///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Name: wx/headerctrl.h // Purpose: interface of wxHeaderCtrl // Author: Vadim Zeitlin // Created: 2008-12-01 // RCS-ID: $Id$ // Copyright: (c) 2008 Vadim Zeitlin // Licence: wxWindows license ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /** @class wxHeaderCtrl wxHeaderCtrl is the control containing the column headings which is usually used for display of tabular data. It is used as part of wxGrid, in wxDataViewCtrl and in the report view of wxListCtrl but can be also used independently. In general this class is meant to be used as part of another control which already stores the column information somewhere as it can't be used directly: instead you need to inherit from it and implement the GetColumn() method to provide column information. See wxHeaderCtrlSimple for a concrete control class which can be used directly. In addition to labeling the columns, the control has the following features: - Column reordering support, either by explicitly configuring the columns order and calling SetColumnsOrder() or by dragging the columns interactively (if enabled). - Display of the icons in the header: this is often used to display a sort or reverse sort indicator when the column header is clicked. Notice that this control itself doesn't do anything other than displaying the column headers. In particular column reordering and sorting must still be supported by the associated control displaying the real data under the header. Also remember to call ScrollWindow() method of the control if the associated data display window has a horizontal scrollbar, otherwise the headers wouldn't align with the data when the window is scrolled. This control is implemented using the native header control under MSW systems and a generic implementation elsewhere. @section headerctrl_improvements Future Improvements Some features are supported by the native MSW control and so could be easily implemented in this version of wxHeaderCtrl but need to be implemented in the generic version as well to be really useful. Please let us know if you need or, better, plan to work on implementing, any of them: - Displaying bitmaps instead of or together with the text - Custom drawn headers - Filters associated with a column. @beginStyleTable @style{wxHD_ALLOW_REORDER} If this style is specified (it is by default), the user can reorder the control columns by dragging them. @style{wxHD_DEFAULT_STYLE} Symbolic name for the default control style, currently equal to @c wxHD_ALLOW_REORDER. @endStyleTable @beginEventTable{wxHeaderCtrlEvent} @event{EVT_HEADER_CLICK(id, func)} A column heading was clicked. @event{EVT_HEADER_RIGHT_CLICK(id, func)} A column heading was right clicked. @event{EVT_HEADER_MIDDLE_CLICK(id, func)} A column heading was clicked with the middle mouse button. @event{EVT_HEADER_DCLICK(id, func)} A column heading was double clicked. @event{EVT_HEADER_RIGHT_DCLICK(id, func)} A column heading was right double clicked. @event{EVT_HEADER_MIDDLE_DCLICK(id, func)} A column heading was double clicked with the middle mouse button. @event{EVT_HEADER_SEPARATOR_DCLICK(id, func)} Separator to the right of the specified column was double clicked (this action is commonly used to resize the column to fit its contents width and the control provides UpdateColumnWidthToFit() method to make implementing this easier). @event{EVT_HEADER_BEGIN_RESIZE(id, func)} The user started to drag the separator to the right of the column with the specified index (this can only happen for the columns for which wxHeaderColumn::IsResizeable() returns true). The event can be vetoed to prevent the column from being resized. If it isn't, the resizing and end resize (or dragging cancelled) events will be generated later. @event{EVT_HEADER_RESIZING(id, func)} The user is dragging the column with the specified index resizing it and its current width is wxHeaderCtrlEvent::GetWidth(). The event can be vetoed to stop the dragging operation completely at any time. @event{EVT_HEADER_END_RESIZE(id, func)} The user stopped dragging the column by releasing the mouse. The column should normally be resized to the value of wxHeaderCtrlEvent::GetWidth(). @event{EVT_HEADER_BEGIN_REORDER(id, func)} The user started to drag the column with the specified index (this can only happen for the controls with wxHD_ALLOW_REORDER style). This event can be vetoed to prevent the column from being reordered, otherwise the end reorder message will be generated later. @event{EVT_HEADER_END_REORDER(id, func)} The user dropped the column in its new location. The event can be vetoed to prevent the column from being placed at the new position or handled to update the display of the data in the associated control to match the new column location (available from wxHeaderCtrlEvent::GetNewOrder()). @event{EVT_HEADER_DRAGGING_CANCELLED(id, func)} The resizing or reordering operation currently in progress was cancelled. This can happen if the user pressed Esc key while dragging the mouse or the mouse capture was lost for some other reason. You only need to handle this event if your application entered into some modal mode when resizing or reordering began, in which case it should handle this event in addition to the matching end resizing or reordering ones. @endEventTable @library{wxcore} @category{ctrl} @see wxGrid, wxListCtrl, wxDataViewCtrl */ class wxHeaderCtrl { public: /** Default constructor not creating the underlying window. You must use Create() after creating the object using this constructor. */ wxHeaderCtrl(); /** Constructor creating the window. Please see Create() for the parameters documentation. */ wxHeaderCtrl(wxWindow *parent, wxWindowID winid = wxID_ANY, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = wxHD_DEFAULT_STYLE, const wxString& name = wxHeaderCtrlNameStr); /** Create the header control window. @param parent The parent window. The header control should be typically positioned along the top edge of this window. @param winid Id of the control or @c wxID_ANY if you don't care. @param pos The initial position of the control. @param size The initial size of the control (usually not very useful as this control will typically be resized to have the same width as the associated data display control). @param style The control style, @c wxHD_DEFAULT_STYLE by default. Notice that the default style allows the user to reorder the columns by dragging them and you need to explicitly turn this feature off by using @code wxHD_DEFAULT_STYLE & ~wxHD_ALLOW_REORDER @endcode if this is undesirable. @param name The name of the control. */ bool Create(wxWindow *parent, wxWindowID winid = wxID_ANY, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = wxHD_DEFAULT_STYLE, const wxString& name = wxHeaderCtrlNameStr); /** Set the number of columns in the control. The control will use GetColumn() to get information about all the new columns and refresh itself, i.e. this method also has the same effect as calling UpdateColumn() for all columns but it should only be used if the number of columns really changed. */ void SetColumnCount(unsigned int count); /** Return the number of columns in the control. @return Number of columns as previously set by SetColumnCount(). @see IsEmpty() */ unsigned int GetColumnCount() const; /** Return whether the control has any columns. @see GetColumnCount() */ bool IsEmpty() const; /** Update the column with the given index. When the value returned by GetColumn() changes, this method must be called to notify the control about the change and update the visual display to match the new column data. @param idx The column index, must be less than GetColumnCount(). */ void UpdateColumn(unsigned int idx); /** Change the columns display order. The display order defines the order in which the columns appear on the screen and does @em not affect the interpretation of indices by all the other class methods. The @a order array specifies the column indices corresponding to the display positions. @param order A permutation of all column indices, i.e. an array of size GetColumnsOrder() containing all column indices exactly once. The n-th element of this array defines the index of the column shown at the n-th position from left (for the default left-to-right writing direction). @see wxListCtrl::SetColumnsOrder() */ void SetColumnsOrder(const wxArrayInt& order); /** Return the array describing the columns display order. For the controls without wxHD_ALLOW_REORDER style the returned array will be the same as was passed to SetColumnsOrder() previously or define the default order (with n-th element being n) if it hadn't been called. But for the controls with wxHD_ALLOW_REORDER style, the columns can be also reordered by user. */ wxArrayInt GetColumnsOrder() const; /** Return the index of the column displayed at the given position. @param pos The display position, e.g. 0 for the left-most column, 1 for the next one and so on until GetColumnCount() - 1. @see GetColumnPos() */ unsigned int GetColumnAt(unsigned int pos) const; /** Get the position at which this column is currently displayed. Notice that a valid position is returned even for the hidden columns currently. @param idx The column index, must be less than GetColumnCount(). @see GetColumnAt() */ unsigned int GetColumnPos(unsigned int idx) const; /** Reset the columns order to the natural one. After calling this function, the column with index @c idx appears at position @c idx in the control. */ void ResetColumnsOrder(); /** Helper function to manipulate the array of column indices. This function reshuffles the array of column indices indexed by positions (i.e. using the same convention as for SetColumnsOrder()) so that the column with the given index is found at the specified position. @param order Array containing the indices of columns in order of their positions. @param idx The index of the column to move. @param pos The new position for the column @a idx. */ static void MoveColumnInOrderArray(wxArrayInt& order, unsigned int idx, unsigned int pos); /** Show the popup menu allowing the user to show or hide the columns. This functions shows the popup menu containing all columns with check marks for the ones which are currently shown at the current mouse position. It is meant to be called from EVT_HEADER_RIGHT_CLICK handler and should toggle the visibility of the n-th column if the function returns valid column index and not wxID_NONE which is returned if the user cancels the menu. @param title The title for the menu if not empty. @return A valid column index or wxID_NONE if the user didn't select any column. */ int ShowColumnsMenu(const wxString& title = wxString()); protected: /** Method to be implemented by the derived classes to return the information for the given column. @param idx The column index, between 0 and the value last passed to SetColumnCount(). */ virtual wxHeaderColumnBase& GetColumn(unsigned int idx) = 0; /** Method which may be implemented by the derived classes to allow double clicking the column separator to resize the column to fit its contents. When a separator is double clicked, the default handler of EVT_HEADER_SEPARATOR_DCLICK event calls this function and refreshes the column if it returns @true so to implement the resizing of the column to fit its width on header double click you need to implement this method using logic similar to this example: @code class MyHeaderCtrl : public wxHeaderColumnBase { public: ... void SetWidth(int width) { m_width = width; } virtual int GetWidth() const { return m_width; } private: int m_width; }; class MyHeaderCtrl : public wxHeaderCtrl { public: protected: virtual wxHeaderColumnBase& GetColumn(unsigned int idx) { return m_cols[idx]; } virtual bool UpdateColumnWidthToFit(unsigned int idx, int widthTitle) { int widthContents = ... compute minimal width for column idx ... m_cols[idx].SetWidth(wxMax(widthContents, widthTitle)); return true; } wxVector m_cols; }; @endcode Base class version simply returns @false. @param idx The zero-based index of the column to update. @param widthTitle Contains minimal width needed to display the column header itself and will usually be used as a starting point for the fitting width calculation. @return @true to indicate that the column was resized, i.e. GetColumn() now returns the new width value, and so must be refreshed or @false meaning that the control didn't reach to the separator double click. */ virtual bool UpdateColumnWidthToFit(unsigned int idx, int widthTitle); /** Can be overridden in the derived class to update internal data structures when the number of the columns in the control changes. This method is called by SetColumnCount() before effectively changing the number of columns. The base class version does nothing but it is good practice to still call it from the overridden version in the derived class. */ virtual void OnColumnCountChanging(unsigned int count); }; /** @class wxHeaderCtrlSimple wxHeaderCtrlSimple is a concrete header control which can be used directly, without inheriting from it as you need to do when using wxHeaderCtrl itself. When using it, you need to use simple AppendColumn(), InsertColumn() and DeleteColumn() methods instead of setting the number of columns with SetColumnCount() and returning the information about them from the overridden GetColumn(). @library{wxcore} @category{ctrl} @see wxHeaderCtrl */ class wxHeaderCtrlSimple : public wxHeaderCtrl { public: /** Default constructor not creating the underlying window. You must use Create() after creating the object using this constructor. */ wxHeaderCtrlSimple(); /** Constructor creating the window. Please see the base class wxHeaderCtrl::Create() method for the parameters description. */ wxHeaderCtrlSimple(wxWindow *parent, wxWindowID winid = wxID_ANY, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize, long style = wxHD_DEFAULT_STYLE, const wxString& name = wxHeaderCtrlNameStr); /** Insert the column at the given position. @param col The column to insert. Notice that because of the existence of implicit conversion from wxString to wxHeaderColumn a string can be passed directly here. @param idx The position of the new column, from 0 to GetColumnCount(). Using GetColumnCount() means to append the column to the end. @see AppendColumn() */ void InsertColumn(const wxHeaderColumn& col, unsigned int idx); /** Append the column to the end of the control. @see InsertColumn() */ void AppendColumn(const wxHeaderColumn& col); /** Delete the column at the given position. @see InsertColumn(), AppendColumn() */ void DeleteColumn(unsigned int idx); /** Show or hide the column. Initially the column is shown by default or hidden if it was added with wxCOL_HIDDEN flag set. When a column is hidden, it doesn't appear at all on the screen but its index is still taken into account when working with other columns. E.g. if there are three columns 0, 1 and 2 and the column 1 is hidden you still need to use index 2 to refer to the last visible column. @param idx The index of the column to show or hide, from 0 to GetColumnCount(). @param show Indicates whether the column should be shown (default) or hidden. */ void ShowColumn(unsigned int idx, bool show = true); /** Hide the column with the given index. This is the same as calling @code ShowColumn(idx, false) @endcode. @param idx The index of the column to show or hide, from 0 to GetColumnCount(). */ void HideColumn(unsigned int idx); /** Update the column sort indicator. The sort indicator, if shown, is typically an arrow pointing upwards or downwards depending on whether the control contents is sorted in ascending or descending order. @param idx The column to set the sort indicator for. @param sortOrder If @true or @false show the sort indicator corresponding to ascending or descending sort order respectively, if @c -1 remove the currently shown sort indicator. */ virtual void ShowSortIndicator(unsigned int idx, int sortOrder); /** Remove the sort indicator from the given column. This is the same as calling ShowSortIndicator() with @c -1 argument. @param idx The column to remove sort indicator for. */ void RemoveSortIndicator(unsigned int idx); protected: /** This function can be overridden in the classes deriving from this control instead of overriding UpdateColumnWidthToFit(). To implement automatic column resizing to fit its contents width when the column divider is double clicked, you need to simply return the fitting width for the given column @a idx from this method, the control will automatically use the biggest value between the one returned from here and the one needed for the display of the column title itself. The base class version returns -1 indicating that this function is not implemented. */ virtual int GetBestFittingWidth(unsigned int idx) const; }; /** @class wxHeaderCtrlEvent Event class representing the events generated by wxHeaderCtrl. @library{wxcore} @category{ctrl} @see wxHeaderCtrl */ class wxHeaderCtrlEvent : public wxNotifyEvent { public: /** Return the index of the column affected by this event. This method can be called for all header control events. */ int GetColumn() const; /** Return the current width of the column. This method can only be called for the dragging events. */ int GetWidth() const; /** Return the new order of the column. This method can only be called for end reorder event for which it indicates the tentative new position for the column GetColumn() selected by the user. If the event is not vetoed, this will become the new column position in wxHeaderCtrl::GetColumnsOrder(). */ unsigned int GetNewOrder() const; };