\section{\class{wxPanel}}\label{wxpanel}
-A panel is a window on which controls are placed. It is usually placed within a frame.
-It contains minimal extra functionality over and above its parent class wxWindow; its main
-purpose is to be similar in appearance and functionality to a dialog, but with the flexibility of
-having any window as a parent.
+A panel is a window on which controls are placed. It is usually placed within
+a frame. Its main feature over its parent class wxWindow is code for handling
+child windows and TAB traversal. Since wxWidgets 2.9, there is support both
+for TAB traversal implemented by wxWidgets itself as well as native TAB
+traversal (such as for GTK 2.0).
-{\it Note:} if not all characters are being intercepted by your OnKeyDown or OnChar handler,
-it may be because you are using the wxTAB\_TRAVERSAL style, which grabs some keypresses for use
-by child controls.
+{\it Note:} Tab traversal is implemented through an otherwise undocumented
+intermediate wxControlContainer class from which any class can derive
+in addition to the normal wxWindow base class. Please see <wx/containr.h>
+and <wx/panel.h> to find out how this is achieved.
+
+{\it Note:} if not all characters are being intercepted by your OnKeyDown or
+OnChar handler, it may be because you are using the wxTAB\_TRAVERSAL style,
+which grabs some keypresses for use by child controls.
\wxheading{Derived from}
Default constructor.
-\func{}{wxPanel}{\param{wxWindow* }{parent}, \param{wxWindowID }{id = $-1$},\rtfsp
+\func{}{wxPanel}{\param{wxWindow* }{parent}, \param{wxWindowID }{id = \texttt{wxID\_ANY}},\rtfsp
\param{const wxPoint\& }{pos = wxDefaultPosition},\rtfsp
\param{const wxSize\& }{size = wxDefaultSize},\rtfsp
\param{long}{ style = wxTAB\_TRAVERSAL},\rtfsp
\membersection{wxPanel::Create}\label{wxpanelcreate}
-\func{bool}{Create}{\param{wxWindow* }{parent}, \param{wxWindowID }{id},\rtfsp
+\func{bool}{Create}{\param{wxWindow* }{parent}, \param{wxWindowID }{id = \texttt{wxID\_ANY}},\rtfsp
\param{const wxPoint\& }{pos = wxDefaultPosition},\rtfsp
\param{const wxSize\& }{size = wxDefaultSize},\rtfsp
\param{long}{ style = wxTAB\_TRAVERSAL},\rtfsp
Used for two-step panel construction. See \helpref{wxPanel::wxPanel}{wxpanelctor}\rtfsp
for details.
-\membersection{wxPanel::GetDefaultItem}\label{wxpanelgetdefaultitem}
-\constfunc{wxButton*}{GetDefaultItem}{\void}
+\membersection{wxPanel::AcceptsFocus}\label{wxpanelacceptsfocus}
+
+\constfunc{bool}{AcceptsFocus}{\void}
+
+This method is overridden from \helpref{wxWindow::AcceptsFocus}{wxwindowacceptsfocus}
+and returns true only if there is no child window in the panel which
+can accept the focus. This is reevaluated each time a child
+window is added or removed from the panel.
-Returns a pointer to the button which is the default for this window, or NULL.
-The default button is the one activated by pressing the Enter key.
\membersection{wxPanel::InitDialog}\label{wxpanelinitdialog}
\helpref{wxSysColourChangedEvent}{wxsyscolourchangedevent}
-\membersection{wxPanel::SetDefaultItem}\label{wxpanelsetdefaultitem}
-
-\func{void}{SetDefaultItem}{\param{wxButton }{*btn}}
-
-Changes the default button for the panel.
-
-\wxheading{See also}
-
-\helpref{GetDefaultItem}{wxpanelgetdefaultitem}
-
-
\membersection{wxPanel::SetFocus}\label{wxpanelsetfocus}
\func{virtual void}{SetFocus}{\void}
\func{virtual void}{SetFocusIgnoringChildren}{\void}
In contrast to \helpref{wxPanel::SetFocus}{wxpanelsetfocus} (see above)
-this will set the focus to the panel even of there are child windows
+this will set the focus to the panel even if there are child windows
in the panel. This is only rarely needed.
\wxheading{See also}