X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/a2968d85eb320b948e39972c75d55df98474ff89..4e15d1caa03346c126015019c1fdf093033ef40b:/docs/doxygen/overviews/roughguide.h?ds=inline diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/roughguide.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/roughguide.h index dbcda42ff1..db27c1c3fa 100644 --- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/roughguide.h +++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/roughguide.h @@ -1,62 +1,61 @@ ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -// Name: roughguide +// Name: roughguide.h // Purpose: topic overview // Author: wxWidgets team // RCS-ID: $Id$ -// Licence: wxWindows license +// Licence: wxWindows licence ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -/*! +/** -@page overview_roughguide Writing a wxWidgets Application: A Rough Guide +@page overview_roughguide A Quick Guide to Writing Applications -To set a wxWidgets application going, you will need to derive a #wxApp class -and override wxApp::OnInit. +@tableofcontents -An application must have a top-level #wxFrame or #wxDialog window. Each frame -may contain one or more instances of classes such as #wxPanel, -#wxSplitterWindow or other windows and controls. +To set a wxWidgets application going, you will need to derive a wxApp class and +override wxApp::OnInit. -A frame can have a #wxMenuBar, a #wxToolBar, a status line, and a #wxIcon for -when the frame is iconized. +An application must have a top-level wxFrame or wxDialog window. Each frame may +contain one or more instances of classes such as wxPanel, wxSplitterWindow or +other windows and controls. -A #wxPanel is used to place controls (classes derived from #wxControl) which -are used for user interaction. Examples of controls are #wxButton, #wxCheckBox, -#wxChoice, #wxListBox, #wxRadioBox, #wxSlider. +A frame can have a wxMenuBar, a wxToolBar, a wxStatusBar, and a wxIcon for when +the frame is iconized. -Instances of #wxDialog can also be used for controls and they have the -advantage of not requiring a separate frame. +A wxPanel is used to place controls (classes derived from wxControl) which are +used for user interaction. Examples of controls are wxButton, wxCheckBox, +wxChoice, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, and wxSlider. + +Instances of wxDialog can also be used for controls and they have the advantage +of not requiring a separate frame. Instead of creating a dialog box and populating it with items, it is possible -to choose one of the convenient common dialog classes, such as #wxMessageDialog -and #wxFileDialog. +to choose one of the convenient common dialog classes, such as wxMessageDialog +and wxFileDialog. You never draw directly onto a window - you use a device context (DC). -#wxDC is the base for #wxClientDC, #wxPaintDC, #wxMemoryDC, #wxPostScriptDC, -#wxMemoryDC, #wxMetafileDC and #wxPrinterDC. If your drawing functions have -wxDC as a parameter, you can pass any of these DCs to the function, and thus -use the same code to draw to several different devices. You can draw using the -member functions of wxDC, such as wxDC::DrawLine and wxDC::DrawText. Control -colour on a window (#wxColour) with brushes (#wxBrush) and pens (#wxPen). +wxDC is the base for wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxMemoryDC, wxPostScriptDC, +wxMemoryDC, wxMetafileDC and wxPrinterDC. If your drawing functions have wxDC +as a parameter, you can pass any of these DCs to the function, and thus use the +same code to draw to several different devices. You can draw using the member +functions of wxDC, such as wxDC::DrawLine and wxDC::DrawText. Control colour on +a window (wxColour) with brushes (wxBrush) and pens (wxPen). To intercept events, you add a DECLARE_EVENT_TABLE macro to the window class declaration, and put a BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE ... END_EVENT_TABLE block in the implementation file. Between these macros, you add event macros which map the event (such as a mouse click) to a member function. These might override -predefined event handlers such as for #wxKeyEvent and #wxMouseEvent. +predefined event handlers such as for wxKeyEvent and wxMouseEvent. Most modern applications will have an on-line, hypertext help system; for this, -you need wxHelp and the #wxHelpController class to control wxHelp. +you need wxHelp and the wxHelpController class to control wxHelp. GUI applications aren't all graphical wizardry. List and hash table needs are -catered for by #wxList and #wxHashMap. You will undoubtedly need some -platform-independent @ref functions_file, and you may find it handy to -maintain and search a list of paths using #wxPathList. There's many -@ref functions_miscellany of operating system methods and other functions. - -@seealso +catered for by wxList and wxHashMap. You will undoubtedly need some +platform-independent @ref group_funcmacro_file, and you may find it handy to +maintain and search a list of paths using wxPathList. There's many +@ref group_funcmacro_misc of operating system methods and other functions. -@li @ref overview_classesbycat +@see @ref group_class */ -