updated setup.h for OpenVMS

[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / stdpaths.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/stdpaths.h b/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
index 88c37c870b8fa4a95ee5245361be41debe429435..9cd97ca9175443342fa6ee2cbdebd09bf76e5718 100644 (file)
--- a/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
+++ b/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // Purpose:     interface of wxStandardPaths
 // Author:      wxWidgets team
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
-// Licence:     wxWindows license
+// Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 /**
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
     wxStandardPaths returns the standard locations in the file system and should be
     used by applications to find their data files in a portable way.
 
+    Note that you must not create objects of class wxStandardPaths directly,
+    but use the global standard paths object returned by wxStandardPaths::Get()
+    (which can be of a type derived from wxStandardPaths and not of exactly
+    this type) and call the methods you need on it. The object returned by
+    Get() may be customized by overriding wxAppTraits::GetStandardPaths()
+    methods.
+
     In the description of the methods below, the example return values are given
     for the Unix, Windows and Mac OS X systems, however please note that these are
     just the examples and the actual values may differ. For example, under Windows:
@@ -42,10 +49,6 @@
     This class is MT-safe: its methods may be called concurrently from different
     threads without additional locking.
 
-    Note that you don't allocate an instance of class wxStandardPaths, but retrieve the
-    global standard paths object using @c wxStandardPaths::Get on which you call the
-    desired methods.
-
     @library{wxbase}
     @category{file}
 
@@ -54,6 +57,17 @@
 class wxStandardPaths
 {
 public:
+    /// Possible values for category parameter of GetLocalizedResourcesDir().
+    enum ResourceCat
+    {
+        /// No special category, this is the default.
+        ResourceCat_None,
+
+        /// Message catalog resources category.
+        ResourceCat_Messages
+    };
+
+
     /**
         MSW-specific function undoing the effect of IgnoreAppSubDir() calls.
 
@@ -140,7 +154,7 @@ public:
         Example return values:
         - Unix: @c /usr/local/bin/exename
         - Windows: @c "C:\Programs\AppFolder\exename.exe"
-        - Mac: @c /Programs/exename
+        - Mac: @c /Applications/exename.app/Contents/MacOS/exename
     */
     virtual wxString GetExecutablePath() const;
 
@@ -151,7 +165,10 @@ public:
         value, otherwise tries to determine it automatically (Linux only right now)
         and finally returns the default @c /usr/local value if it failed.
 
-        @note This function is only available under Unix.
+        @note This function is only available under Unix platforms (but not limited
+        to wxGTK mentioned below).
+
+        @onlyfor{wxos2,wxgtk}
     */
     wxString GetInstallPrefix() const;
 
@@ -174,8 +191,9 @@ public:
 
         @since 2.7.0
     */
-    virtual wxString GetLocalizedResourcesDir(const wxString& lang,
-                                              ResourceCat category) const;
+    virtual wxString
+    GetLocalizedResourcesDir(const wxString& lang,
+                             ResourceCat category = ResourceCat_None) const;
 
     /**
         Return the directory where the loadable modules (plugins) live.
@@ -222,7 +240,8 @@ public:
         - Mac: @c ~/Library/Preferences
 
         Only use this method if you have a single configuration file to put in this
-        directory, otherwise GetUserDataDir() is more appropriate.
+        directory, otherwise GetUserDataDir() is more appropriate as the latter
+        adds @c appinfo to the path, unlike this function.
     */
     virtual wxString GetUserConfigDir() const;
 
@@ -319,7 +338,10 @@ public:
         is set during program configuration if using GNU autotools and so it is enough
         to pass its value defined in @c config.h to this function.
 
-        @note This function is only available under Unix.
+        @note This function is only available under Unix platforms (but not limited
+        to wxGTK mentioned below).
+
+        @onlyfor{wxos2,wxgtk}
     */
     void SetInstallPrefix(const wxString& prefix);