wxWidgets/contrib/docs/latex/fl/cbgcupdatesmgr.tex
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\section{\class{cbGCUpdatesMgr}}\label{cbgcupdatesmgr}
class implements optimized logic for refreshing
areas of frame layout - which actually need to be updated.
Is used as default updates-manager by wxFrameLayout.
it is called "Garbage Collecting" u.mgr for it's implementation
tries to find out dependencies between bars, and to order
them ito "hierarchy", this hierarchical sorting resembles
implemenation of heap-garbage collectors, which resolve
dependencies between references.
Example: there are situations where the order of moving
the windows does matter:
case 1)
------ ---
| A | |B|
------ ---> | |
--- --- ------
|B| | A |
| | ------
---
(future)
(past)
past/future positions of A and B windows completely overlapp, i.e.
depend on each other, and there is not solution for
moving the windows witout refreshing both of them,
-- we have cyclic dependency here. The gc. alg will
find this cyclic dependecy and will force "refresh"
after movement.
case 2)
------
| A |
------ --->
---
|B| ------
| | | A |
--- ------
---
|B|
| |
---
(future)
(past)
in this case past/future positions do not overlapp, thus
it's enough only to move windows, without refreshing them.
GC will "notice" it.
there is also third case, when overlapping is partial
in this case the refershing can be also avoided by
moving windows in the order of "most-dependant" towards the
"least-dependent". GC handles this automatically, by
sorting windows by their dependency-level (or "hierarchy")
See garbagec.h for more details of this method, garbagec.h/cpp
implement sorting of generic-dependencies (does not deal
with graphical objects directly)
Summary: improves performance when complex/large windows are
moved around, by reducing number of repaints. Also helps
to avoid dirty non-client areas of moved windows
in some special cases of "overlapping anomalies"
\wxheading{Derived from}
\helpref{cbSimpleUpdatesMgr}{cbsimpleupdatesmgr}
\wxheading{Data structures}
\latexignore{\rtfignore{\wxheading{Members}}}
\membersection{cbGCUpdatesMgr::cbGCUpdatesMgr}\label{cbgcupdatesmgrcbgcupdatesmgr}
\func{}{cbGCUpdatesMgr}{\void}
\func{}{cbGCUpdatesMgr}{\param{wxFrameLayout* }{pPanel}}
\membersection{cbGCUpdatesMgr::AddItem}\label{cbgcupdatesmgradditem}
\func{void}{AddItem}{\param{wxList\& }{itemList}, \param{cbBarInfo* }{pBar}, \param{cbDockPane* }{pPane}, \param{wxRect\& }{curBounds}, \param{wxRect\& }{prevBounds}}
\membersection{cbGCUpdatesMgr::DoRepositionItems}\label{cbgcupdatesmgrdorepositionitems}
\func{void}{DoRepositionItems}{\param{wxList\& }{items}}
\membersection{cbGCUpdatesMgr::OnStartChanges}\label{cbgcupdatesmgronstartchanges}
\func{void}{OnStartChanges}{\void}
notificiactions received from Frame Layout :
\membersection{cbGCUpdatesMgr::UpdateNow}\label{cbgcupdatesmgrupdatenow}
\func{void}{UpdateNow}{\void}
refreshes parts of the frame layout, which need an update