/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Name: menuitem.h
-// Purpose: interface of wxMenuItem
+// Purpose: interface of wxMenu, wxMenuItem
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
@class wxMenuItem
- A menu item represents an item in a menu. Note that you usually don't have to
- deal with it directly as wxMenu methods usually construct an
- object of this class for you.
+ A menu item represents an item in a menu.
+
+ Note that you usually don't have to deal with it directly as wxMenu methods
+ usually construct an object of this class for you.
Also please note that the methods related to fonts and bitmaps are currently
- only implemented for Windows and GTK+.
+ only implemented for Windows, Mac and GTK+.
+
+ @beginEventEmissionTable{wxCommandEvent,wxMenuEvent}
+ @event{EVT_MENU(id, func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED command, which is generated by a menu item.
+ This type of event is sent as wxCommandEvent.
+ @event{EVT_MENU_RANGE(id1, id2, func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_RANGE command, which is generated by a range of menu items.
+ This type of event is sent as wxCommandEvent.
+ @event{EVT_MENU_OPEN(func)}
+ A menu is about to be opened. On Windows, this is only sent once for each
+ navigation of the menubar (up until all menus have closed).
+ This type of event is sent as wxMenuEvent.
+ @event{EVT_MENU_CLOSE(func)}
+ A menu has been just closed.
+ This type of event is sent as wxMenuEvent.
+ @event{EVT_MENU_HIGHLIGHT(id, func)}
+ The menu item with the specified id has been highlighted: used to show
+ help prompts in the status bar by wxFrame
+ This type of event is sent as wxMenuEvent.
+ @event{EVT_MENU_HIGHLIGHT_ALL(func)}
+ A menu item has been highlighted, i.e. the currently selected menu item has changed.
+ This type of event is sent as wxMenuEvent.
+ @endEventTable
@library{wxcore}
@category{menus}
public:
/**
Constructs a wxMenuItem object.
- Menu items can be standard, or "stock menu items", or custom. For the
- standard menu items (such as commands to open a file, exit the program and so
- on, see @ref page_stockitems "Stock Items" for the full list) it is enough
- to specify just the stock ID and leave @a text and @a helpString empty. In
- fact, leaving at least @a text empty for the stock menu items is strongly
+
+ Menu items can be standard, or "stock menu items", or custom.
+ For the standard menu items (such as commands to open a file, exit the
+ program and so on, see @ref page_stockitems for the full list) it is enough
+ to specify just the stock ID and leave @a text and @a helpString empty.
+ Some platforms (currently wxGTK only, and see the remark in SetBitmap()
+ documentation) will also show standard bitmaps for stock menu items.
+
+ Leaving at least @a text empty for the stock menu items is actually strongly
recommended as they will have appearance and keyboard interface (including
standard accelerators) familiar to the user.
+
For the custom (non-stock) menu items, @a text must be specified and while
@a helpString may be left empty, it's recommended to pass the item
- description (which is automatically shown by the library in the status bar when
- the menu item is selected) in this parameter.
+ description (which is automatically shown by the library in the status bar
+ when the menu item is selected) in this parameter.
+
Finally note that you can e.g. use a stock menu label without using its stock
- help string; that is, stock properties are set independently one from the other.
+ help string:
+
+ @code
+ // use all stock properties:
+ helpMenu->Append(wxID_ABOUT);
+
+ // use the stock label and the stock accelerator but not the stock help string:
+ helpMenu->Append(wxID_ABOUT, "", "My custom help string");
+
+ // use all stock properties except for the bitmap:
+ wxMenuItem *mymenu = new wxMenuItem(helpMenu, wxID_ABOUT);
+ mymenu->SetBitmap(wxArtProvider::GetBitmap(wxART_WARNING));
+ helpMenu->Append(mymenu);
+ @endcode
+
+ that is, stock properties are set independently one from the other.
@param parentMenu
Menu that the menu item belongs to. Can be @NULL if the item is
case the given kind is ignored and taken to be @c wxITEM_SEPARATOR
instead.
@param text
- Text for the menu item, as shown on the menu. An accelerator
- key can be specified using the ampersand " character. In order to embed an
- ampersand character in the menu item text, the ampersand must be doubled.
+ Text for the menu item, as shown on the menu.
+ See SetItemLabel() for more info.
@param helpString
Optional help string that will be shown on the status bar.
@param kind
- May be @c wxITEM_SEPARATOR, @c wxITEM_NORMAL, @c wxITEM_CHECK or @c
- wxITEM_RADIO
+ May be @c wxITEM_SEPARATOR, @c wxITEM_NORMAL, @c wxITEM_CHECK or
+ @c wxITEM_RADIO.
@param subMenu
If non-@NULL, indicates that the menu item is a submenu.
*/
wxMenuItem(wxMenu* parentMenu = NULL, int id = wxID_SEPARATOR,
- const wxString& text = "",
- const wxString& helpString = "",
+ const wxString& text = wxEmptyString,
+ const wxString& helpString = wxEmptyString,
wxItemKind kind = wxITEM_NORMAL,
wxMenu* subMenu = NULL);
virtual void Enable(bool enable = true);
/**
- Returns the background colour associated with the menu item (Windows only).
+ @deprecated This function is deprecated; please use GetLabelText() instead.
+
+ @see GetLabelText()
+ */
+ static wxString GetLabelFromText(const wxString& text);
+
+ /**
+ Strips all accelerator characters and mnemonics from the given @a text.
+ For example:
+
+ @code
+ wxMenuItem::GetLabelfromText("&Hello\tCtrl-h");
+ @endcode
+
+ will return just @c "Hello".
+
+ @see GetItemLabelText(), GetItemLabel()
+ */
+ static wxString GetLabelText(const wxString& text);
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Getters
+ */
+ //@{
+
+ /**
+ Returns the background colour associated with the menu item.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
wxColour GetBackgroundColour() const;
/**
- Returns the checked or unchecked bitmap (Windows only).
+ Returns the checked or unchecked bitmap.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
- wxBitmap GetBitmap(bool checked = true) const;
+ virtual const wxBitmap& GetBitmap() const;
/**
- Returns the font associated with the menu item (Windows only).
+ Returns the font associated with the menu item.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
wxFont GetFont() const;
/**
Returns the help string associated with the menu item.
*/
- wxString GetHelp() const;
+ const wxString& GetHelp() const;
/**
Returns the menu item identifier.
/**
Returns the text associated with the menu item including any accelerator
- characters that were passed to the constructor or SetItemLabel.
+ characters that were passed to the constructor or SetItemLabel().
@see GetItemLabelText(), GetLabelText()
*/
/**
Returns the text associated with the menu item without any accelerator
characters it might contain.
- @deprecated This function is deprecated in favour of GetItemLabelText().
- @see GetText(), GetLabelFromText()
- */
- wxString GetLabel() const;
-
- /**
- @deprecated This function is deprecated; please use GetLabelText() instead.
- @see GetText(), GetLabel()
- */
- static wxString GetLabelFromText(const wxString& text);
-
- /**
- Strips all accelerator characters and mnemonics from the given @e text.
- For example:
-
- @code
- wxMenuItem::GetLabelfromText( "&Hello\tCtrl-h");
- @endcode
- will return just @c "Hello".
+ @deprecated This function is deprecated in favour of GetItemLabelText().
- @see GetItemLabelText(), GetItemLabel()
+ @see GetItemLabelText()
*/
- static wxString GetLabelText(const wxString& text);
+ wxString GetLabel() const;
/**
- Gets the width of the menu item checkmark bitmap (Windows only).
+ Gets the width of the menu item checkmark bitmap.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
int GetMarginWidth() const;
/**
Returns the text associated with the menu item.
- @deprecated This function is deprecated. Please use
- GetItemLabel() or GetItemLabelText() instead.
+
+ @deprecated This function is deprecated. Please use GetItemLabel() or GetItemLabelText() instead.
+
+ @see GetItemLabel(), GetItemLabelText()
*/
wxString GetName() const;
/**
Returns the text associated with the menu item, such as it was passed to the
wxMenuItem constructor, i.e. with any accelerator characters it may contain.
+
@deprecated This function is deprecated in favour of GetItemLabel().
- @see GetLabel(), GetLabelFromText()
+
+ @see GetLabelFromText()
*/
- wxString GetText() const;
+ const wxString& GetText() const;
/**
- Returns the text colour associated with the menu item (Windows only).
+ Returns the text colour associated with the menu item.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
wxColour GetTextColour() const;
+
+ //@}
+
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Checkers
+ */
+ //@{
/**
Returns @true if the item is checkable.
Returns @true if the item is a submenu.
*/
bool IsSubMenu() const;
+
+ //@}
+
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Setters
+ */
+ //@{
/**
- Sets the background colour associated with the menu item (Windows only).
+ Sets the background colour associated with the menu item.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
void SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour) const;
/**
- Sets the bitmap for the menu item (Windows and GTK+ only). It is
- equivalent to wxMenuItem::SetBitmaps(bmp, wxNullBitmap).
+ Sets the bitmap for the menu item.
+
+ It is equivalent to wxMenuItem::SetBitmaps(bmp, wxNullBitmap) if
+ @a checked is @true (default value) or SetBitmaps(wxNullBitmap, bmp)
+ otherwise.
+
+ Notice that GTK+ uses a global setting called @c gtk-menu-images to
+ determine if the images should be shown in the menus at all. If it is
+ off (which is the case in e.g. Gnome 2.28 by default), no images will
+ be shown, consistently with the native behaviour.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw,wxosx,wxgtk}
*/
- virtual void SetBitmap(const wxBitmap& bmp);
+ virtual void SetBitmap(const wxBitmap& bmp, bool checked = true);
/**
- Sets the checked/unchecked bitmaps for the menu item (Windows only). The first
- bitmap
- is also used as the single bitmap for uncheckable menu items.
+ Sets the checked/unchecked bitmaps for the menu item.
+ The first bitmap is also used as the single bitmap for uncheckable menu items.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
void SetBitmaps(const wxBitmap& checked,
const wxBitmap& unchecked = wxNullBitmap);
/**
- Sets the font associated with the menu item (Windows only).
+ Sets the font associated with the menu item.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
void SetFont(const wxFont& font);
/**
Sets the label associated with the menu item.
+
+ Note that if the ID of this menu item corrisponds to a stock ID, then it is
+ not necessary to specify a label: wxWidgets will automatically use the stock
+ item label associated with that ID. See the @ref wxMenuItem::wxMenuItem "constructor"
+ for more info.
+
+ The label string for the normal menu items (not separators) may include the
+ accelerator which can be used to activate the menu item from keyboard.
+ An accelerator key can be specified using the ampersand <tt>&</tt> character.
+ In order to embed an ampersand character in the menu item text, the ampersand
+ must be doubled.
+
+ Optionally you can specify also an accelerator string appending a tab character
+ <tt>\\t</tt> followed by a valid key combination (e.g. <tt>CTRL+V</tt>).
+ Its general syntax is any combination of @c "CTRL", @c "ALT" and @c "SHIFT" strings
+ (case doesn't matter) separated by either @c '-' or @c '+' characters and followed
+ by the accelerator itself.
+ The accelerator may be any alphanumeric character, any function key
+ (from F1 to F12) or one of the special characters listed in the table
+ below (again, case doesn't matter):
+ - @c DEL or @c DELETE: Delete key
+ - @c INS or @c INSERT: Insert key
+ - @c ENTER or @c RETURN: Enter key
+ - @c PGUP: PageUp key
+ - @c PGDN: PageDown key
+ - @c LEFT: Left cursor arrow key
+ - @c RIGHT: Right cursor arrow key
+ - @c UP: Up cursor arrow key
+ - @c DOWN: Down cursor arrow key
+ - @c HOME: Home key
+ - @c END: End key
+ - @c SPACE: Space
+ - @c TAB: Tab key
+ - @c ESC or @c ESCAPE: Escape key (Windows only)
+
+ Examples:
+
+ @code
+ m_pMyMenuItem->SetItemLabel("My &item\tCTRL+I");
+ m_pMyMenuItem2->SetItemLabel("Clean && build\tF7");
+ m_pMyMenuItem3->SetItemLabel("Simple item");
+ m_pMyMenuItem4->SetItemLabel("Item with &accelerator");
+ @endcode
+
+ @see GetItemLabel(), GetItemLabelText()
*/
virtual void SetItemLabel(const wxString& label);
/**
- Sets the width of the menu item checkmark bitmap (Windows only).
+ Sets the width of the menu item checkmark bitmap.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
void SetMarginWidth(int width) const;
/**
Sets the parent menu which will contain this menu item.
*/
- void SetMenu(const wxMenu* menu);
+ void SetMenu(wxMenu* menu);
/**
Sets the submenu of this menu item.
*/
- void SetSubMenu(const wxMenu* menu);
+ void SetSubMenu(wxMenu* menu);
/**
Sets the text associated with the menu item.
+
@deprecated This function is deprecated in favour of SetItemLabel().
+
+ @see SetItemLabel().
*/
virtual void SetText(const wxString& text);
/**
- Sets the text colour associated with the menu item (Windows only).
+ Sets the text colour associated with the menu item.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxmsw}
*/
void SetTextColour(const wxColour& colour);
+
+ //@}
};
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