Version: 3.1.0
wxBrush Class Reference

#include <wx/brush.h>

+ Inheritance diagram for wxBrush:

Detailed Description

A brush is a drawing tool for filling in areas.

It is used for painting the background of rectangles, ellipses, etc. It has a colour and a style.

On a monochrome display, wxWidgets shows all brushes as white unless the colour is really black.

Do not initialize objects on the stack before the program commences, since other required structures may not have been set up yet. Instead, define global pointers to objects and create them in wxApp::OnInit or when required.

An application may wish to create brushes with different characteristics dynamically, and there is the consequent danger that a large number of duplicate brushes will be created. Therefore an application may wish to get a pointer to a brush by using the global list of brushes wxTheBrushList, and calling the member function wxBrushList::FindOrCreateBrush().

This class uses reference counting and copy-on-write internally so that assignments between two instances of this class are very cheap. You can therefore use actual objects instead of pointers without efficiency problems. If an instance of this class is changed it will create its own data internally so that other instances, which previously shared the data using the reference counting, are not affected.

Library:  wxCore
Category:  Graphics Device Interface (GDI)

Predefined objects/pointers:

See Also
wxBrushList, wxDC, wxDC::SetBrush

Public Member Functions

 wxBrush ()
 Default constructor.
 
 wxBrush (const wxColour &colour, wxBrushStyle style=wxBRUSHSTYLE_SOLID)
 Constructs a brush from a colour object and style.
 
 wxBrush (const wxBitmap &stippleBitmap)
 Constructs a stippled brush using a bitmap.
 
 wxBrush (const wxBrush &brush)
 Copy constructor, uses reference counting.
 
virtual ~wxBrush ()
 Destructor.
 
virtual wxColour GetColour () const
 Returns a reference to the brush colour.
 
virtual wxBitmapGetStipple () const
 Gets a pointer to the stipple bitmap.
 
virtual wxBrushStyle GetStyle () const
 Returns the brush style, one of the wxBrushStyle values.
 
virtual bool IsHatch () const
 Returns true if the style of the brush is any of hatched fills.
 
virtual bool IsOk () const
 Returns true if the brush is initialised.
 
bool IsNonTransparent () const
 Returns true if the brush is a valid non-transparent brush.
 
bool IsTransparent () const
 Returns true if the brush is transparent.
 
virtual void SetStipple (const wxBitmap &bitmap)
 Sets the stipple bitmap.
 
virtual void SetStyle (wxBrushStyle style)
 Sets the brush style.
 
bool operator!= (const wxBrush &brush) const
 Inequality operator.
 
bool operator== (const wxBrush &brush) const
 Equality operator.
 
virtual void SetColour (const wxColour &colour)
 Sets the brush colour using red, green and blue values.
 
virtual void SetColour (unsigned char red, unsigned char green, unsigned char blue)
 Sets the brush colour using red, green and blue values.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from wxGDIObject
 wxGDIObject ()
 Default constructor.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from wxObject
 wxObject ()
 Default ctor; initializes to NULL the internal reference data.
 
 wxObject (const wxObject &other)
 Copy ctor.
 
virtual ~wxObject ()
 Destructor.
 
virtual wxClassInfoGetClassInfo () const
 This virtual function is redefined for every class that requires run-time type information, when using the wxDECLARE_CLASS macro (or similar).
 
wxObjectRefDataGetRefData () const
 Returns the wxObject::m_refData pointer, i.e. the data referenced by this object.
 
bool IsKindOf (const wxClassInfo *info) const
 Determines whether this class is a subclass of (or the same class as) the given class.
 
bool IsSameAs (const wxObject &obj) const
 Returns true if this object has the same data pointer as obj.
 
void Ref (const wxObject &clone)
 Makes this object refer to the data in clone.
 
void SetRefData (wxObjectRefData *data)
 Sets the wxObject::m_refData pointer.
 
void UnRef ()
 Decrements the reference count in the associated data, and if it is zero, deletes the data.
 
void UnShare ()
 This is the same of AllocExclusive() but this method is public.
 
void operator delete (void *buf)
 The delete operator is defined for debugging versions of the library only, when the identifier WXDEBUG is defined.
 
void * operator new (size_t size, const wxString &filename=NULL, int lineNum=0)
 The new operator is defined for debugging versions of the library only, when the identifier WXDEBUG is defined.
 

Additional Inherited Members

- Protected Member Functions inherited from wxObject
void AllocExclusive ()
 Ensure that this object's data is not shared with any other object.
 
virtual wxObjectRefDataCreateRefData () const
 Creates a new instance of the wxObjectRefData-derived class specific to this object and returns it.
 
virtual wxObjectRefDataCloneRefData (const wxObjectRefData *data) const
 Creates a new instance of the wxObjectRefData-derived class specific to this object and initializes it copying data.
 
- Protected Attributes inherited from wxObject
wxObjectRefDatam_refData
 Pointer to an object which is the object's reference-counted data.
 

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

wxBrush::wxBrush ( )

Default constructor.

The brush will be uninitialised, and wxBrush:IsOk() will return false.

wxBrush::wxBrush ( const wxColour colour,
wxBrushStyle  style = wxBRUSHSTYLE_SOLID 
)

Constructs a brush from a colour object and style.

Parameters
colourColour object.
styleOne of the wxBrushStyle enumeration values.
wxBrush::wxBrush ( const wxBitmap stippleBitmap)

Constructs a stippled brush using a bitmap.

The brush style will be set to wxBRUSHSTYLE_STIPPLE.

wxBrush::wxBrush ( const wxBrush brush)

Copy constructor, uses reference counting.

virtual wxBrush::~wxBrush ( )
virtual

Destructor.

See Object Destruction for more info.

Remarks
Although all remaining brushes are deleted when the application exits, the application should try to clean up all brushes itself. This is because wxWidgets cannot know if a pointer to the brush object is stored in an application data structure, and there is a risk of double deletion.

Member Function Documentation

virtual wxColour wxBrush::GetColour ( ) const
virtual

Returns a reference to the brush colour.

See Also
SetColour()
virtual wxBitmap* wxBrush::GetStipple ( ) const
virtual

Gets a pointer to the stipple bitmap.

If the brush does not have a wxBRUSHSTYLE_STIPPLE style, this bitmap may be non-NULL but uninitialised (i.e. wxBitmap:IsOk() returns false).

See Also
SetStipple()
virtual wxBrushStyle wxBrush::GetStyle ( ) const
virtual

Returns the brush style, one of the wxBrushStyle values.

See Also
SetStyle(), SetColour(), SetStipple()
virtual bool wxBrush::IsHatch ( ) const
virtual

Returns true if the style of the brush is any of hatched fills.

See Also
GetStyle()
bool wxBrush::IsNonTransparent ( ) const

Returns true if the brush is a valid non-transparent brush.

This method returns true if the brush object is initialized and has a non-transparent style. Notice that this should be used instead of simply testing whether GetStyle() returns a style different from wxBRUSHSTYLE_TRANSPARENT if the brush may be invalid as GetStyle() would assert in this case.

See Also
IsTransparent()
Since
2.9.2.
virtual bool wxBrush::IsOk ( ) const
virtual

Returns true if the brush is initialised.

Notice that an uninitialized brush object can't be queried for any brush properties and all calls to the accessor methods on it will result in an assert failure.

bool wxBrush::IsTransparent ( ) const

Returns true if the brush is transparent.

A transparent brush is simply a brush with wxBRUSHSTYLE_TRANSPARENT style.

Notice that this function works even for non-initialized brushes (for which it returns false) unlike tests of the form GetStyle() == wxBRUSHSTYLE_TRANSPARENT which would assert if the brush is invalid.

See Also
IsNonTransparent()
Since
2.9.2.
bool wxBrush::operator!= ( const wxBrush brush) const

Inequality operator.

See Object Comparison for more info.

bool wxBrush::operator== ( const wxBrush brush) const

Equality operator.

See Object Comparison for more info.

virtual void wxBrush::SetColour ( const wxColour colour)
virtual

Sets the brush colour using red, green and blue values.

See Also
GetColour()
virtual void wxBrush::SetColour ( unsigned char  red,
unsigned char  green,
unsigned char  blue 
)
virtual

Sets the brush colour using red, green and blue values.

See Also
GetColour()
virtual void wxBrush::SetStipple ( const wxBitmap bitmap)
virtual

Sets the stipple bitmap.

Parameters
bitmapThe bitmap to use for stippling.
Remarks
The style will be set to wxBRUSHSTYLE_STIPPLE, unless the bitmap has a mask associated to it, in which case the style will be set to wxBRUSHSTYLE_STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
See Also
wxBitmap
virtual void wxBrush::SetStyle ( wxBrushStyle  style)
virtual

Sets the brush style.

Parameters
styleOne of the wxBrushStyle values.
See Also
GetStyle()