docs/motif/todo.txt

   1 wxMotif TODO
   2 ------------
   3
   4 Updated: 28/12/98
   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
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  15
  16 - Have a central/per app file for colour settings, with a wxWin
  17   app to allow changing settings interactively.
  18
  19 - Colour setting in widgets (almost done). Should scrollbars take
  20   on the background colour? Not right for e.g. wxScrolledWindows,
  21   so maybe have wxSystemSettings value for scrollbar colour, and/or
  22   ability to set scrollbar colour independently.
  23
  24 - Optimize wxWindow OnPaint to avoid flicker, collapsing Expose events
  25   as per flicker fix in 1.68. It will be tricky to avoid
  26   interfering with non-wxScrolledWindow widgets except by
  27   explicitly testing for wxScrolledWindow.
  28
  29 - Implementation of OnEraseBackground. How? Call OnEraseBackground
  30   just before OnPaint? Will duplicate Xlib's own erase of the background.
  31   However, this is usually OK, because the default wxWindow::OnEraseBackground
  32   can do nothing (SetBackgroundColour will make the background look OK).
  33   And if a custom OnEraseBackground uses the same colour as the window
  34   background, no flicker will be seen. If it does something else, such as
  35   painting a tiled bitmap, then a slight flicker might be seen unless
  36   X can be persuaded not to repaint the window background by default.
  37
  38 - wxSpinButton
  39
  40 - Miscellaneous events.
  41
  42 - Get wxGLCanvas from 1.68 working.
  43
  44 - Use wxImage to load other formats into wxBitmaps, such as PNG, BMP.
  45
  46 Low Priority
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  48
  49 - Visuals: how to select an appropriate one? See Thomas Runge's
  50   visual patch for 1.68 -- should be straightforward to port to 2.0.
  51
  52 - Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is
  53   currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak.
  54
  55 - Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs.
  56
  57 - Extra wxBitmap formats: PNG, BMP. Could use old wxWin 1.68
  58   wxImage code (derived from XV) for BMP/GIF but it's very bloated. However,
  59   when implemented as extra bitmap handlers, the code won't be linked
  60   unless needed. Update: see if wxImage can handle these formats.
  61
  62 - Print/preview framework in print.cpp (see wxGTK).
  63
  64 - Enhance event handling such that you override e.g. left-click
  65   and unless you call the base OnMouseEvent, the click won't be
  66   sent to the button. Required for Dialog Editor.
  67
  68 - Get Dialog Editor working under Motif.
  69
  70 - New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
  71   http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/.
  72
  73   We need to:
  74   - make a minimal distribution under wx/src/xmhtml, just enough
  75     to compile the source.
  76   - add XMHTML_C_SRC to src/motif/makefile.unx with the source files
  77     listed.
  78   - make sure we can compile the sources, passing the correct
  79     flags for zlib/png compilation.
  80   - make a wxHTMLWindow class from e.g. examples/example_2.c. Should
  81     probably make the cache and history facilities part of the class.
  82   - add the driver code to src/motif/helphtml.cpp (a frame, toolbar,
  83     history list).
  84
  85 - Drag and drop. Use a standard X drag
  86   and drop standard - see http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
  87   or use Motif drag and drop as described here:
  88   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html
  89
  90 - Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
  91   Netscape is running. See:
  92   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html
  93
  94 - wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply
  95   implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions.
  96
  97 - wxCheckBoxList
  98
  99 - wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton
 100
 101 - Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed
 102   widget currently used).
 103
 104 - Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
 105   Linux)
 106
 107 - Blit scaling
 108
 109 - Get ODBC classes and sample working.
 110
 111 - Work out why wxTextCtrl doesn't work as a stream buffer under
 112   gcc