diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/window.tex b/docs/latex/wx/window.tex index a9e99338a6..e7a4f66183 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/window.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/window.tex @@ -52,13 +52,15 @@ window class or on all platforms. \twocolwidtha{5cm}% \begin{twocollist}\itemsep=0pt -\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_SIMPLE}}{Displays a thin border around the window. wxBORDER is the old name +\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_SIMPLE}}{Displays a thin border around the window. wxSIMPLE\_BORDER is the old name for this style. } -\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_DOUBLE}}{Displays a double border. Windows and Mac only.} -\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_SUNKEN}}{Displays a sunken border.} -\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_RAISED}}{Displays a raised border.} -\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_STATIC}}{Displays a border suitable for a static control. Windows only. } -\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_NONE}}{Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the window.} +\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_DOUBLE}}{Displays a double border. wxDOUBLE\_BORDER is the old name for this style. Windows and Mac only.} +\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_SUNKEN}}{Displays a sunken border. wxSUNKEN\_BORDER is the old name for this style.} +\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_RAISED}}{Displays a raised border. wxRAISED\_BORDER is the old name for this style. } +\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_STATIC}}{Displays a border suitable for a static control. wxSTATIC\_BORDER is the old name for this style. Windows only. } +\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_THEME}}{Displays a themed border where possible. Currently this has an effect on Windows XP and above only. +For more information on themed borders, please see \helpref{Themed borders on Windows}{wxmswthemedborders}.} +\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxBORDER\_NONE}}{Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the window. wxNO\_BORDER is the old name for this style.} \twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTRANSPARENT\_WINDOW}}{The window is transparent, that is, it will not receive paint events. Windows only.} \twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTAB\_TRAVERSAL}}{Use this to enable tab traversal for non-dialog windows.} diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex b/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex index c686b95e67..40dda722df 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/wxmsw.tex @@ -24,6 +24,43 @@ MinGW32 tool chain. For further information, please see the files in docs/msw in the distribution. +\subsection{Themed borders on Windows}\label{wxmswthemedborders} + +Starting with wxWidgets 2.8.5, you can specify the wxBORDER\_THEME style to have wxWidgets +use a themed border. Using the default XP theme, this is a thin 1-pixel blue border, +with an extra 1-pixel border in the window client background colour (usually white) to +separate the client area's scrollbars from the border. + +If you don't specify a border style for a wxTextCtrl in rich edit mode, wxWidgets now gives +the control themed borders automatically, where previously they would take the Windows 95-style +sunken border. Other native controls such as wxTextCtrl in non-rich edit mode, and wxComboBox, +already paint themed borders where appropriate. To use themed borders on other windows, such +as wxPanel, pass the wxBORDER\_THEME style, or pass no border style. + +Note that in wxWidgets 2.9 and above, wxBORDER\_THEME is defined to be 0 and it is not necessary +to pass the border style explicitly: wxWidgets will deduce the correct border style itself if there +is none supplied. Because of the requirements of binary compatibility, this automatic border +capability could not be put into wxWidgets 2.8 except for built-in, native controls. So in 2.8, the border +must be specified for custom controls and windows. + +Since specifying wxBORDER\_THEME is defined as 0 and is the equivalent of abstaining on the +border style decision, on non-Windows platforms a suitable border style will be chosen. +This is not to be confused with specifying wxBORDER\_NONE, which says that there should +definitely be {\it no} border. + +\wxheading{More detail on border implementation} + +The way that wxMSW decides whether to apply a themed border is as follows. +The theming code calls wxWindow::GetBorder() to obtain a border. If no border style has been +passed to the window constructor, GetBorder() calls GetDefaultBorder() for this window. +The implementation of wxWindow::GetDefaultBorder() on wxMSW calls wxWindow::CanApplyThemeBorder() +which is a virtual function that tells wxWidgets whether a control can have a theme +applied explicitly (some native controls already paint a theme in which case we should not +apply it ourselves). Note that wxPanel is an exception to this rule because in many cases +we wish to create a window with no border (for example, notebook pages). So wxPanel +overrides GetDefaultBorder() in order to call the generic wxWindowBase::GetDefaultBorder(), +returning wxBORDER\_NONE. + \subsection{wxWinCE}\label{wxwince} wxWinCE is the name given to wxMSW when compiled on Windows CE devices;