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wxBookCtrl overview

Classes: wxNotebook, wxListbook, wxChoicebook, wxTreebook, wxToolbook

Introduction
Best book


Introduction

A book control is a convenient way of displaying multiple pages of information, displayed one page at a time. wxWidgets has five variants of this control:

See Notebook sample for an example of wxBookCtrl usage.


Best book

wxBookCtrl is mapped to the class best suited for a given platform. Currently it provides wxChoicebook for smartphones equipped with WinCE, and wxNotebook for all other platforms. The mapping consists of:

wxBookCtrl wxChoicebook or wxNotebook
wxBookCtrlEvent wxChoicebookEvent or wxNotebookEvent
wxEVT_COMMAND_BOOKCTRL_PAGE_CHANGED wxEVT_COMMAND_CHOICEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED or wxEVT_COMMAND_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED
wxEVT_COMMAND_BOOKCTRL_PAGE_CHANGING wxEVT_COMMAND_CHOICEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGING or wxEVT_COMMAND_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGING
EVT_BOOKCTRL_PAGE_CHANGED(id, fn) EVT_CHOICEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED(id, fn) or EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED(id, fn)
EVT_BOOKCTRL_PAGE_CHANGING(id, fn) EVT_CHOICEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGING(id, fn) or EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGING(id, fn)

For orientation of the book controller, use following flags in style:
wxBK_TOP controller above pages
wxBK_BOTTOM controller below pages
wxBK_LEFT controller on the left
wxBK_RIGHT controller on the right
wxBK_DEFAULT native controller placement