Applied patch [ 827011 ] Event-based processing of item tooltips in wxTreeCtrl

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / latex / wx / tstring.tex

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex
index b40d241257de368b36f6d58bb193c21640ba6d2e..7449e617e271bf8bd88f1423ef558cb5e2624853 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@ Classes: \helpref{wxString}{wxstring}, \helpref{wxArrayString}{wxarraystring}, \
 
 wxString is a class which represents a character string of arbitrary length (limited by 
 {\it MAX\_INT} which is usually 2147483647 on 32 bit machines) and containing
-arbitrary characters. The ASCII NUL character is allowed, although care should be
-taken when passing strings containing it to other functions.
+arbitrary characters. The ASCII NUL character is allowed, but be aware that
+in the current string implementation some methods might not work correctly
+in this case.
 
-wxString works with both ASCII (8 bit characters) as well as UNICODE (16 but
-characters) strings.
+wxString works with both ASCII (traditional, 7 or 8 bit, characters) as well as
+Unicode (wide characters) strings.
 
 This class has all the standard operations you can expect to find in a string class:
 dynamic memory management (string extends to accommodate new characters),
@@ -48,9 +49,10 @@ very useful but don't exist in most of other string classes: for example,
 \helpref{BeforeLast}{wxstringbeforelast}, \helpref{operator<<}{wxstringoperatorout} 
 or \helpref{Printf}{wxstringprintf}. Of course, all the standard string
 operations are supported as well.
-\item {\bf UNICODE} In this release, wxString only supports {\it construction} from
-a UNICODE string, but in the next one it will be capable of also storing its
-internal data in either ASCII or UNICODE format.
+\item {\bf Unicode} wxString is Unicode friendly: it allows to easily convert
+to and from ANSI and Unicode strings in any build mode (see the 
+\helpref{Unicode overview}{unicode} for more details) and maps to either
+{\tt string} or {\tt wstring} transparently depending on the current mode.
 \item {\bf Used by wxWindows} And, of course, this class is used everywhere
 inside wxWindows so there is no performance loss which would result from
 conversions of objects of any other string class (including std::string) to
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ to them will probably lead to program crash). Moreover, some very useful
 functions are not standard at all. This is why in addition to all wxString
 functions, there are also a few global string functions which try to correct
 these problems: \helpref{wxIsEmpty()}{wxisempty} verifies whether the string
-is empty (returning {\tt TRUE} for {\tt NULL} pointers), 
+is empty (returning {\tt true} for {\tt NULL} pointers), 
 \helpref{wxStrlen()}{wxstrlen} also handles NULLs correctly and returns 0 for
 them and \helpref{wxStricmp()}{wxstricmp} is just a platform-independent
 version of case-insensitive string comparison function known either as