addind nonowned window implementation

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

diff --git a/include/wx/ipcbase.h b/include/wx/ipcbase.h
index 48f4d5c33a58d06fcfd89efc568d8ab15266aaac..56de3c8d35fc720f595910d818e84f9218bb4007 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/ipcbase.h
+++ b/include/wx/ipcbase.h
@@ -127,12 +127,19 @@ public:
 
 
   // Callbacks to SERVER - override at will
 
 
   // Callbacks to SERVER - override at will

-  virtual bool OnExecute(const wxString& WXUNUSED(topic),
-                         const void *WXUNUSED(data),
-                         size_t WXUNUSED(size),
-                         wxIPCFormat WXUNUSED(format))
+  virtual bool OnExec(const wxString& WXUNUSED(topic),
+                      const wxString& WXUNUSED(data))

       { return false; }
 
       { return false; }
 

+  // deprecated function kept for backwards compatibility: usually you will
+  // want to override OnExec() above instead which receives its data in a more
+  // convenient format
+  virtual bool OnExecute(const wxString& topic,
+                         const void *data,
+                         size_t size,
+                         wxIPCFormat format)
+      { return OnExec(topic, GetTextFromData(data, size, format)); }
+

   virtual const void *OnRequest(const wxString& WXUNUSED(topic),
                                 const wxString& WXUNUSED(item),
                                 size_t *size,
   virtual const void *OnRequest(const wxString& WXUNUSED(topic),
                                 const wxString& WXUNUSED(item),
                                 size_t *size,


@@ -166,6 +173,17 @@ public:
   virtual bool OnDisconnect() { delete this; return true; }
 
 
   virtual bool OnDisconnect() { delete this; return true; }
 
 

+  // converts from the data and format into a wxString automatically
+  //
+  // this function accepts data in all of wxIPC_TEXT, wxIPC_UNICODETEXT, and
+  // wxIPC_UTF8TEXT formats but asserts if the format is anything else
+  //
+  // notice that the size parameter here contains the total size of the data,
+  // including the terminating '\0' or L'\0'
+  static
+  wxString GetTextFromData(const void *data, size_t size, wxIPCFormat format);
+
+

   // return a buffer at least this size, reallocating buffer if needed
   // returns NULL if using an inadequate user buffer which can't be resized
   void *GetBufferAtLeast(size_t bytes);
   // return a buffer at least this size, reallocating buffer if needed
   // returns NULL if using an inadequate user buffer which can't be resized
   void *GetBufferAtLeast(size_t bytes);


@@ -186,7 +204,7 @@ private:
 protected:
   bool          m_connected;
 
 protected:
   bool          m_connected;
 

-  DECLARE_NO_ASSIGN_CLASS(wxConnectionBase);
+  DECLARE_NO_ASSIGN_CLASS(wxConnectionBase)

   DECLARE_CLASS(wxConnectionBase)
 };
 
   DECLARE_CLASS(wxConnectionBase)
 };