lines and painting the outline of rectangles, ellipses, etc. It has a
colour, a width and a style.
+\wxheading{Derived from}
+
+\helpref{wxGDIObject}{wxgdiobject}\\
+\helpref{wxObject}{wxobject}
+
+\wxheading{Include files}
+
+<wx/pen.h>
+
+\wxheading{Predefined objects}
+
+Objects:
+
+{\bf wxNullPen}
+
+Pointers:
+
+{\bf wxRED\_PEN\\
+wxCYAN\_PEN\\
+wxGREEN\_PEN\\
+wxBLACK\_PEN\\
+wxWHITE\_PEN\\
+wxTRANSPARENT\_PEN\\
+wxBLACK\_DASHED\_PEN\\
+wxGREY\_PEN\\
+wxMEDIUM\_GREY\_PEN\\
+wxLIGHT\_GREY\_PEN}
+
\wxheading{Remarks}
On a monochrome display, wxWindows shows all non-white pens as black.
\docparam{pen}{A pointer or reference to a pen to copy.}
-\docparam{width}{Pen width. Under Windows, the pen width cannot be greater than 1 if
-the style is wxDOT, wxLONG\_DASH, wxSHORT\_DASH, wxDOT\_DASH, or wxUSER\_DASH.}
-
\docparam{style}{The style may be one of the following:
\begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
\wxheading{Remarks}
+Different versions of Windows and different versions of other platforms
+support {\it very} different subsets of the styles above - there is no
+similarity even between Windows95 and Windows98 - so handle with care.
+
If the named colour form is used, an appropriate {\bf wxColour} structure
is found in the colour database.
-{\it style} may be one of wxSOLID, wxDOT, wxLONG\_DASH, wxSHORT\_DASH and
-wxDOT\_DASH.
-
\wxheading{See also}
\helpref{wxPen::SetStyle}{wxpensetstyle}, \helpref{wxPen::SetColour}{wxpensetcolour},\rtfsp
\docparam{colour}{Colour object.}
-\docparam{colourName}{Colour name, which should be in the colour database.}
+\docparam{colourName}{Colour name, which should be in the \helpref{colour database}{wxcolourdatabase}.}
+
+\docparam{width}{Width of pen.}
\docparam{style}{Pen style. See \helpref{wxPen::wxPen}{wxpenconstr} for a list of styles.}