X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/f1b08e84a191caaa975569e0cac89658058c7730..7344108e8a129a3f9b4df5ab0f98a1713db03b89:/interface/wx/stdpaths.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/stdpaths.h b/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
index 4d25136413..9cd97ca917 100644
--- a/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
+++ b/interface/wx/stdpaths.h
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
     wxStandardPaths returns the standard locations in the file system and should be
     used by applications to find their data files in a portable way.
 
+    Note that you must not create objects of class wxStandardPaths directly,
+    but use the global standard paths object returned by wxStandardPaths::Get()
+    (which can be of a type derived from wxStandardPaths and not of exactly
+    this type) and call the methods you need on it. The object returned by
+    Get() may be customized by overriding wxAppTraits::GetStandardPaths()
+    methods.
+
     In the description of the methods below, the example return values are given
     for the Unix, Windows and Mac OS X systems, however please note that these are
     just the examples and the actual values may differ. For example, under Windows:
@@ -42,10 +49,6 @@
     This class is MT-safe: its methods may be called concurrently from different
     threads without additional locking.
 
-    Note that you don't allocate an instance of class wxStandardPaths, but retrieve the
-    global standard paths object using @c wxStandardPaths::Get on which you call the
-    desired methods.
-
     @library{wxbase}
     @category{file}
 
@@ -162,7 +165,10 @@ public:
         value, otherwise tries to determine it automatically (Linux only right now)
         and finally returns the default @c /usr/local value if it failed.
 
-        @note This function is only available under Unix.
+        @note This function is only available under Unix platforms (but not limited
+        to wxGTK mentioned below).
+
+        @onlyfor{wxos2,wxgtk}
     */
     wxString GetInstallPrefix() const;
 
@@ -234,7 +240,8 @@ public:
         - Mac: @c ~/Library/Preferences
 
         Only use this method if you have a single configuration file to put in this
-        directory, otherwise GetUserDataDir() is more appropriate.
+        directory, otherwise GetUserDataDir() is more appropriate as the latter
+        adds @c appinfo to the path, unlike this function.
     */
     virtual wxString GetUserConfigDir() const;
 
@@ -331,7 +338,10 @@ public:
         is set during program configuration if using GNU autotools and so it is enough
         to pass its value defined in @c config.h to this function.
 
-        @note This function is only available under Unix.
+        @note This function is only available under Unix platforms (but not limited
+        to wxGTK mentioned below).
+
+        @onlyfor{wxos2,wxgtk}
     */
     void SetInstallPrefix(const wxString& prefix);