// Purpose: interface of wxDialog
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
Equivalent to a combination of wxCAPTION, wxCLOSE_BOX and
wxSYSTEM_MENU (the last one is not used under Unix).
@style{wxRESIZE_BORDER}
- Display a resizeable frame around the window.
+ Display a resizable frame around the window.
@style{wxSYSTEM_MENU}
Display a system menu.
@style{wxCLOSE_BOX}
@style{wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP}
Under Windows, puts a query button on the caption. When pressed,
Windows will go into a context-sensitive help mode and wxWidgets
- will send a wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application
+ will send a @c wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application
window. Note that this is an extended style and must be set by
calling SetExtraStyle() before Create is called (two-step
construction).
managers recognizing the MHM hints should be running for any of these
styles to have an effect.
+
+ @beginEventEmissionTable{wxCloseEvent}
+ @event{EVT_CLOSE(func)}
+ The dialog is being closed by the user or programmatically (see wxWindow::Close).
+ The user may generate this event clicking the close button
+ (typically the 'X' on the top-right of the title bar) if it's present
+ (see the @c wxCLOSE_BOX style) or by clicking a button with the
+ @c wxID_CANCEL or @c wxID_OK ids.
+ @event{EVT_INIT_DIALOG(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event. See wxInitDialogEvent.
+ @endEventTable
+
@library{wxcore}
@category{cmndlg}
const wxString& name = wxDialogNameStr);
/**
- Destructor. Deletes any child windows before deleting the physical
- window.
+ Destructor.
+
+ Deletes any child windows before deleting the physical window.
+
+ See @ref overview_windowdeletion for more info.
*/
virtual ~wxDialog();
@see @ref overview_dialog_autoscrolling (for more on layout adaptation)
*/
- bool CanDoLayoutAdapation();
+ virtual bool CanDoLayoutAdaptation();
/**
Centres the dialog box on the display.
@note Just like CreateButtonSizer(), this function may return @NULL if
no buttons were created.
+
+ This is a combination of CreateButtonSizer() and
+ CreateSeparatedSizer().
*/
wxSizer* CreateSeparatedButtonSizer(long flags);
+ /**
+ Returns the sizer containing the given one with a separating
+ wxStaticLine if necessarily.
+
+ This function is useful for creating the sizer containing footer-like
+ contents in dialog boxes. It will add a separating static line only if
+ it conforms to the current platform convention (currently it is not
+ added under Mac where the use of static lines for grouping is
+ discouraged and is added elsewhere).
+
+ @since 2.9.2
+
+ @param sizer The sizer to wrap, must be non-@NULL.
+ @return The sizer wrapping the input one or possibly the input sizer
+ itself if no wrapping is necessary.
+ */
+ wxSizer *CreateSeparatedSizer(wxSizer *sizer);
+
/**
Creates a wxStdDialogButtonSizer with standard buttons. @a flags is a
bit list of the following flags: wxOK, wxCANCEL, wxYES, wxNO, wxAPPLY,
@see @ref overview_dialog_autoscrolling (for more on layout adaptation)
*/
- bool DoLayoutAdapation();
+ virtual bool DoLayoutAdaptation();
/**
This function is called when the titlebar OK button is pressed
GetAffirmativeId() is sent by default. You can override this function.
If the function returns @false, wxWidgets will call Close() for the
dialog.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
virtual bool DoOK();
supported.
This function is not available on any other platform.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
wxToolBar* GetToolBar() const;
Returns @true if @a id is in the array of identifiers to be regarded as
the main buttons for the non-scrolling area of a dialog.
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
+
@see @ref overview_dialog_autoscrolling (for more on layout adaptation)
*/
- bool IsMainButton(wxWindowID& id) const;
+ bool IsMainButtonId(wxWindowID id) const;
/**
Returns @true if the dialog box is modal, @false otherwise.
virtual bool IsModal() const;
/**
- The default handler for wxEVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED.
+ The default handler for @c wxEVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED.
@param event
The colour change event.
Sets the identifier to be used as OK button. When the button with this
identifier is pressed, the dialog calls wxWindow::Validate() and
wxWindow::TransferDataFromWindow() and, if they both return @true,
- closes the dialog with wxID_OK return code.
+ closes the dialog with the affirmative id return code.
Also, when the user presses a hardware OK button on the devices having
one or the special OK button in the PocketPC title bar, an event with
virtual bool Show(bool show = 1);
/**
- Shows a modal dialog.
+ Shows an application-modal dialog.
Program flow does not return until the dialog has been dismissed with
EndModal().
modeless dialog modal. However ShowModal() can't be called twice
without intervening EndModal() calls.
+ Note that this function creates a temporary event loop which takes
+ precedence over the application's main event loop (see wxEventLoopBase)
+ and which is destroyed when the dialog is dismissed.
+ This also results in a call to wxApp::ProcessPendingEvents().
+
@return The value set with SetReturnCode().
- @see EndModal(), GetReturnCode(), SetReturnCode()
+ @see ShowWindowModal(), EndModal(), GetReturnCode(), SetReturnCode()
*/
virtual int ShowModal();
+
+ /**
+ Shows a dialog modal to the parent top level window only.
+
+ Unlike ShowModal(), dialogs shown with this function only prevent the
+ user from interacting with their parent frame only but not with the
+ rest of the application. They also don't block the program execution
+ but instead return immediately, as Show(), and generate a
+ wxEVT_WINDOW_MODAL_DIALOG_CLOSED event later when the dialog is closed.
+
+ Currently this function is only fully implemented in wxOSX ports, under
+ the other platforms it behaves like ShowModal() (but also sends the
+ above mentioned event).
+
+ @since 2.9.0
+ */
+ void ShowWindowModal();
};
/**
@class wxDialogLayoutAdapter
- This abstract class is the base for classes that help wxWidgets peform
+ This abstract class is the base for classes that help wxWidgets perform
run-time layout adaptation of dialogs. Principally, this is to cater for
small displays by making part of the dialog scroll, but the application
developer may find other uses for layout adaption.