/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// Name: tips
+// Name: tips.h
// Purpose: topic overview
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-/*!
+/**
- @page tips_overview wxTipProvider overview
+@page overview_tips wxTipProvider Overview
- Many "modern" Windows programs have a feature (some would say annoyance) of
- presenting the user tips at program startup. While this is probably useless to
- the advanced users of the program, the experience shows that the tips may be
- quite helpful for the novices and so more and more programs now do this.
- For a wxWidgets programmer, implementing this feature is extremely easy. To
- show a tip, it is enough to just call #wxShowTip function
- like this:
+@tableofcontents
- @code
- if ( ...show tips at startup?... )
- {
- wxTipProvider *tipProvider = wxCreateFileTipProvider("tips.txt", 0);
- wxShowTip(windowParent, tipProvider);
- delete tipProvider;
- }
- @endcode
+Many "modern" Windows programs have a feature (some would say annoyance) of
+presenting the user tips at program startup. While this is probably useless to
+the advanced users of the program, the experience shows that the tips may be
+quite helpful for the novices and so more and more programs now do this. For a
+wxWidgets programmer, implementing this feature is extremely easy. To show a
+tip, it is enough to just call wxShowTip function like this:
- Of course, you need to get the text of the tips from somewhere - in the example
- above, the text is supposed to be in the file tips.txt from where it is read by
- the @e tip provider. The tip provider is just an object of a class deriving
- from #wxTipProvider. It has to implement one pure
- virtual function of the base class: #GetTip.
- In the case of the tip provider created by
- #wxCreateFileTipProvider, the tips are just
- the lines of the text file.
- If you want to implement your own tip provider (for example, if you wish to
- hardcode the tips inside your program), you just have to derive another class
- from wxTipProvider and pass a pointer to the object of this class to wxShowTip
- - then you don't need wxCreateFileTipProvider at all.
- You will probably want to save somewhere the index of the tip last
- shown - so that the program doesn't always show the same tip on startup. As you
- also need to remember whether to show tips or not (you shouldn't do it if the
- user unchecked "Show tips on startup" checkbox in the dialog), you will
- probably want to store both the index of the
- last shown tip (as returned by
- wxTipProvider::GetCurrentTip and the flag
- telling whether to show the tips at startup at all.
- In a tips.txt file, lines that begin with a # character are considered comments
- and are automatically skipped. Blank lines and lines only having spaces are also
- skipped.
- You can easily add runtime-translation capacity by placing each line of the
- tips.txt file inside the usual translation macro. For example, your tips.txt
- file would look like this:
+@code
+if ( ...show tips at startup?... )
+{
+ wxTipProvider *tipProvider = wxCreateFileTipProvider("tips.txt", 0);
+ wxShowTip(windowParent, tipProvider);
+ delete tipProvider;
+}
+@endcode
- @code
- _("This is my first tip")
- _("This is my second tip")
- @endcode
+Of course, you need to get the text of the tips from somewhere - in the example
+above, the text is supposed to be in the file tips.txt from where it is read by
+the <em>tip provider</em>. The tip provider is just an object of a class
+deriving from wxTipProvider. It has to implement one pure virtual function of
+the base class: GetTip. In the case of the tip provider created by
+wxCreateFileTipProvider, the tips are just the lines of the text file.
- Now add your tips.txt file into the list of files that gettext searches
- for translatable strings. The tips will thus get included into your
- generated .po file catalog and be translated at runtime along with the rest of
- your application's translatable strings.
- Note1: Each line in the tips.txt file needs to strictly begin with exactly the
- 3 characters of underscore-parenthesis-doublequote, and end with
- doublequote-parenthesis, as shown above.
- Note2: Remember to escape any doublequote characters within the tip string with
- a backslash-doublequote.
- See the dialogs program in your samples folder for a working example inside a
- program.
+If you want to implement your own tip provider (for example, if you wish to
+hardcode the tips inside your program), you just have to derive another class
+from wxTipProvider and pass a pointer to the object of this class to
+wxShowTip - then you don't need wxCreateFileTipProvider at all.
- */
+You will probably want to save somewhere the index of the tip last shown - so
+that the program doesn't always show the same tip on startup. As you also need
+to remember whether to show tips or not (you shouldn't do it if the user
+unchecked "Show tips on startup" checkbox in the dialog), you will probably
+want to store both the index of the last shown tip (as returned by
+wxTipProvider::GetCurrentTip and the flag telling whether to show the tips at
+startup at all.
+In a tips.txt file, lines that begin with a # character are considered comments
+and are automatically skipped. Blank lines and lines only having spaces are
+also skipped.
+You can easily add runtime-translation capacity by placing each line of the
+tips.txt file inside the usual translation macro. For example, your tips.txt
+file would look like this:
+
+@code
+_("This is my first tip")
+_("This is my second tip")
+@endcode
+
+Now add your tips.txt file into the list of files that gettext searches for
+translatable strings. The tips will thus get included into your generated .po
+file catalog and be translated at runtime along with the rest of your
+application's translatable strings.
+
+@note Each line in the tips.txt file needs to strictly begin with exactly the 3
+characters of underscore-parenthesis-doublequote, and end with
+doublequote-parenthesis, as shown above. Also, remember to escape any
+doublequote characters within the tip string with a backslash-doublequote.
+
+See the dialogs program in your samples folder for a working example inside a
+program.
+
+*/
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