X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/a9241e6025b30c45a0cae02357eb226bfded460b..0cde01aedc677b1d50a2885c422412ee89ac00bc:/docs/latex/wx/array.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/array.tex b/docs/latex/wx/array.tex index b8e51c3a5b..7c10633888 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/array.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/array.tex @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class MyDirectory // now that we have MyDirectory declaration in scope we may finish the // definition of ArrayOfDirectories -- note that this expands into some C++ // code and so should only be compiled once (i.e., don't put this in the -// header, but into a source file or you will get linkin errors) +// header, but into a source file or you will get linking errors) #include // this is a magic incantation which must be done! WX_DEFINE_OBJARRAY(ArrayOfDirectories); @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ amount, but no more than some maximal number which is defined by ARRAY\_MAXSIZE\_INCREMENT constant. Of course, this may lead to some memory being wasted (ARRAY\_MAXSIZE\_INCREMENT in the worst case, i.e. 4Kb in the current implementation), so the \helpref{Shrink()}{wxarrayshrink} function is -provided to unallocate the extra memory. The \helpref{Alloc()}{wxarrayalloc} +provided to deallocate the extra memory. The \helpref{Alloc()}{wxarrayalloc} function can also be quite useful if you know in advance how many items you are going to put in the array and will prevent the array code from reallocating the memory more times than needed. @@ -413,14 +413,14 @@ done by wxArray and wxSortedArray versions - you may use \membersection{wxArray::Add}\label{wxarrayadd} -\func{void}{Add}{\param{T }{item}} +\func{void}{Add}{\param{T }{item}, \param{size\_t}{ copies = $1$}} \func{void}{Add}{\param{T *}{item}} -\func{void}{Add}{\param{T \&}{item}} +\func{void}{Add}{\param{T \&}{item}, \param{size\_t}{ copies = $1$}} -Appends a new element to the array (where {\it T} is the type of the array -elements.) +Appends the given number of {\it copies} of the {\it item} to the array +consisting of the elements of type {\it T}. The first version is used with wxArray and wxSortedArray. The second and the third are used with wxObjArray. There is an important difference between @@ -428,10 +428,14 @@ them: if you give a pointer to the array, it will take ownership of it, i.e. will delete it when the item is deleted from the array. If you give a reference to the array, however, the array will make a copy of the item and will not take ownership of the original item. Once again, it only makes sense for wxObjArrays -because the other array types never take ownership of their elements. +because the other array types never take ownership of their elements. Also note +that you cannot append more than one pointer as reusing it would lead to +deleting it twice (or more) and hence to a crash. You may also use \helpref{WX\_APPEND\_ARRAY}{wxappendarray} macro to append all -elements of one array to another one. +elements of one array to another one but it is more efficient to use +{\it copies} parameter and modify the elements in place later if you plan to +append a lot of items. \membersection{wxArray::Alloc}\label{wxarrayalloc} @@ -505,15 +509,15 @@ in the array. \membersection{wxArray::Insert}\label{wxarrayinsert} -\func{void}{Insert}{\param{T }{item}, \param{size\_t }{n}} +\func{void}{Insert}{\param{T }{item}, \param{size\_t }{n}, \param{size\_t }{copies = $1$}} \func{void}{Insert}{\param{T *}{item}, \param{size\_t }{n}} -\func{void}{Insert}{\param{T \&}{item}, \param{size\_t }{n}} +\func{void}{Insert}{\param{T \&}{item}, \param{size\_t }{n}, \param{size\_t }{copies = $1$}} -Insert a new item into the array before the item {\it n} - thus, {\it Insert(something, 0u)} will -insert an item in such way that it will become the -first array element. +Insert the given number of {\it copies} of the {\it item} into the array before +the existing item {\it n} - thus, {\it Insert(something, 0u)} will insert an +item in such way that it will become the first array element. Please see \helpref{Add()}{wxarrayadd} for explanation of the differences between the overloaded versions of this function. @@ -569,13 +573,13 @@ elements of a wxArray (supposed to contain pointers). \membersection{wxArray::RemoveAt}\label{wxarrayremoveat} -\func{\void}{RemoveAt}{\param{size\_t }{index}} +\func{\void}{RemoveAt}{\param{size\_t }{index}, \param{size\_t }{count = $1$}} -Removes an element from the array by index. When an element -is removed from wxObjArray it is deleted by the array - use -\helpref{Detach()}{wxobjarraydetach} if you don't want this to happen. On the -other hand, when an object is removed from a wxArray nothing happens - you -should delete it manually if required: +Removes {\it count} elements starting at {\it index} from the array. When an +element is removed from wxObjArray it is deleted by the array - use +\helpref{Detach()}{wxobjarraydetach} if you don't want this to happen. On +the other hand, when an object is removed from a wxArray nothing happens - +you should delete it manually if required: \begin{verbatim} T *item = array[n];