docs/msw/todo.txt

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   2 Todo on wxWin 2.0, Windows platform
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   4
   5 HIGH PRIORITY
   6 -------------
   7
   8 Add further controls and properties to Dialog Editor.
   9
  10 Update manual.
  11     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  12     wxRegKey
  13     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  14     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  15     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  16     wxString            PARTLY DONE
  17     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  18     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  19     Document the include file for each class
  20     Stream classes
  21     wxSocket topic overview
  22     Functions
  23
  24 Makefiles and/or IDE files for other compilers: Symantec C++,
  25 Salford C++. IDE files for BC++.
  26
  27 Check TODO entries in source and manual.
  28
  29 Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.
  30
  31 Extend wxSystemSettings to get symbols for current nationality,
  32 e.g. ',' instead of '.' for decimal points.
  33
  34 Supply correct ctl3d/odbc lib files for BC++, Watcom (corrupt?)
  35
  36 Implement new wxClipboard and DnD (Vadim)
  37
  38 Implement wxToolTip
  39
  40 LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
  41 --------------------------
  42
  43 Convert remaining utilities e.g. wxGraphLayout.
  44
  45 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  46
  47 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  48 code to test them.
  49
  50 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  51
  52 Write tutorial.
  53
  54 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  55
  56 Generic makefiles? Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  57 objects.
  58
  59 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  60
  61 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  62 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  63
  64 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  65 in image list so we can get them later.
  66
  67 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  68
  69 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  70 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  71 a .res file as a custom resource.
  72
  73 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  74
  75 Angled text.
  76
  77 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
  78 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
  79 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
  80 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
  81
  82 wxWizard class?
  83
  84 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
  85
  86 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
  87
  88 Bug database.
  89
  90 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
  91
  92 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
  93 use some kind of hash table scheme.
  94
  95 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
  96 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
  97
  98 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
  99 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 100
 101 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 102 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 103 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 104
 105 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 106
 107 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 108
 109 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 110 can work.
 111
 112 Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.
 113
 114 Maybe bundle Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32 with wxWindows (it's only
 115 26KB), for viewing debug messages without a debugger.
 116
 117 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
 118
 119 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?
 120
 121 LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
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 123
 124 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 125
 126 ActiveX support
 127
 128 Look at porting to WinCE
 129
 130 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 131 HTML help also.
 132
 133 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 134 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 135 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 136 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 137 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 138 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 139 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 140
 141     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 142     wxBrush brush(...);
 143     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 144
 145 or even
 146
 147     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 148     wxBrush brush(...);
 149
 150 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 151 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 152 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 153 more efficient).
 154
 155 Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
 156 different platforms.
 157
 158 Rich text class.
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