X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/14aea4f9bdd555927e763fb6cd4c86eb0f85ea50..559b61bf8c4109ac0d7d3eddc4604937f2934a81:/docs/latex/wx/cppconst.tex?ds=sidebyside

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/cppconst.tex b/docs/latex/wx/cppconst.tex
index 04ae14f236..4af9a323a3 100644
--- a/docs/latex/wx/cppconst.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/cppconst.tex
@@ -7,14 +7,17 @@ by category (and sorted by alphabetical order inside each category).
 
 \begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
 \twocolitem{\_\_WINDOWS\_\_}{any Windows, yom may also use \_\_WXMSW\_\_}
-\twocolitem{\_\_WIN16\_\_}{Win16 API}
+\twocolitem{\_\_WIN16\_\_}{Win16 API (not supported since wxWindows 2.6)}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WIN32\_\_}{Win32 API}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WIN95\_\_}{Windows 95 or NT 4.0 and above system (not NT 3.5x)}
+\twocolitem{\_\_WXBASE\_\_}{Only wxBase, no GUI features}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WXGTK\_\_}{GTK}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WXGTK12\_\_}{GTK 1.2 or higher}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WXGTK20\_\_}{GTK 2.0 or higher}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WXMOTIF\_\_}{Motif}
-\twocolitem{\_\_WXMAC\_\_}{MacOS}
+\twocolitem{\_\_WXMOTIF20\_\_}{Motif 2.0 or higher}
+\twocolitem{\_\_WXMAC\_\_}{Mac OS whether Classic (Mac OS 8/9 TARGET\_CARBON
+== 0) or Carbon (including Mac OS X TARGET\_CARBON == 1)}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WXMGL\_\_}{SciTech Soft MGL (\_\_WXUNIVERSAL\_\_ will be also
 defined)}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WXMSW\_\_}{Any Windows}
@@ -30,9 +33,8 @@ to one of the symbols above so this should be tested first.}
 \twocolitem{\_\_X\_\_}{any X11-based GUI toolkit except GTK+}
 \end{twocollist}
 
-In fact, they should better all start with \_\_WX instead of \_\_ only. The
-only GUIs implemented for 2.0 are \_\_WXGTK\_\_, \_\_WXMSW\_\_ and
-\_\_WXMOTIF\_\_ yet. Any new ones, please start the define with \_\_WX.
+In fact, they should better all start with \_\_WX instead of \_\_ only,
+so please start any new defines with \_\_WX.
 
 \subsection{Operating systems}
 
@@ -41,12 +43,14 @@ only GUIs implemented for 2.0 are \_\_WXGTK\_\_, \_\_WXMSW\_\_ and
 \twocolitem{\_\_AIX\_\_}{AIX}
 \twocolitem{\_\_BSD\_\_}{Any *BSD system}
 \twocolitem{\_\_CYGWIN\_\_}{Cygwin: Unix on Win32}
-\twocolitem{\_\_DARWIN\_\_}{Mac OS X}
+\twocolitem{\_\_DARWIN\_\_}{Mac OS X using the BSD Unix C library (as opposed to using the Metrowerks MSL C/C++ library)}
 \twocolitem{\_\_DATA\_GENERAL\_\_}{DG-UX}
 \twocolitem{\_\_DOS\_GENERAL\_\_}{DOS (used with wxMGL only)}
 \twocolitem{\_\_FREEBSD\_\_}{FreeBSD}
 \twocolitem{\_\_HPUX\_\_}{HP-UX (Unix)}
+\twocolitem{\_\_GNU\_\_}{GNU Hurd}
 \twocolitem{\_\_LINUX\_\_}{Linux}
+\twocolitem{\_\_MACH\_\_}{Mach-O Architecture (Mac OS X only builds)}
 \twocolitem{\_\_OSF\_\_}{OSF/1}
 \twocolitem{\_\_SGI\_\_}{IRIX}
 \twocolitem{\_\_SOLARIS\_\_}{Solaris}
@@ -75,25 +79,39 @@ compiler used.
 \subsection{Compilers}
 
 \begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
-\twocolitem{\_\_BORLANDC\_\_}{Borland C++}
+\twocolitem{\_\_BORLANDC\_\_}{Borland C++. The value of the macro corresponds
+to the compiler version: $500$ is $5.0$.}
 \twocolitem{\_\_DJGPP\_\_}{DJGPP}
-\twocolitem{\_\_GNUG\_\_}{Gnu C++ on any platform}
-\twocolitem{\_\_GNUWIN32\_\_}{Gnu-Win32 compiler}
+\twocolitem{\_\_GNUG\_\_}{Gnu C++ on any platform, see also 
+\helpref{wxCHECK\_GCC\_VERSION}{wxcheckgccversion}}
+\twocolitem{\_\_GNUWIN32\_\_}{Gnu-Win32 compiler, see also 
+\helpref{wxCHECK\_W32API\_VERSION}{wxcheckw32apiversion}}
 \twocolitem{\_\_MWERKS\_\_}{CodeWarrior MetroWerks compiler}
 \twocolitem{\_\_SUNCC\_\_}{Sun CC}
 \twocolitem{\_\_SYMANTECC\_\_}{Symantec C++}
 \twocolitem{\_\_VISAGECPP\_\_}{IBM Visual Age (OS/2)}
-\twocolitem{\_\_VISUALC\_\_}{Microsoft Visual C++}
+\twocolitem{\_\_VISUALC\_\_}{Microsoft Visual C++. The value of this macro
+corresponds to the compiler version: $1020$ for $4.2$ (the first supported
+version), $1100$ for $5.0$, $1200$ for $6.0$ and so on}
 \twocolitem{\_\_XLC\_\_}{AIX compiler}
-\twocolitem{\_\_WATCOMC\_\_}{Watcom C++}
+\twocolitem{\_\_WATCOMC\_\_}{Watcom C++. The value of this macro corresponds to
+the compiler version, $1100$ is $11.0$ and $1200$ is OpenWatcom.}
 \end{twocollist}
 
 \subsection{Miscellaneous}
 
 \begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt
+\twocolitem{\_\_WXWINDOWS\_\_}{always defined in wxWindows applications, see
+also \helpref{wxCHECK\_VERSION}{wxcheckversion}}
 \twocolitem{\_\_WXDEBUG\_\_}{defined in debug mode, undefined in release mode}
 \twocolitem{wxUSE\_XXX}{if defined as $1$, feature XXX is active
-(the symbols of this form are always defined, use #if and not #ifdef to test
+(the symbols of this form are always defined, use \#if and not \#ifdef to test
  for them)}
+\twocolitem{wxUSE\_GUI}{this particular feature test macro is defined to $1$
+when compiling or using the library with the GUI features activated, if it is
+defined as $0$, only wxBase is available.}
+\twocolitem{wxUSE\_BASE}{only used by wxWindows internally (defined as $1$ when
+building wxBase code, either as a standalone library or as part of the
+monolithic wxWindows library, defined as $0$ when building GUI library only)}
 \end{twocollist}