/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Name: tipdlg.h // Purpose: declaration of wxTipDialog // Author: Vadim Zeitlin // Modified by: // Created: 28.06.99 // RCS-ID: $Id$ // Copyright: (c) Vadim Zeitlin // Licence: wxWindows licence /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #ifndef _WX_TIPDLG_H_ #define _WX_TIPDLG_H_ // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // headers which we must include here // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #include "wx/defs.h" #if wxUSE_STARTUP_TIPS #include "wx/textfile.h" // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // wxTipProvider - a class which is used by wxTipDialog to get the text of the // tips // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // the abstract base class: it provides the tips, i.e. implements the GetTip() // function which returns the new tip each time it's called. To support this, // wxTipProvider evidently needs some internal state which is the tip "index" // and which should be saved/restored by the program to not always show one and // the same tip (of course, you may use random starting position as well...) class WXDLLIMPEXP_ADV wxTipProvider { public: wxTipProvider(size_t currentTip) { m_currentTip = currentTip; } // get the current tip and update the internal state to return the next tip // when called for the next time virtual wxString GetTip() = 0; // get the current tip "index" (or whatever allows the tip provider to know // from where to start the next time) size_t GetCurrentTip() const { return m_currentTip; } // Allows any user-derived class to optionally override this function to // modify the tip as soon as it is read. If return wxEmptyString, then // the tip is skipped, and the next one is read. virtual wxString PreprocessTip(const wxString& tip) { return tip; } // virtual dtor for the base class virtual ~wxTipProvider() { } protected: size_t m_currentTip; }; // a function which returns an implementation of wxTipProvider using the // specified text file as the source of tips (each line is a tip). // // NB: the caller is responsible for deleting the pointer! #if wxUSE_TEXTFILE WXDLLIMPEXP_ADV wxTipProvider *wxCreateFileTipProvider(const wxString& filename, size_t currentTip); #endif // wxUSE_TEXTFILE // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // wxTipDialog // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // A dialog which shows a "tip" - a short and helpful messages describing to // the user some program characteristic. Many programs show the tips at // startup, so the dialog has "Show tips on startup" checkbox which allows to // the user to disable this (however, it's the program which should show, or // not, the dialog on startup depending on its value, not this class). // // The function returns true if this checkbox is checked, false otherwise. WXDLLIMPEXP_ADV bool wxShowTip(wxWindow *parent, wxTipProvider *tipProvider, bool showAtStartup = true); #endif // wxUSE_STARTUP_TIPS #endif // _WX_TIPDLG_H_