/**
Sets the background colour of the window.
+
+ Notice that as with SetForegroundColour(), setting the background
+ colour of a native control may not affect the entire control and could
+ be not supported at all depending on the control and platform.
+
Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
@param colour
The colour to be used as the background colour; pass
wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
- Note that you may want to use wxSystemSettings::GetColour() to retrieve
+ Note that you may want to use wxSystemSettings::GetColour() to retrieve
a suitable colour to use rather than setting an hard-coded one.
@remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
@c wxBG_STYLE_PAINT is a simpler and more efficient solution to the same
problem.
+
+ Under wxGTK and wxOSX, you can use ::wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT to obtain
+ full transparency of the window background. Note that wxGTK supports
+ this only since GTK 2.12 with a compositing manager enabled, call
+ IsTransparentBackgroundSupported() to check whether this is the case.
+
+ Also, on order for @c SetBackgroundStyle(wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT) to
+ work, it must be called before Create(). If you're using your own
+ wxWindow-derived class you should write your code in the following way:
+ @code
+ class MyWidget : public wxWindow
+ {
+ public:
+ MyWidget(wxWindow* parent, ...)
+ : wxWindow() // Use default ctor here!
+ {
+ // Do this first:
+ SetBackgroundStyle(wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT);
+
+ // And really create the window afterwards:
+ Create(parent, ...);
+ }
+ };
+ @endcode
+
@see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
- SetTransparent()
+ SetTransparent(), IsTransparentBackgroundSupported()
*/
virtual bool SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style);
+ /**
+ Checks whether using transparent background might work.
+
+ If this function returns @false, calling SetBackgroundStyle() with
+ ::wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT is not going to work. If it returns @true,
+ setting transparent style should normally succeed.
+
+ Notice that this function would typically be called on the parent of a
+ window you want to set transparent background style for as the window
+ for which this method is called must be fully created.
+
+ @param reason
+ If not @NULL, a reason message is provided if transparency is not
+ supported.
+
+ @return @true if background transparency is supported.
+
+ @since 2.9.4
+ */
+ virtual bool IsTransparentBackgroundSupported(wxString *reason = NULL) const;
+
/**
Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
/**
Sets the foreground colour of the window.
+
+ The meaning of foreground colour varies according to the window class;
+ it may be the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at
+ all. Additionally, not all native controls support changing their
+ foreground colour so this method may change their colour only partially
+ or even not at all.
+
Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
The colour to be used as the foreground colour; pass
wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
- @remarks The meaning of foreground colour varies according to the window class;
- it may be the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
-
@return @true if the colour was really changed, @false if it was already set
to this colour and nothing was done.
/**
Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
- @b Widget for Motif, @b GtkWidget for GTK or @b WinHandle for PalmOS.
+ @b Widget for Motif or @b GtkWidget for GTK.
@beginWxPerlOnly
This method will return an integer in wxPerl.