X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/8c9f8f91cd62335261ee29762747218f28d129de..65baafba0e8cd74f2264b7e2f7625ff5bea84864:/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex b/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex index 1ba189e674..d73426584c 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ and unregister the button when you're done with it. For example: win->UnregisterHotKey(0); \end{verbatim} -You may have to register the buttons in a wxEVT_ACTIVATE event handler +You may have to register the buttons in a wxEVT\_ACTIVATE event handler since other applications will grab the buttons. There is currently no method of finding out the names of the special @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ and wxTopLevelWindow::SetRightMenu, for example: #endif \end{verbatim} -For implementing property sheets (flat tabs), use a wxNotebook with wxNB_FLAT|wxNB_BOTTOM +For implementing property sheets (flat tabs), use a wxNotebook with wxNB\_FLAT|wxNB\_BOTTOM and have the notebook left, top and right sides overlap the dialog by about 3 pixels to eliminate spurious borders. You can do this by using a negative spacing in your sizer Add() call. The cross-platform property sheet dialog \helpref{wxPropertySheetDialog}{wxpropertysheetdialog} is @@ -252,6 +252,13 @@ Tooltips are not currently supported for controls, since on PocketPC controls wi tooltips are distinct controls, and it will be hard to add dynamic tooltip support. +Control borders on PocketPC and Smartphone should normally be specified with +wxSIMPLE\_BORDER instead of wxSUNKEN\_BORDER. Controls will usually adapt +appropriately by virtue of their GetDefaultBorder() function, but if you +wish to specify a style explicitly you can use wxDEFAULT\_CONTROL\_BORDER +which will give a simple border on PocketPC and Smartphone, and the sunken border on +other platforms. + \subsubsection{Online help in wxWinCE} You can use the help controller wxWinceHelpController which controls @@ -298,6 +305,24 @@ shows folders under My Documents or folders on memory cards a known problem for PocketPC developers, and a wxFileDialog replacement will need to be written. +\subsubsection{Embedded Visual C++ Issues} + +\wxheading{Run-time type information} + +If you wish to use runtime type information (RTTI) with eVC++ 4, you need to download +an extra library, {\tt ccrtrtti.lib}, and link with it. At the time of +writing you can get it from here: + +\begin{verbatim} +http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830482/en-us +\end{verbatim} + +Otherwise you will get linker errors similar to this: + +\begin{verbatim} +wxwince26d.lib(control.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "const type_info::`vftable'" (??_7type_info@@6B@) +\end{verbatim} + \subsubsection{Remaining issues} These are some of the remaining problems to be sorted out, and features @@ -316,9 +341,6 @@ and the remaining area, by calling SHSipInfo. We also may need to be able to sho the SIP programmatically, with SHSipPreference. See also the {\it Input Dialogs} topic in the {\it Programming Windows CE} guide for more on this, and how to have dialogs show the SIP automatically using the WC\_SIPREF control. -\item {\bf Drawing.} The "Life!" demo shows some droppings being left on the window, -indicating that drawing works a bit differently between desktop and mobile versions of -Win32. \item {\bf wxStaticBitmap.} The About box in the "Life!" demo shows a bitmap that is the correct size on the emulator, but too small on a VGA Pocket Loox device. \item {\bf wxStaticLine.} Lines don't show up, and the documentation suggests that @@ -335,11 +357,19 @@ control, or have a separately-named control (wxHtmlCtrl), with a syntax as close tooltips, with the tooltip separated from the label with a double tilde. We need to support this using SetToolTip. (Unfortunately it does not seem possible to dynamically remove the tooltip, so an extra style may be required.) +\item {\bf Focus.} In the wxPropertySheetDialog demo on Smartphone, it's not possible to navigate +between controls. The focus handling in wxWidgets needs investigation. See in particular src/common/containr.cpp, +and note that the default OnActivate handler in src/msw/toplevel.cpp sets the focus to the first child of the dialog. \item {\bf OK button.} We should allow the OK button on a dialog to be optional, perhaps by using wxCLOSE\_BOX to indicate when the OK button should be displayed. \item {\bf Dynamic adaptation.} We should probably be using run-time tests more than preprocessor tests, so that the same WinCE application can run on different versions of the operating system. +\item {\bf Modeless dialogs.} When a modeless dialog is hidden with the OK button, it doesn't restore the +frame's menubar. See for example the find dialog in the dialogs sample. However, the menubar is restored +if pressing Cancel (the window is closed). This reflects the fact that modeless dialogs are +not very useful on Windows CE; however, we could perhaps destroy/restore a modeless dialog's menubar +on deactivation and activation. \item {\bf Home screen plugins.} Figure out how to make home screen plugins for use with wxWidgets applications (see {\tt http://www.codeproject.com/ce/CTodayWindow.asp} for inspiration). Although we can't use wxWidgets to create the plugin (too large), we could perhaps write