control. \texttt{wxTextCoord} contains the index of a column or a row in the
control.
-Note that alghough both of these types should probably have been unsigned, due
+Note that although both of these types should probably have been unsigned, due
to backwards compatibility reasons, are defined as \texttt{long} currently.
Their use (instead of plain \texttt{long}) is still encouraged as it makes the
code more readable.
\end{verbatim}
}
-The values below are the possible return codes of the
+The values below are the possible return codes of the
\helpref{HitTest}{wxtextctrlhittest} method:
{\small
\begin{verbatim}
Returns the left indent in tenths of a millimetre.
+\membersection{wxTextAttr::GetLeftSubIndent}\label{wxtextattrgetleftsubindent}
+
+\constfunc{int}{GetLeftSubIndent}{\void}
+
+Returns the left sub indent for all lines but the first line in a paragraph in
+tenths of a millimetre.
+
+
\membersection{wxTextAttr::GetRightIndent}\label{wxtextattrgetrightindent}
\constfunc{int}{GetRightIndent}{\void}
Returns {\tt true} if this style specifies any non-default attributes.
+\membersection{wxTextAttr::Merge}\label{wxtextattrmerge}
+
+\func{void}{Merge}{\param{const wxTextAttr\&}{ overlay}}
+
+Copies all defined/valid properties from \arg{overlay} to current object.
+
+\func{static wxTextAttr}{Merge}{\param{const wxTextAttr\&}{ base}, \param{const wxTextAttr\&}{ overlay}}
+
+Creates a new {\tt wxTextAttr} which is a merge of \arg{base} and
+\arg{overlay}. Properties defined in \arg{overlay} take precedence over those
+in \arg{base}. Properties undefined/invalid in both are undefined in the
+result.
+
+
\membersection{wxTextAttr::SetAlignment}\label{wxtextattrsetalignment}
\func{void}{SetAlignment}{\param{wxTextAttrAlignment}{ alignment}}
\membersection{wxTextAttr::SetLeftIndent}\label{wxtextattrsetleftindent}
-\func{void}{SetLeftIndent}{\param{int }{indent}}
+\func{void}{SetLeftIndent}{\param{int }{indent}, \param{int }{subIndent = 0}}
Sets the left indent in tenths of a millimetre.
+subIndent sets the indent for all lines but the first line in a paragraph
+relative to the first line.
\membersection{wxTextAttr::SetRightIndent}\label{wxtextattrsetrightindent}
\twocolwidtha{5cm}
\begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_PROCESS\_ENTER}}{The control will generate
-the message wxEVENT\_TYPE\_TEXT\_ENTER\_COMMAND (otherwise pressing Enter key
+the event wxEVT\_COMMAND\_TEXT\_ENTER (otherwise pressing Enter key
is either processed internally by the control or used for navigation between
dialog controls).}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_PROCESS\_TAB}}{The control will receive
-EVT\_CHAR messages for TAB pressed - normally, TAB is used for passing to the
+wxEVT\_CHAR events for TAB pressed - normally, TAB is used for passing to the
next control in a dialog instead. For the control created with this style,
you can still use Ctrl-Enter to pass to the next control from the keyboard.}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_MULTILINE}}{The text control allows multiple lines.}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_RICH2}}{Use rich text control version 2.0 or 3.0
under Win32, this style is ignored under other platforms}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_AUTO\_URL}}{Highlight the URLs and generate the
-wxTextUrlEvents when mouse events occur over them. This style is supported
-under Win32 only and requires wxTE\_RICH.}
+wxTextUrlEvents when mouse events occur over them. This style is only supported
+for wxTE\_RICH Win32 and multi-line wxGTK2 text controls.}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_NOHIDESEL}}{By default, the Windows text control
doesn't show the selection when it doesn't have focus - use this style to force
it to always show it. It doesn't do anything under other platforms.}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxHSCROLL}}{A horizontal scrollbar will be created and
-used, so that text won't be wrapped. No effect under GTK+.}
+used, so that text won't be wrapped. No effect under wxGTK1.}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_LEFT}}{The text in the control will be left-justified (default).}
-\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_CENTRE}}{The text in the control will be centered.}
-\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_RIGHT}}{The text in the control will be right-justified.}
-\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_DONTWRAP}}{Same as {\tt wxHSCROLL} style.}
-\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_LINEWRAP}}{Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at any position (wxUniv only currently).}
-\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_WORDWRAP}}{Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at word boundaries only (wxUniv only currently).}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_CENTRE}}{The text in the control will be centered (currently wxMSW and wxGTK2 only).}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_RIGHT}}{The text in the control will be right-justified (currently wxMSW and wxGTK2 only).}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_DONTWRAP}}{Same as {\tt wxHSCROLL} style: don't wrap at all, show horizontal scrollbar instead.}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_CHARWRAP}}{Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at any position (wxUniv and wxGTK2 only).}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_WORDWRAP}}{Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at word boundaries (wxUniv and wxGTK2 only).}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_BESTWRAP}}{Wrap the lines at word boundaries or at any other character if there are words longer than the window width (this is the default).}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_CAPITALIZE}}{On PocketPC and Smartphone, causes the first letter to be capitalized.}
\end{twocollist}
-See also \helpref{window styles overview}{windowstyles} and
-\helpref{wxTextCtrl::wxTextCtrl}{wxtextctrlconstr}.
+See also \helpref{window styles overview}{windowstyles} and \helpref{wxTextCtrl::wxTextCtrl}{wxtextctrlctor}.
\wxheading{wxTextCtrl text format}
separated by {\tt $\backslash$n} characters, i.e. in the Unix text format even
on non-Unix platforms. This allows the user code to ignore the differences
between the platforms but at a price: the indices in the control such as those
-returned by \helpref{GetInsertionPoint}{wxtextctrlgetinsertionpoint} or
+returned by \helpref{GetInsertionPoint}{wxtextctrlgetinsertionpoint} or
\helpref{GetSelection}{wxtextctrlgetselection} can {\bf not} be used as
indices into the string returned by \helpref{GetValue}{wxtextctrlgetvalue} as
-they're going to be slightly off for platforms using
+they're going to be slightly off for platforms using
{\tt $\backslash$r$\backslash$n} as separator (as Windows does), for example.
Instead, if you need to obtain a substring between the $2$ indices obtained
from the control with the help of the functions mentioned above, you should
use \helpref{GetRange}{wxtextctrlgetrange}. And the indices themselves can
-only be passed to other methods, for example
-\helpref{SetInsertionPoint}{wxtextctrlsetinsertionpoint} or
+only be passed to other methods, for example
+\helpref{SetInsertionPoint}{wxtextctrlsetinsertionpoint} or
\helpref{SetSelection}{wxtextctrlsetselection}.
To summarize: never use the indices returned by (multiline) wxTextCtrl as
\end{verbatim}
}%
-But wxWindows provides a convenient class to make it even simpler so instead
+But wxWidgets provides a convenient class to make it even simpler so instead
you may just do
{\small%
\twocolitem{{\bf EVT\_TEXT\_ENTER(id, func)}}{Respond to a wxEVT\_COMMAND\_TEXT\_ENTER event,
generated when enter is pressed in a text control (which must have
wxTE\_PROCESS\_ENTER style for this event to be generated).}
-\twocolitem{{\bf EVT\_TEXT\_URL(id, func)}}{A mouse event occured over an URL
-in the text control (Win32 only)}
+\twocolitem{{\bf EVT\_TEXT\_URL(id, func)}}{A mouse event occurred over an URL
+in the text control (wxMSW and wxGTK2 only)}
\twocolitem{{\bf EVT\_TEXT\_MAXLEN(id, func)}}{User tried to enter more text
into the control than the limit set by
\helpref{SetMaxLength}{wxtextctrlsetmaxlength}.}
\latexignore{\rtfignore{\wxheading{Members}}}
-\membersection{wxTextCtrl::wxTextCtrl}\label{wxtextctrlconstr}
+\membersection{wxTextCtrl::wxTextCtrl}\label{wxtextctrlctor}
\func{}{wxTextCtrl}{\void}
\helpref{wxTextCtrl::Create}{wxtextctrlcreate}, \helpref{wxValidator}{wxvalidator}
-\membersection{wxTextCtrl::\destruct{wxTextCtrl}}
+\membersection{wxTextCtrl::\destruct{wxTextCtrl}}\label{wxtextctrldtor}
\func{}{\destruct{wxTextCtrl}}{\void}
\param{long}{ style = 0}, \param{const wxValidator\& }{validator = wxDefaultValidator}, \param{const wxString\& }{name = wxTextCtrlNameStr}}
Creates the text control for two-step construction. Derived classes
-should call or replace this function. See \helpref{wxTextCtrl::wxTextCtrl}{wxtextctrlconstr}\rtfsp
+should call or replace this function. See \helpref{wxTextCtrl::wxTextCtrl}{wxtextctrlctor}\rtfsp
for further details.
Copies the selected text to the clipboard and removes the selection.
-\membersection{wxTextCtrl::DiscardEdits}
+\membersection{wxTextCtrl::DiscardEdits}\label{wxtextctrldiscardedits}
\func{void}{DiscardEdits}{\void}
Resets the internal `modified' flag as if the current edits had been saved.
-\membersection{wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress}
+\membersection{wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress}\label{wxtextctrlemulatekeypress}
\func{bool}{EmulateKeyPress}{\param{const wxKeyEvent\& }{event}}
This functions inserts into the control the character which would have been
-inserted if the given key event had occured in the text control. The
+inserted if the given key event had occurred in the text control. The
{\it event} object should be the same as the one passed to {\tt EVT\_KEY\_DOWN}
-handler previously by wxWindows.
+handler previously by wxWidgets.
Please note that this function doesn't currently work correctly for all keys
under any platform but MSW.
\membersection{wxTextCtrl::GetLastPosition}\label{wxtextctrlgetlastposition}
-\constfunc{virtual long}{GetLastPosition}{\void}
+\constfunc{virtual wxTextPos}{GetLastPosition}{\void}
Returns the zero based index of the last position in the text control,
which is equal to the number of characters in the control.
\wxheading{Remarks}
Note that even empty text controls have one line (where the insertion point
-is), so GetNumberOfLines() never returns 0.
+is), so GetNumberOfLines() never returns $0$.
+
+For wxGTK using GTK+ 1.2.x and earlier, the number of lines in a multi-line
+text control is calculated by actually counting newline characters in the
+buffer, i.e. this function returns the number of logical lines and doesn't
+depend on whether any of them are wrapped. For all the other platforms, the
+number of physical lines in the control is returned.
-For gtk\_text (multi-line) controls, the number of lines is
-calculated by actually counting newline characters in the buffer. You
-may wish to avoid using functions that work with line numbers if you are
-working with controls that contain large amounts of text.
+Also note that you may wish to avoid using functions that work with line
+numbers if you are working with controls that contain large amounts of text as
+this function has $O(N)$ complexity for $N$ being the number of lines.
\membersection{wxTextCtrl::GetRange}\label{wxtextctrlgetrange}
\constfunc{virtual wxString}{GetRange}{\param{long}{ from}, \param{long}{ to}}
-Returns the string containing the text staring in the positions {\it from} and
+Returns the string containing the text starting in the positions {\it from} and
up to {\it to} in the control. The positions must have been returned by another
wxTextCtrl method.
Please note that the positions in a multiline wxTextCtrl do {\bf not}
-correspond to the indices in the string returned by
+correspond to the indices in the string returned by
\helpref{GetValue}{wxtextctrlgetvalue} because of the different new line
representations ({\tt CR} or {\tt CR LF}) and so this method should be used to
obtain the correct results instead of extracting parts of the entire value. It
\wxheading{Return value}
-{\tt true} on success, {\tt false} if an error occured - it may also mean that
+{\tt true} on success, {\tt false} if an error occurred - it may also mean that
the styles are not supported under this platform.
\wxheading{See also}
This function finds the character at the specified position expressed in
pixels. If the return code is not \texttt{wxTE\_HT\_UNKNOWN} the row and column
-of the character closest to this position are returned in the \arg{col} and
-\arg{row} parameters (unless the pointers are \tt{NULL} which is allowed).
+of the character closest to this position are returned in the \arg{col} and
+\arg{row} parameters (unless the pointers are {\tt NULL} which is allowed).
-Please note that this function is currently only implemented in wxUniv and
-wxMSW ports.
+Please note that this function is currently only implemented in wxUniv,
+wxMSW and wxGTK2 ports.
\wxheading{See also}
Returns {\tt true} if the controls contents may be edited by user (note that it
always can be changed by the program), i.e. if the control hasn't been put in
-read-only mode by a previous call to
+read-only mode by a previous call to
\helpref{SetEditable}{wxtextctrlseteditable}.
\constfunc{bool}{IsModified}{\void}
-Returns {\tt true} if the text has been modified by user. Note that calling
+Returns {\tt true} if the text has been modified by user. Note that calling
\helpref{SetValue}{wxtextctrlsetvalue} doesn't make the control modified.
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{MarkDirty}{wxtextctrlmarkdirty}
+
\membersection{wxTextCtrl::IsMultiLine}\label{wxtextctrlismultiline}
% VZ: commenting this out as: (a) the docs are wrong (you can't replace
% anything), (b) wxTextCtrl doesn't have any OnChar() anyhow
%% \membersection{wxTextCtrl::OnChar}\label{wxtextctrlonchar}
-%%
+%%
%% \func{void}{OnChar}{\param{wxKeyEvent\& }{event}}
-%%
+%%
%% Default handler for character input.
-%%
+%%
%% \wxheading{Remarks}
-%%
+%%
%% It is possible to intercept character
%% input by overriding this member. Call this function
%% to let the default behaviour take place; not calling
%% it results in the character being ignored. You can
%% replace the {\it keyCode} member of {\it event} to
%% translate keystrokes.
-%%
+%%
%% Note that Windows and Motif have different ways
%% of implementing the default behaviour. In Windows,
%% calling wxTextCtrl::OnChar immediately
%% to let default processing happen. This might affect
%% the way in which you write your OnChar function
%% on different platforms.
-%%
+%%
%% \wxheading{See also}
-%%
+%%
%% \helpref{wxKeyEvent}{wxkeyevent}
+\membersection{wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty}\label{wxtextctrlmarkdirty}
+
+\func{void}{MarkDirty}{\void}
+
+Mark text as modified (dirty).
+
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{IsModified}{wxtextctrlismodified}
+
+
\membersection{wxTextCtrl::OnDropFiles}\label{wxtextctrlondropfiles}
\func{void}{OnDropFiles}{\param{wxDropFilesEvent\& }{event}}
\wxheading{Return value}
-{\tt true} on success, {\tt false} if an error occured - may also mean that
+{\tt true} on success, {\tt false} if an error occurred - may also mean that
the styles are not supported under this platform.
\wxheading{See also}
(giving it the possibility to show an explanatory message, for example) and the
extra input is discarded.
-Note that this function may only be used with single line text controls.
+Note that under GTK+, this function may only be used with single line text controls.
\wxheading{Compatibility}
-Only implemented in wxMSW/wxGTK starting with wxWindows 2.3.2.
+Only implemented in wxMSW/wxGTK starting with wxWidgets 2.3.2.
\membersection{wxTextCtrl::SetSelection}\label{wxtextctrlsetselection}
\func{bool}{SetStyle}{\param{long }{start}, \param{long }{end}, \param{const wxTextAttr\& }{style}}
Changes the style of the given range. If any attribute within {\it style} is
-not set, the correspondign attribute from \helpref{GetDefaultStyle()}{wxtextctrlgetdefaultstyle} is used.
+not set, the corresponding attribute from \helpref{GetDefaultStyle()}{wxtextctrlgetdefaultstyle} is used.
\wxheading{Parameters}
\wxheading{Return value}
-{\tt true} on success, {\tt false} if an error occured - it may also mean that
+{\tt true} on success, {\tt false} if an error occurred - it may also mean that
the styles are not supported under this platform.
\wxheading{See also}
\func{virtual void}{SetValue}{\param{const wxString\& }{ value}}
-Sets the text value and marks the control as not-modified (which means that
+Sets the text value and marks the control as not-modified (which means that
\helpref{IsModified}{wxtextctrlismodified} would return {\tt false} immediately
after the call to SetValue).
\wxheading{Return value}
-The position value.
+The position value, or -1 if {\tt x} or {\tt y} was invalid.
\membersection{wxTextCtrl::operator \cinsert}\label{wxtextctrlinsert}
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