illustrate the importance of properly locking the mutex when using
wxCondition.
+\wxheading{Constants}
+
+The following return codes are returned by wxCondition member functions:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+enum wxCondError
+{
+ wxCOND_NO_ERROR = 0, // successful completion
+ wxCOND_INVALID, // object hasn't been initialized successfully
+ wxCOND_TIMEOUT, // WaitTimeout() has timed out
+ wxCOND_MISC_ERROR // some other error
+};
+\end{verbatim}
+
\wxheading{Derived from}
None.
Default and only constructor. The {\it mutex} must be locked by the caller
before calling \helpref{Wait}{wxconditionwait} function.
+Use \helpref{IsOk}{wxconditionisok} to check if the object was successfully
+intiialized.
+
\membersection{wxCondition::\destruct{wxCondition}}
\func{}{\destruct{wxCondition}}{\void}
\helpref{wxCondition::Signal}{wxconditionsignal}
+\membersection{wxCondition::IsOk}\label{wxconditionisok}
+
+\constfunc{bool}{IsOk}{\void}
+
+Returns {\tt true} if the object had been initialized successfully, {\tt false}
+if an error occured.
+
\membersection{wxCondition::Signal}\label{wxconditionsignal}
\func{void}{Signal}{\void}
\membersection{wxCondition::Wait}\label{wxconditionwait}
-\func{void}{Wait}{\void}
+\func{wxCondError}{Wait}{\void}
Waits until the condition is signalled.
-\func{bool}{Wait}{\param{unsigned long}{ sec}, \param{unsigned long}{ nsec}}
+This method atomically releases the lock on the mutex associated with this
+condition (this is why it must be locked prior to calling Wait) and puts the
+thread to sleep until \helpref{Signal}{wxconditionsignal} or
+\helpref{Broadcast}{wxconditionbroadcast} is called.
+
+Note that even if \helpref{Signal}{wxconditionsignal} had been called before
+Wait without waking up any thread, the thread would still wait for another one
+and so it is important to ensure that the condition will be signalled after
+Wait or the thread may sleep forever.
+
+\wxheading{Return value}
+
+Returns {\tt wxCOND\_NO\_ERROR} on success, another value if an error occured.
+
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{WaitTimeout}{wxconditionwaittimeout}
+
+
+\membersection{wxCondition::WaitTimeout}\label{wxconditionwaittimeout}
+
+\func{wxCondError}{Wait}{\param{unsigned long}{ milliseconds}}
Waits until the condition is signalled or the timeout has elapsed.
-Note that the mutex associated with this condition {\bf must} be acquired by
-the thread before calling this method.
+This method is identical to \helpref{Wait}{wxconditionwait} except that it
+returns, with the return code of {\tt wxCOND\_TIMEOUT} as soon as the given
+timeout expires.
\wxheading{Parameters}
-\docparam{sec}{Timeout in seconds}
-
-\docparam{nsec}{Timeout nanoseconds component (added to {\it sec}).}
+\docparam{milliseconds}{Timeout in milliseconds}
\wxheading{Return value}
-The second form returns {\tt TRUE} if the condition has been signalled, or
-{\tt FALSE} if it returned because the timeout has elapsed.
-
+Returns {\tt wxCOND\_NO\_ERROR} if the condition was signalled,
+{\tt wxCOND\_TIMEOUT} if the timeout elapsed ebfore this happened or another
+error code from wxCondError enum.