X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/a91225b27b4416488d299ef10053bb822e6a9bf4..d2b23b67301bd2d286366d4326a21da3132558fa:/docs/latex/wx/font.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/font.tex b/docs/latex/wx/font.tex index 001deb8209..31460c3450 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/font.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/font.tex @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ A font is an object which determines the appearance of text. Fonts are used for drawing text to a device context, and setting the appearance of a window's text. +This class uses \helpref{reference counting and copy-on-write}{trefcount} +internally so that assignments between two instances of this class are very +cheap. You can therefore use actual objects instead of pointers without +efficiency problems. If an instance of this class is changed it will create +its own data internally so that other instances, which previously shared the +data using the reference counting, are not affected. + You can retrieve the current system font settings with \helpref{wxSystemSettings}{wxsystemsettings}. \helpref{wxSystemSettings}{wxsystemsettings} @@ -248,12 +255,10 @@ and \helpref{wxDC::GetTextExtent}{wxdcgettextextent}. \func{}{\destruct{wxFont}}{\void} Destructor. +See \helpref{reference-counted object destruction}{refcountdestruct} for more info. \wxheading{Remarks} -The destructor may not delete the underlying font object of the native windowing -system, since wxFont uses a reference counting system for efficiency. - Although all remaining fonts are deleted when the application exits, the application should try to clean up all fonts itself. This is because wxWidgets cannot know if a pointer to the font object is stored in an @@ -589,16 +594,14 @@ Assignment operator, using \helpref{reference counting}{trefcount}. \func{bool}{operator $==$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}} -Equality operator. Two fonts are equal if they contain pointers -to the same underlying font data. It does not compare each attribute, -so two independently-created fonts using the same parameters will -fail the test. +Equality operator. +See \helpref{reference-counted object comparison}{refcountequality} for more info. \membersection{wxFont::operator $!=$}\label{wxfontnotequals} \func{bool}{operator $!=$}{\param{const wxFont\& }{font}} -Inequality operator. Two fonts are not equal if they contain pointers -to different underlying font data. It does not compare each attribute. +Inequality operator. +See \helpref{reference-counted object comparison}{refcountequality} for more info.