- /**
- Replaces the text starting at the first position up to
- (but not including) the character at the last position with the given text.
-
- This function puts the current insertion point position at @a to as a
- side effect.
-
- @param from
- The first position.
- @param to
- The last position.
- @param value
- The value to replace the existing text with.
- */
- virtual void Replace(long from, long to, const wxString& value);
-
/**
Saves the contents of the control in a text file.
*/
virtual bool SetDefaultStyle(const wxTextAttr& style);
- /**
- Makes the text item editable or read-only, overriding the
- @b wxTE_READONLY flag.
-
- @param editable
- If @true, the control is editable. If @false, the control is
- read-only.
-
- @see IsEditable()
- */
- virtual void SetEditable(bool editable);
-
- /**
- Sets the insertion point at the given position.
-
- @param pos
- Position to set, in the range from 0 to GetLastPosition() inclusive.
- */
- virtual void SetInsertionPoint(long pos);
-
- /**
- Sets the insertion point at the end of the text control.
-
- This is equivalent to calling wxTextCtrl::SetInsertionPoint() with
- wxTextCtrl::GetLastPosition() argument.
- */
- virtual void SetInsertionPointEnd();
-
- /**
- This function sets the maximum number of characters the user can enter
- into the control.
-
- In other words, it allows to limit the text value length to @a len not
- counting the terminating @c NUL character.
-
- If @a len is 0, the previously set max length limit, if any, is discarded
- and the user may enter as much text as the underlying native text control widget
- supports (typically at least 32Kb).
- If the user tries to enter more characters into the text control when it
- already is filled up to the maximal length, a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_MAXLEN
- event is sent to notify the program about it (giving it the possibility
- to show an explanatory message, for example) and the extra input is discarded.
-
- Note that in wxGTK this function may only be used with single line text controls.
- */
- virtual void SetMaxLength(unsigned long len);
-
/**
Marks the control as being modified by the user or not.
*/
void SetModified(bool modified);
- /**
- Selects the text starting at the first position up to (but not
- including) the character at the last position.
-
- If both parameters are equal to -1 all text in the control is selected.
-
- Notice that the insertion point will be moved to @a from by this
- function.
-
- @param from
- The first position.
- @param to
- The last position.
-
- @see SelectAll()
- */
- virtual void SetSelection(long from, long to);
-
- /**
- Selects all text in the control.
-
- @see SetSelection()
- */
- virtual void SelectAll();
-
/**
Changes the style of the given range.
*/
virtual bool SetStyle(long start, long end, const wxTextAttr& style);
- /**
- Sets the new text control value.
-
- It also marks the control as not-modified which means that IsModified()
- would return @false immediately after the call to SetValue().
-
- The insertion point is set to the start of the control (i.e. position
- 0) by this function.
-
- Note that, unlike most other functions changing the controls values,
- this function generates a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event. To avoid
- this you can use ChangeValue() instead.
-
- @param value
- The new value to set. It may contain newline characters if the text
- control is multi-line.
- */
- virtual void SetValue(const wxString& value);
-
/**
Makes the line containing the given position visible.
*/
virtual void ShowPosition(long pos);
- /**
- If there is an undo facility and the last operation can be undone,
- undoes the last operation.
-
- Does nothing if there is no undo facility.
- */
- virtual void Undo();
-
- /**
- Writes the text into the text control at the current insertion position.
-
- @param text
- Text to write to the text control.
-
- @remarks
- Newlines in the text string are the only control characters
- allowed, and they will cause appropriate line breaks.
- See operator<<() and AppendText() for more convenient ways of
- writing to the window.
- After the write operation, the insertion point will be at the end
- of the inserted text, so subsequent write operations will be appended.
- To append text after the user may have interacted with the control,
- call wxTextCtrl::SetInsertionPointEnd() before writing.
- */
- virtual void WriteText(const wxString& text);
-
/**
Converts the given zero based column and line number to a position.
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