// Purpose: topic overview
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
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-/*!
+/**
- @page overview_config wxConfig classes overview
+@page overview_config wxConfig Overview
- Classes: wxConfigBase
+Classes: wxConfigBase
- This overview briefly describes what the config classes are and what they are
- for. All the details about how to use them may be found in the description of
- the wxConfigBase class and the documentation of the
- file, registry and INI file based implementations mentions all the
- features/limitations specific to each one of these versions.
+This overview briefly describes what the config classes are and what they are
+for. All the details about how to use them may be found in the description of
+the wxConfigBase class and the documentation of the file, registry and INI file
+based implementations mentions all the features/limitations specific to each
+one of these versions.
- The config classes provide a way to store some application configuration
- information. They were especially designed for this usage and, although may
- probably be used for many other things as well, should be limited to it. It
- means that this information should be:
+The config classes provide a way to store some application configuration
+information. They were especially designed for this usage and, although may
+probably be used for many other things as well, should be limited to it. It
+means that this information should be:
- @li Typed, i.e. strings or numbers for the moment.
- You can not store binary data, for example.
- @li Small. For instance, it is not recommended to use the Windows
- registry for amounts of data more than a couple of kilobytes.
- @li Not performance critical, neither from speed nor from a memory
- consumption point of view.
+@li Typed, i.e. strings or numbers for the moment. You cannot store binary
+ data, for example.
+@li Small. For instance, it is not recommended to use the Windows registry for
+ amounts of data more than a couple of kilobytes.
+@li Not performance critical, neither from speed nor from a memory consumption
+ point of view.
- On the other hand, the features provided make them very useful for storing all
- kinds of small to medium volumes of hierarchically-organized, heterogeneous
- data. In short, this is a place where you can conveniently stuff all your data
- (numbers and strings) organizing it in a tree where you use the
- filesystem-like paths to specify the location of a piece of data. In
- particular, these classes were designed to be as easy to use as possible.
+On the other hand, the features provided make them very useful for storing all
+kinds of small to medium volumes of hierarchically-organized, heterogeneous
+data. In short, this is a place where you can conveniently stuff all your data
+(numbers and strings) organizing it in a tree where you use the filesystem-like
+paths to specify the location of a piece of data. In particular, these classes
+were designed to be as easy to use as possible.
- From another point of view, they provide an interface which hides the
- differences between the Windows registry and the standard Unix text format
- configuration files. Other (future) implementations of wxConfigBase might also
- understand GTK resource files or their analogues on the KDE side.
+From another point of view, they provide an interface which hides the
+differences between the Windows registry and the standard Unix text format
+configuration files. Other (future) implementations of wxConfigBase might also
+understand GTK resource files or their analogues on the KDE side.
- In any case, each implementation of wxConfigBase does its best to
- make the data look the same way everywhere. Due to limitations of the underlying
- physical storage, it may not implement 100% of the base class functionality.
+In any case, each implementation of wxConfigBase does its best to make the data
+look the same way everywhere. Due to limitations of the underlying physical
+storage, it may not implement 100% of the base class functionality.
- There are groups of entries and the entries themselves. Each entry contains either
- a string or a number (or a boolean value; support for other types of data such as
- dates or timestamps is planned) and is identified by the full path to it: something
- like @c /MyApp/UserPreferences/Colors/Foreground.
+There are groups of entries and the entries themselves. Each entry contains
+either a string or a number (or a boolean value; support for other types of
+data such as dates or timestamps is planned) and is identified by the full path
+to it: something like @c /MyApp/UserPreferences/Colors/Foreground.
- The previous elements in the path are the group names, and each name may
- contain an arbitrary number of entries and subgroups.
+The previous elements in the path are the group names, and each name may
+contain an arbitrary number of entries and subgroups.
- The path components are @b always separated with a slash,
- even though some implementations use the backslash internally. Further
- details (including how to read/write these entries) may be found in
- the documentation for wxConfigBase.
+The path components are @e always separated with a slash, even though some
+implementations use the backslash internally. Further details (including how to
+read/write these entries) may be found in the documentation for wxConfigBase.
*/
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