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

diff --git a/interface/wx/stdpaths.h b/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
index d443cd773cb91d886452d59862f4d6968ffcfeca..b4f577662f29568cf4c46f9046a58bbc3bbd6e2d 100644 (file)
--- a/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
+++ b/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // Purpose:     interface of wxStandardPaths
 // Author:      wxWidgets team
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
-// Licence:     wxWindows license
+// Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 /**
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
     wxStandardPaths returns the standard locations in the file system and should be
     used by applications to find their data files in a portable way.
 
+    Note that you must not create objects of class wxStandardPaths directly,
+    but use the global standard paths object returned by wxStandardPaths::Get()
+    (which can be of a type derived from wxStandardPaths and not of exactly
+    this type) and call the methods you need on it. The object returned by
+    Get() may be customized by overriding wxAppTraits::GetStandardPaths()
+    methods.
+
     In the description of the methods below, the example return values are given
     for the Unix, Windows and Mac OS X systems, however please note that these are
     just the examples and the actual values may differ. For example, under Windows:
@@ -22,8 +29,8 @@
     Notice that in the examples below the string @c appinfo may be either just
     the application name (as returned by wxApp::GetAppName()) or a combination
     of the vendor name (wxApp::GetVendorName()) and the application name, with
-    a path separator between them. By default, the vendor name is used under
-    Windows and OS X but not under other Unix systems, see UseAppInfo().
+    a path separator between them. By default, only the application name is
+    used, use UseAppInfo() to change this.
 
     The other placeholders should be self-explanatory: the string @c username
     should be replaced with the value the name of the currently logged in user.
@@ -42,10 +49,6 @@
     This class is MT-safe: its methods may be called concurrently from different
     threads without additional locking.
 
-    Note that you don't allocate an instance of class wxStandardPaths, but retrieve the
-    global standard paths object using @c wxStandardPaths::Get on which you call the
-    desired methods.
-
     @library{wxbase}
     @category{file}
 
@@ -54,6 +57,17 @@
 class wxStandardPaths
 {
 public:
+    /// Possible values for category parameter of GetLocalizedResourcesDir().
+    enum ResourceCat
+    {
+        /// No special category, this is the default.
+        ResourceCat_None,
+
+        /// Message catalog resources category.
+        ResourceCat_Messages
+    };
+
+
     /**
         MSW-specific function undoing the effect of IgnoreAppSubDir() calls.
 
@@ -140,7 +154,7 @@ public:
         Example return values:
         - Unix: @c /usr/local/bin/exename
         - Windows: @c "C:\Programs\AppFolder\exename.exe"
-        - Mac: @c /Programs/exename
+        - Mac: @c /Applications/exename.app/Contents/MacOS/exename
     */
     virtual wxString GetExecutablePath() const;
 
@@ -174,8 +188,9 @@ public:
 
         @since 2.7.0
     */
-    virtual wxString GetLocalizedResourcesDir(const wxString& lang,
-                                              ResourceCat category) const;
+    virtual wxString
+    GetLocalizedResourcesDir(const wxString& lang,
+                             ResourceCat category = ResourceCat_None) const;
 
     /**
         Return the directory where the loadable modules (plugins) live.
@@ -336,8 +351,7 @@ public:
             used combined with AppInfo_AppName, i.e. as @code AppInfo_AppName |
             AppInfo_VendorName @endcode
 
-        By default, only the application name is used under Unix systems but both
-        application and vendor names are used under Windows and Mac.
+        By default, only the application name is used.
 
         @since 2.9.0
     */