wxWidgets/samples/xrc/rc/artprov.xrc
Julian Smart af1337b041 Applied [ 594925 ] Implement wxArtProvider and XRC together
By Robert O'Connor (robertoconnor)

This patch is a draft which successfully allows a wxArtProvider to serve out icons to bitmaps for XRC files.

The syntax to use a wxArtProvider bitmap is:
<bitmap stock_id="wxART_INFORMATION" stock_client="wxART_TOOLBAR">somefallbackicon.png</bitmap>

The bitmap is optional, and will only be used as a fallback image, if the wxArtProvider returned a wxNullBitmap for some reason.

The client attribute, if not specified, currently will be wxART_OTHER. Perhaps there should be a guessing heuristic of it being in a menu node to call wxART_MENU.

Usage of XRC resouces and wxArtProvider together can be seen in an updated /contrib/samples/xrc demo, which is a separate patch.

Search the wx-dev mailing lists for "wxArtProvider" and "XRC" for the full discussions on this feature's API design.

Applied patch [ 594932 ] Extended XRC XML resources sample
By Robert O'Connor (robertoconnor)

This is a more comprehensive introduction to how to get up and running using XRC in your new wxWindows project.

It describes both the basics (for new users) and advanced features. It consists of a demo of dialogs and frames loaded from XRC. Each dialog has a textctrl at the top of the dialog, which walks the new user through that feature.

There are 8 demos:

The 4 basic ones:
-A non-derived dialog, as typically used for an about dialog.
-A derived dialog that loads its resources from an XRC (a frequently-asked question on the mailing lists), and responds to some simple events, including the disable-another-control-via-EVT_UPDATE_UI that is another FAQ, and powerful and simple-to-use feature.
-A XRC reference "Controls" dialog, using a notebook. Each tab has a single control. All XRC handled widgets can be seen at a glance, and how to use them under XRC.
-An uncentered dialog, to demonstrate the easy use of <centered>1</centered> to automatically place a Dialog centered on its parent..

The 4 advanced ones:
-Embedding a custom class into an XRC dialog, by using the "unknown" class.
-Using wxArtProvider to use stock icons from within your your XRC resources.
-Using the platform attribute to selectively show a part of XRC based on the current OS.
-Runtime variable expansion (demo only. Not implemented at this time).

Also:
-The main frame is now demonstrated as being loaded as an XRC.
- The toolbar has longhelp tag demonstrated, and are hooked up to the same events as the menu to show how XRCID() works on the same tool and menuitem XRCID.
-Some custom icons for the demonstration were created, and put into the toolbar and menubar. A custom icon also for the demonstration.
-The example code has been put in 1 class per file (both .cpp and a matching .xrc), to make it much less confusing for a newcomer to figure out what class is what, expecially with all the wx macros for declaration and implementation.


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<resource xmlns="http://www.wxwindows.org/wxxrc" version="2.3.0.1">
<object class="wxDialog" name="art_provider_dialog">
<title>wxArtProvider Example</title>
<centered>1</centered>
<object class="wxFlexGridSizer">
<cols>1</cols>
<rows>0</rows>
<vgap>0</vgap>
<hgap>0</hgap>
<growablecols>0</growablecols>
<growablerows>0</growablerows>
<object class="sizeritem">
<flag>wxGROW|wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL|wxALL</flag>
<border>5</border>
<object class="wxTextCtrl" name="message_textctrl">
<size>500,150</size>
<style>wxTE_MULTILINE</style>
<value>You can specify wxArtProvider icons in your XRC resources. These icons will be retrieved from the active wxArtProvider (see wxArtProvider in docs and /samples/artprov for more information on wxArtProvider).\n\nThe most common usage for this is that you want a dialog, toolbar or menu item to have the correct platform-specific icon in your interface, such as a custom "Don't show this again" checkbox message dialog that has the appropriate icon, as shown below.\n\nYou can also use it to manage your own custom bitmaps though, too--instead of having to write multiple versions of an XRC file that only differ in their bitmaps, you can instead just write one XRC file with the bitmap to be retrieved from the wxArtProvider at runtime, having your custom wxArtProvider use some code to serve out the desired bitmap based on such things as a wxConfig n entry of a desired icon set, what OS the application is running on, what size or resolution the display is, and so on.\n\nNote that your application's custom bitmaps are the only thing that will differ between OS's in order to ensure proper Look And Feel, as everything else: windows decoration, colors, fonts, widgets, etc already match perfectly since wxWindows runs natively.\n\nTo use a wxArtProvider bitmap instead of usual bitmap, in your XRC, instead of &lt;bitmap&gt;somefile.png&lt;/bitmap&gt;, use &lt;bitmap stock__id="SOME__ART__ID" client="SOME__CLIENT__ID"&gt;somefile.png&lt;/bitmap&gt;. The stock__id parameter is required for a bitmap to be read from wxArtProvider, stock__client is optional. The image filename is also optional, and is just used as a fallback in case the wxArtProvider couldn't return a bitmap for that particular stock__id (and particular stock__client if your wxArtProvider is set up to also filter stock__client).</value>
</object>
</object>
<object class="sizeritem">
<flag>wxGROW|wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL|wxALL</flag>
<border>5</border>
<object class="wxFlexGridSizer">
<cols>2</cols>
<rows>0</rows>
<vgap>0</vgap>
<hgap>0</hgap>
<growablecols>1</growablecols>
<growablerows>0</growablerows>
<object class="sizeritem">
<flag>wxALIGN_CENTRE|wxALL</flag>
<border>5</border>
<object class="wxStaticBitmap" name="my_bitmap">
<bitmap stock_id="wxART_INFORMATION" stock_client="wxART_MESSAGE_BOX">derivdlg.xpm</bitmap>
</object>
</object>
<object class="sizeritem">
<flag>wxALIGN_CENTRE|wxALL</flag>
<border>5</border>
<object class="wxStaticText" name="message_statictext">
<label>Your web connection is optimized perfectly.</label>
</object>
</object>
</object>
</object>
<object class="sizeritem">
<flag>wxALIGN_CENTRE|wxALL</flag>
<border>5</border>
<object class="wxCheckBox" name="dont_show_checkbox">
<label>Don't show this message again</label>
</object>
</object>
<object class="sizeritem">
<flag>wxALIGN_CENTRE|wxALL</flag>
<border>5</border>
<object class="wxButton" name="wxID_OK">
<label>OK</label>
</object>
</object>
</object>
</object>
</resource>