Document wxKill(wxSIGTERM) reliance on having an open window in wxMSW.

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / utils.h

diff --git a/include/wx/utils.h b/include/wx/utils.h
index 8c951845f1aa89a1b3339b9d9313a9a104a37eb2..c07fa4199eb0fecd103df8662a6edf57a7e9e077 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/utils.h
+++ b/include/wx/utils.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_BASE wxArrayInt;
 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_BASE wxProcess;
 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxFrame;
 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxWindow;
-class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxWindowList;
+class wxWindowList;
 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxEventLoop;
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ wxClip(T1 a, T2 b, T3 c)
 // String functions (deprecated, use wxString)
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#ifdef WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_8
+#if WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_8
 // A shorter way of using strcmp
 wxDEPRECATED_INLINE(inline bool wxStringEq(const char *s1, const char *s2),
     return wxCRT_StrcmpA(s1, s2) == 0; )
@@ -130,12 +130,7 @@ wxDEPRECATED_INLINE(inline bool wxStringEq(const wchar_t *s1, const wchar_t *s2)
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 // Sound the bell
-#if !defined __EMX__ && \
-    (defined __WXMOTIF__ || defined __WXGTK__ || defined __WXX11__)
 WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE void wxBell();
-#else
-WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE void wxBell();
-#endif
 
 #if wxUSE_MSGDLG
 // Show wxWidgets information
@@ -278,13 +273,13 @@ inline bool wxPlatformIs(int platform) { return wxPlatform::Is(platform); }
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 // Ensure subsequent IDs don't clash with this one
-WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE void wxRegisterId(long id);
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE void wxRegisterId(int id);
 
 // Return the current ID
-WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE long wxGetCurrentId();
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE int wxGetCurrentId();
 
 // Generate a unique ID
-WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE long wxNewId();
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE int wxNewId();
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Various conversions
@@ -342,6 +337,9 @@ enum
 
     // under Unix, if the process is the group leader then passing wxKILL_CHILDREN to wxKill
     // kills all children as well as pid
+    // under Windows (NT family only), sets the CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP flag,
+    // which allows to target Ctrl-Break signal to the spawned process.
+    // applies to console processes only.
     wxEXEC_MAKE_GROUP_LEADER = 4,
 
     // by default synchronous execution disables all program windows to avoid
@@ -407,12 +405,12 @@ WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE long wxExecute(const wxString& command,
                                 int flags = 0,
                                 const wxExecuteEnv *env = NULL);
 
-#if defined(__WXMSW__) && wxUSE_IPC
+#if defined(__WINDOWS__) && wxUSE_IPC
 // ask a DDE server to execute the DDE request with given parameters
 WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE bool wxExecuteDDE(const wxString& ddeServer,
                                    const wxString& ddeTopic,
                                    const wxString& ddeCommand);
-#endif // __WXMSW__ && wxUSE_IPC
+#endif // __WINDOWS__ && wxUSE_IPC
 
 enum wxSignal
 {
@@ -812,14 +810,18 @@ WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE bool wxYieldIfNeeded();
 // Windows resources access
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-// MSW only: get user-defined resource from the .res file.
-#ifdef __WXMSW__
+// Windows only: get user-defined resource from the .res file.
+#ifdef __WINDOWS__
     // default resource type for wxLoadUserResource()
     extern WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(const wxChar*) wxUserResourceStr;
 
     // Return the pointer to the resource data. This pointer is read-only, use
     // the overload below if you need to modify the data.
     //
+    // Notice that the resource type can be either a real string or an integer
+    // produced by MAKEINTRESOURCE(). In particular, any standard resource type,
+    // i.e any RT_XXX constant, could be passed here.
+    //
     // Returns true on success, false on failure. Doesn't log an error message
     // if the resource is not found (because this could be expected) but does
     // log one if any other error occurs.
@@ -827,7 +829,7 @@ WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE bool wxYieldIfNeeded();
     wxLoadUserResource(const void **outData,
                        size_t *outLen,
                        const wxString& resourceName,
-                       const wxString& resourceType = wxUserResourceStr,
+                       const wxChar* resourceType = wxUserResourceStr,
                        WXHINSTANCE module = 0);
 
     // This function allocates a new buffer and makes a copy of the resource
@@ -837,10 +839,10 @@ WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE bool wxYieldIfNeeded();
     // Returns NULL on failure.
     WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE char*
     wxLoadUserResource(const wxString& resourceName,
-                       const wxString& resourceType = wxUserResourceStr,
+                       const wxChar* resourceType = wxUserResourceStr,
                        int* pLen = NULL,
                        WXHINSTANCE module = 0);
-#endif // MSW
+#endif // __WINDOWS__
 
 #endif
     // _WX_UTILSH__