///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Name: mdi.h // Purpose: interface of wxMDIClientWindow // Author: wxWidgets team // RCS-ID: $Id$ // Licence: wxWindows license ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /** @class wxMDIClientWindow An MDI client window is a child of wxMDIParentFrame, and manages zero or more wxMDIChildFrame objects. @remarks The client window is the area where MDI child windows exist. It doesn't have to cover the whole parent frame; other windows such as toolbars and a help window might coexist with it. There can be scrollbars on a client window, which are controlled by the parent window style. The wxMDIClientWindow class is usually adequate without further derivation, and it is created automatically when the MDI parent frame is created. If the application needs to derive a new class, the function wxMDIParentFrame::OnCreateClient() must be overridden in order to give an opportunity to use a different class of client window. Under wxMSW, the client window will automatically have a sunken border style when the active child is not maximized, and no border style when a child is maximized. @library{wxcore} @category{managedwnd} @see wxMDIChildFrame, wxMDIParentFrame, wxFrame */ class wxMDIClientWindow : public wxWindow { public: /** Default constructor. Objects of this class are only created by wxMDIParentFrame which uses the default constructor and calls CreateClient() immediately afterwards. */ wxMDIClientWindow(); /** Called by wxMDIParentFrame immediately after creating the client window. This function may be overridden in the derived class but the base class version must usually be called first to really create the window. @param parent The window parent. @param style The window style. Only wxHSCROLL and wxVSCROLL bits are meaningful here. */ virtual bool CreateClient(wxMDIParentFrame* parent, long style = 0); }; /** @class wxMDIParentFrame An MDI (Multiple Document Interface) parent frame is a window which can contain MDI child frames in its client area which emulates the full desktop. MDI is a user-interface model in which all the window reside inside the single parent window as opposed to being separate from each other. It remains popular despite dire warnings from Microsoft itself (which popularized this model in the first model) that MDI is obsolete. An MDI parent frame always has a wxMDIClientWindow associated with it, which is the parent for MDI child frames. In the simplest case, the client window takes up the entire parent frame area but it is also possible to resize it to be smaller in order to have other windows in the frame, a typical example is using a sidebar along one of the window edges. The appearance of MDI applications differs between different ports. The classic MDI model, with child windows which can be independently moved, resized etc, is only available under MSW, which provides native support for it. In Mac ports, multiple top level windows are used for the MDI children too and the MDI parent frame itself is invisible, to accommodate the native look and feel requirements. In all the other ports, a tab-based MDI implementation (sometimes called TDI) is used and so at most one MDI child is visible at any moment (child frames are always maximized). @remarks Although it is possible to have multiple MDI parent frames, a typical MDI application has a single MDI parent frame window inside which multiple MDI child frames, i.e. objects of class wxMDIChildFrame, can be created. @beginStyleTable There are no special styles for this class, all wxFrame styles apply to it in the usual way. The only exception is that wxHSCROLL and wxVSCROLL styles apply not to the frame itself but to the client window, so that using them enables horizontal and vertical scrollbars for this window and not the frame. @endStyleTable @library{wxcore} @category{managedwnd} @see wxMDIChildFrame, wxMDIClientWindow, wxFrame, wxDialog */ class wxMDIParentFrame : public wxFrame { public: /** Default constructor. Use Create() for the objects created using this constructor. */ wxMDIParentFrame(); /** Constructor, creating the window. Notice that if you override virtual OnCreateClient() method you shouldn't be using this constructor but the default constructor and Create() as otherwise your overridden method is never going to be called because of the usual C++ virtual call resolution rules. @param parent The window parent. Usually is @NULL. @param id The window identifier. It may take a value of @c wxID_ANY to indicate a default value. @param title The caption to be displayed on the frame's title bar. @param pos The window position. The value @c wxDefaultPosition indicates a default position, chosen by either the windowing system or wxWidgets, depending on platform. @param size The window size. The value @c wxDefaultSize indicates a default size, chosen by either the windowing system or wxWidgets, depending on platform. @param style The window style. Default value includes wxHSCROLL and wxVSCROLL styles. @param name The name of the window. This parameter is used to associate a name with the item, allowing the application user to set Motif resource values for individual windows. @remarks Under wxMSW, the client window will automatically have a sunken border style when the active child is not maximized, and no border style when a child is maximized. @see Create(), OnCreateClient() */ wxMDIParentFrame(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id, const wxString& title, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE | wxVSCROLL | wxHSCROLL, const wxString& name = wxFrameNameStr); /** Destructor. Destroys all child windows and menu bar if present. */ virtual ~wxMDIParentFrame(); /** Activates the MDI child following the currently active one. The MDI children are maintained in an ordered list and this function switches to the next element in this list, wrapping around the end of it if the currently active child is the last one. @see ActivatePrevious() */ virtual void ActivateNext(); /** Activates the MDI child preceding the currently active one. @see ActivateNext() */ virtual void ActivatePrevious(); /** Arranges any iconized (minimized) MDI child windows. This method is only implemented in MSW MDI implementation and does nothing under the other platforms. @see Cascade(), Tile() */ virtual void ArrangeIcons(); /** Arranges the MDI child windows in a cascade. This method is only implemented in MSW MDI implementation and does nothing under the other platforms. @see Tile(), ArrangeIcons() */ virtual void Cascade(); /** Used in two-step frame construction. See wxMDIParentFrame() for further details. */ bool Create(wxWindow* parent, wxWindowID id, const wxString& title, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE | wxVSCROLL | wxHSCROLL, const wxString& name = wxFrameNameStr); /** Returns a pointer to the active MDI child, if there is one. If there are any children at all this function returns a non-@NULL pointer. */ virtual wxMDIChildFrame* GetActiveChild() const; /** Returns a pointer to the client window. @see OnCreateClient() */ wxMDIClientWindowBase* GetClientWindow() const; /** Returns the current MDI Window menu. Unless wxFRAME_NO_WINDOW_MENU style was used, a default menu listing all the currently active children and providing the usual operations (tile, cascade, ...) on them is created automatically by the library and this function can be used to retrieve it. Notice that the default menu can be replaced by calling SetWindowMenu(). This function is currently not available under OS X. @return The current Window menu or @NULL. */ wxMenu *GetWindowMenu() const; /** Returns whether the MDI implementation is tab-based. Currently only the MSW port uses the real MDI. In Mac ports the usual SDI is used, as common under this platforms, and all the other ports use TDI implementation. TDI-based MDI applications have different appearance and functionality (e.g. child frames can't be minimized and only one of them is visible at any given time) so the application may need to adapt its interface somewhat depending on the return value of this function. */ static bool IsTDI(); /** Override this to return a different kind of client window. If you override this function, you must create your parent frame in two stages, or your function will never be called, due to the way C++ treats virtual functions called from constructors. For example: @code frame = new MyParentFrame; frame->Create(parent, myParentFrameId, "My Parent Frame"); @endcode @remarks You might wish to derive from wxMDIClientWindow in order to implement different erase behaviour, for example, such as painting a bitmap on the background. Note that it is probably impossible to have a client window that scrolls as well as painting a bitmap or pattern, since in @b OnScroll, the scrollbar positions always return zero. @see GetClientWindow(), wxMDIClientWindow */ virtual wxMDIClientWindow* OnCreateClient(); /** Replace the current MDI Window menu. Ownership of the menu object passes to the frame when you call this function, i.e. the menu will be deleted by it when it's no longer needed (usually when the frame itself is deleted or when SetWindowMenu() is called again). To remove the window completely, you can use the wxFRAME_NO_WINDOW_MENU window style but this function also allows to do it by passing @NULL pointer as @a menu. This function is currently not available under OS X. @param menu The menu to be used instead of the standard MDI Window menu or @NULL. */ virtual void SetWindowMenu(wxMenu* menu); /** Tiles the MDI child windows either horizontally or vertically depending on whether @a orient is @c wxHORIZONTAL or @c wxVERTICAL. This method is only implemented in MSW MDI implementation and does nothing under the other platforms. */ virtual void Tile(wxOrientation orient = wxHORIZONTAL); }; /** @class wxMDIChildFrame An MDI child frame is a frame that can only exist inside a wxMDIClientWindow, which is itself a child of wxMDIParentFrame. @beginStyleTable All of the standard wxFrame styles can be used but most of them are ignored by TDI-based MDI implementations. @endStyleTable @remarks Although internally an MDI child frame is a child of the MDI client window, in wxWidgets you create it as a child of wxMDIParentFrame. In fact, you can usually forget that the client window exists. MDI child frames are clipped to the area of the MDI client window, and may be iconized on the client window. You can associate a menubar with a child frame as usual, although an MDI child doesn't display its menubar under its own title bar. The MDI parent frame's menubar will be changed to reflect the currently active child frame. If there are currently no children, the parent frame's own menubar will be displayed. @library{wxcore} @category{managedwnd} @see wxMDIClientWindow, wxMDIParentFrame, wxFrame */ class wxMDIChildFrame : public wxFrame { public: /** Default constructor. */ wxMDIChildFrame(); /** Constructor, creating the window. @param parent The window parent. This should not be @NULL. @param id The window identifier. It may take a value of -1 to indicate a default value. @param title The caption to be displayed on the frame's title bar. @param pos The window position. The value @c wxDefaultPosition indicates a default position, chosen by either the windowing system or wxWidgets, depending on platform. @param size The window size. The value @c wxDefaultSize indicates a default size, chosen by either the windowing system or wxWidgets, depending on platform. @param style The window style. See wxMDIChildFrame. @param name The name of the window. This parameter is used to associate a name with the item, allowing the application user to set Motif resource values for individual windows. @see Create() */ wxMDIChildFrame(wxMDIParentFrame* parent, wxWindowID id, const wxString& title, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE, const wxString& name = wxFrameNameStr); /** Destructor. Destroys all child windows and menu bar if present. */ virtual ~wxMDIChildFrame(); /** Activates this MDI child frame. @see Maximize(), Restore() */ virtual void Activate(); /** Used in two-step frame construction. See wxMDIChildFrame() for further details. */ bool Create(wxMDIParentFrame* parent, wxWindowID id, const wxString& title, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE, const wxString& name = wxFrameNameStr); /** Returns the MDI parent frame containing this child. Notice that this may return a different object than GetParent() as the child frames may be created as children of the client window internally. */ wxMDIParentFrame *GetMDIParent() const; /** Returns true for MDI children in TDI implementations. TDI-based implementations represent MDI children as pages in a wxNotebook and so they are always maximized and can't be restored or iconized. @see wxMDIParentFrame::IsTDI(). */ virtual bool IsAlwaysMaximized() const; /** Maximizes this MDI child frame. This function doesn't do anything if IsAlwaysMaximized() returns @true. @see Activate(), Restore() */ virtual void Maximize(bool maximize = true); /** Restores this MDI child frame (unmaximizes). This function doesn't do anything if IsAlwaysMaximized() returns @true. @see Activate(), Maximize() */ virtual void Restore(); };