X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/7145bcfc4738ad54199b5ede4c45a14adf037315..f1b08e84a191caaa975569e0cac89658058c7730:/interface/wx/menuitem.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/menuitem.h b/interface/wx/menuitem.h
index da71be9190..fd170e5d5c 100644
--- a/interface/wx/menuitem.h
+++ b/interface/wx/menuitem.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // Purpose:     interface of wxMenu, wxMenuItem
 // Author:      wxWidgets team
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
-// Licence:     wxWindows license
+// Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 /**
@@ -55,8 +55,10 @@ public:
         For the standard menu items (such as commands to open a file, exit the
         program and so on, see @ref page_stockitems for the full list) it is enough
         to specify just the stock ID and leave @a text and @a helpString empty.
+        Some platforms (currently wxGTK only, and see the remark in SetBitmap()
+        documentation) will also show standard bitmaps for stock menu items.
 
-        In fact, leaving at least @a text empty for the stock menu items is strongly
+        Leaving at least @a text empty for the stock menu items is actually strongly
         recommended as they will have appearance and keyboard interface (including
         standard accelerators) familiar to the user.
 
@@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ public:
         helpMenu->Append(wxID_ABOUT);
 
         // use the stock label and the stock accelerator but not the stock help string:
-        helpMenu->Append(wxID_ABOUT, wxEmptyString, "My custom help string");
+        helpMenu->Append(wxID_ABOUT, "", "My custom help string");
 
         // use all stock properties except for the bitmap:
         wxMenuItem *mymenu = new wxMenuItem(helpMenu, wxID_ABOUT);
@@ -314,6 +316,11 @@ public:
         @a checked is @true (default value) or SetBitmaps(wxNullBitmap, bmp)
         otherwise.
 
+        Notice that GTK+ uses a global setting called @c gtk-menu-images to
+        determine if the images should be shown in the menus at all. If it is
+        off (which is the case in e.g. Gnome 2.28 by default), no images will
+        be shown, consistently with the native behaviour.
+
         @onlyfor{wxmsw,wxosx,wxgtk}
     */
     virtual void SetBitmap(const wxBitmap& bmp, bool checked = true);