fixed assert in SetItemText() for wxTR_MULTIPLE controls

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

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/dataobj.tex b/docs/latex/wx/dataobj.tex
index da1910005519e61bef3909ad050244e6326df3b0..631c52dc36e06d9b5969917d6e8991f9c95f2059 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/dataobj.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/dataobj.tex
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 %% Modified by:
 %% Created:     18.10.99
 %% RCS-ID:      $Id$
 %% Modified by:
 %% Created:     18.10.99
 %% RCS-ID:      $Id$

-%% Copyright:   (c) wxWindows team
-%% Licence:     wxWindows licence
+%% Copyright:   (c) wxWidgets team
+%% License:     wxWidgets license

 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 
 \section{\class{wxDataObject}}\label{wxdataobject}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 
 \section{\class{wxDataObject}}\label{wxdataobject}


@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ enum Direction
 which allows to distinguish between them. See 
 \helpref{wxDataFormat}{wxdataformat} documentation for more about formats.
 
 which allows to distinguish between them. See 
 \helpref{wxDataFormat}{wxdataformat} documentation for more about formats.
 

-Not surprizingly, being 'smart' comes at a price of added complexity. This is
+Not surprisingly, being 'smart' comes at a price of added complexity. This is

 reasonable for the situations when you really need to support multiple formats,
 but may be annoying if you only want to do something simple like cut and paste
 text.
 
 reasonable for the situations when you really need to support multiple formats,
 but may be annoying if you only want to do something simple like cut and paste
 text.
 

-To provide a solution for both cases, wxWindows has two predefined classes
+To provide a solution for both cases, wxWidgets has two predefined classes

 which derive from wxDataObject: \helpref{wxDataObjectSimple}{wxdataobjectsimple} and 
 \helpref{wxDataObjectComposite}{wxdataobjectcomposite}. 
 \helpref{wxDataObjectSimple}{wxdataobjectsimple} is
 which derive from wxDataObject: \helpref{wxDataObjectSimple}{wxdataobjectsimple} and 
 \helpref{wxDataObjectComposite}{wxdataobjectcomposite}. 
 \helpref{wxDataObjectSimple}{wxdataobjectsimple} is


@@ -54,32 +54,32 @@ So, you have several solutions when you need a wxDataObject class (and you need
 one as soon as you want to transfer data via the clipboard or drag and drop):
 
 \begin{twocollist}\itemsep=1cm
 one as soon as you want to transfer data via the clipboard or drag and drop):
 
 \begin{twocollist}\itemsep=1cm

-\twocolitem{{\bf 0. Use one of built-in classes}}{You may use wxTextDataObject,
+\twocolitem{{\bf 1. Use one of the built-in classes}}{You may use wxTextDataObject,

 wxBitmapDataObject or wxFileDataObject in the simplest cases when you only need
 to support one format and your data is either text, bitmap or list of files.}
 wxBitmapDataObject or wxFileDataObject in the simplest cases when you only need
 to support one format and your data is either text, bitmap or list of files.}

-\twocolitem{{\bf 1. Use wxDataObjectSimple}}{Deriving from wxDataObjectSimple is the simplest
+\twocolitem{{\bf 2. Use wxDataObjectSimple}}{Deriving from wxDataObjectSimple is the simplest

 solution for custom data - you will only support one format and so probably
 won't be able to communicate with other programs, but data transfer will work
 in your program (or between different copies of it).}
 solution for custom data - you will only support one format and so probably
 won't be able to communicate with other programs, but data transfer will work
 in your program (or between different copies of it).}

-\twocolitem{{\bf 2. Use wxDataObjectComposite}}{This is a simple but powerful
+\twocolitem{{\bf 3. Use wxDataObjectComposite}}{This is a simple but powerful

 solution which allows you to support any number of formats (either
 standard or custom if you combine it with the previous solution).}
 solution which allows you to support any number of formats (either
 standard or custom if you combine it with the previous solution).}

-\twocolitem{{\bf 3. Use wxDataObject directly}}{This is the solution for
-maximal flexibility and efficiency, but it also is the most difficult to
+\twocolitem{{\bf 4. Use wxDataObject directly}}{This is the solution for
+maximal flexibility and efficiency, but it is also is the most difficult to

 implement.}
 \end{twocollist}
 
 Please note that the easiest way to use drag and drop and the clipboard with
 multiple formats is by using wxDataObjectComposite, but it is not the most
 efficient one as each wxDataObjectSimple would contain the whole data in its
 implement.}
 \end{twocollist}
 
 Please note that the easiest way to use drag and drop and the clipboard with
 multiple formats is by using wxDataObjectComposite, but it is not the most
 efficient one as each wxDataObjectSimple would contain the whole data in its

-respective formars. Now imagine that you want to paste 200 pages of text in
+respective formats. Now imagine that you want to paste 200 pages of text in

 your proprietary format, as well as Word, RTF, HTML, Unicode and plain text to
 the clipboard and even today's computers are in trouble. For this case, you
 will have to derive from wxDataObject directly and make it enumerate its
 formats and provide the data in the requested format on demand.
 
 Note that neither the GTK data transfer mechanisms for the clipboard and
 your proprietary format, as well as Word, RTF, HTML, Unicode and plain text to
 the clipboard and even today's computers are in trouble. For this case, you
 will have to derive from wxDataObject directly and make it enumerate its
 formats and provide the data in the requested format on demand.
 
 Note that neither the GTK data transfer mechanisms for the clipboard and

-drag and drop, neither does the OLE data transfer copy any data until another application
+drag and drop, nor the OLE data transfer copy any data until another application

 actually requests the data. This is in contrast to the 'feel' offered to the
 user of a program who would normally think that the data resides in the
 clipboard after having pressed 'Copy' - in reality it is only declared to be
 actually requests the data. This is in contrast to the 'feel' offered to the
 user of a program who would normally think that the data resides in the
 clipboard after having pressed 'Copy' - in reality it is only declared to be


@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ wxDataObjectSimple: \helpref{wxFileDataObject}{wxfiledataobject},
 change.
 
 You may also derive your own data object classes from 
 change.
 
 You may also derive your own data object classes from 

-\helpref{wxCustomDataObject}{wxprivatedataobject} for user-defined types. The
+\helpref{wxCustomDataObject}{wxcustomdataobject} for user-defined types. The

 format of user-defined data is given as mime-type string literal, such as
 "application/word" or "image/png". These strings are used as they are under
 Unix (so far only GTK) to identify a format and are translated into their
 format of user-defined data is given as mime-type string literal, such as
 "application/word" or "image/png". These strings are used as they are under
 Unix (so far only GTK) to identify a format and are translated into their


@@ -100,6 +100,13 @@ Windows equivalent under Win32 (using the OLE IDataObject for data exchange to
 and from the clipboard and for drag and drop). Note that the format string
 translation under Windows is not yet finished.
 
 and from the clipboard and for drag and drop). Note that the format string
 translation under Windows is not yet finished.
 

+\pythonnote{At this time this class is not directly usable from wxPython.
+Derive a class from \helpref{wxPyDataObjectSimple}{wxdataobjectsimple} 
+instead.}
+
+\perlnote{This class is not currently usable from wxPerl; you may
+use \helpref{Wx::PlDataObjectSimple}{wxdataobjectsimple} instead.}
+

 \wxheading{Virtual functions to override}
 
 Each class derived directly from wxDataObject must override and implement all
 \wxheading{Virtual functions to override}
 
 Each class derived directly from wxDataObject must override and implement all


@@ -119,12 +126,12 @@ None
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 
 
 \wxheading{See also}
 

-\helpref{Clipboard and drag and drop overview}{wxclipboardonfigoverview}, 
+\helpref{Clipboard and drag and drop overview}{wxdndoverview}, 

 \helpref{DnD sample}{samplednd}, 
 \helpref{wxFileDataObject}{wxfiledataobject}, 
 \helpref{wxTextDataObject}{wxtextdataobject}, 
 \helpref{wxBitmapDataObject}{wxbitmapdataobject}, 
 \helpref{DnD sample}{samplednd}, 
 \helpref{wxFileDataObject}{wxfiledataobject}, 
 \helpref{wxTextDataObject}{wxtextdataobject}, 
 \helpref{wxBitmapDataObject}{wxbitmapdataobject}, 

-\helpref{wxPrivateDataObject}{wxprivatedataobject}, 
+\helpref{wxCustomDataObject}{wxcustomdataobject}, 

 \helpref{wxDropTarget}{wxdroptarget}, 
 \helpref{wxDropSource}{wxdropsource}, 
 \helpref{wxTextDropTarget}{wxtextdroptarget}, 
 \helpref{wxDropTarget}{wxdroptarget}, 
 \helpref{wxDropSource}{wxdropsource}, 
 \helpref{wxTextDropTarget}{wxtextdroptarget}, 


@@ -151,12 +158,16 @@ Destructor.
 Copy all supported formats in the given direction to the array pointed to by 
 {\it formats}. There is enough space for GetFormatCount(dir) formats in it.
 
 Copy all supported formats in the given direction to the array pointed to by 
 {\it formats}. There is enough space for GetFormatCount(dir) formats in it.
 

+\perlnote{In wxPerl this method only takes the {\tt dir} parameter. 
+In scalar context it returns the first format,
+in list context it returns a list containing all the supported formats.}
+

 \membersection{wxDataObject::GetDataHere}\label{wxdataobjectgetdatahere}
 
 \constfunc{virtual bool}{GetDataHere}{\param{const wxDataFormat\&}{ format}, \param{void }{*buf} }
 
 The method will write the data of the format {\it format} in the buffer {\it
 \membersection{wxDataObject::GetDataHere}\label{wxdataobjectgetdatahere}
 
 \constfunc{virtual bool}{GetDataHere}{\param{const wxDataFormat\&}{ format}, \param{void }{*buf} }
 
 The method will write the data of the format {\it format} in the buffer {\it

-buf} and return TRUE on success, FALSE on failure.
+buf} and return true on success, false on failure.

 
 \membersection{wxDataObject::GetDataSize}\label{wxdataobjectgetdatasize}
 
 
 \membersection{wxDataObject::GetDataSize}\label{wxdataobjectgetdatasize}
 


@@ -185,5 +196,5 @@ native format of the wxDataObject.
 Set the data in the format {\it format} of the length {\it len} provided in the
 buffer {\it buf}.
 
 Set the data in the format {\it format} of the length {\it len} provided in the
 buffer {\it buf}.
 

-Returns TRUE on success, FALSE on failure.
+Returns true on success, false on failure.