added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / latex / wx / font.tex

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/font.tex b/docs/latex/wx/font.tex
index 5561188f3d85932380424b5c38ece61789161c53..f456343766f83e7a185334ebba972107c5e3ef5f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/font.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/font.tex
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ A font is an object which determines the appearance of text. Fonts are
 used for drawing text to a device context, and setting the appearance of
 a window's text.
 
+This class uses \helpref{reference counting and copy-on-write}{trefcount}
+internally so that assignments between two instances of this class are very
+cheap. You can therefore use actual objects instead of pointers without
+efficiency problems. If an instance of this class is changed it will create
+its own data internally so that other instances, which previously shared the
+data using the reference counting, are not affected.
+
 You can retrieve the current system font settings with \helpref{wxSystemSettings}{wxsystemsettings}.
 
 \helpref{wxSystemSettings}{wxsystemsettings}
@@ -17,6 +24,10 @@ You can retrieve the current system font settings with \helpref{wxSystemSettings
 
 <wx/font.h>
 
+\wxheading{Library}
+
+\helpref{wxCore}{librarieslist}
+
 \wxheading{Constants}
 
 The possible values for the \arg{family} parameter of \helpref{wxFont
@@ -165,6 +176,10 @@ wxSWISS\_FONT}
 
 Default constructor.
 
+\func{}{wxFont}{\param{const wxFont\&}{ font}}
+
+Copy constructor, uses \helpref{reference counting}{trefcount}.
+
 \func{}{wxFont}{\param{int}{ pointSize}, \param{wxFontFamily}{ family}, \param{int}{ style}, \param{wxFontWeight}{ weight},
  \param{const bool}{ underline = false}, \param{const wxString\& }{faceName = ""},
  \param{wxFontEncoding }{encoding = wxFONTENCODING\_DEFAULT}}
@@ -244,12 +259,10 @@ and \helpref{wxDC::GetTextExtent}{wxdcgettextextent}.
 \func{}{\destruct{wxFont}}{\void}
 
 Destructor.
+See \helpref{reference-counted object destruction}{refcountdestruct} for more info.
 
 \wxheading{Remarks}
 
-The destructor may not delete the underlying font object of the native windowing
-system, since wxFont uses a reference counting system for efficiency.
-
 Although all remaining fonts are deleted when the application exits,
 the application should try to clean up all fonts itself. This is because
 wxWidgets cannot know if a pointer to the font object is stored in an
@@ -397,9 +410,9 @@ Using \texttt{New()} is currently the only way to directly create a font with
 the given size in pixels on platforms other than wxMSW.
 
 
-\membersection{wxFont::Ok}\label{wxfontok}
+\membersection{wxFont::IsOk}\label{wxfontisok}
 
-\constfunc{bool}{Ok}{\void}
+\constfunc{bool}{IsOk}{\void}
 
 Returns {\tt true} if this object is a valid font, {\tt false} otherwise.
 
@@ -578,24 +591,21 @@ Sets the font weight.
 
 \func{wxFont\&}{operator $=$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}}
 
-Assignment operator, using reference counting. Returns a reference
-to `this'.
+Assignment operator, using \helpref{reference counting}{trefcount}.
 
 
 \membersection{wxFont::operator $==$}\label{wxfontequals}
 
 \func{bool}{operator $==$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}}
 
-Equality operator. Two fonts are equal if they contain pointers
-to the same underlying font data. It does not compare each attribute,
-so two independently-created fonts using the same parameters will
-fail the test.
+Equality operator.
+See \helpref{reference-counted object comparison}{refcountequality} for more info.
 
 
 \membersection{wxFont::operator $!=$}\label{wxfontnotequals}
 
 \func{bool}{operator $!=$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}}
 
-Inequality operator. Two fonts are not equal if they contain pointers
-to different underlying font data. It does not compare each attribute.
+Inequality operator.
+See \helpref{reference-counted object comparison}{refcountequality} for more info.