-\section{Run time class information overview}\label{runtimeclassoverview}
+\section{Runtime class information (aka RTTI) overview}\label{runtimeclassoverview}
Classes: \helpref{wxObject}{wxobject}, \helpref{wxClassInfo}{wxclassinfo}.
storage hard to implement.
Most C++ GUI frameworks overcome these limitations by means of a set of
-macros and functions and wxWindows is no exception. As it originated before the
-addition of RTTI to the standard C++ and as support for it still missing from
-some (albeit old) compilers, wxWindows doesn't (yet) use it, but provides its
+macros and functions and wxWidgets is no exception. As it originated before the
+addition of RTTI to the C++ standard and as support for it is still missing from
+some (albeit old) compilers, wxWidgets doesn't (yet) use it, but provides its
own macro-based RTTI system.
In the future, the standard C++ RTTI will be used though and you're encouraged
-to use whenever possible \helpref{wxDynamicCast()}{wxdynamiccast} macro which,
+to use whenever possible the \helpref{wxDynamicCast()}{wxdynamiccast} macro which,
for the implementations that support it, is defined just as dynamic\_cast<> and
-uses wxWindows RTTI for all the others. This macro is limited to wxWindows
+uses wxWidgets RTTI for all the others. This macro is limited to wxWidgets
classes only and only works with pointers (unlike the real dynamic\_cast<> which
also accepts references).
-Each class that you wish to be known the type system should have
+Each class that you wish to be known to the type system should have
a macro such as DECLARE\_DYNAMIC\_CLASS just inside the class declaration.
The macro IMPLEMENT\_DYNAMIC\_CLASS should be in the implementation file.
Note that these are entirely optional; use them if you wish to check object
The function \helpref{wxCreateDynamicObject}{wxcreatedynamicobject} can be used
to construct a new object of a given type, by supplying a string name.
If you have a pointer to the wxClassInfo object instead, then you
-can simply call wxClassInfo::CreateObject.
+can simply call \helpref{wxClassInfo::CreateObject}{wxclassinfocreateobject}.
\subsection{wxClassInfo}\label{wxclassinfooverview}
-\overview{Run time class information overview}{runtimeclassoverview}
+\overview{Runtime class information (aka RTTI) overview}{runtimeclassoverview}
Class: \helpref{wxClassInfo}{wxclassinfo}
See also \helpref{wxObject}{wxobject} and \helpref{wxCreateDynamicObject}{wxcreatedynamicobject}.
-\subsection{Example}
+\subsection{Example}\label{runtimeclassinformationexample}
In a header file frame.h: