docs/msw/todo.txt

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