Add wxTextEntry::AutoCompleteDirectories().

[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / bitmap.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/bitmap.h b/interface/wx/bitmap.h
index 3d1ec2000eb637b01e7fc3889c66a4b900e1a8dc..cf62947f789115770c4e86a3ab75d6fd330bd419 100644 (file)
--- a/interface/wx/bitmap.h
+++ b/interface/wx/bitmap.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // Purpose:     interface of wxBitmap* classes
 // Author:      wxWidgets team
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
-// Licence:     wxWindows license
+// Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
     If you wish to extend the capabilities of wxBitmap, derive a class from
     wxBitmapHandler and add the handler using wxBitmap::AddHandler() in your
-    application initialisation.
+    application initialization.
 
     Note that all wxBitmapHandlers provided by wxWidgets are part of the
     @ref page_libs_wxcore library.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     wxBitmap class documentation.
 
     @library{wxcore}
-    @category{misc}
+    @category{gdi}
 
     @see @ref overview_bitmap, wxBitmap, wxIcon, wxCursor
 */
@@ -167,17 +167,32 @@ public:
     class (either wxNativePixelData for RGB bitmaps or wxAlphaPixelData
     for bitmaps with an additionaly alpha channel).
 
-    @note
-    Many wxBitmap functions take a @e type parameter, which is a value of the
-    ::wxBitmapType enumeration.
+    Note that many wxBitmap functions take a @e type parameter, which is a 
+    value of the ::wxBitmapType enumeration.
     The validity of those values depends however on the platform where your program
     is running and from the wxWidgets configuration.
-    If all possible wxWidgets settings are used, the Windows platform supports BMP file,
-    BMP resource, XPM data, and XPM.
-    Under wxGTK, the available formats are BMP file, XPM data, XPM file, and PNG file.
-    Under wxMotif, the available formats are XBM data, XBM file, XPM data, XPM file.
-    In addition, wxBitmap can load and save all formats that wxImage; see wxImage for
-    more info. Of course, you must have wxImage handlers loaded.
+    If all possible wxWidgets settings are used:
+    - wxMSW supports BMP and ICO files, BMP and ICO resources;
+    - wxGTK supports XPM files;
+    - wxMac supports PICT resources;
+    - wxX11 supports XPM files, XPM data, XBM data;
+
+    In addition, wxBitmap can load and save all formats that wxImage can; see wxImage
+    for more info. Of course, you must have loaded the wxImage handlers 
+    (see ::wxInitAllImageHandlers() and wxImage::AddHandler).
+    Note that all available wxBitmapHandlers for a given wxWidgets port are 
+    automatically loaded at startup so you won't need to use wxBitmap::AddHandler.
+
+    More on the difference between wxImage and wxBitmap: wxImage is just a
+    buffer of RGB bytes with an optional buffer for the alpha bytes. It is all
+    generic, platform independent and image file format independent code. It
+    includes generic code for scaling, resizing, clipping, and other manipulations
+    of the image data. OTOH, wxBitmap is intended to be a wrapper of whatever is
+    the native image format that is quickest/easiest to draw to a DC or to be the
+    target of the drawing operations performed on a wxMemoryDC. By splitting the
+    responsibilities between wxImage/wxBitmap like this then it's easier to use
+    generic code shared by all platforms and image types for generic operations and
+    platform specific code where performance or compatibility is needed.
 
     @library{wxcore}
     @category{gdi}
@@ -256,6 +271,10 @@ public:
         @param depth
             Specifies the depth of the bitmap.
             If this is omitted, then a value of 1 (monochrome bitmap) is used.
+
+        @beginWxPerlOnly
+        In wxPerl use Wx::Bitmap->newFromBits(bits, width, height, depth).
+        @endWxPerlOnly
     */
     wxBitmap(const char bits[], int width, int height, int depth = 1);
 
@@ -269,9 +288,18 @@ public:
         A depth of 32 including an alpha channel is supported under MSW, Mac and GTK+.
     */
     wxBitmap(int width, int height, int depth = wxBITMAP_SCREEN_DEPTH);
+    
+    /**
+        @overload
+    */
+    wxBitmap(const wxSize& sz, int depth = wxBITMAP_SCREEN_DEPTH);
 
     /**
         Creates a bitmap from XPM data.
+
+        @beginWxPerlOnly
+        In wxPerl use Wx::Bitmap->newFromXPM(data).
+        @endWxPerlOnly
     */
     wxBitmap(const char* const* bits);
 
@@ -336,6 +364,14 @@ public:
         @param handler
             A new bitmap format handler object. There is usually only one instance
             of a given handler class in an application session.
+            
+        Note that unlike wxImage::AddHandler, there's no documented list of
+        the wxBitmapHandlers available in wxWidgets.
+        This is because they are platform-specific and most important, they are 
+        all automatically loaded at startup.
+        
+        If you want to be sure that wxBitmap can load a certain type of image,
+        you'd better use wxImage::AddHandler.
 
         @see wxBitmapHandler
     */
@@ -362,10 +398,15 @@ public:
     /**
         Creates a fresh bitmap.
         If the final argument is omitted, the display depth of the screen is used.
-
-        This overload works on all platforms.
+        
+        @return @true if the creation was successful.
     */
     virtual bool Create(int width, int height, int depth = wxBITMAP_SCREEN_DEPTH);
+    
+    /**
+        @overload
+    */
+    virtual bool Create(const wxSize& sz, int depth = wxBITMAP_SCREEN_DEPTH);
 
     /*
         Creates a bitmap from the given data, which can be of arbitrary type.
@@ -436,7 +477,7 @@ public:
 
         @see wxBitmapHandler
     */
-    static wxList GetHandlers();
+    static wxList& GetHandlers();
 
     /**
         Gets the height of the bitmap in pixels.
@@ -476,6 +517,15 @@ public:
     */
     wxSize GetSize() const;
 
+    /**
+        Returns disabled (dimmed) version of the bitmap.
+
+        This method is not available when <code>wxUSE_IMAGE == 0</code>.
+
+        @since 2.9.0
+    */
+    wxBitmap ConvertToDisabled(unsigned char brightness = 255) const;
+
     /**
         Gets the width of the bitmap in pixels.