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 wxWidgets).
+please use wxObjArray for storing floats and doubles.
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
\begin{verbatim}
#include <wx/dynarray.h>
+\wxheading{Library}
+
+\helpref{wxBase}{librarieslist}
+
// we must forward declare the array because it is used inside the class
// declaration
class MyDirectory;
\end{verbatim}
i.e. there is only one {\tt DEFINE} macro and no need for separate
-{\tt DECLARE} one.
+{\tt DECLARE} one. For the arrays of the primitive types, the macros
+{\tt WX\_DEFINE\_ARRAY\_CHAR/SHORT/INT/SIZE\_T/LONG/DOUBLE} should be used
+depending on the sizeof of the values (notice that storing values of smaller
+type, e.g. shorts, in an array of larger one, e.g. {\tt ARRAY\_INT}, does
+\emph{not} work on all architectures!).
\wxheading{See also:}
retrieve them - possibly using just the C array indexing $[]$ operator which
does exactly the same as \helpref{Item()}{wxarrayitem} method.
-\helpref{Count}{wxarraycount}\\
\helpref{GetCount}{wxarraygetcount}\\
\helpref{IsEmpty}{wxarrayisempty}\\
\helpref{Item}{wxarrayitem}\\
\helpref{Add}{wxarrayadd}\\
\helpref{Insert}{wxarrayinsert}\\
\helpref{SetCount}{wxarraysetcount}\\
-\helpref{WX\_APPEND\_ARRAY}{wxappendarray}
+\helpref{WX\_APPEND\_ARRAY}{wxappendarray}\\
+\helpref{WX\_PREPEND\_ARRAY}{wxprependarray}
\membersection{Removing items}\label{arrayremoving}
WX_DEFINE_ARRAY(MyClass *, ArrayOfMyClass);
\end{verbatim}
-Note that wxWidgets predefines the following standard array classes: wxArrayInt,
-wxArrayLong and wxArrayPtrVoid.
+Note that wxWidgets predefines the following standard array classes: {\bf wxArrayInt},
+{\bf wxArrayLong}, {\bf wxArrayShort}, {\bf wxArrayDouble}, {\bf wxArrayPtrVoid}.
+
\membersection{WX\_DEFINE\_SORTED\_ARRAY}\label{wxdefinesortedarray}
This macro may be used to append all elements of the {\it other} array to the
{\it array}. The two arrays must be of the same type.
+\membersection{WX\_PREPEND\_ARRAY}\label{wxprependarray}
+
+\func{void}{WX\_PREPEND\_ARRAY}{\param{wxArray\& }{array}, \param{wxArray\& }{other}}
+
+This macro may be used to prepend all elements of the {\it other} array to the
+{\it array}. The two arrays must be of the same type.
+
\membersection{WX\_CLEAR\_ARRAY}\label{wxcleararray}
\func{void}{WX\_CLEAR\_ARRAY}{\param{wxArray\& }{array}}
This function does the same as \helpref{Empty()}{wxarrayempty} and additionally
frees the memory allocated to the array.
-\membersection{wxArray::Count}\label{wxarraycount}
-
-\constfunc{size\_t}{Count}{\void}
-
-Same as \helpref{GetCount()}{wxarraygetcount}. This function is deprecated -
-it exists only for compatibility.
-
\membersection{wxObjArray::Detach}\label{wxobjarraydetach}
\func{T *}{Detach}{\param{size\_t }{index}}