for a range of text in a wxTextCtrl or wxRichTextCtrl.
When setting up a wxTextAttr object, pass a bitlist mask to
- wxTextAttr::SetFlags to
- indicate which style elements should be changed. As a convenience, when you
- call a setter such
- as SetFont, the relevant bit will be set.
+ wxTextAttr::SetFlags to indicate which style elements should be changed. As
+ a convenience, when you call a setter such as SetFont, the relevant bit
+ will be set.
@library{wxcore}
@category{richtext}
/**
Gets the font attributes from the given font, using only the attributes
- specified by @e flags.
+ specified by @a flags.
*/
bool GetFontAttributes(const wxFont& font,
int flags = wxTEXT_ATTR_FONT);
//@{
/**
Creates a new @c wxTextAttr which is a merge of @a base and
- @e overlay. Properties defined in @a overlay take precedence over those
- in @e base. Properties undefined/invalid in both are undefined in the
+ @a overlay. Properties defined in @a overlay take precedence over those
+ in @a base. Properties undefined/invalid in both are undefined in the
result.
*/
void Merge(const wxTextAttr& overlay);
//@}
/**
- Sets the paragraph alignment. These are the possible values for @e alignment:
+ Sets the paragraph alignment. These are the possible values for @a alignment:
Of these, wxTEXT_ALIGNMENT_JUSTIFIED is unimplemented. In future justification
may be supported
void operator operator=(const wxTextAttr& attr);
};
+/**
+ Describes the possible return values of wxTextCtrl::HitTest().
+
+ The element names correspond to the relationship between the point asked
+ for and the character returned, e.g. @c wxTE_HT_BEFORE means that the point
+ is before (leftward or upward) it and so on.
+ */
+enum wxTextCtrlHitTestResult
+{
+ /// Indicates that wxTextCtrl::HitTest() is not implemented on this
+ /// platform.
+ wxTE_HT_UNKNOWN = -2,
+
+ /// The point is before the character returned.
+ wxTE_HT_BEFORE,
+
+ /// The point is directly on the character returned.
+ wxTE_HT_ON_TEXT,
+
+ /// The point is below the last line of the control.
+ wxTE_HT_BELOW,
+
+ /// The point is beyond the end of line containing the character returned.
+ wxTE_HT_BEYOND
+};
/**
@class wxTextCtrl
@wxheader{textctrl.h}
- A text control allows text to be displayed and edited. It may be
- single line or multi-line.
+ A text control allows text to be displayed and edited.
+
+ It may be single line or multi-line.
@beginStyleTable
- @style{wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER}:
+ @style{wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER}
The control will generate the event wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER
(otherwise pressing Enter key is either processed internally by the
control or used for navigation between dialog controls).
- @style{wxTE_PROCESS_TAB}:
+ @style{wxTE_PROCESS_TAB}
The control will receive wxEVT_CHAR events for TAB pressed -
normally, TAB is used for passing to the next control in a dialog
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}:
+ @style{wxTE_MULTILINE}
The text control allows multiple lines.
- @style{wxTE_PASSWORD}:
+ @style{wxTE_PASSWORD}
The text will be echoed as asterisks.
- @style{wxTE_READONLY}:
+ @style{wxTE_READONLY}
The text will not be user-editable.
- @style{wxTE_RICH}:
+ @style{wxTE_RICH}
Use rich text control under Win32, this allows to have more than
64KB of text in the control even under Win9x. This style is ignored
under other platforms.
- @style{wxTE_RICH2}:
+ @style{wxTE_RICH2}
Use rich text control version 2.0 or 3.0 under Win32, this style is
ignored under other platforms
- @style{wxTE_AUTO_URL}:
+ @style{wxTE_AUTO_URL}
Highlight the URLs and generate the wxTextUrlEvents when mouse
events occur over them. This style is only supported for wxTE_RICH
Win32 and multi-line wxGTK2 text controls.
- @style{wxTE_NOHIDESEL}:
+ @style{wxTE_NOHIDESEL}
By default, the Windows text control doesn't show the selection
when it doesn't have focus - use this style to force it to always
show it. It doesn't do anything under other platforms.
- @style{wxHSCROLL}:
+ @style{wxHSCROLL}
A horizontal scrollbar will be created and used, so that text won't
be wrapped. No effect under wxGTK1.
- @style{wxTE_NO_VSCROLL}:
+ @style{wxTE_NO_VSCROLL}
For multiline controls only: vertical scrollbar will never be
created. This limits the amount of text which can be entered into
the control to what can be displayed in it under MSW but not under
GTK2. Currently not implemented for the other platforms.
- @style{wxTE_LEFT}:
+ @style{wxTE_LEFT}
The text in the control will be left-justified (default).
- @style{wxTE_CENTRE}:
+ @style{wxTE_CENTRE}
The text in the control will be centered (currently wxMSW and
wxGTK2 only).
- @style{wxTE_RIGHT}:
+ @style{wxTE_RIGHT}
The text in the control will be right-justified (currently wxMSW
and wxGTK2 only).
- @style{wxTE_DONTWRAP}:
+ @style{wxTE_DONTWRAP}
Same as wxHSCROLL style: don't wrap at all, show horizontal
scrollbar instead.
- @style{wxTE_CHARWRAP}:
+ @style{wxTE_CHARWRAP}
Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at any position
(wxUniv and wxGTK2 only).
- @style{wxTE_WORDWRAP}:
+ @style{wxTE_WORDWRAP}
Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at word boundaries
(wxUniv and wxGTK2 only).
- @style{wxTE_BESTWRAP}:
+ @style{wxTE_BESTWRAP}
Wrap the lines at word boundaries or at any other character if
there are words longer than the window width (this is the default).
- @style{wxTE_CAPITALIZE}:
+ @style{wxTE_CAPITALIZE}
On PocketPC and Smartphone, causes the first letter to be
capitalized.
@endStyleTable
+
+ @section textctrl_text_format wxTextCtrl Text Format
+
+ The multiline text controls always store the text as a sequence of lines
+ separated by @c '\\n' characters, i.e. in the Unix text format even on
+ non-Unix platforms. This allows the user code to ignore the differences
+ between the platforms but at a price: the indices in the control such as
+ those returned by GetInsertionPoint() or GetSelection() can @b not be used
+ as indices into the string returned by GetValue() as they're going to be
+ slightly off for platforms using @c "\\r\\n" as separator (as Windows
+ does).
+
+ Instead, if you need to obtain a substring between the 2 indices obtained
+ from the control with the help of the functions mentioned above, you should
+ use GetRange(). And the indices themselves can only be passed to other
+ methods, for example SetInsertionPoint() or SetSelection().
+
+ To summarize: never use the indices returned by (multiline) wxTextCtrl as
+ indices into the string it contains, but only as arguments to be passed
+ back to the other wxTextCtrl methods. This problem doesn't arise for
+ single-line platforms however where the indices in the control do
+ correspond to the positions in the value string.
+
+
+ @section textctrl_styles wxTextCtrl Styles.
+
+ Multi-line text controls support styling, i.e. provide a possibility to set
+ colours and font for individual characters in it (note that under Windows
+ @c wxTE_RICH style is required for style support). To use the styles you
+ can either call SetDefaultStyle() before inserting the text or call
+ SetStyle() later to change the style of the text already in the control
+ (the first solution is much more efficient).
+
+ In either case, if the style doesn't specify some of the attributes (for
+ example you only want to set the text colour but without changing the font
+ nor the text background), the values of the default style will be used for
+ them. If there is no default style, the attributes of the text control
+ itself are used.
+
+ So the following code correctly describes what it does: the second call to
+ SetDefaultStyle() doesn't change the text foreground colour (which stays
+ red) while the last one doesn't change the background colour (which stays
+ grey):
+
+ @code
+ text->SetDefaultStyle(wxTextAttr(*wxRED));
+ text->AppendText("Red text\n");
+ text->SetDefaultStyle(wxTextAttr(wxNullColour, *wxLIGHT_GREY));
+ text->AppendText("Red on grey text\n");
+ text->SetDefaultStyle(wxTextAttr(*wxBLUE);
+ text->AppendText("Blue on grey text\n");
+ @endcode
+
+
+ @section textctrl_cpp_streams wxTextCtrl and C++ Streams
+
+ This class multiply-inherits from @c std::streambuf (except for some really
+ old compilers using non-standard iostream library), allowing code such as
+ the following:
+
+ @code
+ wxTextCtrl *control = new wxTextCtrl(...);
+
+ ostream stream(control)
+
+ stream << 123.456 << " some text\n";
+ stream.flush();
+ @endcode
+
+ Note that even if your compiler doesn't support this (the symbol
+ @c wxHAS_TEXT_WINDOW_STREAM has value of 0 then) you can still use
+ wxTextCtrl itself in a stream-like manner:
+
+ @code
+ wxTextCtrl *control = new wxTextCtrl(...);
+
+ *control << 123.456 << " some text\n";
+ @endcode
+
+ However the possibility to create an ostream associated with wxTextCtrl may
+ be useful if you need to redirect the output of a function taking an
+ ostream as parameter to a text control.
+
+ Another commonly requested need is to redirect @c std::cout to the text
+ control. This may be done in the following way:
+
+ @code
+ #include <iostream>
+
+ wxTextCtrl *control = new wxTextCtrl(...);
+
+ std::streambuf *sbOld = std::cout.rdbuf();
+ std::cout.rdbuf(control);
+
+ // use cout as usual, the output appears in the text control
+ ...
+
+ std::cout.rdbuf(sbOld);
+ @endcode
+
+ But wxWidgets provides a convenient class to make it even simpler so
+ instead you may just do
+
+ @code
+ #include <iostream>
+
+ wxTextCtrl *control = new wxTextCtrl(...);
+
+ wxStreamToTextRedirector redirect(control);
+
+ // all output to cout goes into the text control until the exit from
+ // current scope
+ @endcode
+
+ See wxStreamToTextRedirector for more details.
+
+
+ @section textctrl_event_handling Event Handling.
+
+ The following commands are processed by default event handlers in
+ wxTextCtrl: @c wxID_CUT, @c wxID_COPY, @c wxID_PASTE, @c wxID_UNDO, @c
+ wxID_REDO. The associated UI update events are also processed
+ automatically, when the control has the focus.
+
+ To process input from a text control, use these event handler macros to
+ direct input to member functions that take a wxCommandEvent argument.
+
+ @beginEventTable{wxCommandEvent}
+ @event{EVT_TEXT(id, func)}
+ Respond to a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event, generated when the text
+ changes. Notice that this event will be sent when the text controls
+ contents changes -- whether this is due to user input or comes from the
+ program itself (for example, if SetValue() is called); see
+ ChangeValue() for a function which does not send this event.} This
+ event is however not sent during the control creation.
+
+ @event{EVT_TEXT_ENTER(id, func)}
+ Respond to a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER event, generated when enter is
+ pressed in a text control which must have wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER style for
+ this event to be generated.
+
+ @event{EVT_TEXT_URL(id, func}}
+ A mouse event occurred over an URL in the text control (wxMSW and
+ wxGTK2 only currently).
+
+ @event{EVT_TEXT_MAXLEN(id, func}}
+ This event is generated when the user tries to enter more text into the
+ control than the limit set by SetMaxLength(), see its description.
+ @endEventTable
+
@library{wxcore}
@category{ctrl}
- @appearance{textctrl.png}
+ <!-- @appearance{textctrl.png} -->
@see wxTextCtrl::Create, wxValidator
*/
Window name.
@remarks The horizontal scrollbar (wxHSCROLL style flag) will only be
- created for multi-line text controls. Without a
- horizontal scrollbar, text lines that don't fit in the
- control's size will be wrapped (but no newline
- character is inserted). Single line controls don't have
- a horizontal scrollbar, the text is automatically
- scrolled so that the insertion point is always visible.
+ created for multi-line text controls. Without a horizontal
+ scrollbar, text lines that don't fit in the control's size will be
+ wrapped (but no newline character is inserted). Single line
+ controls don't have a horizontal scrollbar, the text is
+ automatically scrolled so that the insertion point is always
+ visible.
@see Create(), wxValidator
*/
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.
+ end of the text control. If this behaviour is not desired, the
+ programmer should use GetInsertionPoint and SetInsertionPoint.
@see WriteText()
*/
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 @e choices.
- Notice that currently this function is only implemented in wxGTK2 and wxMSW
- ports and does nothing under the other platforms.
+ 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.
- @wxsince{2.9.0}
+ @since 2.9.0
- @returns @true if the auto-completion was enabled or @false if the
- operation failed, typically because auto-completion is
- not supported by the current platform.
+ @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()
*/
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.
+ 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.
- @wxsince{2.9.0}
+ @since 2.9.0
- @returns @true if the auto-completion was enabled or @false if the
- operation failed, typically because auto-completion is
- not supported by the current platform.
+ @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()
*/
/**
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.
+ text control.
+
+ On some platforms (Motif, GTK) this is an approximation and returns
+ @true if the control is editable, @false otherwise.
*/
virtual bool CanPaste();
/**
- Returns @true if there is a redo facility available and the last operation
- can be redone.
+ Returns @true if there is a redo facility available and the last
+ operation can be redone.
*/
virtual bool CanRedo();
/**
- Returns @true if there is an undo facility available and the last operation
- can be undone.
+ Returns @true if there is an undo facility available and the last
+ operation can be undone.
*/
virtual bool CanUndo();
/**
- Sets the text value and marks the control as not-modified (which means that
- IsModified() would return @false immediately
- after the call to SetValue).
- Note that this function will not generate the @c wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED
- event.
- This is the only difference with SetValue().
+ Sets the text value and marks the control as not-modified (which means
+ that IsModified() would return @false immediately after the call to
+ SetValue).
+
+ This functions does not generate the @c wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED
+ event but otherwise is identical to SetValue().
See @ref overview_progevent "this topic" for more information.
- @wxsince{2.7.1}
+ @since 2.7.1
@param value
- The new value to set. It may contain newline characters if the text control
- is multi-line.
+ 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.
+ event, i.e. its effect is identical to calling @c SetValue("").
*/
virtual void Clear();
/**
- Copies the selected text to the clipboard under Motif and MS Windows.
+ Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
*/
virtual void Copy();
/**
- Creates the text control for two-step construction. Derived classes
- should call or replace this function. See wxTextCtrl()
- for further details.
+ Creates the text control for two-step construction.
+
+ This method should be called if the default constructor was used for
+ the control creation. Its parameters have the same meaning as for the
+ non-default constructor.
*/
bool Create(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id,
const wxString& value = "",
virtual void Cut();
/**
- Resets the internal 'modified' flag as if the current edits had been saved.
+ Resets the internal modified flag as if the current changes had been
+ saved.
*/
void DiscardEdits();
/**
- This functions 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
- handler previously by wxWidgets.
- Please note that this function doesn't currently work correctly for all keys
- under any platform but MSW.
+ This functions 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 handler previously by wxWidgets. Please note that this
+ function doesn't currently work correctly for all keys under any
+ platform but MSW.
- @returns @true if the event resulted in a change to the control, @false
- otherwise.
+ @return
+ @true if the event resulted in a change to the control, @false
+ otherwise.
*/
bool EmulateKeyPress(const wxKeyEvent& event);
const wxTextAttr GetDefaultStyle() const;
/**
- Returns the insertion point. 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 text control, it is equal to
- both GetValue().Length() and
- GetLastPosition().
- 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.
+ 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 GetValue().length() (but notice that the latter
+ equality is not necessarily true for multiline edit controls which may
+ use multiple new line characters).
*/
virtual long GetInsertionPoint() const;
virtual wxTextPos GetLastPosition() const;
/**
- Gets the length of the specified line, not including any trailing newline
- character(s).
+ Gets the length of the specified line, not including any trailing
+ newline character(s).
@param lineNo
Line number (starting from zero).
- @returns The length of the line, or -1 if lineNo was invalid.
+ @return
+ The length of the line, or -1 if @a lineNo was invalid.
*/
int GetLineLength(long lineNo) const;
@param lineNo
The line number, starting from zero.
- @returns The contents of the line.
+ @return
+ The contents of the line.
*/
wxString GetLineText(long lineNo) const;
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.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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.
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.
+ Gets the text currently selected in the control.
+
+ If there is no selection, the returned string is empty.
*/
virtual wxString GetStringSelection();
/**
- Returns the style at this position in the text control. Not all platforms
- support this function.
+ Returns the style at this position in the text control.
+
+ Not all platforms support this function.
- @returns @true on success, @false if an error occurred - it may also mean
- that the styles are not supported under this platform.
+ @return
+ @true on success, @false if an error occurred (this may also mean
+ that the styles are not supported under this platform).
@see SetStyle(), wxTextAttr
*/
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) \n characters, even
- under Windows where they are separated by a \r\n
- sequence in the native control.
+ 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.
*/
wxString GetValue() const;
/**
- This function finds the character at the specified position expressed in
- pixels. If the return code is not @c wxTE_HT_UNKNOWN the row and column
- of the character closest to this position are returned in the @a col and
- @a row parameters (unless the pointers are @NULL which is allowed).
- Please note that this function is currently only implemented in wxUniv,
- wxMSW and wxGTK2 ports.
+ This function finds the character at the specified position expressed
+ in pixels.
+
+ If the return code is not @c wxTE_HT_UNKNOWN the row and column of the
+ character closest to this position are returned in the @a col and @a
+ row parameters (unless the pointers are @NULL which is allowed). Please
+ note that this function is currently only implemented in wxUniv, wxMSW
+ and wxGTK2 ports.
@see PositionToXY(), XYToPosition()
*/
wxTextCoord row) const;
/**
- Returns @true if the controls contents may be edited by user (note that it
- always can be changed by the program), i.e. if the control hasn't been put in
- read-only mode by a previous call to
- SetEditable().
+ 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().
*/
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.
+ 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.
- @wxsince{2.7.1}
+ @since 2.7.1
*/
bool IsEmpty() const;
/**
- Returns @true if the text has been modified by user. Note that calling
- SetValue() doesn't make the control modified.
+ Returns @true if the text has been modified by user.
+
+ Note that calling SetValue() doesn't make the control modified.
@see MarkDirty()
*/
@param fileType
The type of file to load. This is currently ignored in wxTextCtrl.
- @returns @true if successful, @false otherwise.
+ @return
+ @true if successful, @false otherwise.
*/
bool LoadFile(const wxString& filename,
int fileType = wxTEXT_TYPE_ANY);
void MarkDirty();
/**
- This event handler function implements default drag and drop behaviour, which
- is to load the first dropped file into the control.
+ This event handler function implements default drag and drop behaviour,
+ which is to load the first dropped file into the control.
@param event
The drop files event.
@param y
Receives zero based line number.
- @returns @true on success, @false on failure (most likely due to a too
- large position parameter).
+ @return
+ @true on success, @false on failure (most likely due to a too large
+ position parameter).
@see XYToPosition()
*/
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.
+ 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.
+ Removes the text starting at the first given position up to (but not
+ including) the character at the last position.
@param from
The first 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.
+ Replaces the text starting at the first position up to (but not
+ including) the character at the last position with the given text.
@param from
The first position.
@param fileType
The type of file to save. This is currently ignored in wxTextCtrl.
- @returns @true if the operation was successful, @false otherwise.
+ @return
+ @true if the operation was successful, @false otherwise.
*/
bool SaveFile(const wxString& filename,
int fileType = wxTEXT_TYPE_ANY);
/**
- Changes the default style to use for the new text which is going to be added
- to the control using WriteText() or
- AppendText().
+ Changes the default style to use for the new text which is going to be
+ added to the control using WriteText() or AppendText().
+
If either of the font, foreground, or background colour is not set in
- @e style, the values of the previous default style are used for them. If
- the previous default style didn't set them neither, the global font or colours
- of the text control itself are used as fall back.
- However if the @a style parameter is the default wxTextAttr, then the
- default style is just reset (instead of being combined with the new style which
+ @a style, the values of the previous default style are used for them.
+ If the previous default style didn't set them neither, the global font
+ or colours of the text control itself are used as fall back. However if
+ the @a style parameter is the default wxTextAttr, then the default
+ style is just reset (instead of being combined with the new style which
wouldn't change it at all).
@param style
The style for the new text.
- @returns @true on success, @false if an error occurred - may also mean that
- the styles are not supported under this platform.
+ @return
+ @true on success, @false if an error occurred (this may also mean
+ that the styles are not supported under this platform).
@see GetDefaultStyle()
*/
bool SetDefaultStyle(const wxTextAttr& style);
/**
- Makes the text item editable or read-only, overriding the @b wxTE_READONLY flag.
+ 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.
+ If @true, the control is editable. If @false, the control is
+ read-only.
@see IsEditable()
*/
virtual void SetInsertionPoint(long pos);
/**
- Sets the insertion point at the end of the text control. This is equivalent
- to wxTextCtrl::SetInsertionPoint(wxTextCtrl::GetLastPosition()).
+ 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 @e 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 under GTK+, this function may only be used with single line text
- controls.
+ 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);
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.
+ 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.
@param from
The first position.
@param to
The last position.
+
+ @see SelectAll()
*/
virtual void SetSelection(long from, long to);
/**
- Changes the style of the given range. If any attribute within @a style is
- not set, the corresponding attribute from GetDefaultStyle() is used.
+ Selects all text in the control.
+
+ @see SetSelection()
+ */
+ virtual void SelectAll();
+
+ /**
+ Changes the style of the given range.
+
+ If any attribute within @a style is not set, the corresponding
+ attribute from GetDefaultStyle() is used.
@param start
The start of the range to change.
@param style
The new style for the range.
- @returns @true on success, @false if an error occurred - it may also mean
- that the styles are not supported under this platform.
+ @return
+ @true on success, @false if an error occurred (this may also mean
+ that the styles are not supported under this platform).
@see GetStyle(), wxTextAttr
*/
bool SetStyle(long start, long end, const wxTextAttr& style);
/**
- Sets the text value and marks the control as not-modified (which means that
- IsModified() would return @false immediately
- after the call to SetValue).
- Note that this function will generate a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED
- event.
- This function is deprecated and should not be used in new code. Please use the
- ChangeValue() function instead.
+ Sets the text value and marks the control as not-modified (which means
+ that IsModified() would return @false immediately after the call to
+ SetValue).
+
+ Note that 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.
+ The new value to set. It may contain newline characters if the text
+ control is multi-line.
*/
virtual void SetValue(const wxString& value);
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.
+ 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();
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 () and AppendText() for more
- convenient ways of writing to the window.
+ allowed, and they will cause appropriate line breaks. See () and
+ AppendText() for more convenient ways of writing to the window.
*/
void WriteText(const wxString& text);
@param y
The line number.
- @returns The position value, or -1 if x or y was invalid.
+ @return
+ The position value, or -1 if x or y was invalid.
*/
long XYToPosition(long x, long y);
//@{
/**
- Operator definitions for appending to a text control, for example:
+ Operator definitions for appending to a text control.
+
+ These operators can be used as with the standard C++ streams, for
+ example:
+ @code
+ wxTextCtrl *wnd = new wxTextCtrl(my_frame);
+
+ (*wnd) << "Welcome to text control number " << 1 << ".\n";
+ @endcode
*/
- wxTextCtrl operator(const wxString& s);
- wxTextCtrl operator(int i);
- wxTextCtrl operator(long i);
- wxTextCtrl operator(float f);
- wxTextCtrl operator(double d);
- wxTextCtrl operator(char c);
+
+ wxTextCtrl& operator<<(const wxString& s);
+ wxTextCtrl& operator<<(int i);
+ wxTextCtrl& operator<<(long i);
+ wxTextCtrl& operator<<(float f);
+ wxTextCtrl& operator<<(double d);
+ wxTextCtrl& operator<<(char c);
+ wxTextCtrl& operator<<(wchar_t c);
//@}
};
This class can be used to (temporarily) redirect all output sent to a C++
ostream object to a wxTextCtrl instead.
- @b NB: Some compilers and/or build configurations don't support multiply
+ @note Some compilers and/or build configurations don't support multiply
inheriting wxTextCtrl from @c std::streambuf in which
case this class is not compiled in. You also must have @c wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM
option on (i.e. set to 1) in your setup.h to be able to use it. Under Unix,
{
public:
/**
- The constructor starts redirecting output sent to @a ostr or @e cout for
- the default parameter value to the text control @e text.
+ The constructor starts redirecting output sent to @a ostr or @a cout for
+ the default parameter value to the text control @a text.
@param text
The text control to append output too, must be non-@NULL
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