/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-/**
- Background styles. See wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle().
-*/
-enum wxBackgroundStyle
-{
- /// Use the default background, as determined by
- /// the system or the current theme.
- wxBG_STYLE_SYSTEM,
-
- /// Use a solid colour for the background, this style is set automatically if you call
- /// SetBackgroundColour() so you only need to set it explicitly if you had
- /// changed the background style to something else before.
- wxBG_STYLE_COLOUR,
-
- /// Don't draw the background at all, it's supposed that it is drawn by
- /// the user-defined erase background event handler.
- /// This style should be used to avoid flicker when the background is entirely
- /// custom-drawn.
- wxBG_STYLE_CUSTOM,
-
- /// The background is (partially) transparent,this style is automatically set if you call
- /// SetTransparent() which is used to set the transparency level.
- wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT
-};
-
-
/**
Valid values for wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() and wxWindow::HideWithEffect().
*/
};
-/**
- Flags which can be used in wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI().
-*/
-enum wxUpdateUI
-{
- wxUPDATE_UI_NONE,
- wxUPDATE_UI_RECURSE,
- wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE /**< Invoked from On(Internal)Idle */
-};
-
-
/**
@class wxWindow
@beginExtraStyleTable
@style{wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY}
- By default, Validate/TransferDataTo/FromWindow() only work on
- direct children of the window (compatible behaviour). Set this flag
- to make them recursively descend into all subwindows.
+ By default, wxWindow::Validate(), wxWindow::TransferDataTo() and
+ wxWindow::TransferDataFromWindow() only work on
+ direct children of the window (compatible behaviour).
+ Set this flag to make them recursively descend into all subwindows.
@style{wxWS_EX_BLOCK_EVENTS}
wxCommandEvents and the objects of the derived classes are
forwarded to the parent window and so on recursively by default.
Using this flag for the given window allows to block this
propagation at this window, i.e. prevent the events from being
propagated further upwards. Dialogs have this flag on by default
- for the reasons explained in the @ref overview_eventhandling "Event Handling Overview".
+ for the reasons explained in the @ref overview_events.
@style{wxWS_EX_TRANSIENT}
Don't use this window as an implicit parent for the other windows:
this must be used with transient windows as otherwise there is the
@style{wxWS_EX_CONTEXTHELP}
Under Windows, puts a query button on the caption. When pressed,
Windows will go into a context-sensitive help mode and wxWidgets
- will send a wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application window.
- This style cannot be used together with wxMAXIMIZE_BOX or wxMINIMIZE_BOX, so
- these two styles are automatically turned of if this one is used.
+ will send a @c wxEVT_HELP event if the user clicked on an application window.
+ This style cannot be used (because of the underlying native behaviour)
+ together with @c wxMAXIMIZE_BOX or @c wxMINIMIZE_BOX, so these two styles
+ are automatically turned off if this one is used.
@style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE}
This window should always process idle events, even if the mode set
- by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
+ by wxIdleEvent::SetMode is @c wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
@style{wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES}
This window should always process UI update events, even if the
- mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
+ mode set by wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode is @c wxUPDATE_UI_PROCESS_SPECIFIED.
@endExtraStyleTable
+ @beginEventEmissionTable
+ @event{EVT_ACTIVATE(id, func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_ACTIVATE event. See wxActivateEvent.
+ @event{EVT_CHILD_FOCUS(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_CHILD_FOCUS event. See wxChildFocusEvent.
+ @event{EVT_CONTEXT_MENU(func)}
+ A right click (or other context menu command depending on platform) has been detected.
+ See wxContextMenuEvent.
+ @event{EVT_HELP(id, func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_HELP event. See wxHelpEvent.
+ @event{EVT_HELP_RANGE(id1, id2, func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_HELP event for a range of ids. See wxHelpEvent.
+ @event{EVT_DROP_FILES(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_DROP_FILES event. See wxDropFilesEvent.
+ @event{EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND event. See wxEraseEvent.
+ @event{EVT_SET_FOCUS(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_SET_FOCUS event. See wxFocusEvent.
+ @event{EVT_KILL_FOCUS(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_KILL_FOCUS event. See wxFocusEvent.
+ @event{EVT_IDLE(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_IDLE event. See wxIdleEvent.
+ @event{EVT_JOY_*(func)}
+ Processes joystick events. See wxJoystickEvent.
+ @event{EVT_KEY_DOWN(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_KEY_DOWN event (any key has been pressed).
+ See wxKeyEvent.
+ @event{EVT_KEY_UP(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_KEY_UP event (any key has been released).
+ @event{EVT_CHAR(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_CHAR event.
+ See wxKeyEvent.
+ @event{EVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event. See wxMouseCaptureLostEvent.
+ @event{EVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_CHANGED(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_CHANGED event. See wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent.
+ @event{EVT_MOUSE_*(func)}
+ See wxMouseEvent.
+ @event{EVT_PAINT(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_PAINT event. See wxPaintEvent.
+ @event{EVT_POWER_*(func)}
+ The system power state changed. See wxPowerEvent.
+ @event{EVT_SCROLLWIN_*(func)}
+ Process scroll events. See wxScrollWinEvent.
+ @event{EVT_SET_CURSOR(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_SET_CURSOR event. See wxSetCursorEvent.
+ @event{EVT_SHOW(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_SHOW event. See wxShowEvent.
+ @event{EVT_SIZE(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_SIZE event. See wxSizeEvent.
+ @event{EVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED(func)}
+ Process a @c wxEVT_SYS_COLOUR_CHANGED event. See wxSysColourChangedEvent.
+ @endEventTable
+
@library{wxcore}
@category{miscwnd}
- @see @ref overview_eventhandling "Event handling overview",
- @ref overview_windowsizing "Window sizing overview"
+ @see @ref overview_events, @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
class wxWindow : public wxEvtHandler
{
@see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
*/
- ~wxWindow();
+ virtual ~wxWindow();
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Focus functions
+
+ See also the static function FindFocus().
+ */
+ //@{
/**
This method may be overridden in the derived classes to return @false to
*/
virtual bool AcceptsFocusRecursively() const;
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
+ child window) has focus.
+
+ @see FindFocus()
+ */
+ virtual bool HasFocus() const;
+
+ /**
+ This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
+ native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0).
+
+ It is called by wxWidgets' container control code to give the native
+ system a hint when doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable
+ or change the effect of programmatically calling SetFocus().
+
+ @see wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
+ */
+ virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus);
+
+ /**
+ This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
+
+ @see HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
+ wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
+ */
+ virtual void SetFocus();
+
+ /**
+ This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
+ gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
+
+ By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
+ can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
+ */
+ virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();
+
+ //@}
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Child management functions
+ */
+ //@{
+
/**
Adds a child window. This is called automatically by window creation
functions so should not be required by the application programmer.
virtual void AddChild(wxWindow* child);
/**
- Call this function to force one or both scrollbars to be always shown, even if
- the window is big enough to show its entire contents without scrolling.
-
- @since 2.9.0
-
- @param hflag
- Whether the horizontal scroll bar should always be visible.
- @param vflag
- Whether the vertical scroll bar should always be visible.
+ Destroys all children of a window. Called automatically by the destructor.
+ */
+ bool DestroyChildren();
- @remarks This function is currently only implemented under Mac/Carbon.
+ /**
+ Find a child of this window, by @a id.
+ May return @a this if it matches itself.
*/
- void AlwaysShowScrollbars(bool hflag, bool vflag);
+ wxWindow* FindWindow(long id) const;
/**
- Sets the cached best size value.
+ Find a child of this window, by name.
+ May return @a this if it matches itself.
*/
- void CacheBestSize(const wxSize& size) const;
+ wxWindow* FindWindow(const wxString& name) const;
/**
- Returns @true if the system supports transparent windows and calling
- SetTransparent() may succeed. If this function returns @false, transparent
- windows are definitely not supported by the current system.
+ Returns a reference to the list of the window's children. @c wxWindowList
+ is a type-safe wxList-like class whose elements are of type @c wxWindow*.
*/
- bool CanSetTransparent();
+ wxWindowList& GetChildren();
/**
- Directs all mouse input to this window.
- Call ReleaseMouse() to release the capture.
+ @overload
+ */
+ const wxWindowList& GetChildren() const;
- Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
- and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
- captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
- window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
- as you capture it, unless the window receives the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
+ /**
+ Removes a child window.
- Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
- must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent and cancel this operation when it receives
- the event. The event handler must not recapture mouse.
+ This is called automatically by window deletion functions so should not
+ be required by the application programmer.
+ Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
+ called by the user code.
- @see ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
+ @param child
+ Child window to remove.
*/
- virtual void CaptureMouse();
+ virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow* child);
+
+ //@}
+
/**
- A synonym for Centre().
+ @name Sibling and parent management functions
*/
- void Center(int direction);
+ //@{
/**
- A synonym for CentreOnParent().
+ Returns the grandparent of a window, or @NULL if there isn't one.
*/
- void CenterOnParent(int direction);
+ wxWindow* GetGrandParent() const;
/**
- Centres the window.
+ Returns the next window after this one among the parent children or @NULL
+ if this window is the last child.
- @param direction
- Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
- or wxBOTH. It may also include wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN flag
- if you want to center the window on the entire screen and not on its
- parent window.
+ @since 2.8.8
- @remarks If the window is a top level one (i.e. doesn't have a parent),
- it will be centered relative to the screen anyhow.
+ @see GetPrevSibling()
+ */
+ wxWindow* GetNextSibling() const;
- @see Center()
+ /**
+ Returns the parent of the window, or @NULL if there is no parent.
*/
- void Centre(int direction = wxBOTH);
+ wxWindow* GetParent() const;
/**
- Centres the window on its parent. This is a more readable synonym for Centre().
+ Returns the previous window before this one among the parent children or @c
+ @NULL if this window is the first child.
- @param direction
- Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
- or wxBOTH.
+ @since 2.8.8
- @remarks This methods provides for a way to center top level windows over
- their parents instead of the entire screen. If there
- is no parent or if the window is not a top level
- window, then behaviour is the same as Centre().
+ @see GetNextSibling()
+ */
+ wxWindow* GetPrevSibling() const;
+ /**
+ Reparents the window, i.e the window will be removed from its
+ current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
+ and then re-inserted into another.
- @see wxTopLevelWindow::CentreOnScreen
+ @param newParent
+ New parent.
*/
- void CentreOnParent(int direction = wxBOTH);
+ virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow* newParent);
+
+ //@}
+
/**
- Clears the window by filling it with the current background colour. Does not
- cause an erase background event to be generated.
+ @name Scrolling and scrollbars functions
+
+ Note that these methods don't work with native controls which don't use
+ wxWidgets scrolling framework (i.e. don't derive from wxScrolledWindow).
*/
- void ClearBackground();
+ //@{
/**
- Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
+ Call this function to force one or both scrollbars to be always shown, even if
+ the window is big enough to show its entire contents without scrolling.
- @param x
- A pointer to a integer value for the x coordinate. Pass the client
- coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
- @param y
- A pointer to a integer value for the y coordinate. Pass the client
- coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
+ @since 2.9.0
- @beginWxPythonOnly
- In place of a single overloaded method name, wxPython implements the following methods:
- - ClientToScreen(point): Accepts and returns a wxPoint
- - ClientToScreenXY(x, y): Returns a 2-tuple, (x, y)
- @endWxPythonOnly
+ @param hflag
+ Whether the horizontal scroll bar should always be visible.
+ @param vflag
+ Whether the vertical scroll bar should always be visible.
+
+ @remarks This function is currently only implemented under Mac/Carbon.
*/
- void ClientToScreen(int* x, int* y) const;
+ virtual void AlwaysShowScrollbars(bool hflag = true, bool vflag = true);
/**
- Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
+ Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
- @param pt
- The client position for the second form of the function.
+ @see SetScrollbar()
*/
- wxPoint ClientToScreen(const wxPoint& pt) const;
+ virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation) const;
/**
- Converts client area size @a size to corresponding window size.
-
- In other words, the returned value is what would GetSize() return if this
- window had client area of given size. Components with wxDefaultCoord
- value are left unchanged. Note that the conversion is not always
- exact, it assumes that non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't
- take into account things like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance
- of the scrollbars.
-
- @since 2.8.8
+ Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
- @see WindowToClientSize()
+ @see SetScrollbar()
*/
- virtual wxSize ClientToWindowSize(const wxSize& size);
+ virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation) const;
/**
- Converts window size @a size to corresponding client area size
- In other words, the returned value is what would GetClientSize() return if
- this window had given window size. Components with wxDefaultCoord value
- are left unchanged.
+ Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
- Note that the conversion is not always exact, it assumes that
- non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't take into account things
- like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance of the scrollbars.
+ @see SetScrollbar()
+ */
+ virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation) const;
- @since 2.8.8
+ /**
+ Returns @true if this window has a scroll bar for this orientation.
- @see ClientToWindowSize()
+ @param orient
+ Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
*/
- virtual wxSize WindowToClientSize(const wxSize& size);
+ bool HasScrollbar(int orient) const;
/**
- This function simply generates a wxCloseEvent whose handler usually tries
- to close the window. It doesn't close the window itself, however.
-
- @param force
- @false if the window's close handler should be able to veto the destruction
- of this window, @true if it cannot.
+ Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
- @remarks Close calls the close handler for the window, providing an
- opportunity for the window to choose whether to destroy
- the window. Usually it is only used with the top level
- windows (wxFrame and wxDialog classes) as the others
- are not supposed to have any special OnClose() logic.
- The close handler should check whether the window is being deleted
- forcibly, using wxCloseEvent::CanVeto, in which case it should
- destroy the window using wxWindow::Destroy.
- Note that calling Close does not guarantee that the window will
- be destroyed; but it provides a way to simulate a manual close
- of a window, which may or may not be implemented by destroying
- the window. The default implementation of wxDialog::OnCloseWindow
- does not necessarily delete the dialog, since it will simply
- simulate an wxID_CANCEL event which is handled by the appropriate
- button event handler and may do anything at all.
- To guarantee that the window will be destroyed, call
- wxWindow::Destroy instead
+ @param orient
+ Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
- @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
- Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
+ @see AlwaysShowScrollbars()
*/
- bool Close(bool force = false);
+ virtual bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient) const;
- //@{
/**
- Converts a point or size from dialog units to pixels.
+ Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @a lines is
+ positive) or up.
- For the x dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
- width and then divided by 4.
- For the y dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
- height and then divided by 8.
+ @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
+ on top/bottom and nothing was done.
- @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
- even if the font changes.
- You can also use these functions programmatically.
- A convenience macro is defined:
- @code
- #define wxDLG_UNIT(parent, pt) parent->ConvertDialogToPixels(pt)
- @endcode
+ @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
+ wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for wxScrolled classes
+ under all platforms).
- @see ConvertPixelsToDialog()
+ @see ScrollPages()
*/
- wxPoint ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxPoint& pt);
- wxSize ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxSize& sz);
- //@}
+ virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines);
- //@{
/**
- Converts a point or size from pixels to dialog units.
+ Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @a pages is
+ positive) or up.
- For the x dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 4 and then divided by the
- average character width.
- For the y dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 8 and then divided by the
- average character height.
+ @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
+ on top/bottom and nothing was done.
- @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
- even if the font changes.
+ @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
- @see ConvertDialogToPixels()
+ @see ScrollLines()
*/
- wxPoint ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxPoint& pt);
- wxSize ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxSize& sz);
- //@}
+ virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages);
/**
- Destroys the window safely. Use this function instead of the delete operator,
- since different window classes can be destroyed differently. Frames and dialogs
- are not destroyed immediately when this function is called -- they are added
- to a list of windows to be deleted on idle time, when all the window's events
- have been processed. This prevents problems with events being sent to
- non-existent windows.
+ Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
- @return @true if the window has either been successfully deleted, or it
- has been added to the list of windows pending real deletion.
- */
- virtual bool Destroy();
+ @param dx
+ Amount to scroll horizontally.
+ @param dy
+ Amount to scroll vertically.
+ @param rect
+ Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
+ scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
+ parameter)
- /**
- Destroys all children of a window. Called automatically by the destructor.
+ @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolled instead of using this
+ function directly.
*/
- virtual void DestroyChildren();
+ virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx, int dy,
+ const wxRect* rect = NULL);
/**
- Returns true if this window is in process of being destroyed.
-
- The top level windows are not deleted immediately but are rather
- scheduled for later destruction to give them time to process any
- pending messages, see Destroy() description.
-
- This function returns @true if this window, or one of its parent
- windows, is scheduled for destruction and can be useful to avoid
- manipulating it as it's usually useless to do something with a window
- which is on the point of disappearing anyhow.
- */
- bool IsBeingDeleted() const;
+ Same as #ScrollLines (-1).
+ */
+ bool LineUp();
/**
- Disables the window. Same as @ref Enable() Enable(@false).
-
- @return Returns @true if the window has been disabled, @false if it had
- been already disabled before the call to this function.
+ Same as #ScrollLines (1).
*/
- bool Disable();
+ bool LineDown();
/**
- Gets the size which best suits the window: for a control, it would be
- the minimal size which doesn't truncate the control, for a panel - the
- same size as it would have after a call to Fit().
-
- The default implementation of this function is designed for use in container
- windows, such as wxPanel, and works something like this:
- -# If the window has a sizer then it is used to calculate the best size.
- -# Otherwise if the window has layout constraints then those are used to
- calculate the best size.
- -# Otherwise if the window has children then the best size is set to be large
- enough to show all the children.
- -# Otherwise if there are no children then the window's minimal size will be
- used as its best size.
- -# Otherwise if there is no minimal size set, then the current size is used
- for the best size.
-
- @see @ref overview_windowsizing
+ Same as #ScrollPages (-1).
*/
- virtual wxSize DoGetBestSize() const;
+ bool PageUp();
/**
- Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
- This function is called by UpdateWindowUI() in order to check return
- values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and act appropriately.
- For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating, wxWidgets
- implements this function as follows:
-
- @code
- // do the window-specific processing after processing the update event
- void wxTopLevelWindowBase::DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event)
- {
- if ( event.GetSetEnabled() )
- Enable(event.GetEnabled());
-
- if ( event.GetSetText() )
- {
- if ( event.GetText() != GetTitle() )
- SetTitle(event.GetText());
- }
- }
- @endcode
+ Same as #ScrollPages (1).
*/
- virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event);
+ bool PageDown();
/**
- Enables or disables eligibility for drop file events (OnDropFiles).
+ Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
- @param accept
- If @true, the window is eligible for drop file events.
- If @false, the window will not accept drop file events.
+ @param orientation
+ Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set.
+ May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
+ @param pos
+ Position in scroll units.
+ @param refresh
+ @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
+
+ @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
+ window: it is up to the application to take note of
+ scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
- @remarks Windows only.
+ @see SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(), wxScrollBar,
+ wxScrolled
*/
- virtual void DragAcceptFiles(bool accept);
+ virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation, int pos,
+ bool refresh = true);
/**
- Enable or disable the window for user input. Note that when a parent window is
- disabled, all of its children are disabled as well and they are reenabled again
- when the parent is.
+ Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
- @param enable
- If @true, enables the window for input. If @false, disables the window.
+ @param orientation
+ Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set.
+ May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
+ @param position
+ The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
+ @param thumbSize
+ The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
+ @param range
+ The maximum position of the scrollbar. Value of -1 can be used to
+ ask for the scrollbar to be shown but in the disabled state: this
+ can be used to avoid removing the scrollbar even when it is not
+ needed (currently this is only implemented in wxMSW port).
+ @param refresh
+ @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
- @return Returns @true if the window has been enabled or disabled, @false
- if nothing was done, i.e. if the window had already
- been in the specified state.
+ @remarks
+ Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
+ The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
+ You would use:
+ @code
+ SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
+ @endcode
+ Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never
+ go above 50 minus 16, or 34. You can determine how many lines are
+ currently visible by dividing the current view size by the character
+ height in pixels.
+ When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need
+ to recalculate the scrollbar settings when the window size changes.
+ You could therefore put your scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
+ call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called
+ initially and also from your wxSizeEvent handler function.
- @see IsEnabled(), Disable(), wxRadioBox::Enable
+ @see @ref overview_scrolling, wxScrollBar, wxScrolled, wxScrollWinEvent
*/
- virtual bool Enable(bool enable = true);
+ virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation, int position,
+ int thumbSize, int range,
+ bool refresh = true);
+ //@}
- /**
- Finds the window or control which currently has the keyboard focus.
- @remarks Note that this is a static function, so it can be called without
- needing a wxWindow pointer.
+ /**
+ @name Sizing functions
- @see SetFocus(), HasFocus()
+ See also the protected functions DoGetBestSize() and SetInitialBestSize().
*/
- static wxWindow* FindFocus();
+ //@{
/**
- Find a child of this window, by @a id.
- May return @a this if it matches itself.
- */
- wxWindow* FindWindow(long id) const;
+ Sets the cached best size value.
- /**
- Find a child of this window, by name.
- May return @a this if it matches itself.
+ @see GetBestSize()
*/
- wxWindow* FindWindow(const wxString& name) const;
+ void CacheBestSize(const wxSize& size) const;
/**
- Find the first window with the given @e id.
+ Converts client area size @a size to corresponding window size.
- If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
- and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
- window hierarchy.
- The search is recursive in both cases.
+ In other words, the returned value is what would GetSize() return if this
+ window had client area of given size. Components with wxDefaultCoord
+ value are left unchanged. Note that the conversion is not always
+ exact, it assumes that non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't
+ take into account things like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance
+ of the scrollbars.
- @see FindWindow()
+ @since 2.8.8
+
+ @see WindowToClientSize()
*/
- static wxWindow* FindWindowById(long id, wxWindow* parent = NULL);
+ virtual wxSize ClientToWindowSize(const wxSize& size) const;
/**
- Find a window by its label.
+ Converts window size @a size to corresponding client area size
+ In other words, the returned value is what would GetClientSize() return if
+ this window had given window size. Components with wxDefaultCoord value
+ are left unchanged.
- Depending on the type of window, the label may be a window title
- or panel item label. If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all
- top-level frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be
- limited to the given window hierarchy.
- The search is recursive in both cases.
+ Note that the conversion is not always exact, it assumes that
+ non-client area doesn't change and so doesn't take into account things
+ like menu bar (un)wrapping or (dis)appearance of the scrollbars.
- @see FindWindow()
+ @since 2.8.8
+
+ @see ClientToWindowSize()
*/
- static wxWindow* FindWindowByLabel(const wxString& label,
- wxWindow* parent = NULL);
+ virtual wxSize WindowToClientSize(const wxSize& size) const;
/**
- Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or @b Create
- function call).
+ Sizes the window so that it fits around its subwindows.
- If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
- and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
- window hierarchy.
-
- The search is recursive in both cases. If no window with such name is found,
- FindWindowByLabel() is called.
-
- @see FindWindow()
- */
- static wxWindow* FindWindowByName(const wxString& name,
- wxWindow* parent = NULL);
-
- /**
- Sizes the window so that it fits around its subwindows.
-
- This function won't do anything if there are no subwindows and will only really
- work correctly if sizers are used for the subwindows layout.
+ This function won't do anything if there are no subwindows and will only really
+ work correctly if sizers are used for the subwindows layout.
Also, if the window has exactly one subwindow it is better (faster and the result
is more precise as Fit() adds some margin to account for fuzziness of its calculations)
virtual void FitInside();
/**
- Freezes the window or, in other words, prevents any updates from taking
- place on screen, the window is not redrawn at all.
-
- Thaw() must be called to reenable window redrawing. Calls to these two
- functions may be nested but to ensure that the window is properly
- repainted again, you must thaw it exactly as many times as you froze it.
+ This functions returns the best acceptable minimal size for the window.
- If the window has any children, they are recursively frozen too.
+ For example, for a static control, it will be the minimal size such that the
+ control label is not truncated. For windows containing subwindows (typically
+ wxPanel), the size returned by this function will be the same as the size
+ the window would have had after calling Fit().
- This method is useful for visual appearance optimization (for example,
- it is a good idea to use it before doing many large text insertions in
- a row into a wxTextCtrl under wxGTK) but is not implemented on all
- platforms nor for all controls so it is mostly just a hint to wxWidgets
- and not a mandatory directive.
+ Note that when you write your own widget you need to overload the
+ DoGetBestSize() function instead of this (non-virtual!) function.
- @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Thaw(), IsFrozen()
+ @see CacheBestSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- virtual void Freeze();
+ wxSize GetBestSize() const;
/**
- Gets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
- */
- wxAcceleratorTable* GetAcceleratorTable() const;
+ Returns the size of the window 'client area' in pixels.
- /**
- Returns the accessible object for this window, if any.
- See also wxAccessible.
- */
- wxAccessible* GetAccessible();
+ The client area is the area which may be drawn on by the programmer,
+ excluding title bar, border, scrollbars, etc.
+ Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
+ return size is empty (both width and height are 0).
- /**
- @deprecated
- This method is deprecated, use GetEffectiveMinSize() instead.
+ @see GetSize(), GetVirtualSize()
*/
- wxSize GetAdjustedBestSize() const;
+ void GetClientSize(int* width, int* height) const;
/**
- Returns the background colour of the window.
-
- @see SetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(), GetForegroundColour()
+ @overload
*/
- wxColour GetBackgroundColour() const;
+ wxSize GetClientSize() const;
/**
- Returns the background style of the window.
- The background style can be one of the wxBackgroundStyle.
-
- @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
- SetBackgroundStyle(), SetTransparent()
- */
- virtual wxBackgroundStyle GetBackgroundStyle() const;
+ Merges the window's best size into the min size and returns the result.
+ This is the value used by sizers to determine the appropriate
+ ammount of space to allocate for the widget.
- /**
- This functions returns the best acceptable minimal size for the window.
+ This is the method called by any wxSizer when they query the size
+ of a certain window or control.
- For example, for a static control, it will be the minimal size such that the
- control label is not truncated. For windows containing subwindows (typically
- wxPanel), the size returned by this function will be the same as the size
- the window would have had after calling Fit().
+ @see GetBestSize(), SetInitialSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- wxSize GetBestSize() const;
+ virtual wxSize GetEffectiveMinSize() const;
/**
- Returns the currently captured window.
+ Returns the maximum size of window's client area.
- @see HasCapture(), CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(),
- wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
- */
- static wxWindow* GetCapture();
+ This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
+ possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using
+ SetClientSize().
- /**
- Returns the caret() associated with the window.
+ @see GetMaxSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- wxCaret* GetCaret() const;
+ virtual wxSize GetMaxClientSize() const;
/**
- Returns the character height for this window.
- */
- virtual int GetCharHeight() const;
+ Returns the maximum size of the window.
- /**
- Returns the average character width for this window.
- */
- virtual int GetCharWidth() const;
+ This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
+ possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using SetSize().
- //@{
- /**
- Returns a reference to the list of the window's children. @c wxWindowList
- is a type-safe wxList-like class whose elements are of type @c wxWindow*.
+ @see GetMaxClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- wxWindowList& GetChildren();
- const wxWindowList& GetChildren() const;
- //@}
+ virtual wxSize GetMaxSize() const;
/**
- Returns the default font and colours which are used by the control.
+ Returns the minimum size of window's client area, an indication to the sizer
+ layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of its client area.
- This is useful if you want to use the same font or colour in your own control
- as in a standard control -- which is a much better idea than hard coding specific
- colours or fonts which might look completely out of place on the users
- system, especially if it uses themes.
+ It normally just returns the value set by SetMinClientSize(), but it can be
+ overridden to do the calculation on demand.
- The @a variant parameter is only relevant under Mac currently and is
- ignore under other platforms. Under Mac, it will change the size of the
- returned font. See SetWindowVariant() for more about this.
+ @see GetMinSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
+ */
+ virtual wxSize GetMinClientSize() const;
- This static method is "overridden" in many derived classes and so calling,
- for example, wxButton::GetClassDefaultAttributes() will typically
- return the values appropriate for a button which will be normally different
- from those returned by, say, wxListCtrl::GetClassDefaultAttributes().
+ /**
+ Returns the minimum size of the window, an indication to the sizer layout
+ mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
- The @c wxVisualAttributes structure has at least the fields
- @c font, @c colFg and @c colBg. All of them may be invalid
- if it was not possible to determine the default control appearance or,
- especially for the background colour, if the field doesn't make sense as is
- the case for @c colBg for the controls with themed background.
+ This method normally just returns the value set by SetMinSize(), but it
+ can be overridden to do the calculation on demand.
- @see InheritAttributes()
+ @see GetMinClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- static wxVisualAttributes GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindowVariant variant = wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL);
+ virtual wxSize GetMinSize() const;
- //@{
/**
- Returns the size of the window 'client area' in pixels.
- The client area is the area which may be drawn on by the programmer,
- excluding title bar, border, scrollbars, etc.
+ Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
+ scrollbars, etc.
+
Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
- return size is empty (both width and height are 0).
+ returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
@param width
- Receives the client width in pixels.
+ Receives the window width.
@param height
- Receives the client height in pixels.
+ Receives the window height.
- @see GetSize(), GetVirtualSize()
+ @see GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- void GetClientSize(int* width, int* height) const;
- wxSize GetClientSize() const;
- //@}
+ void GetSize(int* width, int* height) const;
/**
- Returns a pointer to the window's layout constraints, or @NULL if there are none.
+ See the GetSize(int*,int*) overload for more info.
*/
- wxLayoutConstraints* GetConstraints() const;
+ wxSize GetSize() const;
/**
- Return the sizer that this window is a member of, if any, otherwise @NULL.
+ This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
+ By default it returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
+ SetVirtualSize() it will return the size set with that method.
+
+ @see @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- wxSizer* GetContainingSizer() const;
+ wxSize GetVirtualSize() const;
/**
- Return the cursor associated with this window.
+ Like the other GetVirtualSize() overload but uses pointers instead.
- @see SetCursor()
+ @param width
+ Receives the window virtual width.
+ @param height
+ Receives the window virtual height.
*/
- const wxCursor& GetCursor() const;
+ void GetVirtualSize(int* width, int* height) const;
/**
- Currently this is the same as calling
- wxWindow::GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindow::GetWindowVariant()).
-
- One advantage of using this function compared to the static version is that
- the call is automatically dispatched to the correct class (as usual with
- virtual functions) and you don't have to specify the class name explicitly.
-
- The other one is that in the future this function could return different
- results, for example it might return a different font for an "Ok" button
- than for a generic button if the users GUI is configured to show such buttons
- in bold font. Of course, the down side is that it is impossible to call this
- function without actually having an object to apply it to whereas the static
- version can be used without having to create an object first.
+ Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
+ and y components of the result respectively.
*/
- virtual wxVisualAttributes GetDefaultAttributes() const;
+ virtual wxSize GetWindowBorderSize() const;
/**
- Returns the associated drop target, which may be @NULL.
+ Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
+ is needed.
- @see SetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
+ @see CacheBestSize()
*/
- wxDropTarget* GetDropTarget() const;
+ void InvalidateBestSize();
/**
- Merges the window's best size into the min size and returns the result.
- This is the value used by sizers to determine the appropriate
- ammount of space to allocate for the widget.
+ Posts a size event to the window.
- @see GetBestSize(), SetInitialSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
- */
- wxSize GetEffectiveMinSize() const;
+ This is the same as SendSizeEvent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST argument.
+ */
+ void PostSizeEvent();
/**
- Returns the event handler for this window.
- By default, the window is its own event handler.
+ Posts a size event to the parent of this window.
- @see SetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
- PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
- */
- wxEvtHandler* GetEventHandler() const;
+ This is the same as SendSizeEventToParent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST
+ argument.
+ */
+ void PostSizeEventToParent();
/**
- Returns the extra style bits for the window.
+ This function sends a dummy @ref wxSizeEvent "size event" to
+ the window allowing it to re-layout its children positions.
+
+ It is sometimes useful to call this function after adding or deleting a
+ children after the frame creation or if a child size changes. Note that
+ if the frame is using either sizers or constraints for the children
+ layout, it is enough to call wxWindow::Layout() directly and this
+ function should not be used in this case.
+
+ If @a flags includes @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST value, this function posts
+ the event, i.e. schedules it for later processing, instead of
+ dispatching it directly. You can also use PostSizeEvent() as a more
+ readable equivalent of calling this function with this flag.
+
+ @param flags
+ May include @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST. Default value is 0.
*/
- long GetExtraStyle() const;
+ virtual void SendSizeEvent(int flags = 0);
/**
- Returns the font for this window.
+ Safe wrapper for GetParent()->SendSizeEvent().
- @see SetFont()
- */
- wxFont GetFont() const;
+ This function simply checks that the window has a valid parent which is
+ not in process of being deleted and calls SendSizeEvent() on it. It is
+ used internally by windows such as toolbars changes to whose state
+ should result in parent re-layout (e.g. when a toolbar is added to the
+ top of the window, all the other windows must be shifted down).
+
+ @see PostSizeEventToParent()
+
+ @param flags
+ See description of this parameter in SendSizeEvent() documentation.
+ */
+ void SendSizeEventToParent(int flags = 0);
/**
- Returns the foreground colour of the window.
+ This sets the size of the window client area in pixels.
- @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
- interpretation according to the window class; it may be
- the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
+ Using this function to size a window tends to be more device-independent
+ than SetSize(), since the application need not worry about what dimensions
+ the border or title bar have when trying to fit the window around panel
+ items, for example.
- @see SetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
- GetBackgroundColour()
+ @see @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- wxColour GetForegroundColour();
+ virtual void SetClientSize(int width, int height);
/**
- Returns the grandparent of a window, or @NULL if there isn't one.
+ @overload
*/
- wxWindow* GetGrandParent() const;
+ virtual void SetClientSize(const wxSize& size);
/**
- Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
- Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
- @b Widget for Motif, @b GtkWidget for GTK or @b WinHandle for PalmOS.
+ This normally does not need to be called by user code.
+ It is called when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window
+ can remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
*/
- void* GetHandle() const;
+ void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer* sizer);
/**
- Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
- Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
- implementation, and not in the window object itself.
+ A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
+ window's @e best size values.
- @see SetHelpText(), GetHelpTextAtPoint(), wxHelpProvider
- */
- virtual wxString GetHelpText() const;
+ Also sets the window's minsize to the value passed in for use with sizers.
+ This means that if a full or partial size is passed to this function then
+ the sizers will use that size instead of the results of GetBestSize() to
+ determine the minimum needs of the window for layout.
- /**
- Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
- This method should be overridden if the help message depends on the position
- inside the window, otherwise GetHelpText() can be used.
+ Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
+ size to the passed in value (if any.)
- @param point
- Coordinates of the mouse at the moment of help event emission.
- @param origin
- Help event origin, see also wxHelpEvent::GetOrigin.
+ @see SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize(),
+ @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- virtual wxString GetHelpTextAtPoint(const wxPoint point,
- wxHelpEvent::Origin origin) const;
+ void SetInitialSize(const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);
/**
- Returns the identifier of the window.
+ Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
+ layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
- @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application
- has not provided one (or the default wxID_ANY) an unique
- identifier with a negative value will be generated.
+ Note that this method is just a shortcut for:
+ @code
+ SetMaxSize(ClientToWindowSize(size));
+ @endcode
- @see SetId(), @ref overview_windowids
+ @see SetMaxSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- int GetId() const;
+ virtual void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize& size);
/**
- Generic way of getting a label from any window, for
- identification purposes.
+ Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
+ that this is the maximum possible size.
- @remarks The interpretation of this function differs from class to class.
- For frames and dialogs, the value returned is the
- title. For buttons or static text controls, it is the
- button text. This function can be useful for
- meta-programs (such as testing tools or special-needs
- access programs) which need to identify windows by name.
+ @see SetMaxClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- virtual wxString GetLabel() const;
+ virtual void SetMaxSize(const wxSize& size);
/**
- Returns the maximum size of window's client area.
+ Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
+ layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
+ area.
- This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
- possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using
- SetClientSize().
+ You may need to call this if you change the window size after
+ construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
+
+ Note, that just as with SetMinSize(), calling this method doesn't
+ prevent the program from explicitly making the window smaller than the
+ specified size.
+
+ Note that this method is just a shortcut for:
+ @code
+ SetMinSize(ClientToWindowSize(size));
+ @endcode
- @see GetMaxSize()
+ @see SetMinSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- wxSize GetMaxClientSize() const;
+ virtual void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize& size);
/**
- Returns the maximum size of the window.
+ Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout
+ mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
- This is an indication to the sizer layout mechanism that this is the maximum
- possible size as well as the upper bound on window's size settable using SetSize().
+ You may need to call this if you change the window size after
+ construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
+
+ Notice that calling this method doesn't prevent the program from making
+ the window explicitly smaller than the specified size by calling
+ SetSize(), it just ensures that it won't become smaller than this size
+ during the automatic layout.
- @see GetMaxClientSize()
+ @see SetMinClientSize(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- wxSize GetMaxSize() const;
+ virtual void SetMinSize(const wxSize& size);
/**
- Returns the minimum size of window's client area, an indication to the sizer
- layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of its client area.
+ Sets the size of the window in pixels.
- It normally just returns the value set by SetMinClientSize(), but it can be
- overridden to do the calculation on demand.
+ @param x
+ Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
+ existing value should be used.
+ @param y
+ Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
+ existing value should be used.
+ @param width
+ Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
+ value should be used.
+ @param height
+ Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
+ existing value should be used.
+ @param sizeFlags
+ Indicates the interpretation of other parameters.
+ It is a bit list of the following:
+ - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
+ a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
+ - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
+ a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
+ - @c wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
+ a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
+ - @c wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
+ if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
+ - @c wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
+ wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted as real
+ dimensions, not default values.
+ - @c wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
+ already the same as the parameters of this function,
+ nothing is done. but with this flag a window resize may
+ be forced even in this case (supported in wx 2.6.2 and
+ later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere
+ currently).
+
+ @remarks This overload sets the position and optionally size, of the window.
+ Parameters may be wxDefaultCoord to indicate either that a default
+ should be supplied by wxWidgets, or that the current value of the
+ dimension should be used.
- @see GetMinSize()
+ @see Move(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- virtual wxSize GetMinClientSize() const;
+ void SetSize(int x, int y, int width, int height,
+ int sizeFlags = wxSIZE_AUTO);
/**
- Returns the minimum size of the window, an indication to the sizer layout
- mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
+ Sets the size of the window in pixels.
+ The size is specified using a wxRect, wxSize or by a couple of @c int objects.
- This method normally just returns the value set by SetMinSize(), but it
- can be overridden to do the calculation on demand.
+ @remarks This form must be used with non-default width and height values.
- @see GetMinClientSize()
+ @see Move(), @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- virtual wxSize GetMinSize() const;
+ virtual void SetSize(const wxRect& rect);
/**
- Returns the window's name.
-
- @remarks This name is not guaranteed to be unique; it is up to the
- programmer to supply an appropriate name in the window
- constructor or via SetName().
+ @overload
+ */
+ virtual void SetSize(const wxSize& size);
- @see SetName()
+ /**
+ @overload
*/
- virtual wxString GetName() const;
+ virtual void SetSize(int width, int height);
/**
- Returns the next window after this one among the parent children or @NULL
- if this window is the last child.
+ Use of this function for windows which are not toplevel windows
+ (such as wxDialog or wxFrame) is discouraged.
+ Please use SetMinSize() and SetMaxSize() instead.
- @since 2.8.8
+ @see wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints, @ref overview_windowsizing
+ */
+ void SetSizeHints( const wxSize& minSize,
+ const wxSize& maxSize=wxDefaultSize,
+ const wxSize& incSize=wxDefaultSize);
- @see GetPrevSibling()
+ /**
+ Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
+
+ @see @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- wxWindow* GetNextSibling() const;
+ void SetVirtualSize(int width, int height);
/**
- Returns the parent of the window, or @NULL if there is no parent.
+ @overload
*/
- virtual wxWindow* GetParent() const;
+ void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize& size);
+
+ //@}
+
/**
- This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
- returns the selected id. It can be more convenient than the general purpose
- PopupMenu() function for simple menus proposing a choice in a list of
- strings to the user.
+ @name Positioning functions
+ */
+ //@{
- @param menu
- The menu to show
- @param pos
- The position at which to show the menu in client coordinates
+ /**
+ A synonym for Centre().
+ */
+ void Center(int dir = wxBOTH);
- @return The selected menu item id or wxID_NONE if none selected or an
- error occurred.
+ /**
+ A synonym for CentreOnParent().
*/
- int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, const wxPoint& pos);
+ void CenterOnParent(int dir = wxBOTH);
/**
- See the GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu&, const wxPoint&) overload.
- This overload differs only because it takes two integers for the
- menu position instead of a wxPoint.
+ Centres the window.
+
+ @param direction
+ Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
+ or wxBOTH. It may also include wxCENTRE_ON_SCREEN flag
+ if you want to center the window on the entire screen and not on its
+ parent window.
+
+ @remarks If the window is a top level one (i.e. doesn't have a parent),
+ it will be centered relative to the screen anyhow.
+
+ @see Center()
*/
- int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, int x, int y);
+ void Centre(int direction = wxBOTH);
+
+ /**
+ Centres the window on its parent. This is a more readable synonym for Centre().
+
+ @param direction
+ Specifies the direction for the centering. May be wxHORIZONTAL, wxVERTICAL
+ or wxBOTH.
+
+ @remarks This methods provides for a way to center top level windows over
+ their parents instead of the entire screen. If there
+ is no parent or if the window is not a top level
+ window, then behaviour is the same as Centre().
+ @see wxTopLevelWindow::CentreOnScreen
+ */
+ void CentreOnParent(int direction = wxBOTH);
/**
This gets the position of the window in pixels, relative to the parent window
for the child windows or relative to the display origin for the top level windows.
*/
wxPoint GetPosition() const;
- /**
- Returns the previous window before this one among the parent children or @c
- @NULL if this window is the first child.
-
- @since 2.8.8
-
- @see GetNextSibling()
- */
- wxWindow* GetPrevSibling() const;
-
/**
Returns the position and size of the window as a wxRect object.
wxRect GetScreenRect() const;
/**
- Returns the built-in scrollbar position.
+ Moves the window to the given position.
- @see See SetScrollbar()
- */
- virtual int GetScrollPos(int orientation);
+ @param x
+ Required x position.
+ @param y
+ Required y position.
+ @param flags
+ See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
- /**
- Returns the built-in scrollbar range.
+ @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
+ Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
+ @code
+ SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
+ @endcode
- @see SetScrollbar()
+ @see SetSize()
*/
- virtual int GetScrollRange(int orientation);
+ void Move(int x, int y, int flags = wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
/**
- Returns the built-in scrollbar thumb size.
+ Moves the window to the given position.
- @see SetScrollbar()
- */
- virtual int GetScrollThumb(int orientation);
+ @param pt
+ wxPoint object representing the position.
+ @param flags
+ See SetSize() for more info about this parameter.
- /**
- Returns the size of the entire window in pixels, including title bar, border,
- scrollbars, etc.
+ @remarks Implementations of SetSize() can also implicitly implement the
+ Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
+ @code
+ SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
+ @endcode
- Note that if this window is a top-level one and it is currently minimized, the
- returned size is the restored window size, not the size of the window icon.
+ @see SetSize()
+ */
+ void Move(const wxPoint& pt, int flags = wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
- @param width
- Receives the window width.
- @param height
- Receives the window height.
+ //@}
- @see GetClientSize(), GetVirtualSize()
- */
- void GetSize(int* width, int* height) const;
/**
- See the GetSize(int*,int*) overload for more info.
+ @name Coordinate conversion functions
*/
- wxSize GetSize() const;
+ //@{
/**
- Return the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
- SetSizer() or @NULL.
+ Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
+
+ @param x
+ A pointer to a integer value for the x coordinate. Pass the client
+ coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
+ @param y
+ A pointer to a integer value for the y coordinate. Pass the client
+ coordinate in, and a screen coordinate will be passed out.
+
+ @beginWxPythonOnly
+ In place of a single overloaded method name, wxPython implements the following methods:
+ - ClientToScreen(point): Accepts and returns a wxPoint
+ - ClientToScreenXY(x, y): Returns a 2-tuple, (x, y)
+ @endWxPythonOnly
*/
- wxSizer* GetSizer() const;
+ void ClientToScreen(int* x, int* y) const;
/**
- Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
- window with the currently selected font.
-
- The text extent is returned in @a w and @a h pointers.
+ Converts to screen coordinates from coordinates relative to this window.
- @param string
- String whose extent is to be measured.
- @param w
- Return value for width.
- @param h
- Return value for height.
- @param descent
- Return value for descent (optional).
- @param externalLeading
- Return value for external leading (optional).
- @param font
- Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
- @param use16
- If @true, string contains 16-bit characters. The default is @false.
+ @param pt
+ The client position for the second form of the function.
*/
- virtual void GetTextExtent(const wxString& string, int* w, int* h,
- int* descent = NULL,
- int* externalLeading = NULL,
- const wxFont* font = NULL,
- bool use16 = false) const;
+ wxPoint ClientToScreen(const wxPoint& pt) const;
/**
- Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
- window with the currently selected font.
+ Converts a point or size from dialog units to pixels.
+
+ For the x dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
+ width and then divided by 4.
+ For the y dimension, the dialog units are multiplied by the average character
+ height and then divided by 8.
+
+ @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
+ even if the font changes.
+ You can also use these functions programmatically.
+ A convenience macro is defined:
+ @code
+ #define wxDLG_UNIT(parent, pt) parent->ConvertDialogToPixels(pt)
+ @endcode
+
+ @see ConvertPixelsToDialog()
*/
- wxSize GetTextExtent(const wxString& string) const;
+ wxPoint ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxPoint& pt);
/**
- Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
+ @overload
*/
- wxToolTip* GetToolTip() const;
+ wxSize ConvertDialogToPixels(const wxSize& sz);
/**
- Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
- Should only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
+ Converts a point or size from pixels to dialog units.
- @see wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
+ For the x dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 4 and then divided by the
+ average character width.
+ For the y dimension, the pixels are multiplied by 8 and then divided by the
+ average character height.
+
+ @remarks Dialog units are used for maintaining a dialog's proportions
+ even if the font changes.
+
+ @see ConvertDialogToPixels()
*/
- virtual wxRegion GetUpdateRegion() const;
+ wxPoint ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxPoint& pt);
/**
- Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if
- there is none.
+ @overload
*/
- wxValidator* GetValidator() const;
+ wxSize ConvertPixelsToDialog(const wxSize& sz);
- //@{
/**
- This gets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
- By default it returns the client size of the window, but after a call to
- SetVirtualSize() it will return that size.
+ Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
- @param width
- Receives the window virtual width.
- @param height
- Receives the window virtual height.
+ @param x
+ Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
+ @param y
+ Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
*/
- void GetVirtualSize(int* width, int* height) const;
- wxSize GetVirtualSize() const;
- //@}
+ void ScreenToClient(int* x, int* y) const;
/**
- Returns the size of the left/right and top/bottom borders of this window in x
- and y components of the result respectively.
+ Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
+
+ @param pt
+ The screen position.
*/
- wxSize GetWindowBorderSize() const;
+ wxPoint ScreenToClient(const wxPoint& pt) const;
+
+ //@}
+
/**
- Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or @b Create
- method. @b GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
+ @name Drawing-related functions
*/
- long GetWindowStyleFlag() const;
+ //@{
/**
- Returns the value previously passed to SetWindowVariant().
+ Clears the window by filling it with the current background colour. Does not
+ cause an erase background event to be generated.
*/
- wxWindowVariant GetWindowVariant() const;
+ virtual void ClearBackground();
/**
- This function will generate the appropriate call to
- Navigate() if the key event is one normally used for
- keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
+ Freezes the window or, in other words, prevents any updates from taking
+ place on screen, the window is not redrawn at all.
- @return Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
- handled, @false otherwise.
+ Thaw() must be called to reenable window redrawing. Calls to these two
+ functions may be nested but to ensure that the window is properly
+ repainted again, you must thaw it exactly as many times as you froze it.
- @see Navigate()
- */
- bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent& event);
+ If the window has any children, they are recursively frozen too.
- /**
- Shorthand for:
- @code
- GetEventHandler()->SafelyProcessEvent(event);
- @endcode
+ This method is useful for visual appearance optimization (for example,
+ it is a good idea to use it before doing many large text insertions in
+ a row into a wxTextCtrl under wxGTK) but is not implemented on all
+ platforms nor for all controls so it is mostly just a hint to wxWidgets
+ and not a mandatory directive.
+
+ @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Thaw(), IsFrozen()
*/
- bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent& event);
+ void Freeze();
/**
- Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
+ Reenables window updating after a previous call to Freeze().
- @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
- wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+ To really thaw the control, it must be called exactly the same number
+ of times as Freeze().
+
+ If the window has any children, they are recursively thawn too.
+
+ @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Freeze(), IsFrozen()
*/
- virtual bool HasCapture() const;
+ void Thaw();
/**
- Returns @true if the window has the given @a exFlag bit set in its
- extra styles.
+ Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to Freeze().
- @see SetExtraStyle()
+ @see Freeze(), Thaw()
*/
- bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag) const;
+ bool IsFrozen() const;
/**
- Returns @true if the window has the given @a flag bit set.
+ Returns the background colour of the window.
+
+ @see SetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(), GetForegroundColour()
*/
- bool HasFlag(int flag) const;
+ wxColour GetBackgroundColour() const;
/**
- Returns @true if the window (or in case of composite controls, its main
- child window) has focus.
+ Returns the background style of the window.
+ The background style can be one of the wxBackgroundStyle.
- @see FindFocus()
+ @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
+ SetBackgroundStyle(), SetTransparent()
*/
- virtual bool HasFocus() const;
-
+ virtual wxBackgroundStyle GetBackgroundStyle() const;
/**
- This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
- multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
- wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
- and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should do it as well to
- allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
+ Returns the character height for this window.
*/
- virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
+ virtual int GetCharHeight() const;
/**
- Returns @true if this window has a scroll bar for this orientation.
-
- @param orient
- Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
+ Returns the average character width for this window.
*/
- virtual bool HasScrollbar(int orient) const;
+ virtual int GetCharWidth() const;
/**
- Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example,
- for wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
+ Currently this is the same as calling
+ wxWindow::GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindow::GetWindowVariant()).
- This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
- shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
- wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
+ One advantage of using this function compared to the static version is that
+ the call is automatically dispatched to the correct class (as usual with
+ virtual functions) and you don't have to specify the class name explicitly.
+
+ The other one is that in the future this function could return different
+ results, for example it might return a different font for an "Ok" button
+ than for a generic button if the users GUI is configured to show such buttons
+ in bold font. Of course, the down side is that it is impossible to call this
+ function without actually having an object to apply it to whereas the static
+ version can be used without having to create an object first.
*/
- virtual bool HasTransparentBackground() const;
+ virtual wxVisualAttributes GetDefaultAttributes() const;
/**
- Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
+ Returns the font for this window.
+
+ @see SetFont()
*/
- bool Hide();
+ wxFont GetFont() const;
/**
- This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a special visual
- effect if possible.
+ Returns the foreground colour of the window.
- The parameters of this function are the same as for ShowWithEffect(),
- please see their description there.
+ @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
+ interpretation according to the window class; it may be
+ the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
- @since 2.9.0
+ @see SetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
+ GetBackgroundColour()
*/
- virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
- unsigned timeout = 0);
+ wxColour GetForegroundColour() const;
/**
- This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
- window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
- the font and the foreground and background colours.
+ Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
+ window with the currently selected font.
- By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
- own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
- However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
- SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
- attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
- window takes the same value as used by the parent.
- In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
- the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
+ The text extent is returned in @a w and @a h pointers.
- This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
- different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
- are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
- different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
- they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
- desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
- just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
- do inherit the parents attributes.
+ @param string
+ String whose extent is to be measured.
+ @param w
+ Return value for width.
+ @param h
+ Return value for height.
+ @param descent
+ Return value for descent (optional).
+ @param externalLeading
+ Return value for external leading (optional).
+ @param font
+ Font to use instead of the current window font (optional).
*/
- void InheritAttributes();
+ virtual void GetTextExtent(const wxString& string, int* w, int* h,
+ int* descent = NULL,
+ int* externalLeading = NULL,
+ const wxFont* font = NULL) const;
/**
- Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
- to the dialog via validators.
+ Gets the dimensions of the string as it would be drawn on the
+ window with the currently selected font.
*/
- void InitDialog();
+ wxSize GetTextExtent(const wxString& string) const;
/**
- Resets the cached best size value so it will be recalculated the next time it
- is needed.
- */
- void InvalidateBestSize();
+ Returns the region specifying which parts of the window have been damaged.
+ Should only be called within an wxPaintEvent handler.
+
+ @see wxRegion, wxRegionIterator
+ */
+ const wxRegion& GetUpdateRegion() const;
/**
- Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
- any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
- and transferred to the screen all at once later.
+ Returns @true if this window background is transparent (as, for example,
+ for wxStaticText) and should show the parent window background.
- @see wxBufferedDC
+ This method is mostly used internally by the library itself and you normally
+ shouldn't have to call it. You may, however, have to override it in your
+ wxWindow-derived class to ensure that background is painted correctly.
*/
- virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
+ virtual bool HasTransparentBackground();
/**
- Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input,
- @false otherwise.
+ Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
+ where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
+ happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
+ to update the window immediately you should use Update() instead.
- Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
- been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled.
- To get the intrinsic status of this window, use IsThisEnabled()
+ @param eraseBackground
+ If @true, the background will be erased.
+ @param rect
+ If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will be treated as damaged.
- @see Enable()
+ @see RefreshRect()
*/
- virtual bool IsEnabled() const;
+ virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground = true,
+ const wxRect* rect = NULL);
- //@{
/**
- Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
- last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
- only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
+ Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
+ repainted.
+
+ This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax as it can be called
+ with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
*/
- bool IsExposed(int x, int y) const;
- const bool IsExposed(wxPoint amp;pt) const;
- const bool IsExposed(int x, int y, int w, int h) const;
- const bool IsExposed(wxRect amp;rect) const;
- //@}
+ void RefreshRect(const wxRect& rect, bool eraseBackground = true);
/**
- Returns @true if the window is currently frozen by a call to Freeze().
+ Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
+ all of its children recursively while this would usually only happen when the
+ flow of control returns to the event loop.
- @see Freeze(), Thaw()
+ Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
+ nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
+ a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to immediately redraw the
+ window unconditionally.
*/
- virtual bool IsFrozen() const;
+ virtual void Update();
/**
- Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
+ Sets the background colour of the window.
+ Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
+ this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
- @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
+ @param colour
+ The colour to be used as the background colour, pass
+ wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
+
+ @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
+ wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
+ automatically under GTK.
+ Note that setting the background colour does not cause an
+ immediate refresh, so you may wish to call wxWindow::ClearBackground
+ or wxWindow::Refresh after calling this function.
+ Using this function will disable attempts to use themes for
+ this window, if the system supports them. Use with care since
+ usually the themes represent the appearance chosen by the user
+ to be used for all applications on the system.
+
+ @see GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
+ GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
+ Refresh(), wxEraseEvent
*/
- virtual bool IsRetained() const;
+ virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
/**
- Return whether a scrollbar is always shown.
-
- @param orient
- Orientation to check, either wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
+ Sets the background style of the window. see GetBackgroundStyle() for
+ the description of the possible style values.
- @see AlwaysShowScrollbars()
+ @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
+ SetTransparent()
*/
- bool IsScrollbarAlwaysShown(int orient);
+ virtual bool SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style);
/**
- Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
+ Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
+ parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
+ use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and see InheritAttributes() for more
+ explanations.
- @see IsShownOnScreen()
+ Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
+ wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
+ call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
+ any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
+ GetTextExtent().
+
+ @param font
+ Font to associate with this window, pass
+ wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
+
+ @return @true if the want was really changed, @false if it was already set
+ to this font and so nothing was done.
+
+ @see GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
*/
- virtual bool IsShown() const;
+ virtual bool SetFont(const wxFont& font);
/**
- Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
- is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
+ Sets the foreground colour of the window.
+ Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
+ this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
- @see IsShown()
+ @param colour
+ The colour to be used as the foreground colour, pass
+ wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
+
+ @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
+ interpretation according to the window class; it may be
+ the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
+
+ @see GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
+ GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
*/
- virtual bool IsShownOnScreen() const;
+ virtual bool SetForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
/**
- Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
- i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
- mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
- IsEnabled() instead.
+ Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
+ by the children of this window.
+
+ @see SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
*/
- bool IsThisEnabled() const;
+ void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
/**
- Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
- dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
- window).
+ Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
+ children of this window.
+
+ @see SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
*/
- bool IsTopLevel() const;
+ void SetOwnFont(const wxFont& font);
/**
- Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
- for this window.
+ Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
+ by the children of this window.
- See SetAutoLayout(): when auto layout is on, this function gets called automatically
- when the window is resized.
+ @see SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
+ */
+ void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
- @see @ref overview_windowsizing
+ /**
+ @deprecated use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
*/
- void Layout();
+ void SetPalette(const wxPalette& pal);
/**
- Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
+ Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
+ InheritAttributes(), returning @false forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
- @see Raise()
+ The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
+ wxControl where it returns @true.
*/
- void Lower();
+ virtual bool ShouldInheritColours() const;
/**
- Disables all other windows in the application so that
- the user can only interact with this window.
+ This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
+ to draw the windows' background instead if its own background drawing
+ code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
+ obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
+ One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
+ defined by a user's selected theme.
- @param flag
- If @true, this call disables all other windows in the application so that
- the user can only interact with this window. If @false, the effect is
- reversed.
+ Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
+ by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
*/
- virtual void MakeModal(bool flag);
+ virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable);
/**
- Moves the window to the given position.
-
- @param x
- Required x position.
- @param y
- Required y position.
+ Returns @true if the system supports transparent windows and calling
+ SetTransparent() may succeed. If this function returns @false, transparent
+ windows are definitely not supported by the current system.
+ */
+ virtual bool CanSetTransparent();
- @remarks Implementations of SetSize can also implicitly implement the
- Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
- @code
- SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
- @endcode
+ /**
+ Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
+ returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
+ See also CanSetTransparent().
- @see SetSize()
+ The parameter @a alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
+ fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
+ @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be used.
*/
- void Move(int x, int y);
+ virtual bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha);
+
+ //@}
+
/**
- Moves the window to the given position.
+ @name Event-handling functions
- @param pt
- wxPoint object representing the position.
+ wxWindow allows you to build a (sort of) stack of event handlers which
+ can be used to override the window's own event handling.
+ */
+ //@{
- @remarks Implementations of SetSize() can also implicitly implement the
- Move() function, which is defined in the base wxWindow class as the call:
- @code
- SetSize(x, y, wxDefaultCoord, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);
- @endcode
+ /**
+ Returns the event handler for this window.
+ By default, the window is its own event handler.
- @see SetSize()
+ @see SetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
+ PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
*/
- void Move(const wxPoint& pt);
+ wxEvtHandler* GetEventHandler() const;
/**
- Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
- This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
- the focus switches to this window.
+ This function will generate the appropriate call to Navigate() if the key
+ event is one normally used for keyboard navigation and return @true in this case.
- Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
- MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
- it after creating all the windows.
+ @return Returns @true if the key pressed was for navigation and was
+ handled, @false otherwise.
- @param win
- A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
- must not be @NULL
+ @see Navigate()
*/
- void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
+ bool HandleAsNavigationKey(const wxKeyEvent& event);
/**
- Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that it inserts this window just
- before @a win instead of putting it right after it.
+ Shorthand for:
+ @code
+ GetEventHandler()->SafelyProcessEvent(event);
+ @endcode
+
+ @see ProcessWindowEvent()
*/
- void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
+ bool HandleWindowEvent(wxEvent& event) const;
/**
- Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window.
- This method is equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
- parent window.
+ Convenient wrapper for ProcessEvent().
- @param flags
- A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
- wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
+ This is the same as writing @code GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent(event);
+ @endcode but more convenient. Notice that ProcessEvent() itself can't
+ be called for wxWindow objects as it ignores the event handlers
+ associated with the window, use this function instead.
+ */
+ bool ProcessWindowEvent(wxEvent& event);
- @return Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
- if nothing changed.
+ /**
+ Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
- @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
- handler to do the default navigation behaviour for the
- tab key, since the standard default behaviour for a
- multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB style
- is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
- control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
- HandleAsNavigationKey.
+ E.g. in the case of:
+ @image html overview_events_winstack.png
+ when calling @c W->PopEventHandler(), the event handler @c A will be
+ removed and @c B will be the first handler of the stack.
+
+ Note that it's an error to call this function when no event handlers
+ were pushed on this window (i.e. when the window itself is its only
+ event handler).
+
+ @param deleteHandler
+ If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed
+ (and the returned value will be @NULL).
+
+ @see @ref overview_events_processing
*/
- bool Navigate(int flags = wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward);
+ wxEvtHandler* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler = false);
/**
- Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
- See Navigate() for more information.
+ Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
+
+ An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the events sent
+ to a window. By default, the window is its own event handler, but an application
+ may wish to substitute another, for example to allow central implementation
+ of event-handling for a variety of different window classes.
+
+ wxWindow::PushEventHandler allows an application to set up a @e stack
+ of event handlers, where an event not handled by one event handler is
+ handed to the next one in the chain.
+
+ E.g. if you have two event handlers @c A and @c B and a wxWindow instance
+ @c W and you call:
+ @code
+ W->PushEventHandler(A);
+ W->PushEventHandler(B);
+ @endcode
+ you will end up with the following situation:
+ @image html overview_events_winstack.png
+
+ Note that you can use wxWindow::PopEventHandler to remove the event handler.
+
+ @param handler
+ Specifies the handler to be pushed.
+ It must not be part of a wxEvtHandler chain; an assert will fail
+ if it's not unlinked (see wxEvtHandler::IsUnlinked).
+
+ @see @ref overview_events_processing
*/
- bool NavigateIn(int flags = wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward);
+ void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
/**
- Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.
- The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindow ID
- or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
+ Find the given @a handler in the windows event handler stack and
+ removes (but does not delete) it from the stack.
- See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
+ See wxEvtHandler::Unlink() for more info.
- @param count
- The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
+ @param handler
+ The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
+ must be present in this windows event handlers stack.
- @return Returns the ID or the first ID of the range, or wxID_NONE if the
- specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
+ @return Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
+ results in an assert failure so this function should
+ only be called when the handler is supposed to be there).
- @see UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager,
- @ref overview_windowids
+ @see PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
*/
- static wxWindowID NewControlId(int count = 1);
+ bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
/**
- This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
- sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
- that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
- handler in a derived class.
+ Sets the event handler for this window.
- This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
- and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
- in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
+ Note that if you use this function you may want to use as the "next" handler
+ of @a handler the window itself; in this way when @a handler doesn't process
+ an event, the window itself will have a chance to do it.
+
+ @param handler
+ Specifies the handler to be set. Cannot be @NULL.
+
+ @see @ref overview_events_processing
*/
- virtual void OnInternalIdle();
+ void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
/**
- Same as #ScrollLines (-1).
+ wxWindows cannot be used to form event handler chains; this function
+ thus will assert when called.
+
+ Note that instead you can use PushEventHandler() or SetEventHandler() to
+ implement a stack of event handlers to override wxWindow's own
+ event handling mechanism.
*/
- bool LineUp();
+ virtual void SetNextHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
/**
- Same as #ScrollLines (1).
+ wxWindows cannot be used to form event handler chains; this function
+ thus will assert when called.
+
+ Note that instead you can use PushEventHandler() or SetEventHandler() to
+ implement a stack of event handlers to override wxWindow's own
+ event handling mechanism.
*/
- bool LineDown();
+ virtual void SetPreviousHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
+
+ //@}
+
+
/**
- Same as #ScrollPages (-1).
+ @name Window styles functions
*/
- bool PageUp();
+ //@{
/**
- Same as #ScrollPages (1).
+ Returns the extra style bits for the window.
*/
- bool PageDown();
+ long GetExtraStyle() const;
+ /**
+ Gets the window style that was passed to the constructor or Create()
+ method. GetWindowStyle() is another name for the same function.
+ */
+ virtual long GetWindowStyleFlag() const;
/**
- Removes and returns the top-most event handler on the event handler stack.
+ See GetWindowStyleFlag() for more info.
+ */
+ long GetWindowStyle() const;
- @param deleteHandler
- If this is @true, the handler will be deleted after it is removed.
- The default value is @false.
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the window has the given @a exFlag bit set in its
+ extra styles.
- @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
- PushEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
+ @see SetExtraStyle()
*/
- wxEvtHandler* PopEventHandler(bool deleteHandler = false) const;
+ bool HasExtraStyle(int exFlag) const;
- //@{
/**
- Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
- window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu.
+ Returns @true if the window has the given @a flag bit set.
+ */
+ bool HasFlag(int flag) const;
- If a menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
- processed as usually. If the coordinates are not specified, current mouse
- cursor position is used.
+ /**
+ Sets the extra style bits for the window.
+ The currently defined extra style bits are reported in the class
+ description.
+ */
+ virtual void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle);
- @param menu
- Menu to pop up.
- @param pos
- The position where the menu will appear.
- @param x
- Required x position for the menu to appear.
- @param y
- Required y position for the menu to appear.
+ /**
+ Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
+ after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be be called
+ after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.
- @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
- ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
- The menu does not get deleted by the window.
- It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
- calling PopupMenu in response to mouse click, because some of
- the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
- the menu in that case.
+ See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
- @see wxMenu
+ @see GetWindowStyleFlag()
*/
- bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu,
- const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition);
- bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu, int x, int y);
- //@}
+ virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style);
/**
- Posts a size event to the window.
-
- This is the same as SendSizeEvent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST argument.
- */
- void PostSizeEvent();
+ See SetWindowStyleFlag() for more info.
+ */
+ void SetWindowStyle(long style);
/**
- Posts a size event to the parent of this window.
-
- This is the same as SendSizeEventToParent() with @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST
- argument.
- */
- void PostSizeEventToParent();
+ Turns the given @a flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
+ This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
+ the case for default flags).
- /**
- Pushes this event handler onto the event stack for the window.
+ Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
+ creation.
- @param handler
- Specifies the handler to be pushed.
+ @return Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
+ if it was switched off.
- @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
- events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
- own event handler, but an application may wish to
- substitute another, for example to allow central
- implementation of event-handling for a variety of
- different window classes.
- wxWindow::PushEventHandler allows an application to set up a
- chain of event handlers, where an event not handled by one event
- handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
- Use wxWindow::PopEventHandler to remove the event handler.
-
- @see SetEventHandler(), GetEventHandler(),
- PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
+ @see SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
*/
- void PushEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
+ bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag);
- /**
- Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
- In current version of wxWidgets this works both for managed and child windows.
+ //@}
- @see Lower()
+
+ /**
+ @name Tab order functions
*/
- void Raise();
+ //@{
/**
- Causes this window, and all of its children recursively (except under wxGTK1
- where this is not implemented), to be repainted. Note that repainting doesn't
- happen immediately but only during the next event loop iteration, if you need
- to update the window immediately you should use Update() instead.
+ Moves this window in the tab navigation order after the specified @e win.
+ This means that when the user presses @c TAB key on that other window,
+ the focus switches to this window.
- @param eraseBackground
- If @true, the background will be erased.
- @param rect
- If non-@NULL, only the given rectangle will be treated as damaged.
+ Default tab order is the same as creation order, this function and
+ MoveBeforeInTabOrder() allow to change
+ it after creating all the windows.
- @see RefreshRect()
+ @param win
+ A sibling of this window which should precede it in tab order,
+ must not be @NULL
*/
- virtual void Refresh(bool eraseBackground = true,
- const wxRect* rect = NULL);
+ void MoveAfterInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
/**
- Redraws the contents of the given rectangle: only the area inside it will be
- repainted.
-
- This is the same as Refresh() but has a nicer syntax as it can be called
- with a temporary wxRect object as argument like this @c RefreshRect(wxRect(x, y, w, h)).
+ Same as MoveAfterInTabOrder() except that it inserts this window just
+ before @a win instead of putting it right after it.
*/
- void RefreshRect(const wxRect& rect, bool eraseBackground = true);
+ void MoveBeforeInTabOrder(wxWindow* win);
/**
- Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
- registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
-
- It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
- and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
- other application.
-
- @param hotkeyId
- Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
- and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
- system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
- This is a MSW specific detail.
- @param modifiers
- A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
- or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
- with the key.
- @param virtualKeyCode
- The virtual key code of the hotkey.
+ Performs a keyboard navigation action starting from this window.
+ This method is equivalent to calling NavigateIn() method on the
+ parent window.
- @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
- other application already registered a hotkey with this
- modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
+ @param flags
+ A combination of wxNavigationKeyEvent::IsForward and
+ wxNavigationKeyEvent::WinChange.
- @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
- event. This function is currently only implemented
- under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
- detecting hardware button presses.
+ @return Returns @true if the focus was moved to another window or @false
+ if nothing changed.
- @see UnregisterHotKey()
+ @remarks You may wish to call this from a text control custom keypress
+ handler to do the default navigation behaviour for the
+ tab key, since the standard default behaviour for a
+ multiline text control with the wxTE_PROCESS_TAB style
+ is to insert a tab and not navigate to the next
+ control. See also wxNavigationKeyEvent and
+ HandleAsNavigationKey.
*/
- bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId, int modifiers,
- int virtualKeyCode);
+ bool Navigate(int flags = IsForward);
/**
- Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
-
- @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
- wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+ Performs a keyboard navigation action inside this window.
+ See Navigate() for more information.
*/
- virtual void ReleaseMouse();
+ bool NavigateIn(int flags = IsForward);
- /**
- Removes a child window.
+ //@}
- This is called automatically by window deletion functions so should not
- be required by the application programmer.
- Notice that this function is mostly internal to wxWidgets and shouldn't be
- called by the user code.
- @param child
- Child window to remove.
- */
- virtual void RemoveChild(wxWindow* child);
/**
- Find the given @a handler in the windows event handler chain and remove
- (but not delete) it from it.
+ @name Z order functions
+ */
+ //@{
- @param handler
- The event handler to remove, must be non-@NULL and
- must be present in this windows event handlers chain
+ /**
+ Lowers the window to the bottom of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
- @return Returns @true if it was found and @false otherwise (this also
- results in an assert failure so this function should
- only be called when the handler is supposed to be there).
+ @remarks
+ This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
- @see PushEventHandler(), PopEventHandler()
+ @see Raise()
*/
- bool RemoveEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
+ virtual void Lower();
/**
- Reparents the window, i.e the window will be removed from its
- current parent window (e.g. a non-standard toolbar in a wxFrame)
- and then re-inserted into another.
+ Raises the window to the top of the window hierarchy (Z-order).
- @param newParent
- New parent.
- */
- virtual bool Reparent(wxWindow* newParent);
-
- //@{
- /**
- Converts from screen to client window coordinates.
+ @remarks
+ This function only works for wxTopLevelWindow-derived classes.
- @param x
- Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
- @param y
- Stores the screen x coordinate and receives the client x coordinate.
- @param pt
- The screen position for the second form of the function.
+ @see Lower()
*/
- virtual void ScreenToClient(int* x, int* y) const;
- virtual wxPoint ScreenToClient(const wxPoint& pt) const;
+ virtual void Raise();
+
//@}
- /**
- Scrolls the window by the given number of lines down (if @a lines is
- positive) or up.
- @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
- on top/bottom and nothing was done.
+ /**
+ @name Window status functions
+ */
+ //@{
- @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and
- wxTextCtrl under wxGTK (it also works for wxScrolled classes
- under all platforms).
- @see ScrollPages()
+ /**
+ Equivalent to calling wxWindow::Show(@false).
*/
- virtual bool ScrollLines(int lines);
+ bool Hide();
/**
- Scrolls the window by the given number of pages down (if @a pages is
- positive) or up.
-
- @return Returns @true if the window was scrolled, @false if it was already
- on top/bottom and nothing was done.
+ This function hides a window, like Hide(), but using a special visual
+ effect if possible.
- @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW and wxGTK.
+ The parameters of this function are the same as for ShowWithEffect(),
+ please see their description there.
- @see ScrollLines()
+ @since 2.9.0
*/
- virtual bool ScrollPages(int pages);
-
+ virtual bool HideWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
+ unsigned int timeout = 0);
/**
- Physically scrolls the pixels in the window and move child windows accordingly.
+ Returns @true if the window is enabled, i.e. if it accepts user input,
+ @false otherwise.
- @param dx
- Amount to scroll horizontally.
- @param dy
- Amount to scroll vertically.
- @param rect
- Rectangle to scroll, if it is @NULL, the whole window is
- scrolled (this is always the case under wxGTK which doesn't support this
- parameter)
+ Notice that this method can return @false even if this window itself hadn't
+ been explicitly disabled when one of its parent windows is disabled.
+ To get the intrinsic status of this window, use IsThisEnabled()
- @remarks Note that you can often use wxScrolled instead of using this
- function directly.
+ @see Enable()
*/
- virtual void ScrollWindow(int dx, int dy,
- const wxRect* rect = NULL);
+ bool IsEnabled() const;
/**
- This function sends a dummy @ref overview_wxsizeevent "size event" to
- the window allowing it to re-layout its children positions.
-
- It is sometimes useful to call this function after adding or deleting a
- children after the frame creation or if a child size changes. Note that
- if the frame is using either sizers or constraints for the children
- layout, it is enough to call wxWindow::Layout() directly and this
- function should not be used in this case.
-
- If @a flags includes @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST value, this function posts
- the event, i.e. schedules it for later processing, instead of
- dispatching it directly. You can also use PostSizeEvent() as a more
- readable equivalent of calling this function with this flag.
-
- @param flags
- May include @c wxSEND_EVENT_POST. Default value is 0.
+ Returns @true if the given point or rectangle area has been exposed since the
+ last repaint. Call this in an paint event handler to optimize redrawing by
+ only redrawing those areas, which have been exposed.
*/
- void SendSizeEvent(int flags = 0);
+ bool IsExposed(int x, int y) const;
/**
- Safe wrapper for GetParent()->SendSizeEvent().
-
- This function simply checks that the window has a valid parent which is
- not in process of being deleted and calls SendSizeEvent() on it. It is
- used internally by windows such as toolbars changes to whose state
- should result in parent re-layout (e.g. when a toolbar is added to the
- top of the window, all the other windows must be shifted down).
-
- @see PostSizeEventToParent()
-
- @param flags
- See description of this parameter in SendSizeEvent() documentation.
- */
- void SendSizeEventToParent(int flags = 0);
+ @overload
+ */
+ bool IsExposed(wxPoint& pt) const;
/**
- Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
+ @overload
*/
- virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable& accel);
+ bool IsExposed(int x, int y, int w, int h) const;
/**
- Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
- will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
- See also wxAccessible.
+ @overload
*/
- void SetAccessible(wxAccessible* accessible);
-
+ bool IsExposed(wxRect& rect) const;
/**
- Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
- when the window is resized. Please note that this only happens for the
- windows usually used to contain children, namely wxPanel and wxTopLevelWindow
- (and the classes deriving from them).
-
- This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
- you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
- updated when its size changes.
-
- @param autoLayout
- Set this to @true if you wish the Layout function to be
- called automatically when the window is resized.
+ Returns @true if the window is shown, @false if it has been hidden.
- @see SetConstraints()
+ @see IsShownOnScreen()
*/
- void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout);
+ virtual bool IsShown() const;
/**
- Sets the background colour of the window.
- Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
- this method and SetOwnBackgroundColour().
-
- @param colour
- The colour to be used as the background colour, pass
- wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
-
- @remarks The background colour is usually painted by the default
- wxEraseEvent event handler function under Windows and
- automatically under GTK.
- Note that setting the background colour does not cause an
- immediate refresh, so you may wish to call wxWindow::ClearBackground
- or wxWindow::Refresh after calling this function.
- Using this function will disable attempts to use themes for
- this window, if the system supports them. Use with care since
- usually the themes represent the appearance chosen by the user
- to be used for all applications on the system.
+ Returns @true if the window is physically visible on the screen, i.e. it
+ is shown and all its parents up to the toplevel window are shown as well.
- @see GetBackgroundColour(), SetForegroundColour(),
- GetForegroundColour(), ClearBackground(),
- Refresh(), wxEraseEvent
+ @see IsShown()
*/
- virtual bool SetBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
+ virtual bool IsShownOnScreen() const;
/**
- Sets the background style of the window. see GetBackgroundStyle() for
- the description of the possible style values.
+ Disables the window. Same as @ref Enable() Enable(@false).
- @see SetBackgroundColour(), GetForegroundColour(),
- SetTransparent()
+ @return Returns @true if the window has been disabled, @false if it had
+ been already disabled before the call to this function.
*/
- virtual void SetBackgroundStyle(wxBackgroundStyle style);
+ bool Disable();
/**
- This method is only implemented by ports which have support for
- native TAB traversal (such as GTK+ 2.0).
+ Enable or disable the window for user input. Note that when a parent window is
+ disabled, all of its children are disabled as well and they are reenabled again
+ when the parent is.
- It is called by wxWidgets' container control code to give the native
- system a hint when doing TAB traversal. A call to this does not disable
- or change the effect of programmatically calling SetFocus().
+ @param enable
+ If @true, enables the window for input. If @false, disables the window.
- @see wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus, wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
- */
- virtual void SetCanFocus(bool canFocus);
+ @return Returns @true if the window has been enabled or disabled, @false
+ if nothing was done, i.e. if the window had already
+ been in the specified state.
- /**
- Sets the caret() associated with the window.
+ @see IsEnabled(), Disable(), wxRadioBox::Enable
*/
- void SetCaret(wxCaret* caret) const;
+ virtual bool Enable(bool enable = true);
- //@{
/**
- This sets the size of the window client area in pixels.
+ Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
+ for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
+ needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
- Using this function to size a window tends to be more device-independent
- than SetSize(), since the application need not worry about what dimensions
- the border or title bar have when trying to fit the window around panel
- items, for example.
+ @param show
+ If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
- @param width
- The required client area width.
- @param height
- The required client area height.
- @param size
- The required client size.
+ @return @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
+ was done because it already was in the requested state.
+
+ @see IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show, wxShowEvent.
*/
- virtual void SetClientSize(int width, int height);
- virtual void SetClientSize(const wxSize& size);
- //@}
+ virtual bool Show(bool show = true);
/**
- Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
- will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
- If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
- window, it will be deleted.
+ This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a special visual
+ effect if possible.
- @param constraints
- The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
- constraints.
+ @param effect
+ The effect to use.
- @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
- the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
- must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
- setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
- the sizer will have effect.
- */
- void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints* constraints);
+ @param timeout
+ The @a timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
+ milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default
+ animation time for the current platform is used.
- /**
- This normally does not need to be called by user code.
- It is called when a window is added to a sizer, and is used so the window
- can remove itself from the sizer when it is destroyed.
- */
- void SetContainingSizer(wxSizer* sizer);
+ @note Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and does the
+ same thing as Show() in the other ports.
- /**
- Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
- children of the window implicitly.
+ @since 2.9.0
- The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
- be reset back to default.
+ @see HideWithEffect()
+ */
+ virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
+ unsigned int timeout = 0);
- @param cursor
- Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
+ //@}
- @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
- */
- virtual void SetCursor(const wxCursor& cursor);
/**
- Associates a drop target with this window.
- If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
-
- @see GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
+ @name Context-sensitive help functions
*/
- void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget* target);
+ //@{
/**
- Sets the event handler for this window.
+ Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
+ Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
+ implementation, and not in the window object itself.
- @param handler
- Specifies the handler to be set.
-
- @remarks An event handler is an object that is capable of processing the
- events sent to a window. By default, the window is its
- own event handler, but an application may wish to
- substitute another, for example to allow central
- implementation of event-handling for a variety of
- different window classes.
- It is usually better to use wxWindow::PushEventHandler since
- this sets up a chain of event handlers, where an event not
- handled by one event handler is handed to the next one in the chain.
-
- @see GetEventHandler(), PushEventHandler(),
- PopEventHandler(), wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent, wxEvtHandler
+ @see SetHelpText(), GetHelpTextAtPoint(), wxHelpProvider
*/
- void SetEventHandler(wxEvtHandler* handler);
+ wxString GetHelpText() const;
/**
- Sets the extra style bits for the window.
- The currently defined extra style bits are reported in the class
- description.
+ Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
+ Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
+ implementation, and not in the window object itself.
+
+ @see GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider::AddHelp()
*/
- void SetExtraStyle(long exStyle);
+ void SetHelpText(const wxString& helpText);
/**
- This sets the window to receive keyboard input.
+ Gets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
+ This method should be overridden if the help message depends on the position
+ inside the window, otherwise GetHelpText() can be used.
- @see HasFocus(), wxFocusEvent, wxPanel::SetFocus,
- wxPanel::SetFocusIgnoringChildren
+ @param point
+ Coordinates of the mouse at the moment of help event emission.
+ @param origin
+ Help event origin, see also wxHelpEvent::GetOrigin.
*/
- virtual void SetFocus();
+ virtual wxString GetHelpTextAtPoint(const wxPoint& point,
+ wxHelpEvent::Origin origin) const;
/**
- This function is called by wxWidgets keyboard navigation code when the user
- gives the focus to this window from keyboard (e.g. using @c TAB key).
-
- By default this method simply calls SetFocus() but
- can be overridden to do something in addition to this in the derived classes.
+ Get the associated tooltip or @NULL if none.
*/
- virtual void SetFocusFromKbd();
+ wxToolTip* GetToolTip() const;
/**
- Sets the font for this window. This function should not be called for the
- parent window if you don't want its font to be inherited by its children,
- use SetOwnFont() instead in this case and see InheritAttributes() for more
- explanations.
+ Attach a tooltip to the window.
- Please notice that the given font is not automatically used for
- wxPaintDC objects associated with this window, you need to
- call wxDC::SetFont too. However this font is used by
- any standard controls for drawing their text as well as by
- GetTextExtent().
+ wxToolTip pointer can be @NULL in the overload taking the pointer,
+ meaning to unset any existing tooltips, however UnsetToolTip() provides
+ a more readable alternative to this operation.
- @param font
- Font to associate with this window, pass
- wxNullFont to reset to the default font.
+ Notice that these methods are always available, even if wxWidgets was
+ compiled with @c wxUSE_TOOLTIPS set to 0, but don't do anything in this
+ case.
- @return @true if the want was really changed, @false if it was already set
- to this font and so nothing was done.
+ @see GetToolTip(), wxToolTip
+ */
+ void SetToolTip(const wxString& tip);
- @see GetFont(), InheritAttributes()
+ /**
+ @overload
*/
- bool SetFont(const wxFont& font);
+ void SetToolTip(wxToolTip* tip);
/**
- Sets the foreground colour of the window.
- Please see InheritAttributes() for explanation of the difference between
- this method and SetOwnForegroundColour().
+ Unset any existing tooltip.
- @param colour
- The colour to be used as the foreground colour, pass
- wxNullColour to reset to the default colour.
+ @since 2.9.0
- @remarks The interpretation of foreground colour is open to
- interpretation according to the window class; it may be
- the text colour or other colour, or it may not be used at all.
+ @see SetToolTip()
+ */
+ void UnsetToolTip();
- @see GetForegroundColour(), SetBackgroundColour(),
- GetBackgroundColour(), ShouldInheritColours()
- */
- virtual void SetForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
+ //@}
- /**
- Sets the help text to be used as context-sensitive help for this window.
- Note that the text is actually stored by the current wxHelpProvider
- implementation, and not in the window object itself.
- @see GetHelpText(), wxHelpProvider::AddHelp()
+ /**
+ @name Popup/context menu functions
*/
- virtual void SetHelpText(const wxString& helpText);
+ //@{
/**
- Sets the identifier of the window.
+ This function shows a popup menu at the given position in this window and
+ returns the selected id.
- @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
- not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
- Normally, the identifier should be provided on creation
- and should not be modified subsequently.
+ It can be more convenient than the general purpose PopupMenu() function
+ for simple menus proposing a choice in a list of strings to the user.
- @see GetId(), @ref overview_windowids
+ Notice that to avoid unexpected conflicts between the (usually
+ consecutive range of) ids used by the menu passed to this function and
+ the existing EVT_UPDATE_UI() handlers, this function temporarily
+ disables UI updates for the window, so you need to manually disable
+ (or toggle or ...) any items which should be disabled in the menu
+ before showing it.
+
+ The parameter @a menu is the menu to show.
+ The parameter @a pos (or the parameters @a x and @a y) is the
+ position at which to show the menu in client coordinates.
+
+ @return
+ The selected menu item id or @c wxID_NONE if none selected or an
+ error occurred.
+
+ @since 2.9.0
*/
- void SetId(int id);
+ int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, const wxPoint& pos);
/**
- Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
- components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
+ @overload
*/
- virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize& size);
+ int GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser(wxMenu& menu, int x, int y);
/**
- A @e smart SetSize that will fill in default size components with the
- window's @e best size values.
+ Pops up the given menu at the specified coordinates, relative to this
+ window, and returns control when the user has dismissed the menu.
- Also sets the window's minsize to the value passed in for use with sizers.
- This means that if a full or partial size is passed to this function then
- the sizers will use that size instead of the results of GetBestSize() to
- determine the minimum needs of the window for layout.
+ If a menu item is selected, the corresponding menu event is generated and will be
+ processed as usually. If the coordinates are not specified, current mouse
+ cursor position is used.
- Most controls will use this to set their initial size, and their min
- size to the passed in value (if any.)
+ @a menu is the menu to pop up.
- @see SetSize(), GetBestSize(), GetEffectiveMinSize(),
- @ref overview_windowsizing
+ The position where the menu will appear can be specified either as a
+ wxPoint @a pos or by two integers (@a x and @a y).
+
+ @remarks Just before the menu is popped up, wxMenu::UpdateUI is called to
+ ensure that the menu items are in the correct state.
+ The menu does not get deleted by the window.
+ It is recommended to not explicitly specify coordinates when
+ calling PopupMenu in response to mouse click, because some of
+ the ports (namely, wxGTK) can do a better job of positioning
+ the menu in that case.
+
+ @see wxMenu
*/
- void SetInitialSize(const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);
+ bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu,
+ const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition);
/**
- Sets the window's label.
+ @overload
+ */
+ bool PopupMenu(wxMenu* menu, int x, int y);
- @param label
- The window label.
+ //@}
- @see GetLabel()
+
+ /**
+ Validator functions
*/
- virtual void SetLabel(const wxString& label);
+ //@{
/**
- Sets the maximum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
- layout mechanism that this is the maximum possible size of its client area.
+ Returns a pointer to the current validator for the window, or @NULL if
+ there is none.
+ */
+ virtual wxValidator* GetValidator();
- @see SetMaxSize()
+ /**
+ Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
+ called wxValidator::Clone to create a new validator of this type.
*/
- void SetMaxClientSize(const wxSize& size);
+ virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator& validator);
/**
- Sets the maximum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout mechanism
- that this is the maximum possible size.
+ Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
+ validators. Returns @false if a transfer failed.
+
+ If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
+ the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
- @see SetMaxClientSize()
+ @see TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
*/
- void SetMaxSize(const wxSize& size);
+ virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();
/**
- Sets the minimum client size of the window, to indicate to the sizer
- layout mechanism that this is the minimum required size of window's client
- area.
+ Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
+ validators.
- You may need to call this if you change the window size after
- construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
+ If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
+ the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
- Note, that just as with SetMinSize(), calling this method doesn't
- prevent the program from explicitly making the window smaller than the
- specified size.
+ @return Returns @false if a transfer failed.
- @see SetMinSize()
+ @see TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
*/
- void SetMinClientSize(const wxSize& size);
+ virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();
/**
- Sets the minimum size of the window, to indicate to the sizer layout
- mechanism that this is the minimum required size.
+ Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
+ If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
+ the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
- You may need to call this if you change the window size after
- construction and before adding to its parent sizer.
+ @return Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
+
+ @see TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
+ wxValidator
+ */
+ virtual bool Validate();
+
+ //@}
- Notice that calling this method doesn't prevent the program from making
- the window explicitly smaller than the specified size by calling
- SetSize(), it just ensures that it won't become smaller than this size
- during the automatic layout.
- @see SetMinClientSize()
+ /**
+ @name wxWindow properties functions
*/
- void SetMinSize(const wxSize& size);
+ //@{
/**
- Sets the window's name.
+ Returns the identifier of the window.
- @param name
- A name to set for the window.
+ @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application
+ has not provided one (or the default wxID_ANY) an unique
+ identifier with a negative value will be generated.
- @see GetName()
+ @see SetId(), @ref overview_windowids
*/
- virtual void SetName(const wxString& name);
+ wxWindowID GetId() const;
/**
- Sets the background colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
- by the children of this window.
+ Generic way of getting a label from any window, for
+ identification purposes.
- @see SetBackgroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
+ @remarks The interpretation of this function differs from class to class.
+ For frames and dialogs, the value returned is the
+ title. For buttons or static text controls, it is the
+ button text. This function can be useful for
+ meta-programs (such as testing tools or special-needs
+ access programs) which need to identify windows by name.
*/
- void SetOwnBackgroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
+ virtual wxString GetLabel() const;
/**
- Sets the font of the window but prevents it from being inherited by the
- children of this window.
-
- @see SetFont(), InheritAttributes()
+ Returns the layout direction for this window,
+ Note that @c wxLayout_Default is returned if layout direction is not supported.
*/
- void SetOwnFont(const wxFont& font);
+ virtual wxLayoutDirection GetLayoutDirection() const;
/**
- Sets the foreground colour of the window but prevents it from being inherited
- by the children of this window.
+ Returns the window's name.
- @see SetForegroundColour(), InheritAttributes()
+ @remarks This name is not guaranteed to be unique; it is up to the
+ programmer to supply an appropriate name in the window
+ constructor or via SetName().
+
+ @see SetName()
*/
- void SetOwnForegroundColour(const wxColour& colour);
+ virtual wxString GetName() const;
/**
- @deprecated use wxDC::SetPalette instead.
+ Returns the value previously passed to SetWindowVariant().
*/
- virtual void SetPalette(wxPalette* palette);
+ wxWindowVariant GetWindowVariant() const;
/**
- Sets the position of one of the built-in scrollbars.
-
- @param orientation
- Determines the scrollbar whose position is to be set.
- May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
- @param pos
- Position in scroll units.
- @param refresh
- @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
+ Sets the identifier of the window.
- @remarks This function does not directly affect the contents of the
- window: it is up to the application to take note of
- scrollbar attributes and redraw contents accordingly.
+ @remarks Each window has an integer identifier. If the application has
+ not provided one, an identifier will be generated.
+ Normally, the identifier should be provided on creation
+ and should not be modified subsequently.
- @see SetScrollbar(), GetScrollPos(), GetScrollThumb(), wxScrollBar,
- wxScrolled
+ @see GetId(), @ref overview_windowids
*/
- virtual void SetScrollPos(int orientation, int pos,
- bool refresh = true);
+ void SetId(wxWindowID winid);
/**
- Sets the scrollbar properties of a built-in scrollbar.
+ Sets the window's label.
- @param orientation
- Determines the scrollbar whose page size is to be set.
- May be wxHORIZONTAL or wxVERTICAL.
- @param position
- The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.
- @param thumbSize
- The size of the thumb, or visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.
- @param range
- The maximum position of the scrollbar.
- @param refresh
- @true to redraw the scrollbar, @false otherwise.
+ @param label
+ The window label.
- @remarks
- Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
- The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
- You would use:
- @code
- SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
- @endcode
- Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never
- go above 50 minus 16, or 34. You can determine how many lines are
- currently visible by dividing the current view size by the character
- height in pixels.
- When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need
- to recalculate the scrollbar settings when the window size changes.
- You could therefore put your scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
- call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called
- initially and also from your wxSizeEvent handler function.
+ @see GetLabel()
+ */
+ virtual void SetLabel(const wxString& label);
- @see @ref overview_scrolling, wxScrollBar, wxScrolled, wxScrollWinEvent
+ /**
+ Sets the layout direction for this window.
*/
- virtual void SetScrollbar(int orientation, int position,
- int thumbSize, int range,
- bool refresh = true);
+ virtual void SetLayoutDirection(wxLayoutDirection dir);
/**
- Sets the size of the window in pixels.
+ Sets the window's name.
- @param x
- Required x position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
- existing value should be used.
- @param y
- Required y position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
- existing value should be used.
- @param width
- Required width in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the existing
- value should be used.
- @param height
- Required height position in pixels, or wxDefaultCoord to indicate that the
- existing value should be used.
- @param sizeFlags
- Indicates the interpretation of other parameters.
- It is a bit list of the following:
- - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_WIDTH: a wxDefaultCoord width value is taken to indicate
- a wxWidgets-supplied default width.
- - @c wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT: a wxDefaultCoord height value is taken to indicate
- a wxWidgets-supplied default height.
- - @c wxSIZE_AUTO: wxDefaultCoord size values are taken to indicate
- a wxWidgets-supplied default size.
- - @c wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING: existing dimensions should be used
- if wxDefaultCoord values are supplied.
- - @c wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE: allow negative dimensions (i.e. value of
- wxDefaultCoord) to be interpreted as real
- dimensions, not default values.
- - @c wxSIZE_FORCE: normally, if the position and the size of the window are
- already the same as the parameters of this function,
- nothing is done. but with this flag a window resize may
- be forced even in this case (supported in wx 2.6.2 and
- later and only implemented for MSW and ignored elsewhere
- currently).
+ @param name
+ A name to set for the window.
- @remarks This overload sets the position and optionally size, of the window.
- Parameters may be wxDefaultCoord to indicate either that a default
- should be supplied by wxWidgets, or that the current value of the
- dimension should be used.
+ @see GetName()
+ */
+ virtual void SetName(const wxString& name);
+
+ /**
+ This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
+ Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
+ exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant enum.
+
+ By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
+ be used to change this.
+ */
+ void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant);
+
+ /**
+ Gets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
+ */
+ wxAcceleratorTable* GetAcceleratorTable();
+
+ /**
+ Returns the accessible object for this window, if any.
+ See also wxAccessible.
+ */
+ wxAccessible* GetAccessible();
+
+ /**
+ Sets the accelerator table for this window. See wxAcceleratorTable.
+ */
+ virtual void SetAcceleratorTable(const wxAcceleratorTable& accel);
- @see Move()
+ /**
+ Sets the accessible for this window. Any existing accessible for this window
+ will be deleted first, if not identical to @e accessible.
+ See also wxAccessible.
*/
- virtual void SetSize(int x, int y, int width, int height,
- int sizeFlags = wxSIZE_AUTO);
+ void SetAccessible(wxAccessible* accessible);
+
+ //@}
+
+ /**
+ @name Window deletion functions
+ */
//@{
+
/**
- Sets the size of the window in pixels.
- The size is specified using a wxRect, wxSize or by a couple of @c int objects.
+ This function simply generates a wxCloseEvent whose handler usually tries
+ to close the window. It doesn't close the window itself, however.
- @remarks This form must be used with non-default width and height values.
+ @param force
+ @false if the window's close handler should be able to veto the destruction
+ of this window, @true if it cannot.
+
+ @remarks Close calls the close handler for the window, providing an
+ opportunity for the window to choose whether to destroy
+ the window. Usually it is only used with the top level
+ windows (wxFrame and wxDialog classes) as the others
+ are not supposed to have any special OnClose() logic.
+ The close handler should check whether the window is being deleted
+ forcibly, using wxCloseEvent::CanVeto, in which case it should
+ destroy the window using wxWindow::Destroy.
+ Note that calling Close does not guarantee that the window will
+ be destroyed; but it provides a way to simulate a manual close
+ of a window, which may or may not be implemented by destroying
+ the window. The default implementation of wxDialog::OnCloseWindow
+ does not necessarily delete the dialog, since it will simply
+ simulate an wxID_CANCEL event which is handled by the appropriate
+ button event handler and may do anything at all.
+ To guarantee that the window will be destroyed, call
+ wxWindow::Destroy instead
- @see Move()
+ @see @ref overview_windowdeletion "Window Deletion Overview",
+ Destroy(), wxCloseEvent
*/
- virtual void SetSize(const wxRect& rect);
- virtual void SetSize(const wxSize& size);
- virtual void SetSize(int width, int height);
+ bool Close(bool force = false);
+
+ /**
+ Destroys the window safely. Use this function instead of the delete operator,
+ since different window classes can be destroyed differently. Frames and dialogs
+ are not destroyed immediately when this function is called -- they are added
+ to a list of windows to be deleted on idle time, when all the window's events
+ have been processed. This prevents problems with events being sent to
+ non-existent windows.
+
+ @return @true if the window has either been successfully deleted, or it
+ has been added to the list of windows pending real deletion.
+ */
+ virtual bool Destroy();
+
+ /**
+ Returns true if this window is in process of being destroyed.
+
+ The top level windows are not deleted immediately but are rather
+ scheduled for later destruction to give them time to process any
+ pending messages, see Destroy() description.
+
+ This function returns @true if this window, or one of its parent
+ windows, is scheduled for destruction and can be useful to avoid
+ manipulating it as it's usually useless to do something with a window
+ which is on the point of disappearing anyhow.
+ */
+ bool IsBeingDeleted() const;
+
+ //@}
+
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Drag and drop functions
+ */
+ //@{
+
+ /**
+ Returns the associated drop target, which may be @NULL.
+
+ @see SetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
+ */
+ virtual wxDropTarget* GetDropTarget() const;
+
+ /**
+ Associates a drop target with this window.
+ If the window already has a drop target, it is deleted.
+
+ @see GetDropTarget(), @ref overview_dnd
+ */
+ virtual void SetDropTarget(wxDropTarget* target);
+
+ /**
+ Enables or disables eligibility for drop file events (OnDropFiles).
+
+ @param accept
+ If @true, the window is eligible for drop file events.
+ If @false, the window will not accept drop file events.
+
+ @remarks Windows only until version 2.8.9, available on all platforms
+ since 2.8.10. Cannot be used together with SetDropTarget() on
+ non-Windows platforms.
+
+ @see SetDropTarget()
+ */
+ virtual void DragAcceptFiles(bool accept);
+
//@}
+
+ /**
+ @name Constraints, sizers and window layouting functions
+ */
+ //@{
+
+ /**
+ Return the sizer that this window is a member of, if any, otherwise @NULL.
+ */
+ wxSizer* GetContainingSizer() const;
+
+ /**
+ Return the sizer associated with the window by a previous call to
+ SetSizer() or @NULL.
+ */
+ wxSizer* GetSizer() const;
+
/**
Sets the window to have the given layout sizer.
The window will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
void SetSizerAndFit(wxSizer* sizer, bool deleteOld = true);
/**
- This function tells a window if it should use the system's "theme" code
- to draw the windows' background instead if its own background drawing
- code. This does not always have any effect since the underlying platform
- obviously needs to support the notion of themes in user defined windows.
- One such platform is GTK+ where windows can have (very colourful) backgrounds
- defined by a user's selected theme.
-
- Dialogs, notebook pages and the status bar have this flag set to @true
- by default so that the default look and feel is simulated best.
+ Returns a pointer to the window's layout constraints, or @NULL if there are none.
*/
- virtual void SetThemeEnabled(bool enable);
+ wxLayoutConstraints* GetConstraints() const;
- //@{
/**
- Attach a tooltip to the window.
-
- wxToolTip pointer can be @NULL in the overload taking the pointer,
- meaning to unset any existing tooltips, however UnsetToolTip() provides
- a more readable alternative to this operation.
+ Sets the window to have the given layout constraints. The window
+ will then own the object, and will take care of its deletion.
+ If an existing layout constraints object is already owned by the
+ window, it will be deleted.
- Notice that these methods are always available, even if wxWidgets was
- compiled with @c wxUSE_TOOLTIPS set to 0, but don't do anything in this
- case.
+ @param constraints
+ The constraints to set. Pass @NULL to disassociate and delete the window's
+ constraints.
- @see GetToolTip(), wxToolTip
+ @remarks You must call SetAutoLayout() to tell a window to use
+ the constraints automatically in OnSize; otherwise, you
+ must override OnSize and call Layout() explicitly. When
+ setting both a wxLayoutConstraints and a wxSizer, only
+ the sizer will have effect.
*/
- void SetToolTip(const wxString& tip);
- void SetToolTip(wxToolTip* tip);
- //@}
+ void SetConstraints(wxLayoutConstraints* constraints);
+
/**
- Set the transparency of the window. If the system supports transparent windows,
- returns @true, otherwise returns @false and the window remains fully opaque.
- See also CanSetTransparent().
+ Invokes the constraint-based layout algorithm or the sizer-based algorithm
+ for this window.
- The parameter @a alpha is in the range 0..255 where 0 corresponds to a
- fully transparent window and 255 to the fully opaque one. The constants
- @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT and @c wxIMAGE_ALPHA_OPAQUE can be used.
+ This function does not get called automatically when the window is resized
+ because lots of windows deriving from wxWindow does not need this functionality.
+ If you want to have Layout() called automatically, you should derive
+ from wxPanel (see wxPanel::Layout).
+
+ @see @ref overview_windowsizing
*/
- bool SetTransparent(wxByte alpha);
+ virtual bool Layout();
/**
- Deletes the current validator (if any) and sets the window validator, having
- called wxValidator::Clone to create a new validator of this type.
+ Determines whether the Layout() function will be called automatically
+ when the window is resized. Please note that this only happens for the
+ windows usually used to contain children, namely wxPanel and wxTopLevelWindow
+ (and the classes deriving from them).
+
+ This method is called implicitly by SetSizer() but if you use SetConstraints()
+ you should call it manually or otherwise the window layout won't be correctly
+ updated when its size changes.
+
+ @param autoLayout
+ Set this to @true if you wish the Layout() function to be
+ called automatically when the window is resized
+ (really happens only if you derive from wxPanel or wxTopLevelWindow).
+
+ @see SetConstraints()
*/
- virtual void SetValidator(const wxValidator& validator);
+ void SetAutoLayout(bool autoLayout);
+
+ //@}
+
+
+ /**
+ @name Mouse functions
+ */
//@{
+
/**
- Sets the virtual size of the window in pixels.
+ Directs all mouse input to this window.
+ Call ReleaseMouse() to release the capture.
+
+ Note that wxWidgets maintains the stack of windows having captured the mouse
+ and when the mouse is released the capture returns to the window which had had
+ captured it previously and it is only really released if there were no previous
+ window. In particular, this means that you must release the mouse as many times
+ as you capture it, unless the window receives the wxMouseCaptureLostEvent event.
+
+ Any application which captures the mouse in the beginning of some operation
+ must handle wxMouseCaptureLostEvent and cancel this operation when it receives
+ the event. The event handler must not recapture mouse.
+
+ @see ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent
*/
- void SetVirtualSize(int width, int height);
- void SetVirtualSize(const wxSize& size);
+ void CaptureMouse();
+
+ /**
+ Returns the caret() associated with the window.
+ */
+ wxCaret* GetCaret() const;
+
+ /**
+ Return the cursor associated with this window.
+
+ @see SetCursor()
+ */
+ const wxCursor& GetCursor() const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if this window has the current mouse capture.
+
+ @see CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(), wxMouseCaptureLostEvent,
+ wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+ */
+ virtual bool HasCapture() const;
+
+ /**
+ Releases mouse input captured with CaptureMouse().
+
+ @see CaptureMouse(), HasCapture(), ReleaseMouse(),
+ wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+ */
+ void ReleaseMouse();
+
+ /**
+ Sets the caret() associated with the window.
+ */
+ void SetCaret(wxCaret* caret);
+
+ /**
+ Sets the window's cursor. Notice that the window cursor also sets it for the
+ children of the window implicitly.
+
+ The @a cursor may be @c wxNullCursor in which case the window cursor will
+ be reset back to default.
+
+ @param cursor
+ Specifies the cursor that the window should normally display.
+
+ @see ::wxSetCursor, wxCursor
+ */
+ virtual bool SetCursor(const wxCursor& cursor);
+
+ /**
+ Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
+
+ @note This function is not supported under Mac because Apple Human
+ Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor programmatically.
+
+ @param x
+ The new x position for the cursor.
+ @param y
+ The new y position for the cursor.
+ */
+ virtual void WarpPointer(int x, int y);
+
//@}
+
+
+
/**
- Identical to SetWindowStyleFlag().
+ @name Miscellaneous functions
*/
- void SetWindowStyle(long style);
+ //@{
/**
- Sets the style of the window. Please note that some styles cannot be changed
- after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be be called
- after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.
+ Does the window-specific updating after processing the update event.
+ This function is called by UpdateWindowUI() in order to check return
+ values in the wxUpdateUIEvent and act appropriately.
+ For example, to allow frame and dialog title updating, wxWidgets
+ implements this function as follows:
- See @ref overview_windowstyles "Window styles" for more information about flags.
+ @code
+ // do the window-specific processing after processing the update event
+ void wxTopLevelWindowBase::DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event)
+ {
+ if ( event.GetSetEnabled() )
+ Enable(event.GetEnabled());
+
+ if ( event.GetSetText() )
+ {
+ if ( event.GetText() != GetTitle() )
+ SetTitle(event.GetText());
+ }
+ }
+ @endcode
+ */
+ virtual void DoUpdateWindowUI(wxUpdateUIEvent& event);
+
+ /**
+ Returns the platform-specific handle of the physical window.
+ Cast it to an appropriate handle, such as @b HWND for Windows,
+ @b Widget for Motif, @b GtkWidget for GTK or @b WinHandle for PalmOS.
+ */
+ virtual WXWidget GetHandle() const;
+
+ /**
+ This method should be overridden to return @true if this window has
+ multiple pages. All standard class with multiple pages such as
+ wxNotebook, wxListbook and wxTreebook already override it to return @true
+ and user-defined classes with similar behaviour should do it as well to
+ allow the library to handle such windows appropriately.
+ */
+ virtual bool HasMultiplePages() const;
+
+ /**
+ This function is (or should be, in case of custom controls) called during
+ window creation to intelligently set up the window visual attributes, that is
+ the font and the foreground and background colours.
+
+ By "intelligently" the following is meant: by default, all windows use their
+ own @ref GetClassDefaultAttributes() default attributes.
+ However if some of the parents attributes are explicitly (that is, using
+ SetFont() and not wxWindow::SetOwnFont) changed and if the corresponding
+ attribute hadn't been explicitly set for this window itself, then this
+ window takes the same value as used by the parent.
+ In addition, if the window overrides ShouldInheritColours() to return @false,
+ the colours will not be changed no matter what and only the font might.
+
+ This rather complicated logic is necessary in order to accommodate the
+ different usage scenarios. The most common one is when all default attributes
+ are used and in this case, nothing should be inherited as in modern GUIs
+ different controls use different fonts (and colours) than their siblings so
+ they can't inherit the same value from the parent. However it was also deemed
+ desirable to allow to simply change the attributes of all children at once by
+ just changing the font or colour of their common parent, hence in this case we
+ do inherit the parents attributes.
+ */
+ virtual void InheritAttributes();
+
+ /**
+ Sends an @c wxEVT_INIT_DIALOG event, whose handler usually transfers data
+ to the dialog via validators.
+ */
+ virtual void InitDialog();
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the window contents is double-buffered by the system, i.e. if
+ any drawing done on the window is really done on a temporary backing surface
+ and transferred to the screen all at once later.
+
+ @see wxBufferedDC
+ */
+ virtual bool IsDoubleBuffered() const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the window is retained, @false otherwise.
+
+ @remarks Retained windows are only available on X platforms.
+ */
+ virtual bool IsRetained() const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if this window is intrinsically enabled, @false otherwise,
+ i.e. if @ref Enable() Enable(@false) had been called. This method is
+ mostly used for wxWidgets itself, user code should normally use
+ IsEnabled() instead.
+ */
+ bool IsThisEnabled() const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the given window is a top-level one. Currently all frames and
+ dialogs are considered to be top-level windows (even if they have a parent
+ window).
+ */
+ virtual bool IsTopLevel() const;
+
+ /**
+ Disables all other windows in the application so that
+ the user can only interact with this window.
+
+ @param modal
+ If @true, this call disables all other windows in the application so that
+ the user can only interact with this window. If @false, the effect is
+ reversed.
+ */
+ virtual void MakeModal(bool modal = true);
+
+ /**
+ This virtual function is normally only used internally, but
+ sometimes an application may need it to implement functionality
+ that should not be disabled by an application defining an OnIdle
+ handler in a derived class.
+
+ This function may be used to do delayed painting, for example,
+ and most implementations call UpdateWindowUI()
+ in order to send update events to the window in idle time.
+ */
+ virtual void OnInternalIdle();
+
+ /**
+ Registers a system wide hotkey. Every time the user presses the hotkey
+ registered here, this window will receive a hotkey event.
+
+ It will receive the event even if the application is in the background
+ and does not have the input focus because the user is working with some
+ other application.
+
+ @param hotkeyId
+ Numeric identifier of the hotkey. For applications this must be between 0
+ and 0xBFFF. If this function is called from a shared DLL, it must be a
+ system wide unique identifier between 0xC000 and 0xFFFF.
+ This is a MSW specific detail.
+ @param modifiers
+ A bitwise combination of wxMOD_SHIFT, wxMOD_CONTROL, wxMOD_ALT
+ or wxMOD_WIN specifying the modifier keys that have to be pressed along
+ with the key.
+ @param virtualKeyCode
+ The virtual key code of the hotkey.
+
+ @return @true if the hotkey was registered successfully. @false if some
+ other application already registered a hotkey with this
+ modifier/virtualKeyCode combination.
+
+ @remarks Use EVT_HOTKEY(hotkeyId, fnc) in the event table to capture the
+ event. This function is currently only implemented
+ under Windows. It is used in the Windows CE port for
+ detecting hardware button presses.
+
+ @see UnregisterHotKey()
+ */
+ virtual bool RegisterHotKey(int hotkeyId, int modifiers,
+ int virtualKeyCode);
+
+ /**
+ Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
+
+ @param hotkeyId
+ Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
+ RegisterHotKey().
+
+ @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
+ id was invalid.
+
+ @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
- @see GetWindowStyleFlag()
+ @see RegisterHotKey()
*/
- virtual void SetWindowStyleFlag(long style);
+ virtual bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId);
/**
- This function can be called under all platforms but only does anything under
- Mac OS X 10.3+ currently. Under this system, each of the standard control can
- exist in several sizes which correspond to the elements of wxWindowVariant enum.
+ This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
+ The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
+ wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
+ and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
- By default the controls use the normal size, of course, but this function can
- be used to change this.
- */
- void SetWindowVariant(wxWindowVariant variant);
+ You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
+ UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
+ are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
+ wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode() or wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval() to limit
+ the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle time.
+ @a flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the ::wxUpdateUI enumeration.
- /**
- Return @true from here to allow the colours of this window to be changed by
- InheritAttributes(), returning @false forbids inheriting them from the parent window.
+ If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
+ function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
+ this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
+ to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
+ only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
+ The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
+ an idle function.
- The base class version returns @false, but this method is overridden in
- wxControl where it returns @true.
+ @code
+ void MyWindow::OnInternalIdle()
+ {
+ if (wxUpdateUIEvent::CanUpdate(this))
+ UpdateWindowUI(wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE);
+ }
+ @endcode
+
+ @see wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
*/
- virtual bool ShouldInheritColours();
+ virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags = wxUPDATE_UI_NONE);
- /**
- Shows or hides the window. You may need to call Raise()
- for a top level window if you want to bring it to top, although this is not
- needed if Show() is called immediately after the frame creation.
+ //@}
- @param show
- If @true displays the window. Otherwise, hides it.
- @return @true if the window has been shown or hidden or @false if nothing
- was done because it already was in the requested state.
+ // NOTE: static functions must have their own group or Doxygen will screw
+ // up the ordering of the member groups
- @see IsShown(), Hide(), wxRadioBox::Show, wxShowEvent.
+ /**
+ @name Miscellaneous static functions
*/
- virtual bool Show(bool show = true);
+ //@{
/**
- This function shows a window, like Show(), but using a special visual
- effect if possible.
+ Returns the default font and colours which are used by the control.
- @param effect
- The effect to use.
+ This is useful if you want to use the same font or colour in your own control
+ as in a standard control -- which is a much better idea than hard coding specific
+ colours or fonts which might look completely out of place on the users
+ system, especially if it uses themes.
- @param timeout
- The @a timeout parameter specifies the time of the animation, in
- milliseconds. If the default value of 0 is used, the default
- animation time for the current platform is used.
+ The @a variant parameter is only relevant under Mac currently and is
+ ignore under other platforms. Under Mac, it will change the size of the
+ returned font. See SetWindowVariant() for more about this.
- @note Currently this function is only implemented in wxMSW and does the
- same thing as Show() in the other ports.
+ This static method is "overridden" in many derived classes and so calling,
+ for example, wxButton::GetClassDefaultAttributes() will typically
+ return the values appropriate for a button which will be normally different
+ from those returned by, say, wxListCtrl::GetClassDefaultAttributes().
- @since 2.9.0
+ The @c wxVisualAttributes structure has at least the fields
+ @c font, @c colFg and @c colBg. All of them may be invalid
+ if it was not possible to determine the default control appearance or,
+ especially for the background colour, if the field doesn't make sense as is
+ the case for @c colBg for the controls with themed background.
- @see HideWithEffect()
+ @see InheritAttributes()
*/
- virtual bool ShowWithEffect(wxShowEffect effect,
- unsigned timeout = 0);
+ static wxVisualAttributes GetClassDefaultAttributes(wxWindowVariant variant = wxWINDOW_VARIANT_NORMAL);
/**
- Reenables window updating after a previous call to Freeze().
-
- To really thaw the control, it must be called exactly the same number
- of times as Freeze().
+ Finds the window or control which currently has the keyboard focus.
- If the window has any children, they are recursively thawn too.
+ @remarks Note that this is a static function, so it can be called without
+ needing a wxWindow pointer.
- @see wxWindowUpdateLocker, Freeze(), IsFrozen()
+ @see SetFocus(), HasFocus()
*/
- virtual void Thaw();
+ static wxWindow* FindFocus();
/**
- Turns the given @a flag on if it's currently turned off and vice versa.
- This function cannot be used if the value of the flag is 0 (which is often
- the case for default flags).
-
- Also, please notice that not all styles can be changed after the control
- creation.
+ Find the first window with the given @e id.
- @return Returns @true if the style was turned on by this function, @false
- if it was switched off.
+ If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
+ and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
+ window hierarchy.
+ The search is recursive in both cases.
- @see SetWindowStyleFlag(), HasFlag()
+ @see FindWindow()
*/
- bool ToggleWindowStyle(int flag);
+ static wxWindow* FindWindowById(long id, const wxWindow* parent = 0);
/**
- Transfers values from child controls to data areas specified by their
- validators. Returns @false if a transfer failed.
+ Find a window by its label.
- If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
- the method will also call TransferDataFromWindow() of all child windows.
+ Depending on the type of window, the label may be a window title
+ or panel item label. If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all
+ top-level frames and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be
+ limited to the given window hierarchy.
+ The search is recursive in both cases.
- @see TransferDataToWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
+ @see FindWindow()
*/
- virtual bool TransferDataFromWindow();
+ static wxWindow* FindWindowByLabel(const wxString& label,
+ const wxWindow* parent = 0);
/**
- Transfers values to child controls from data areas specified by their
- validators.
+ Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or Create()
+ function call).
- If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
- the method will also call TransferDataToWindow() of all child windows.
+ If @a parent is @NULL, the search will start from all top-level frames
+ and dialog boxes; if non-@NULL, the search will be limited to the given
+ window hierarchy.
- @return Returns @false if a transfer failed.
+ The search is recursive in both cases. If no window with such name is found,
+ FindWindowByLabel() is called.
- @see TransferDataFromWindow(), wxValidator, Validate()
+ @see FindWindow()
*/
- virtual bool TransferDataToWindow();
+ static wxWindow* FindWindowByName(const wxString& name,
+ const wxWindow* parent = 0);
/**
- Unregisters a system wide hotkey.
+ Returns the currently captured window.
- @param hotkeyId
- Numeric identifier of the hotkey. Must be the same id that was passed to
- RegisterHotKey().
+ @see HasCapture(), CaptureMouse(), ReleaseMouse(),
+ wxMouseCaptureLostEvent, wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+ */
+ static wxWindow* GetCapture();
- @return @true if the hotkey was unregistered successfully, @false if the
- id was invalid.
+ /**
+ Create a new ID or range of IDs that are not currently in use.
+ The IDs will be reserved until assigned to a wxWindow ID
+ or unreserved with UnreserveControlId().
- @remarks This function is currently only implemented under MSW.
+ See @ref overview_windowids for more information.
- @see RegisterHotKey()
+ @param count
+ The number of sequential IDs to reserve.
+
+ @return Returns the ID or the first ID of the range, or wxID_NONE if the
+ specified number of identifiers couldn't be allocated.
+
+ @see UnreserveControlId(), wxIdManager,
+ @ref overview_windowids
*/
- bool UnregisterHotKey(int hotkeyId);
+ static wxWindowID NewControlId(int count = 1);
/**
Unreserve an ID or range of IDs that was reserved by NewControlId().
*/
static void UnreserveControlId(wxWindowID id, int count = 1);
- /**
- Unset any existing tooltip.
-
- @since 2.9.0
+ //@}
- @see SetToolTip()
- */
- void UnsetToolTip();
- /**
- Calling this method immediately repaints the invalidated area of the window and
- all of its children recursively while this would usually only happen when the
- flow of control returns to the event loop.
- Notice that this function doesn't invalidate any area of the window so
- nothing happens if nothing has been invalidated (i.e. marked as requiring
- a redraw). Use Refresh() first if you want to immediately redraw the
- window unconditionally.
- */
- virtual void Update();
+protected:
/**
- This function sends one or more wxUpdateUIEvent to the window.
- The particular implementation depends on the window; for example a
- wxToolBar will send an update UI event for each toolbar button,
- and a wxFrame will send an update UI event for each menubar menu item.
+ Gets the size which best suits the window: for a control, it would be
+ the minimal size which doesn't truncate the control, for a panel - the
+ same size as it would have after a call to Fit().
- You can call this function from your application to ensure that your
- UI is up-to-date at this point (as far as your wxUpdateUIEvent handlers
- are concerned). This may be necessary if you have called
- wxUpdateUIEvent::SetMode() or wxUpdateUIEvent::SetUpdateInterval() to limit
- the overhead that wxWidgets incurs by sending update UI events in idle time.
- @a flags should be a bitlist of one or more of the wxUpdateUI enumeration.
+ The default implementation of this function is designed for use in container
+ windows, such as wxPanel, and works something like this:
+ -# If the window has a sizer then it is used to calculate the best size.
+ -# Otherwise if the window has layout constraints then those are used to
+ calculate the best size.
+ -# Otherwise if the window has children then the best size is set to be large
+ enough to show all the children.
+ -# Otherwise if there are no children then the window's minimal size will be
+ used as its best size.
+ -# Otherwise if there is no minimal size set, then the current size is used
+ for the best size.
- If you are calling this function from an OnInternalIdle or OnIdle
- function, make sure you pass the wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE flag, since
- this tells the window to only update the UI elements that need
- to be updated in idle time. Some windows update their elements
- only when necessary, for example when a menu is about to be shown.
- The following is an example of how to call UpdateWindowUI from
- an idle function.
+ @see @ref overview_windowsizing
+ */
+ virtual wxSize DoGetBestSize() const;
- @code
- void MyWindow::OnInternalIdle()
- {
- if (wxUpdateUIEvent::CanUpdate(this))
- UpdateWindowUI(wxUPDATE_UI_FROMIDLE);
- }
- @endcode
- @see wxUpdateUIEvent, DoUpdateWindowUI(), OnInternalIdle()
+ /**
+ Sets the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
+ components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is wxDefaultCoord).
+ @deprecated @todo provide deprecation description
*/
- virtual void UpdateWindowUI(long flags = wxUPDATE_UI_NONE);
+ virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize& size);
/**
- Validates the current values of the child controls using their validators.
- If the window has @c wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY extra style flag set,
- the method will also call Validate() of all child windows.
+ Generate wxWindowDestroyEvent for this window.
- @return Returns @false if any of the validations failed.
-
- @see TransferDataFromWindow(), TransferDataToWindow(),
- wxValidator
- */
- virtual bool Validate();
+ This is called by the window itself when it is being destroyed and
+ usually there is no need to call it but see wxWindowDestroyEvent for
+ explanations of when you might want to do it.
+ */
+ void SendDestroyEvent();
/**
- Moves the pointer to the given position on the window.
+ This function is public in wxEvtHandler but protected in wxWindow
+ because for wxWindows you should always call ProcessEvent() on the
+ pointer returned by GetEventHandler() and not on the wxWindow object
+ itself.
- @note This function is not supported under Mac because Apple Human
- Interface Guidelines forbid moving the mouse cursor programmatically.
+ For convenience, a ProcessWindowEvent() method is provided as a synonym
+ for @code GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent() @endcode.
- @param x
- The new x position for the cursor.
- @param y
- The new y position for the cursor.
+ Note that it's still possible to call these functions directly on the
+ wxWindow object (e.g. casting it to wxEvtHandler) but doing that will
+ create subtle bugs when windows with event handlers pushed on them are
+ involved.
+
+ This holds also for all other wxEvtHandler functions.
+ */
+ virtual bool ProcessEvent(wxEvent& event);
+
+ //@{
+ /**
+ See ProcessEvent() for more info about why you shouldn't use this function
+ and the reason for making this function protected in wxWindow.
*/
- void WarpPointer(int x, int y);
+ bool SafelyProcessEvent(wxEvent& event);
+ virtual void QueueEvent(wxEvent *event);
+ virtual void AddPendingEvent(const wxEvent& event);
+ void ProcessPendingEvents();
+ bool ProcessThreadEvent(const wxEvent& event);
+ //@}
};
// Global functions/macros
// ============================================================================
-/** @ingroup group_funcmacro_misc */
+/** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_misc */
//@{
/**
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