+ Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
+ will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
+ If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
+ window, it will be deleted.
+
+ @param constraints
+ The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
+ constraints.
+
+ @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
+ the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
+ must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
+ setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
+ the sizer will have effect.
+ */
+ void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints* constraints);
+
+
+ /**
+ Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
+ for this window.
+
+ This function does not get called automatically when the window is resized
+ because lots of windows deriving from wxWindow does not need this functionality.
+ If you want to have Layout() called automatically, you should derive
+ from wxPanel (see wxPanel::Layout).
+
+ @see @ref overview_windowsizing
+ */
+ virtual bool Layout();
+
+ /**
+ Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
+ when the window is resized.
+
+ This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
+ you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
+ updated when its size changes.
+
+ @param autoLayout
+ Set this to @true if you wish the Layout() function to be called
+ automatically when the window is resized.
+
+ @see SetSizer(), SetConstraints()
+ */
+ void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout);
+
+ //@}
+
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Mouse functions
+ */
+ //@{
+
+ /**
+ Directs all mouse input to this window.
+ Call ReleaseMouse() to release the capture.
+
+ Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
+ and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
+ captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
+ window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
+ as you capture it, unless the window receives the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
+
+ Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
+ must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent and cancel this operation when it receives
+ the event. The event handler must not recapture mouse.
+
+ @see ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
+ */
+ void CaptureMouse();
+
+ /**
+ Returns the caret() associated with the window.
+ */
+ wxCaret* GetCaret() const;
+
+ /**
+ Return the cursor associated with this window.
+
+ @see SetCursor()
+ */
+ const wxCursor& GetCursor() const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
+
+ @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
+ wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+ */
+ virtual bool HasCapture() const;
+
+ /**
+ Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
+
+ @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
+ wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+ */
+ void ReleaseMouse();
+
+ /**
+ Sets the caret() associated with the window.
+ */
+ void SetCaret(wxCaret* caret);
+
+ /**
+ Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
+ children of the window implicitly.
+
+ The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
+ be reset back to default.
+
+ @param cursor
+ Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
+
+ @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
+ */
+ virtual bool SetCursor(const wxCursor& cursor);
+
+ /**
+ Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
+
+ @note Apple Human Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor
+ programmatically so you should avoid using this function in Mac
+ applications (and probably avoid using it under the other
+ platforms without good reason as well).
+
+ @param x
+ The new x position for the cursor.
+ @param y
+ The new y position for the cursor.
+ */
+ virtual void WarpPointer(int x, int y);
+
+ //@}
+
+
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Miscellaneous functions
+ */
+ //@{
+
+ /**
+ Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
+ This function is called by UpdateWindowUI() in order to check return
+ values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and act appropriately.
+ For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating, wxWidgets
+ implements this function as follows:
+
+ @code
+ // do the window-specific processing after processing the update event
+ void wxTopLevelWindowBase::DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event)
+ {
+ if ( event.GetSetEnabled() )
+ Enable(event.GetEnabled());
+
+ if ( event.GetSetText() )
+ {
+ if ( event.GetText() != GetTitle() )
+ SetTitle(event.GetText());
+ }
+ }
+ @endcode
+ */
+ virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event);
+
+ /**
+ Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
+ Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
+ @b Widget for Motif, @b GtkWidget for GTK or @b WinHandle for PalmOS.
+
+ @beginWxPerlOnly
+ This method will return an integer in wxPerl.
+ @endWxPerlOnly
+ */
+ virtual WXWidget GetHandle() const;
+
+ /**
+ This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
+ multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
+ wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
+ and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should also do so, to
+ allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
+ */
+ virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
+
+ /**
+ This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
+ window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
+ the font and the foreground and background colours.
+
+ By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
+ own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
+ However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
+ SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
+ attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
+ window takes the same value as used by the parent.
+ In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
+ the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
+
+ This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
+ different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
+ are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
+ different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
+ they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
+ desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
+ just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
+ do inherit the parents attributes.
+ */
+ virtual void InheritAttributes();
+
+ /**
+ Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
+ to the dialog via validators.
+ */
+ virtual void InitDialog();
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
+ any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
+ and transferred to the screen all at once later.
+
+ @see wxBufferedDC
+ */
+ virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
+
+ @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
+ */
+ virtual bool IsRetained() const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
+ i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
+ mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
+ IsEnabled() instead.
+ */
+ bool IsThisEnabled() const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
+ dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
+ window).
+ */
+ virtual bool IsTopLevel() const;
+
+ /**
+ Disables all other windows in the application so that
+ the user can only interact with this window.
+
+ @param modal
+ If @true, this call disables all other windows in the application so that
+ the user can only interact with this window. If @false, the effect is
+ reversed.
+ */
+ virtual void MakeModal(bool modal = true);
+
+ /**
+ This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
+ sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
+ that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
+ handler in a derived class.
+
+ This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
+ and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
+ in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
+ */
+ virtual void OnInternalIdle();
+
+ /**
+ Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
+ registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
+
+ It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
+ and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
+ other application.
+
+ @param hotkeyId
+ Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
+ and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
+ system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
+ This is a MSW specific detail.
+ @param modifiers
+ A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
+ or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
+ with the key.
+ @param virtualKeyCode
+ The virtual key code of the hotkey.
+
+ @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
+ other application already registered a hotkey with this
+ modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
+
+ @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
+ event. This function is currently only implemented
+ under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
+ detecting hardware button presses.
+
+ @see UnregisterHotKey()
+ */
+ virtual bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId, int modifiers,
+ int virtualKeyCode);
+
+ /**
+ Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
+
+ @param hotkeyId
+ Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
+ RegisterHotKey().
+
+ @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
+ id was invalid.
+
+ @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
+
+ @see RegisterHotKey()
+ */
+ virtual bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId);
+
+ /**
+ This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
+ The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
+ wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,