// Call GUI here:
my_window->DrawSomething();
-
+
wxMutexGuiLeave();
}
\end{verbatim}
Returns TRUE if the file exists. It also returns TRUE if the file is
a directory.
+\membersection{::wxFileModificationTime}
+
+\func{time\_t}{wxFileModificationTime}{\param{const wxString\& }{filename}}
+
+Returns time of last modification of given file.
+
+
\membersection{::wxFileNameFromPath}
\func{wxString}{wxFileNameFromPath}{\param{const wxString\& }{path}}
Returns the Windows directory under Windows; on other platforms returns the empty string.
-\membersection{::wxInitAllImageHandlers}\label{wxinitallimagehandlers}
-
-\func{void}{wxInitAllImageHandlers}{\void}
-
-Adds some common image format handlers, which, depending on wxWindows
-configuration, can be handlers for BMP (loading) (always installed), GIF
-(loading), PCX (loading), PNM (loading and saving as raw
-rgb), PNG (loading and saving), JPEG (loading and saving), file formats.
-
-\wxheading{See also}
-
-\helpref{wxImage}{wximage}, \helpref{wxImageHandler}{wximagehandler}
-
\membersection{::wxIsAbsolutePath}
\func{bool}{wxIsAbsolutePath}{\param{const wxString\& }{filename}}
\membersection{::wxSplitPath}\label{wxsplitfunction}
-\func{void}{wxSplitPath}{\param{const char *}{ fullname}, \param{const wxString *}{ path}, \param{const wxString *}{ name}, \param{const wxString *}{ ext}}
+\func{void}{wxSplitPath}{\param{const char *}{ fullname}, \param{wxString *}{ path}, \param{wxString *}{ name}, \param{wxString *}{ ext}}
This function splits a full file name into components: the path (including possible disk/drive
specification under Windows), the base name and the extension. Any of the output parameters
<wx/filedlg.h>
+\membersection{::wxGetColourFromUser}\label{wxgetcolourfromuser}
+
+\func{wxColour}{wxGetColourFromUser}{\param{wxWindow *}{parent}, \param{const wxColour\& }{colInit}}
+
+Shows the colour selection dialog and returns the colour selected by user or
+invalid colour (use \helpref{wxColour::Ok}{wxcolourok} to test whether a colour
+is valid) if the dialog was cancelled.
+
+\wxheading{Parameters}
+
+\docparam{parent}{The parent window for the colour selection dialog}
+
+\docparam{colInit}{If given, this will be the colour initially selected in the dialog.}
+
+\wxheading{Include files}
+
+<wx/colordlg.h>
+
\membersection{::wxGetNumberFromUser}\label{wxgetnumberfromuser}
\func{long}{wxGetNumberFromUser}{
<wx/textdlg.h>
+\membersection{::wxGetPasswordFromUser}\label{wxgetpasswordfromuser}
+
+\func{wxString}{wxGetTextFromUser}{\param{const wxString\& }{message}, \param{const wxString\& }{caption = ``Input text"},\\
+ \param{const wxString\& }{default\_value = ``"}, \param{wxWindow *}{parent = NULL}}
+
+Similar to \helpref{wxGetTextFromUser}{wxgettextfromuser} but the text entered
+in the dialog is not shown on screen but replaced with stars. This is intended
+to be used for entering passwords as the function name implies.
+
+\wxheading{Include files}
+
+<wx/textdlg.h>
+
\membersection{::wxGetTextFromUser}\label{wxgettextfromuser}
\func{wxString}{wxGetTextFromUser}{\param{const wxString\& }{message}, \param{const wxString\& }{caption = ``Input text"},\\
Called when wxWindows exits, to clean up the DDE system. This no longer needs to be
called by the application.
-See also helpref{wxDDEInitialize}{wxddeinitialize}.
+See also \helpref{wxDDEInitialize}{wxddeinitialize}.
\wxheading{Include files}
\func{long}{wxExecute}{\param{char **}{argv}, \param{bool }{sync = FALSE}, \param{wxProcess *}{callback = NULL}}
+\func{long}{wxExecute}{\param{const wxString\& }{command}, \param{wxArrayString\& }{output}}
+
Executes another program in Unix or Windows.
The first form takes a command string, such as {\tt "emacs file.txt"}.
The second form takes an array of values: a command, any number of
arguments, terminated by NULL.
+The semantics of the third version is different from the first two and is
+described in more details below.
+
If {\it sync} is FALSE (the default), flow of control immediately returns.
If TRUE, the current application waits until the other program has terminated.
$-1$ if the process couldn't be started and typically 0 if the process
terminated successfully. Also, while waiting for the process to
terminate, wxExecute will call \helpref{wxYield}{wxyield}. The caller
-should ensure that this can cause no recursion, in the simples case by
+should ensure that this can cause no recursion, in the simplest case by
calling \helpref{wxEnableTopLevelWindows(FALSE)}{wxenabletoplevelwindows}.
For asynchronous execution, however, the return value is the process id and
\helpref{wxProcess::OnTerminate}{wxprocessonterminate} will be called when
the process finishes.
-See also \helpref{wxShell}{wxshell}, \helpref{wxProcess}{wxprocess}.
+Finally, you may use the third overloaded version of this function to execute
+a process (always synchronously) and capture its output in the array
+{\it output}.
+
+See also \helpref{wxShell}{wxshell}, \helpref{wxProcess}{wxprocess},
+\helpref{Exec sample}{sampleexec}.
\wxheading{Include files}
<wx/utils.h>
+\membersection{::wxInitAllImageHandlers}\label{wxinitallimagehandlers}
+
+\func{void}{wxInitAllImageHandlers}{\void}
+
+Initializes all available image handlers. For a list of available handlers,
+see \helpref{wxImage}{wximage}.
+
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{wxImage}{wximage}, \helpref{wxImageHandler}{wximagehandler}
+
\membersection{::wxIsBusy}\label{wxisbusy}
\func{bool}{wxIsBusy}{\void}
Executes a command in an interactive shell window. If no command is
specified, then just the shell is spawned.
-See also \helpref{wxExecute}{wxexecute}.
+See also \helpref{wxExecute}{wxexecute}, \helpref{Exec sample}{sampleexec}.
\wxheading{Include files}
Yields control to pending messages in the windowing system. This can be useful, for example, when a
time-consuming process writes to a text window. Without an occasional
-yield, the text window will not be updated properly, and (since Windows
-multitasking is cooperative) other processes will not respond.
+yield, the text window will not be updated properly, and on systems with
+cooperative multitasking, such as Windows 3.1 other processes will not respond.
Caution should be exercised, however, since yielding may allow the
user to perform actions which are not compatible with the current task.
reentrance of code: see \helpref{::wxSafeYield}{wxsafeyield} for a better
function.
+Note that wxYield will not flush the message logs. This is intentional as
+calling wxYield is usually done to quickly update the screen and popping up a
+message box dialog may be undesirable. If you do with to flush the log
+messages immediately (otherwise it will be done during the next idle loop
+iteration), call \helpref{wxLog::FlushActive}{wxlogflushactive}.
+
\wxheading{Include files}
<wx/app.h> or <wx/utils.h>
on the platform) and the corresponding error message. The second form
of this function takes the error code explitly as the first argument.
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{wxSysErrorCode}{wxsyserrorcode},
+\helpref{wxSysErrorMsg}{wxsyserrormsg}
+
\membersection{::wxLogDebug}\label{wxlogdebug}
\func{void}{wxLogDebug}{\param{const char*}{ formatString}, \param{...}{}}
\item wxTraceOleCalls: trace OLE method calls (Win32 only)
\end{itemize}
+\membersection{::wxSysErrorCode}\label{wxsyserrorcode}
+
+\func{unsigned long}{wxSysErrorCode}{\void}
+
+Returns the error code from the last system call. This function uses
+{\tt errno} on Unix platforms and {\tt GetLastError} under Win32.
+
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{wxSysErrorMsg}{wxsyserrormsg},
+\helpref{wxLogSysError}{wxlogsyserror}
+
+\membersection{::wxSysErrorMsg}\label{wxsyserrormsg}
+
+\func{const wxChar *}{wxSysErrorMsg}{\param{unsigned long }{errCode = 0}}
+
+Returns the error message corresponding to the given system error code. If
+{\it errCode} is $0$ (default), the last error code (as returned by
+\helpref{wxSysErrorCode}{wxsyserrorcode}) is used.
+
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{wxSysErrorCode}{wxsyserrorcode},
+\helpref{wxLogSysError}{wxlogsyserror}
+
\section{Debugging macros and functions}\label{debugmacros}
Useful macros and functins for error checking and defensive programming. ASSERTs are only
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