docs/motif/todo.txt

   1 wxMotif TODO
   2 ------------
   3
   4 Updated: 11/02/99
   5
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   7
   8 General comment: see the following site for useful Motif widgets.
   9 ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif
  10
  11 Also, grep for TODO comments in source.
  12
  13 High Priority
  14 -------------
  15
  16 - Have a central/per app file for colour settings, with a wxWin
  17   app to allow changing settings interactively.
  18
  19 - Implementation of default event processing (i.e. passing on an intercepted
  20   event such as OnChar to the system). Currently, such events are processed
  21   anyway, so for example intercepting left-click in a widget doesn't disable
  22   the default behaviour. See TODOs in window.cpp.
  23
  24 - wxRadioBox doesn't show up in the controls sample, though it's
  25   OK on other dialogs (e.g. printing sample).
  26
  27 - wxSpinButton
  28
  29 - wxToolTip
  30
  31 - Miscellaneous events.
  32
  33 - Use wxImage to load other formats into wxBitmaps, such as PNG, BMP.
  34
  35 - Allow wxFrame and other widgets to have mouse event handlers.
  36
  37 Low Priority
  38 ------------
  39
  40 - Painting a retained window could be optimized further (see
  41   wxWindow::DoPaint).
  42
  43 - Visuals: how to select an appropriate one? See Thomas Runge's
  44   visual patch for 1.68 -- should be straightforward to port to 2.0.
  45
  46 - Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is
  47   currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak.
  48
  49 - Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs.
  50
  51 - Extra wxBitmap formats: PNG, BMP. Could use old wxWin 1.68
  52   wxImage code (derived from XV) for BMP/GIF but it's very bloated. However,
  53   when implemented as extra bitmap handlers, the code won't be linked
  54   unless needed. Update: see if wxImage can handle these formats.
  55
  56 - Get Dialog Editor working (better) under Motif.
  57
  58 - New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
  59   http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/.
  60
  61   We need to:
  62   - make a minimal distribution under wx/src/xmhtml, just enough
  63     to compile the source.
  64   - add XMHTML_C_SRC to src/motif/makefile.unx with the source files
  65     listed.
  66   - make sure we can compile the sources, passing the correct
  67     flags for zlib/png compilation.
  68   - make a wxHTMLWindow class from e.g. examples/example_2.c. Should
  69     probably make the cache and history facilities part of the class.
  70   - add the driver code to src/motif/helphtml.cpp (a frame, toolbar,
  71     history list).
  72
  73 - Drag and drop. Use a standard X drag
  74   and drop standard - see http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
  75   or use Motif drag and drop as described here:
  76   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html
  77
  78 - Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
  79   Netscape is running. See:
  80   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html
  81
  82 - wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply
  83   implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions.
  84
  85 - wxCheckBoxList
  86
  87 - wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton
  88
  89 - Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed
  90   widget currently used).
  91
  92 - Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
  93   Linux)
  94
  95 - Get ODBC classes and sample working.
  96
  97 - Work out why wxTextCtrl doesn't work as a stream buffer under
  98   gcc