X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/654c4b7b14bae64a11ac652984833a048ae832ea..2abf7107861e98b964fb6f792643ce314a782bcd:/interface/wx/preferences.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/preferences.h b/interface/wx/preferences.h
index 3688fa3e06..7e0e9f679e 100644
--- a/interface/wx/preferences.h
+++ b/interface/wx/preferences.h
@@ -77,14 +77,13 @@ public:
         @param parent The window that invokes the preferences.
                       Call Dismiss() before it's destroyed.
      */
-    void Show(wxWindow* parent);
+    virtual void Show(wxWindow* parent);
 
     /**
         Hide the currently shown dialog, if any.
 
-        This doesn't do anything on the platforms using modal preferences
-        dialogs (e.g. Windows) but should be called to dismiss the dialog if
-        the object whose preferences it is editing was closed.
+        This is typically called to dismiss the dialog if the object whose
+        preferences it is editing was closed.
      */
     void Dismiss();
 
@@ -98,6 +97,23 @@ public:
         in this case as well.
      */
     static bool ShouldApplyChangesImmediately()
+
+    /**
+        Returns whether the preferences dialog is shown modally.
+
+        If this method returns false, as it currently does in wxGTK and wxOSX,
+        Show() simply makes the dialog visible and returns immediately. If it
+        returns true, as it does in wxMSW and under the other platforms, then
+        the dialog is shown modally, i.e. Show() blocks until the user
+        dismisses it.
+
+        Notice that it isn't necessary to test the return value of this method
+        to use this class normally, its interface is designed to work in both
+        cases. However it can sometimes be necessary to call it if the program
+        needs to handle modal dialogs specially, e.g. perhaps to block some
+        periodic background update operation while a modal dialog is shown.
+     */
+    static bool ShownModally();
 };