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

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/font.tex b/docs/latex/wx/font.tex
index 001deb82097bca97f3078c652a44ba4c7f072c0a..31460c3450a62c139dcdf7d27b01c5a7335d63c2 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}
@@ -248,12 +255,10 @@ 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
@@ -589,16 +594,14 @@ Assignment operator, using \helpref{reference counting}{trefcount}.
 
 \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.