// initialization (doing it here and not in the ctor allows to have an error
// return: if OnInit() returns false, the application terminates)
virtual bool OnInit();
+
+ // do some clean up here
+ virtual int OnExit();
};
// Define a new frame type: this is going to be our main frame
void OnAdvancedHtmlHelp(wxCommandEvent& event);
void OnMSHtmlHelp(wxCommandEvent& event);
- void OnContextHelp(wxHelpEvent& event);
void OnShowContextHelp(wxCommandEvent& event);
+ void OnShowDialogContextHelp(wxCommandEvent& event);
void ShowHelp(int commandId, wxHelpControllerBase& helpController);
DECLARE_EVENT_TABLE()
};
+// A custom modal dialog
+class MyModalDialog : public wxDialog
+{
+public:
+ MyModalDialog(wxWindow *parent);
+
+private:
+
+ DECLARE_EVENT_TABLE()
+};
+
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// constants
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
enum
{
// menu items
- HelpDemo_Quit = 1,
+ HelpDemo_Quit = 100,
HelpDemo_Help_Index,
HelpDemo_Help_Classes,
HelpDemo_Help_Functions,
HelpDemo_Help_Help,
HelpDemo_Help_Search,
HelpDemo_Help_ContextHelp,
+ HelpDemo_Help_DialogContextHelp,
HelpDemo_Html_Help_Index,
HelpDemo_Html_Help_Classes,
EVT_MENU(HelpDemo_Help_Help, MyFrame::OnHelp)
EVT_MENU(HelpDemo_Help_Search, MyFrame::OnHelp)
EVT_MENU(HelpDemo_Help_ContextHelp, MyFrame::OnShowContextHelp)
-
- EVT_HELP(-1, MyFrame::OnContextHelp)
+ EVT_MENU(HelpDemo_Help_DialogContextHelp, MyFrame::OnShowDialogContextHelp)
EVT_MENU(HelpDemo_Html_Help_Index, MyFrame::OnHtmlHelp)
EVT_MENU(HelpDemo_Html_Help_Classes, MyFrame::OnHtmlHelp)
// `Main program' equivalent: the program execution "starts" here
bool MyApp::OnInit()
{
+ // Create a simple help provider to make SetHelpText() do something.
+ // Note that this must be set before any SetHelpText() calls are made.
+ //wxHelpProvider::Set(new wxSimpleHelpProvider);
+ wxHelpControllerHelpProvider* provider = new wxHelpControllerHelpProvider;
+ wxHelpProvider::Set(provider);
+
#if wxUSE_HTML
#if wxUSE_GIF
// Required for images in the online documentation
MyFrame *frame = new MyFrame("HelpDemo wxWindows App",
wxPoint(50, 50), wxSize(450, 340));
+#if wxUSE_MS_HTML_HELP
+ provider->SetHelpController(& frame->GetMSHtmlHelpController());
+#else
+ provider->SetHelpController(& frame->GetHelpController());
+#endif
+
frame->Show(TRUE);
SetTopWindow(frame);
}
#endif
-#if wxUSE_MS_HTML_HELP
- if ( !frame->GetMSHtmlHelpController().Initialize("doc") )
+#if defined(__WXMSW__) && wxUSE_MS_HTML_HELP
+ wxString path(wxGetCwd());
+ if ( !frame->GetMSHtmlHelpController().Initialize(path + "\\doc.chm") )
{
wxLogError("Cannot initialize the MS HTML help system, aborting.");
return TRUE;
}
+int MyApp::OnExit()
+{
+ // clean up
+ delete wxHelpProvider::Set(NULL);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// main frame
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// frame constructor
MyFrame::MyFrame(const wxString& title, const wxPoint& pos, const wxSize& size)
- : wxFrame((wxFrame *)NULL, -1, title, pos, size)
+ : wxFrame((wxFrame *)NULL, 300, title, pos, size)
{
// set the frame icon
SetIcon(wxICON(mondrian));
menuFile->Append(HelpDemo_Help_Classes, "&Help on Classes...");
menuFile->Append(HelpDemo_Help_Functions, "&Help on Functions...");
menuFile->Append(HelpDemo_Help_ContextHelp, "&Context Help...");
+ menuFile->Append(HelpDemo_Help_DialogContextHelp, "&Dialog Context Help...\tCtrl-H");
menuFile->Append(HelpDemo_Help_Help, "&About Help Demo...");
menuFile->Append(HelpDemo_Help_Search, "&Search help...");
#if USE_HTML_HELP
// a panel first - if there were several controls, it would allow us to
// navigate between them from the keyboard
- wxPanel *panel = new wxPanel(this, -1, wxPoint(0, 0), wxSize(400, 200));
+ wxPanel *panel = new wxPanel(this, 301, wxPoint(0, 0), wxSize(400, 200));
+ //panel->SetHelpText(_("This panel just holds a static text control."));
+ panel->SetHelpText(wxContextId(300));
// and a static control whose parent is the panel
- (void)new wxStaticText(panel, -1, "Hello, world!", wxPoint(10, 10));
+ wxStaticText* staticText = new wxStaticText(panel, 302, "Hello, world!", wxPoint(10, 10));
+ staticText->SetHelpText(_("This static text control isn't doing a lot right now."));
}
wxContextHelp contextHelp(this);
}
-void MyFrame::OnContextHelp(wxHelpEvent& event)
+void MyFrame::OnShowDialogContextHelp(wxCommandEvent& event)
{
- // In a real app, if we didn't recognise this ID, we should call event.Skip()
- wxString msg;
- msg.Printf(wxT("We should now display help for window %d"), event.GetId());
- wxMessageBox(msg);
- //wxToolTip::Enable(TRUE);
- //SetToolTip(msg);
+ MyModalDialog dialog(this);
+ dialog.ShowModal();
}
void MyFrame::OnHtmlHelp(wxCommandEvent& event)
case HelpDemo_Help_Netscape:
helpController.SetViewer("netscape", wxHELP_NETSCAPE);
break;
-
default:
break;
}
}
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// MyModalDialog
+// Demonstrates context-sensitive help
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE(MyModalDialog, wxDialog)
+END_EVENT_TABLE()
+
+MyModalDialog::MyModalDialog(wxWindow *parent)
+ : wxDialog()
+{
+ // Add the context-sensitive help button on the caption for MSW
+#ifdef __WXMSW__
+ SetExtraStyle(wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP);
+#endif
+
+ wxDialog::Create(parent, -1, wxString("Modal dialog"));
+
+ wxBoxSizer *sizerTop = new wxBoxSizer(wxVERTICAL);
+ wxBoxSizer *sizerRow = new wxBoxSizer(wxHORIZONTAL);
+
+ wxButton* btnOK = new wxButton(this, wxID_OK, "&OK");
+ btnOK->SetHelpText(_("The OK button confirms the dialog choices."));
+
+ wxButton* btnCancel = new wxButton(this, wxID_CANCEL, "&Cancel");
+ btnCancel->SetHelpText(_("The Cancel button cancels the dialog."));
+
+ sizerRow->Add(btnOK, 0, wxALIGN_CENTER | wxALL, 5);
+ sizerRow->Add(btnCancel, 0, wxALIGN_CENTER | wxALL, 5);
+
+ // Add explicit context-sensitive help button for non-MSW
+#ifndef __WXMSW__
+ sizerRow->Add(new wxContextHelpButton(this), 0, wxALIGN_CENTER | wxALL, 5);
+#endif
+
+ wxTextCtrl *text = new wxTextCtrl(this, -1, wxT("A demo text control"),
+ wxDefaultPosition, wxSize(300, 100),
+ wxTE_MULTILINE);
+ text->SetHelpText(_("Type text here if you have got nothing more "
+ "interesting to do"));
+ sizerTop->Add(text, 0, wxEXPAND|wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL|wxALL, 5 );
+ sizerTop->Add(sizerRow, 0, wxALIGN_RIGHT|wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL|wxALL, 5 );
+
+ SetAutoLayout(TRUE);
+ SetSizer(sizerTop);
+
+ sizerTop->SetSizeHints(this);
+ sizerTop->Fit(this);
+
+ btnOK->SetFocus();
+ btnOK->SetDefault();
+}
+