mention Watcom makefile for wxBase

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

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/menu.tex b/docs/latex/wx/menu.tex
index 47d3c70a44b9dea2d807e2c77717a4fe3204404c..cf33986ac3dc500465059c83a20041a4c95fd69f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/menu.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/menu.tex
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ of the item positions inserting or removing the items in the menu containing
 the radio items risks to not work correctly. Finally note that the radio items
 are only supported under Windows and GTK+ currently.
 
+\wxheading{Allocation strategy}
+
+All menus except the popup ones must be created on the heap. All menus
+attached to a menubar or to another menu will be deleted by their parent when
+it is deleted. As the frame menubar is deleted by the frame itself, it means
+that normally all menus used are deleted automatically.
+
 \wxheading{Derived from}
 
 \helpref{wxEvtHandler}{wxevthandler}\\
@@ -104,7 +111,9 @@ Adds a string item to the end of the menu.
 \func{void}{Append}{\param{int}{ id}, \param{const wxString\& }{ item}, \param{wxMenu *}{subMenu},\rtfsp
 \param{const wxString\& }{helpString = ""}}
 
-Adds a pull-right submenu to the end of the menu.
+Adds a pull-right submenu to the end of the menu. Append the submenu to the parent
+menu {\it after} you have added your menu items, or accelerators may not be
+registered properly.
 
 \func{void}{Append}{\param{wxMenuItem*}{ menuItem}}
 
@@ -148,7 +157,7 @@ creation of a menu or menubar.
 \pythonnote{In place of a single overloaded method name, wxPython
 implements the following methods:\par
 \indented{2cm}{\begin{twocollist}
-\twocolitem{{\bf Append(id, string, helpStr="", checkable=FALSE)}}{}
+\twocolitem{{\bf Append(id, string, helpStr="", checkable=false)}}{}
 \twocolitem{{\bf AppendMenu(id, string, aMenu, helpStr="")}}{}
 \twocolitem{{\bf AppendItem(aMenuItem)}}{}
 \end{twocollist}}
@@ -210,7 +219,7 @@ Checks or unchecks the menu item.
 
 \docparam{id}{The menu item identifier.}
 
-\docparam{check}{If TRUE, the item will be checked, otherwise it will be unchecked.}
+\docparam{check}{If true, the item will be checked, otherwise it will be unchecked.}
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
@@ -270,7 +279,7 @@ Enables or disables (greys out) a menu item.
 
 \docparam{id}{The menu item identifier.}
 
-\docparam{enable}{TRUE to enable the menu item, FALSE to disable it.}
+\docparam{enable}{true to enable the menu item, false to disable it.}
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
@@ -372,7 +381,9 @@ Returns the title of the menu.
 
 \wxheading{Remarks}
 
-This is relevant only to popup menus.
+This is relevant only to popup menus, use 
+\helpref{wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop}{wxmenubargetlabeltop} for the menus in the
+menubar.
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
@@ -442,7 +453,7 @@ Determines whether a menu item is checked.
 
 \wxheading{Return value}
 
-TRUE if the menu item is checked, FALSE otherwise.
+true if the menu item is checked, false otherwise.
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
@@ -460,7 +471,7 @@ Determines whether a menu item is enabled.
 
 \wxheading{Return value}
 
-TRUE if the menu item is enabled, FALSE otherwise.
+true if the menu item is enabled, false otherwise.
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
@@ -468,13 +479,14 @@ TRUE if the menu item is enabled, FALSE otherwise.
 
 \membersection{wxMenu::Prepend}\label{wxmenuprepend}
 
-\func{bool}{Prepend}{\param{size\_t }{pos}, \param{wxMenuItem *}{item}}
+\func{bool}{Prepend}{\param{wxMenuItem *}{item}}
 
 \func{void}{Prepend}{\param{int}{ id},\rtfsp
 \param{const wxString\& }{ item}, \param{const wxString\& }{helpString = ""},\rtfsp
 \param{wxItemKind}{ kind = wxITEM\_NORMAL}}
 
-Inserts the given {\it item} at the position $0$.
+Inserts the given {\it item} at the position $0$, i.e. before all the other
+existing items.
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
@@ -580,11 +592,13 @@ Sets the title of the menu.
 
 \wxheading{Remarks}
 
-This is relevant only to popup menus.
+This is relevant only to popup menus, use 
+\helpref{wxMenuBar::SetLabelTop}{wxmenubarsetlabeltop} for the menus in the
+menubar.
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
-\helpref{wxMenu::SetTitle}{wxmenusettitle}
+\helpref{wxMenu::GetTitle}{wxmenugettitle}
 
 \membersection{wxMenu::UpdateUI}\label{wxmenuupdateui}
 
@@ -682,7 +696,7 @@ Adds the item to the end of the menu bar.
 
 \wxheading{Return value}
 
-TRUE on success, FALSE if an error occurred.
+true on success, false if an error occurred.
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
@@ -698,7 +712,7 @@ Checks or unchecks a menu item.
 
 \docparam{id}{The menu item identifier.}
 
-\docparam{check}{If TRUE, checks the menu item, otherwise the item is unchecked.}
+\docparam{check}{If true, checks the menu item, otherwise the item is unchecked.}
 
 \wxheading{Remarks}
 
@@ -715,7 +729,7 @@ Enables or disables (greys out) a menu item.
 
 \docparam{id}{The menu item identifier.}
 
-\docparam{enable}{TRUE to enable the item, FALSE to disable it.}
+\docparam{enable}{true to enable the item, false to disable it.}
 
 \wxheading{Remarks}
 
@@ -732,7 +746,7 @@ Enables or disables a whole menu.
 
 \docparam{pos}{The position of the menu, starting from zero.}
 
-\docparam{enable}{TRUE to enable the menu, FALSE to disable it.}
+\docparam{enable}{true to enable the menu, false to disable it.}
 
 \wxheading{Remarks}
 
@@ -826,7 +840,9 @@ Use only after the menubar has been associated with a frame.
 
 \constfunc{wxString}{GetLabelTop}{\param{int}{ pos}}
 
-Returns the label of a top-level menu.
+Returns the label of a top-level menu. Note that the returned string does not
+include the accelerator characters which could have been specified in the menu
+title string during its construction.
 
 \wxheading{Parameters}
 
@@ -875,7 +891,7 @@ position $0$ will insert it in the very beginning of it, inserting at position
 
 \wxheading{Return value}
 
-TRUE on success, FALSE if an error occurred.
+true on success, false if an error occurred.
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
@@ -893,7 +909,7 @@ Determines whether an item is checked.
 
 \wxheading{Return value}
 
-TRUE if the item was found and is checked, FALSE otherwise.
+true if the item was found and is checked, false otherwise.
 
 \membersection{wxMenuBar::IsEnabled}\label{wxmenubarisenabled}
 
@@ -907,7 +923,7 @@ Determines whether an item is enabled.
 
 \wxheading{Return value}
 
-TRUE if the item was found and is enabled, FALSE otherwise.
+true if the item was found and is enabled, false otherwise.
 
 \membersection{wxMenuBar::Refresh}\label{wxmenubarrefresh}