wxWidgets/include/wx/tipdlg.h
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///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// 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_
#ifdef __GNUG__
#pragma interface "tipdlg.h"
#endif
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 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 WXDLLEXPORT 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; }
// 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!
WXDLLEXPORT wxTipProvider *wxCreateFileTipProvider(const wxString& filename,
size_t currentTip);
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 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.
WXDLLEXPORT bool wxShowTip(wxWindow *parent,
wxTipProvider *tipProvider,
bool showAtStartup = TRUE);
#endif // wxUSE_STARTUP_TIPS
#endif // _WX_TIPDLG_H_