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

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex b/docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex
index ff7ecc856fb41145b030ad5eff5d5e375af627da..351eca9624aa6462035feea969616ecf58cef963 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/textfile.tex
@@ -176,9 +176,11 @@ Returns TRUE if the current line is the last one.
 \constfunc{static const char*}{GetEOL}{\param{wxTextFileType }{type = typeDefault}}
 
 Get the line termination string corresponding to given constant. {\it typeDefault} is
-the value defined during the compilation and corresponds to the native format of the
-platform, i.e. it will be wxTextFileType\_Dos under Windows, wxTextFileType\_Unix under
-Unix and wxTextFileType\_Mac under Mac.
+the value defined during the compilation and corresponds to the native format
+of the platform, i.e. it will be wxTextFileType\_Dos under Windows,
+wxTextFileType\_Unix under Unix (including Mac OS X when compiling with the
+Apple Developer Tools) and wxTextFileType\_Mac under Mac OS (including
+Mac OS X when compiling with CodeWarrior).
 
 \membersection{wxTextFile::GetFirstLine}\label{wxtextfilegetfirstline}
 
@@ -189,10 +191,13 @@ allows more "iterator-like" traversal of the list of lines, i.e. you may
 write something like:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
-for ( str = GetFirstLine(); !Eof(); str = GetNextLine() )
+wxTextFile file;
+...
+for ( str = file.GetFirstLine(); !file.Eof(); str = file.GetNextLine() )
 {
     // do something with the current line in str
 }
+// do something with the last line in str
 \end{verbatim}
 
 \membersection{wxTextFile::GetNextLine}\label{wxtextfilegetnextline}
@@ -212,7 +217,21 @@ Gets the previous line in the file.
 
 \func{wxString\&}{GetLastLine}{\void}
 
-Gets the last line of the file.
+Gets the last line of the file. Together with 
+\helpref{GetPrevLine}{wxtextfilegetprevline} it allows to enumerate the lines
+in the file from the end to the beginning like this:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+wxTextFile file;
+...
+for ( str = file.GetLastLine();
+      file.GetCurrentLine() > 0;
+      str = file.GetPrevLine() )
+{
+    // do something with the current line in str
+}
+// do something with the first line in str
+\end{verbatim}
 
 \membersection{wxTextFile::GetLineType}\label{wxtextfilegetlinetype}
 
@@ -242,15 +261,18 @@ Insert a line before the line number {\it n}.
 
 \membersection{wxTextFile::Open}\label{wxtextfileopen}
 
-\constfunc{bool}{Open}{\void}
+\constfunc{bool}{Open}{\param{wxMBConv&}{ conv = wxConvLibc}}
 
-\constfunc{bool}{Open}{\param{const wxString\& }{strFile}}
+\constfunc{bool}{Open}{\param{const wxString\& }{strFile}, \param{wxMBConv&}{ conv = wxConvLibc}}
 
 Open() opens the file with the given name or the name which was given in the
 \helpref{constructor}{wxtextfilector} and also loads file in memory on
 success. It will fail if the file does not exist, 
 \helpref{Create}{wxtextfilecreate} should be used in this case.
 
+The {\it conv} argument is only meaningful in Unicode build of wxWindows when
+it is used to convert the file to wide character representation.
+
 \membersection{wxTextFile::RemoveLine}\label{wxtextfileremoveline}
 
 \constfunc{void}{RemoveLine}{\param{size\_t }{n}}
@@ -259,11 +281,15 @@ Delete line number {\it n} from the file.
 
 \membersection{wxTextFile::Write}\label{wxtextfilewrite}
 
-\constfunc{bool}{Write}{\param{wxTextFileType }{typeNew = wxTextFileType\_None}}
+\constfunc{bool}{Write}{\param{wxTextFileType }{typeNew = wxTextFileType\_None}, \param{wxMBConv&}{ conv = wxConvLibc}}
 
 Change the file on disk. The {\it typeNew} parameter allows you to change the
 file format (default argument means "don't change type") and may be used to
 convert, for example, DOS files to Unix.
 
+The {\it conv} argument is only meaningful in Unicode build of wxWindows when
+it is used to convert all lines to multibyte representation before writing them
+them to physical file.
+
 Returns TRUE if operation succeeded, FALSE if it failed.