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diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/array.tex b/docs/latex/wx/array.tex
index 0c4a97fdc0bb5b0649a607f2860916be328530ed..e9a534de729fcd927f52519085f18e1fa666a784 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/array.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/array.tex
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ but the price is preallocating the memory in advance. In the \helpref{memory man
 you may find some useful hints about optimizing wxArray memory usage. As for executable size, all
 wxArray functions are inline, so they do not take {\it any space at all}.
 
-wxWindows has three different kinds of array. All of them derive from
+wxWidgets has three different kinds of array. All of them derive from
 wxBaseArray class which works with untyped data and can not be used directly.
 The standard macros WX\_DEFINE\_ARRAY(), WX\_DEFINE\_SORTED\_ARRAY() and
 WX\_DEFINE\_OBJARRAY() are used to define a new class deriving from it. The
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ deleted when the element is removed from the array. It should be noted that
 all of wxArray's functions are inline, so it costs strictly nothing to define as
 many array types as you want (either in terms of the executable size or the
 speed) as long as at least one of them is defined and this is always the case
-because wxArrays are used by wxWindows internally. This class has one serious
+because wxArrays are used by wxWidgets internally. This class has one serious
 limitation: it can only be used for storing integral types (bool, char, short,
 int, long and their unsigned variants) or pointers (of any kind). An attempt
 to use with objects of sizeof() greater than sizeof(long) will provoke a
 runtime assertion failure, however declaring a wxArray of floats will not (on
 the machines where sizeof(float) <= sizeof(long)), yet it will {\bf not} work,
 please use wxObjArray for storing floats and doubles (NB: a more efficient
-wxArrayDouble class is scheduled for the next release of wxWindows).
+wxArrayDouble class is scheduled for the next release of wxWidgets).
 
 wxSortedArray is a wxArray variant which should be used when searching in the
 array is a frequently used operation. It requires you to define an additional
@@ -117,10 +117,14 @@ Things are much simpler for wxArray and wxSortedArray however: it is enough
 just to write
 
 \begin{verbatim} 
-WX_DEFINE_ARRAY(MyDirectory *, ArrayOfDirectories);
-WX_DEFINE_SORTED_ARRAY(MyFile *, ArrayOfFiles);
+WX_DEFINE_ARRAY(int, ArrayOfDirectories);
+WX_DEFINE_SORTED_ARRAY(int, ArrayOfFiles);
 \end{verbatim}
 
+i.e. there is only one {\tt DEFINE} macro and no need for separate 
+{\tt DECLARE} one.
+
+
 \wxheading{See also:}
 
 \helpref{Container classes overview}{wxcontaineroverview}, \helpref{wxList}{wxlist}
@@ -152,6 +156,17 @@ WX\_DEFINE\_OBJARRAY macro.
 \helpref{WX\_DEFINE\_EXPORTED\_OBJARRAY}{wxdefineobjarray}\\
 \helpref{WX\_DEFINE\_USER\_EXPORTED\_OBJARRAY}{wxdefineobjarray}
 
+To slightly complicate the matters even further, the operator $->$ defined by
+default for the array iterators by these macros only makes sense if the array
+element type is not a pointer itself and, although it still works, this
+provokes warnings from some compilers and to avoid them you should use the 
+{\tt \_PTR} versions of the macros above. For example, to define an array of
+pointers to {\tt double} you should use
+
+\begin{verbatim} 
+WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_PTR(double *, MyArrayOfDoublePointers);
+\end{verbatim}
+
 \membersection{Constructors and destructors}
 
 Array classes are 100\% C++ objects and as such they have the appropriate copy
@@ -233,7 +248,7 @@ does exactly the same as \helpref{Item()}{wxarrayitem} method.
 \func{}{WX\_DEFINE\_USER\_EXPORTED\_ARRAY}{\param{}{T}, \param{}{name}, \param{}{exportspec}}
 
 This macro defines a new array class named {\it name} and containing the
-elements of type {\it T}. The second form is used when compiling wxWindows as
+elements of type {\it T}. The second form is used when compiling wxWidgets as
 a DLL under Windows and array needs to be visible outside the DLL.  The third is
 needed for exporting an array from a user DLL.
 
@@ -246,7 +261,7 @@ class MyClass;
 WX_DEFINE_ARRAY(MyClass *, wxArrayOfMyClass);
 \end{verbatim}
 
-Note that wxWindows predefines the following standard array classes: wxArrayInt,
+Note that wxWidgets predefines the following standard array classes: wxArrayInt,
 wxArrayLong and wxArrayPtrVoid.
 
 \membersection{WX\_DEFINE\_SORTED\_ARRAY}\label{wxdefinesortedarray}
@@ -258,7 +273,7 @@ wxArrayLong and wxArrayPtrVoid.
 \func{}{WX\_DEFINE\_SORTED\_USER\_EXPORTED\_ARRAY}{\param{}{T}, \param{}{name}}
 
 This macro defines a new sorted array class named {\it name} and containing
-the elements of type {\it T}. The second form is used when compiling wxWindows as
+the elements of type {\it T}. The second form is used when compiling wxWidgets as
 a DLL under Windows and array needs to be visible outside the DLL.  The third is
 needed for exporting an array from a user DLL.
 
@@ -300,7 +315,7 @@ wxArrayOfMyClass another(CompareMyClassObjects);
 \func{}{WX\_DECLARE\_USER\_EXPORTED\_OBJARRAY}{\param{}{T}, \param{}{name}}
 
 This macro declares a new object array class named {\it name} and containing
-the elements of type {\it T}. The second form is used when compiling wxWindows as
+the elements of type {\it T}. The second form is used when compiling wxWidgets as
 a DLL under Windows and array needs to be visible outside the DLL.  The third is
 needed for exporting an array from a user DLL.