added very preliminary wxRenderer documentation

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@22633 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/category.tex b/docs/latex/wx/category.tex
index d12b557da038b9c548dd73bc4903a2e06b762048..c156003ab26b8eb2cbb59b00cc244d76edcec930 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/category.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/category.tex
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ These classes are related to drawing on device contexts and windows.
 \twocolitem{\helpref{wxPenList}{wxpenlist}}{The list of previously-created pens}
 \twocolitem{\helpref{wxPalette}{wxpalette}}{Represents a table of indices into RGB values}
 \twocolitem{\helpref{wxRegion}{wxregion}}{Represents a simple or complex region on a window or device context}
+\twocolitem{\helpref{wxRenderer}{wxrenderer}}{Abstracts high-level drawing primitives}
 \end{twocollist}
 
 {\large {\bf Events}}

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/classes.tex b/docs/latex/wx/classes.tex
index b9e667663c14b09e0922f01ea9e2428ef6b46a01..7d90341fe7dc411895d85981b2642b2714e8e807 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/classes.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/classes.tex
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@
 \input rect.tex
 \input regex.tex
 \input region.tex
+\input renderer.tex
 \input sashevt.tex
 \input sashlayw.tex
 \input sashwin.tex

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/renderer.tex b/docs/latex/wx/renderer.tex
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..3e6d8fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/renderer.tex
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% Name:        renderer.tex
+%% Purpose:     wxRenderer and wxRendererNative documentation
+%% Author:      Vadim Zeitlin
+%% Modified by:
+%% Created:     06.08.03
+%% RCS-ID:      $Id$
+%% Copyright:   (c) 2003 Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
+%% License:     wxWindows license
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\section{\class{wxRenderer}}\label{wxrenderer}
+
+First, a brief introduction into what is wxRenderer and why is it needed.
+
+Usually wxWindows uses the underlying low level GUI system to draw all the
+controls -- this is what we mean when we say that it is a ``native'' framework.
+However not all controls exist under all (or even any) platforms and in this
+case wxWindows provides a default, generic, implementation of them written in
+wxWindows itself.
+
+These controls however don't have the native appearance if only the standard
+line drawing and other graphics primitives are used if only because the native
+appearance is different under different platforms while the lines are always
+drawn in the same way.
+
+This is why we have renderers: wxRenderer is a class which virtualizes the
+drawing, i.e. it abstracts the drawing operations and allows you to draw a,
+say, button, without caring about how exactly this is done. Of course, as we
+can draw the button differently in different renderers, this also allows us to
+emulate the native look and feel.
+
+
+So the renderers work by exposing a big set of high-level drawing functions
+which are used by the generic controls. There is always a default global
+renderer but it may be changed or extended by the user, see 
+\helpref{Render sample}{samplerender}.
+
+

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tsamples.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tsamples.tex
index 588932885dbdc39b63626fcd0dcc2e29fc2a719a..cd5ebdc3e61a4a3544d31620ba63759110744ef6 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/tsamples.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/tsamples.tex
@@ -307,7 +307,15 @@ supported by the control (list, icons, small icons, report) may be chosen from
 the menu.
 
 The sample also provides some timings for adding/deleting/sorting a lot of
-(several thousands) controls into the control.
+(several thousands) items into the control.
+
+
+\subsection{Render sample}\label{samplerender}
+
+This sample shows how to replace the default wxWindows 
+\helpref{renderer}{wxrenderernative} and also how to write a shared library
+(DLL) implementing a renderer and load and unload it during the run-time.
+
 
 \subsection{Rotate sample}\label{samplerotate}