///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Name: wx/cshelp.h // Purpose: Context-sensitive help support classes // Author: Julian Smart, Vadim Zeitlin // Modified by: // Created: 08/09/2000 // RCS-ID: $Id$ // Copyright: (c) 2000 Julian Smart, Vadim Zeitlin // Licence: wxWindows licence ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #ifndef _WX_CSHELPH__ #define _WX_CSHELPH__ #ifdef __GNUG__ #pragma interface "cshelp.h" #endif #include "wx/defs.h" #include "wx/help.h" #if wxUSE_HELP #include "wx/bmpbuttn.h" // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // classes used to implement context help UI // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /* * wxContextHelp * Invokes context-sensitive help. When the user * clicks on a window, a wxEVT_HELP event will be sent to that * window for the application to display help for. */ class WXDLLEXPORT wxContextHelp : public wxObject { public: wxContextHelp(wxWindow* win = NULL, bool beginHelp = TRUE); virtual ~wxContextHelp(); bool BeginContextHelp(wxWindow* win); bool EndContextHelp(); bool EventLoop(); bool DispatchEvent(wxWindow* win, const wxPoint& pt); void SetStatus(bool status) { m_status = status; } protected: bool m_inHelp; bool m_status; // TRUE if the user left-clicked private: DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxContextHelp) }; /* * wxContextHelpButton * You can add this to your dialogs (especially on non-Windows platforms) * to put the application into context help mode. */ class WXDLLEXPORT wxContextHelpButton : public wxBitmapButton { public: wxContextHelpButton(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id = wxID_CONTEXT_HELP, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = wxBU_AUTODRAW); void OnContextHelp(wxCommandEvent& event); private: DECLARE_CLASS(wxContextHelpButton) DECLARE_EVENT_TABLE() }; #endif // wxUSE_HELP // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // classes used to implement context help support // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // wxHelpProvider is an abstract class used by the program implementing context help to // show the help text (or whatever: it may be HTML page or anything else) for // the given window. // // The current help provider must be explicitly set by the application using // wxHelpProvider::Set(). class WXDLLEXPORT wxHelpProvider { public: // get/set the current (application-global) help provider (Set() returns // the previous one) static wxHelpProvider *Set(wxHelpProvider *helpProvider) { wxHelpProvider *helpProviderOld = ms_helpProvider; ms_helpProvider = helpProvider; return helpProviderOld; } // unlike some other class, the help provider is not created on demand, // this must be explicitly done by the application static wxHelpProvider *Get() { return ms_helpProvider; } // get the help string (whose interpretation is help provider dependent // except that empty string always means that no help is associated with // the window) for this window virtual wxString GetHelp(const wxWindowBase *window) = 0; // do show help for the given window (uses GetHelp() internally if // applicable), return TRUE if it was done or FALSE if no help available // for this window virtual bool ShowHelp(wxWindowBase *window) = 0; // associate the text with the given window or id: although all help // providers have these functions to allow making wxWindow::SetHelpText() // work, not all of them implement them virtual void AddHelp(wxWindowBase *window, const wxString& text); // this version associates the given text with all window with this id // (may be used to set the same help string for all [Cancel] buttons in // the application, for example) virtual void AddHelp(wxWindowID id, const wxString& text); // virtual dtor for any base class virtual ~wxHelpProvider(); private: static wxHelpProvider *ms_helpProvider; }; // wxSimpleHelpProvider is an implementation of wxHelpProvider which supports // only plain text help strings and shows the string associated with the // control (if any) in a tooltip class WXDLLEXPORT wxSimpleHelpProvider : public wxHelpProvider { public: // implement wxHelpProvider methods virtual wxString GetHelp(const wxWindowBase *window); virtual bool ShowHelp(wxWindowBase *window); virtual void AddHelp(wxWindowBase *window, const wxString& text); virtual void AddHelp(wxWindowID id, const wxString& text); protected: // we use 2 hashes for storing the help strings associated with windows // and the ids wxStringHashTable m_hashWindows, m_hashIds; }; // wxHelpControllerHelpProvider is an implementation of wxHelpProvider which supports // both context identifiers and plain text help strings. If the help text is an integer, // it is passed to wxHelpController::DisplayContextPopup. Otherwise, it shows the string // in a tooltip as per wxSimpleHelpProvider. class WXDLLEXPORT wxHelpControllerHelpProvider : public wxSimpleHelpProvider { public: // Note that it doesn't own the help controller. The help controller // should be deleted separately. wxHelpControllerHelpProvider(wxHelpControllerBase* hc = (wxHelpControllerBase*) NULL); // implement wxHelpProvider methods virtual bool ShowHelp(wxWindowBase *window); // Other accessors void SetHelpController(wxHelpControllerBase* hc) { m_helpController = hc; } wxHelpControllerBase* GetHelpController() const { return m_helpController; } protected: wxHelpControllerBase* m_helpController; }; // Convenience function for turning context id into wxString wxString wxContextId(int id); #endif // _WX_CSHELPH__