virtual wxDocument* CreateDocument(const wxString& path, long flags = 0);
/**
- Creates a new instance of the associated view class. If you have not
- supplied a wxClassInfo parameter to the template constructor, you will
- need to override this function to return an appropriate view instance.
+ Creates a new instance of the associated view class.
+
+ If you have not supplied a wxClassInfo parameter to the template
+ constructor, you will need to override this function to return an
+ appropriate view instance.
+
+ If the new view initialization fails, it must call
+ wxDocument::RemoveView() for consistency with the default behaviour of
+ this function.
*/
virtual wxView* CreateView(wxDocument* doc, long flags = 0);
virtual wxString GetViewName() const;
/**
- Initialises the document, calling wxDocument::OnCreate(). This is
- called from CreateDocument().
+ Initialises the document, calling wxDocument::OnCreate().
+
+ This is called from CreateDocument().
+
+ If you override this method, notice that you must @em delete the @a doc
+ if its initialization fails for consistency with the default behaviour.
+
+ @param doc
+ The document to initialize.
+ @param path
+ The associated file path.
+ @param flags
+ Flags passed to CreateDocument().
+ @return
+ @true if the initialization was successful or @false if it failed
+ in which case @a doc should be deleted by this function.
*/
- virtual bool InitDocument(wxDocument* doc, const wxString& path,
+ virtual bool InitDocument(wxDocument* doc,
+ const wxString& path,
long flags = 0);
/**
/**
Called just after the document object is created to give it a chance to
- initialize itself. The default implementation uses the template
- associated with the document to create an initial view. If this
- function returns @false, the document is deleted.
+ initialize itself.
+
+ The default implementation uses the template associated with the
+ document to create an initial view.
+
+ For compatibility reasons, this method may either delete the document
+ itself if its initialization fails or not do it in which case it is
+ deleted by caller. It is recommended to delete the document explicitly
+ in this function if it can't be initialized.
+
+ @param path
+ The associated file path.
+ @param flags
+ Flags passed to CreateDocument().
+ @return
+ @true if the initialization was successful or @false if it failed.
*/
virtual bool OnCreate(const wxString& path, long flags);
// Tries to dynamically construct an object of the right class.
wxDocument *wxDocTemplate::CreateDocument(const wxString& path, long flags)
{
- wxScopedPtr<wxDocument> doc(DoCreateDocument());
-
- return doc && InitDocument(doc.get(), path, flags) ? doc.release() : NULL;
+ // InitDocument() is supposed to delete the document object if its
+ // initialization fails so don't use wxScopedPtr<> here: this is fragile
+ // but unavoidable because the default implementation uses CreateView()
+ // which may -- or not -- create a wxView and if it does create it and its
+ // initialization fails then the view destructor will delete the document
+ // (via RemoveView()) and as we can't distinguish between the two cases we
+ // just have to assume that it always deletes it in case of failure
+ wxDocument * const doc = DoCreateDocument();
+
+ return doc && InitDocument(doc, path, flags) ? doc : NULL;
}
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