phoenix_title wx.lib.docview.View

The view class can be used to model the viewing and editing component of an application’s file-based data. It is part of the document/view framework supported by wxWindows, and cooperates with the Document, DocTemplate and DocManager classes.


class_hierarchy Class Hierarchy

Inheritance diagram for class View:

super_classes Known Superclasses

wx.EvtHandler


method_summary Methods Summary

__init__

Constructor. Define your own default constructor to initialize

Activate

Call this from your view frame’s OnActivate member to tell the

Close

Closes the view by calling OnClose. If deleteWindow is true, this

Destroy

Destructor. Removes itself from the document’s list of views.

GetDocument

Returns the document associated with the view.

GetDocumentManager

Returns the document manager instance associated with this view.

GetFrame

Gets the frame associated with the view (if any). Note that this

GetViewName

Gets the name associated with the view (passed to the DocTemplate

OnActivateView

Called when a view is activated by means of View.Activate. The

OnChangeFilename

Called when the filename has changed. The default implementation

OnClose

Implements closing behaviour. The default implementation calls

OnClosingDocument

Override this to clean up the view when the document is being closed.

OnCreate

DocManager or Document creates a View via

OnCreatePrintout

Returns a wx.Printout object for the purposes of printing. It

OnDraw

Override this to draw the view for the printing framework. The

OnPrint

Override this to print the view for the printing framework. The

OnUpdate

Called when the view should be updated. sender is a pointer to the

ProcessEvent

Processes an event, searching event tables and calling zero or more

ProcessUpdateUIEvent

Processes a UI event, searching event tables and calling zero or more

SetDocument

Associates the given document with the view. Normally called by the

SetFrame

Sets the frame associated with this view. The application should call

SetViewName

Sets the view type name. Should only be called by the framework.


api Class API

class View(wx.EvtHandler)

The view class can be used to model the viewing and editing component of an application’s file-based data. It is part of the document/view framework supported by wxWindows, and cooperates with the Document, DocTemplate and DocManager classes.


Methods

__init__(self)

Constructor. Define your own default constructor to initialize application-specific data.



Activate(self, activate=True)

Call this from your view frame’s OnActivate member to tell the framework which view is currently active. If your windowing system doesn’t call OnActivate, you may need to call this function from OnMenuCommand or any place where you know the view must be active, and the framework will need to get the current view.

The prepackaged view frame DocChildFrame calls View.Activate` from its ``OnActivate member and from its OnMenuCommand member.



Close(self, deleteWindow=True)

Closes the view by calling OnClose. If deleteWindow is true, this function should delete the window associated with the view.



Destroy(self)

Destructor. Removes itself from the document’s list of views.



GetDocument(self)

Returns the document associated with the view.



GetDocumentManager(self)

Returns the document manager instance associated with this view.



GetFrame(self)

Gets the frame associated with the view (if any). Note that this “frame” is not a wx.Frame at all in the generic MDI implementation which uses the notebook pages instead of the frames and this is why this method returns a wx.Window and not a wx.Frame.



GetViewName(self)

Gets the name associated with the view (passed to the DocTemplate constructor). Not currently used by the framework.



OnActivateView(self, activate, activeView, deactiveView)

Called when a view is activated by means of View.Activate. The default implementation does nothing.



OnChangeFilename(self)

Called when the filename has changed. The default implementation constructs a suitable title and sets the title of the view frame (if any).



OnClose(self, deleteWindow=True)

Implements closing behaviour. The default implementation calls Document.Close to close the associated document. Does not delete the view. The application may wish to do some cleaning up operations in this function, if a call to Document::Close succeeded. For example, if your application’s all share the same window, you need to disassociate the window from the view and perhaps clear the window. If deleteWindow is true, delete the frame associated with the view.



OnClosingDocument(self)

Override this to clean up the view when the document is being closed. The default implementation does nothing.



OnCreate(self, doc, flags)

DocManager or Document creates a View via a DocTemplate. Just after the DocTemplate creates the View, it calls xView.OnCreate. In its OnCreate member function, the View can create a DocChildFrame or a derived class. This DocChildFrame provides user interface elements to view and/or edit the contents of the wxDocument.

By default, simply returns true. If the function returns false, the view will be deleted.



OnCreatePrintout(self)

Returns a wx.Printout object for the purposes of printing. It should create a new object every time it is called; the framework will delete objects it creates.

By default, this function returns an instance of DocPrintout, which prints and previews one page by calling View.OnDraw.

Override to return an instance of a class other than DocPrintout.



OnDraw(self, dc)

Override this to draw the view for the printing framework. The default implementation does nothing.



OnPrint(self, dc, info)

Override this to print the view for the printing framework. The default implementation calls View.OnDraw.



OnUpdate(self, sender, hint)

Called when the view should be updated. sender is a pointer to the view that sent the update request, or None if no single view requested the update (for instance, when the document is opened). hint is as yet unused but may in future contain application-specific information for making updating more efficient.



ProcessEvent(self, event)

Processes an event, searching event tables and calling zero or more suitable event handler function(s).



ProcessUpdateUIEvent(self, event)

Processes a UI event, searching event tables and calling zero or more suitable event handler function(s).



SetDocument(self, doc)

Associates the given document with the view. Normally called by the framework.



SetFrame(self, frame)

Sets the frame associated with this view. The application should call this if possible, to tell the view about the frame. See GetFrame for the explanation about the mismatch between the “Frame” in the method name and the type of its parameter.



SetViewName(self, name)

Sets the view type name. Should only be called by the framework.