[wxWidgets.git] / docs / msw / todo.txt


Todo on wxWin 2, Windows platform
---------------------------------

HIGH PRIORITY
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Add further controls and properties to Dialog Editor.

Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.

Extend wxSystemSettings to get symbols for current nationality,
e.g. ',' instead of '.' for decimal points.

wxToolTip::Enable should be static for wxGTK compatibility (VZ)

LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
--------------------------

Supply VC++ project generator utility.

More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).

Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...

Write tutorial.

Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).

Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
in image list so we can get them later.

Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).

Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.

wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
use some kind of hash table scheme.

Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).

Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
can work.

Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.

Implement wxDC floating point transformations.

A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?

LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
------------------------

ActiveX support

Look at porting to WinCE

GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.

    wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
    wxBrush brush(...);
    wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);

or even

    wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
    wxBrush brush(...);

which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
(creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
more efficient).

Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
different platforms.

Rich text class.
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2bda0e17	1
f6bcfd97 BP	2	Todo on wxWin 2, Windows platform
f6bcfd97 BP	3	---------------------------------
2bda0e17 KB	4
	5	HIGH PRIORITY
	6	-------------
	7
2432b92d	8	Add further controls and properties to Dialog Editor.
2bda0e17	9
2432b92d	10	Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.
2bda0e17	11
2432b92d JS	12	Extend wxSystemSettings to get symbols for current nationality,
	13	e.g. ',' instead of '.' for decimal points.
	14
503d5ba9	15	wxToolTip::Enable should be static for wxGTK compatibility (VZ)
8cbd2bde	16
2432b92d JS	17	LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
	18	--------------------------
	19
750b78ba	20	Supply VC++ project generator utility.
acbd13a3	21
2432b92d	22	More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
2bda0e17	23
2bda0e17 KB	24	Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
2bda0e17 KB	25
2432b92d	26	Write tutorial.
2bda0e17	27
2432b92d	28	Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
2bda0e17	29
9c331ded JS	30	Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
	31	in image list so we can get them later.
	32
2432b92d	33	Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
2bda0e17	34
2bda0e17 KB	35	Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
2bda0e17 KB	36
2bda0e17 KB	37	wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
	38	use some kind of hash table scheme.
	39
	40	Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
	41	to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
	42
2432b92d JS	43	Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
	44	can work.
	45
	46	Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.
	47
2432b92d JS	48	Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
	49
	50	A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?
	51
	52	LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
	53	------------------------
	54
2432b92d JS	55	ActiveX support
	56
	57	Look at porting to WinCE
	58
2bda0e17 KB	59	GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
	60	searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
	61	that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
	62	arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
	63	un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
	64	Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
	65	wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
	66
	67	wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
	68	wxBrush brush(...);
	69	wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
	70
	71	or even
	72
	73	wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
	74	wxBrush brush(...);
	75
	76	which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
	77	needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
	78	(creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
	79	more efficient).
	80
2432b92d JS	81	Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
	82	different platforms.
	83
	84	Rich text class.
4b5f3fe6	85