docs/msw/todo.txt

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   2 Todo on wxWin 2.0, Windows platform
   3 -----------------------------------
   4
   5 HIGH PRIORITY
   6 -------------
   7
   8 Integrate Robert's wxGrid enhancements.
   9
  10 Find/add wxThread sample - Arthur T-D?
  11
  12 wxControl dimensions should be optionally based on dialog font
  13 size for portability (dialog units as per Windows).
  14
  15 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
  16
  17 Remove transformation from device to logical coordinates from
  18 events e.g. mouse events.
  19
  20 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  21
  22 Revamp Dialog Editor for new controls and properties (e.g.
  23 window id).
  24
  25 Registry classes (check out wxConfig class - see issues.txt).
  26
  27 Update manual.
  28     wxApp changes       DONE
  29     wxMenu changes      DONE
  30     wxModule            DONE
  31     wxRegion            DONE
  32     wxFile              DONE
  33     wxTempFile
  34     wxMask              DONE
  35     wxDC:Blit           DONE
  36     wxTaskBarIcon       DONE
  37     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  38     wxLog
  39     wxConfig, wxRegKey
  40     wxTabCtrl
  41     wxWave
  42     wxJoystick
  43     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  44     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  45     wxThread
  46     wxString
  47     wxTString
  48     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  49     wxCheckListBox
  50     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  51     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  52     Various events
  53     Document the include file for each class
  54
  55 Write tutorial.
  56
  57 Other static classes.
  58
  59 Makefiles for other compilers. Generic makefiles?
  60 Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  61 objects.
  62
  63 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  64
  65 wxSocket integration.
  66
  67 wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList integration with Robert
  68 Roebling's classes.
  69
  70 Convert OGL, other utilities and samples.
  71
  72 Check TODO entries.
  73
  74 Change #include "wx/xxx.h" to #include <wx/xxx.h>
  75
  76 Tidy code further, e.g. formatting from DevStudio, plus
  77 standard header.
  78
  79 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  80
  81 wxTextCtrl (and wxMultiText/wxTextWindow in wxWin 1.xx) - differences between Edit
  82 and RichEdit controls.
  83
  84 Make use of Vadim's gettext implementation throughout wxWin code.
  85 Document it.
  86
  87 Change wxUpdateIterator to use wxRegion; or scrap
  88 wxUpdateIterator? See wxGTK.
  89
  90 Check WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY mode, remove any unnecessary #ifdefs.
  91
  92 Retain callback functions; have semi-compatible callback function prototypes
  93 for all controls, at least in WXWIN_COMPATIBLE mode, but
  94 retain (Set)Callback for all compilations. This is following a
  95 panicky response to losing callbacks.
  96
  97 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp.
  98
  99 Simplify the toolbar samples.
 100
 101 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
 102
 103 LOW PRIORITY
 104 ------------
 105
 106 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
 107 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
 108 a .res file as a custom resource.
 109
 110 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
 111
 112 Angled text.
 113
 114 Eliminate Set/GetDefaultBackgroundColour? Just take background
 115 colour for child control instead.
 116
 117 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
 118 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
 119 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
 120 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
 121
 122 Completion of drag and drop support (Vadim).
 123
 124 Better clipboard support.
 125
 126 Toolbars: use event tables not virtual functions.
 127
 128 wxWizard class?
 129
 130 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
 131
 132 wxClassWizard for generating files, chunks of code.
 133
 134 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
 135
 136 wxImage or replacement; further wxBitmap/wxIcon etc. functions
 137 (load animated icos).
 138
 139 Integrate existing multimedia classes.
 140
 141 Rich text class?
 142
 143 Optimize size further.
 144
 145 wxThread integration.
 146
 147 Look at WinCE stuff incl. database classes.
 148
 149 Improve conversion guide, compatibility classes, tools?
 150
 151 Bug database.
 152
 153 ActiveX support?
 154
 155 OpenGL integration.
 156
 157 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 158
 159 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 160 HTML help also.
 161
 162 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 163 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 164
 165 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 166 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 167
 168 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 169 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 170
 171 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 172
 173 Write more validators.
 174
 175 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 176
 177 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 178
 179 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 180 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 181 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 182 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 183 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 184 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 185 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 186
 187     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 188     wxBrush brush(...);
 189     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 190
 191 or even
 192
 193     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 194     wxBrush brush(...);
 195
 196 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 197 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 198 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 199 more efficient).
 200
 201 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 202 can work.