// Purpose: interface of wxControl
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
*/
enum wxEllipsizeFlags
{
- /// With this flag when calculating the size of the passed string, mnemonics
- /// characters (see wxControl::SetLabel) will be automatically reduced to a
- /// single character.
- /// This leads to correct calculations only if the string passed to Ellipsize()
- /// will be used with wxControl::SetLabel. If you don't want ampersand to
- /// be interpreted as mnemonics (e.g. because you use wxControl::SetLabelText)
- /// then don't use this flag.
- wxELLIPSIZE_PROCESS_MNEMONICS = 1,
-
- /// This flag tells wxControl::Ellipsize to calculate the width of tab
- /// characters @c '\\t' as 6 spaces.
- wxELLIPSIZE_EXPAND_TAB = 2,
+ /// No special flags.
+ wxELLIPSIZE_FLAGS_NONE = 0,
+
+ /**
+ Take mnemonics into account when calculating the text width.
+
+ With this flag when calculating the size of the passed string,
+ mnemonics characters (see wxControl::SetLabel) will be automatically
+ reduced to a single character. This leads to correct calculations only
+ if the string passed to Ellipsize() will be used with
+ wxControl::SetLabel. If you don't want ampersand to be interpreted as
+ mnemonics (e.g. because you use wxControl::SetLabelText) then don't use
+ this flag.
+ */
+ wxELLIPSIZE_FLAGS_PROCESS_MNEMONICS = 1,
+
+ /**
+ Expand tabs in spaces when calculating the text width.
+
+ This flag tells wxControl::Ellipsize() to calculate the width of tab
+ characters @c '\\t' as 6 spaces.
+ */
+ wxELLIPSIZE_FLAGS_EXPAND_TABS = 2,
/// The default flags for wxControl::Ellipsize.
- wxELLIPSIZE_DEFAULT_FLAGS = wxELLIPSIZE_PROCESS_MNEMONICS|wxELLIPSIZE_EXPAND_TAB
+ wxELLIPSIZE_FLAGS_DEFAULT = wxELLIPSIZE_FLAGS_PROCESS_MNEMONICS|
+ wxELLIPSIZE_FLAGS_EXPAND_TABS
};
*/
enum wxEllipsizeMode
{
+ /// Don't ellipsize the text at all. @since 2.9.1
+ wxELLIPSIZE_NONE,
+
/// Put the ellipsis at the start of the string, if the string needs ellipsization.
wxELLIPSIZE_START,
A control is generally a small window which processes user input and/or
displays one or more item of data.
+ @beginEventEmissionTable{wxClipboardTextEvent}
+ @event{EVT_TEXT_COPY(id, func)}
+ Some or all of the controls content was copied to the clipboard.
+ @event{EVT_TEXT_CUT(id, func)}
+ Some or all of the controls content was cut (i.e. copied and
+ deleted).
+ @event{EVT_TEXT_PASTE(id, func)}
+ Clipboard content was pasted into the control.
+ @endEventTable
+
@library{wxcore}
@category{ctrl}
class wxControl : public wxWindow
{
public:
+
/**
- Simulates the effect of the user issuing a command to the item.
+ Constructs a control.
- @see wxCommandEvent
+ @param parent
+ Pointer to a parent window.
+ @param id
+ Control identifier. If wxID_ANY, will automatically create an identifier.
+ @param pos
+ Control position. wxDefaultPosition indicates that wxWidgets
+ should generate a default position for the control.
+ @param size
+ Control size. wxDefaultSize indicates that wxWidgets should generate
+ a default size for the window. If no suitable size can be found, the
+ window will be sized to 20x20 pixels so that the window is visible but
+ obviously not correctly sized.
+ @param style
+ Control style. For generic window styles, please see wxWindow.
+ @param name
+ Control name.
*/
- virtual void Command(wxCommandEvent& event);
+ wxControl(wxWindow *parent, wxWindowID id,
+ const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
+ const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = 0,
+ const wxValidator& validator = wxDefaultValidator,
+ const wxString& name = wxControlNameStr);
/**
- Replaces parts of the @a label string with ellipsis, if needed, so
- that it doesn't exceed @a maxWidth.
+ Default constructor to allow 2-phase creation.
+ */
+ wxControl();
+
+ bool Create(wxWindow *parent, wxWindowID id,
+ const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition,
+ const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = 0,
+ const wxValidator& validator = wxDefaultValidator,
+ const wxString& name = wxControlNameStr);
- @param label
- The string to ellipsize
- @param dc
- The DC used to retrieve the character widths through the
- wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents() function.
- @param mode
- The ellipsization modes. See ::wxEllipsizeMode.
- @param maxWidth
- The maximum width of the returned string in pixels.
- @param flags
- One or more of the ::wxEllipsize
+ /**
+ Simulates the effect of the user issuing a command to the item.
+
+ @see wxCommandEvent
*/
- static wxString Ellipsize(const wxString& label, const wxDC& dc,
- wxEllipsizeMode mode, int maxWidth,
- int flags = wxELLIPSIZE_DEFAULT_FLAGS);
+ virtual void Command(wxCommandEvent& event);
/**
- Returns the control's text.
+ Returns the control's label, as it was passed to SetLabel().
+
+ Note that the returned string may contains mnemonics ("&" characters) if they were
+ passed to the SetLabel() function; use GetLabelText() if they are undesired.
- @note The returned string contains mnemonics ("&" characters) if it has
- any, use GetLabelText() if they are undesired.
+ Also note that the returned string is always the string which was passed to
+ SetLabel() but may be different from the string passed to SetLabelText()
+ (since this last one escapes mnemonic characters).
*/
wxString GetLabel() const;
/**
Returns the control's label without mnemonics.
+
+ Note that because of the stripping of the mnemonics the returned string may differ
+ from the string which was passed to SetLabel() but should always be the same which
+ was passed to SetLabelText().
*/
wxString GetLabelText() const;
+ /**
+ Sets the control's label.
+
+ All "&" characters in the @a label are special and indicate that the
+ following character is a @e mnemonic for this control and can be used to
+ activate it from the keyboard (typically by using @e Alt key in
+ combination with it). To insert a literal ampersand character, you need
+ to double it, i.e. use "&&". If this behaviour is undesirable, use
+ SetLabelText() instead.
+ */
+ void SetLabel(const wxString& label);
+
+ /**
+ Sets the control's label to exactly the given string.
+
+ Unlike SetLabel(), this function shows exactly the @a text passed to it
+ in the control, without interpreting ampersands in it in any way.
+ Notice that it means that the control can't have any mnemonic defined
+ for it using this function.
+
+ @see EscapeMnemonics()
+ */
+ void SetLabelText(const wxString& text);
+
+ // NB: when writing docs for the following function remember that Doxygen
+ // will always expand HTML entities (e.g. ") and thus we need to
+ // write e.g. "&lt;" to have in the output the "<" string.
+
+ /**
+ Sets the controls label to a string using markup.
+
+ Simple markup supported by this function can be used to apply different
+ fonts or colours to different parts of the control label when supported.
+ If markup is not supported by the control or platform, it is simply
+ stripped and SetLabel() is used with the resulting string.
+
+ For example,
+ @code
+ wxStaticText *text;
+ ...
+ text->SetLabelMarkup("<b>&Bed</b> &mp; "
+ "<span foreground='red'>breakfast</span> "
+ "available <big>HERE</big>");
+ @endcode
+ would show the string using bold, red and big for the corresponding
+ words under wxGTK but will simply show the string "Bed & breakfast
+ available HERE" on the other platforms. In any case, the "B" of "Bed"
+ will be underlined to indicate that it can be used as a mnemonic for
+ this control.
+
+ The supported tags are:
+ <TABLE>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><b>Tag</b></TD>
+ <TD><b>Description</b></TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><b></TD>
+ <TD>bold text</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><big></TD>
+ <TD>bigger text</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><i></TD>
+ <TD>italic text</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><s></TD>
+ <TD>strike-through text</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><small></TD>
+ <TD>smaller text</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><tt></TD>
+ <TD>monospaced text</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><u></TD>
+ <TD>underlined text</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><span></TD>
+ <TD>generic formatter tag, see the table below for supported
+ attributes.
+ </TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TABLE>
+
+ Supported @c <span> attributes:
+ <TABLE>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><b>Name</b></TD>
+ <TD><b>Description</b></TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>foreground, fgcolor, color</TD>
+ <TD>Foreground text colour, can be a name or RGB value.</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>background, bgcolor</TD>
+ <TD>Background text colour, can be a name or RGB value.</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>font_family, face</TD>
+ <TD>Font face name.</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>font_weight, weight</TD>
+ <TD>Numeric value in 0..900 range or one of "ultralight",
+ "light", "normal" (all meaning non-bold), "bold", "ultrabold"
+ and "heavy" (all meaning bold).</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>font_style, style</TD>
+ <TD>Either "oblique" or "italic" (both with the same meaning)
+ or "normal".</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>size</TD>
+ <TD>The font size can be specified either as "smaller" or
+ "larger" relatively to the current font, as a CSS font size
+ name ("xx-small", "x-small", "small", "medium", "large",
+ "x-large" or "xx-large") or as a number giving font size in
+ 1024th parts of a point, i.e. 10240 for a 10pt font.</TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TABLE>
+
+ This markup language is a strict subset of Pango markup (described at
+ http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/unstable/PangoMarkupFormat.html)
+ and any tags and span attributes not documented above can't be used
+ under non-GTK platforms.
+
+ Also note that you need to escape the following special characters:
+ <TABLE>
+ <TR>
+ <TD><b>Special character</b></TD>
+ <TD><b>Escape as</b></TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>@c &</TD>
+ <TD>@c &amp; or as @c &&</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>@c '</TD>
+ <TD>@c &apos;</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>@c "</TD>
+ <TD>@c &quot;</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>@c <</TD>
+ <TD>@c &lt;</TD>
+ </TR>
+ <TR>
+ <TD>@c ></TD>
+ <TD>@c &gt;</TD>
+ </TR>
+ </TABLE>
+
+ The non-escaped ampersand @c & characters are interpreted as
+ mnemonics as with wxControl::SetLabel.
+
+
+ @param markup
+ String containing markup for the label. It may contain markup tags
+ described above and newline characters but currently only wxGTK and
+ wxOSX support multiline labels with markup, the generic
+ implementation (also used in wxMSW) only handles single line markup
+ labels. Notice that the string must be well-formed (e.g. all tags
+ must be correctly closed) and won't be shown at all otherwise.
+ @return
+ @true if the new label was set (even if markup in it was ignored)
+ or @false if we failed to parse the markup. In this case the label
+ remains unchanged.
+
+
+ Currently wxButton supports markup in all major ports (wxMSW, wxGTK and
+ wxOSX/Cocoa) while wxStaticText supports it in wxGTK and wxOSX and its
+ generic version (which can be used under MSW if markup support is
+ required). Extending support to more controls is planned in the future.
+
+ @since 2.9.2
+ */
+ bool SetLabelMarkup(const wxString& markup);
+
+
+public: // static functions
+
/**
Returns the given @a label string without mnemonics ("&" characters).
*/
static wxString GetLabelText(const wxString& label);
/**
- Removes the mnemonics ("&" characters) from the given string.
+ Returns the given @a str string without mnemonics ("&" characters).
+
+ @note This function is identical to GetLabelText() and is provided
+ mostly for symmetry with EscapeMnemonics().
*/
static wxString RemoveMnemonics(const wxString& str);
/**
- Escape the special mnemonics characters ("&") in the given string.
+ Escapes the special mnemonics characters ("&") in the given string.
This function can be helpful if you need to set the controls label to a
user-provided string. If the string contains ampersands, they wouldn't
static wxString EscapeMnemonics(const wxString& text);
/**
- Sets the item's text.
-
- Any "&" characters in the @a label are special and indicate that the
- following character is a @e mnemonic for this control and can be used to
- activate it from the keyboard (typically by using @e Alt key in
- combination with it). To insert a literal ampersand character, you need
- to double it, i.e. use use "&&". If this behaviour is undesirable, use
- SetLabelText() instead.
- */
- void SetLabel(const wxString& label);
-
- /**
- Sets the item's text to exactly the given string.
+ Replaces parts of the @a label string with ellipsis, if needed, so
+ that it fits into @a maxWidth pixels if possible.
- Unlike SetLabel(), this function shows exactly the @a text passed to it
- in the control, without interpreting ampersands in it in any way.
- Notice that it means that the control can't have any mnemonic defined
- for it using this function.
+ Note that this function does @em not guarantee that the returned string
+ will always be shorter than @a maxWidth; if @a maxWidth is extremely
+ small, ellipsized text may be larger.
- @see EscapeMnemonics()
- */
- void SetLabelText(const wxString& text);
+ @param label
+ The string to ellipsize
+ @param dc
+ The DC used to retrieve the character widths through the
+ wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents() function.
+ @param mode
+ The ellipsization mode. This is the setting which determines
+ which part of the string should be replaced by the ellipsis.
+ See ::wxEllipsizeMode enumeration values for more info.
+ @param maxWidth
+ The maximum width of the returned string in pixels.
+ This argument determines how much characters of the string need to
+ be removed (and replaced by ellipsis).
+ @param flags
+ One or more of the ::wxEllipsizeFlags enumeration values combined.
+ */
+ static wxString Ellipsize(const wxString& label, const wxDC& dc,
+ wxEllipsizeMode mode, int maxWidth,
+ int flags = wxELLIPSIZE_FLAGS_DEFAULT);
};