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            DONE
  37     wxRegKey
  38     wxTabCtrl           DONE
  39     wxNotebook          DONE (some more explanation required)
  40     wxWave              DONE
  41     wxJoystick          DONE
  42     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  43     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  44     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  45     wxHelpController classes DONE (except for Unix ones)
  46     wxString            PARTLY DONE
  47     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  48     wxCheckListBox      DONE
  49     wxAcceleratorTable  DONE
  50     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  51     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  52     Document the include file for each class
  53     Macros, e.g. wxASSERT
  54     Stream classes
  55     Functions
  56
  57 Write tutorial.
  58
  59 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges.
  60
  61 Makefiles for other compilers. Generic makefiles?
  62 Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  63 objects.
  64
  65 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  66
  67 Convert remaining utilities e.g. (GLCanvas; wxGraphLayout) and samples
  68
  69 Check TODO entries.
  70
  71 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  72
  73 Make use of Vadim's gettext implementation throughout wxWin code.
  74 Document it.
  75
  76 Retain callback functions; have semi-compatible callback function prototypes
  77 for all controls, at least in WXWIN_COMPATIBLE mode, but
  78 retain (Set)Callback for all compilations. This is following a
  79 panicky response to losing callbacks.
  80
  81 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  82
  83 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  84
  85 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  86 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  87
  88 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  89 in image list so we can get them later.
  90
  91 Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.
  92
  93 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  94 code to test them.
  95
  96 LOW PRIORITY
  97 ------------
  98
  99 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
 100 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
 101 a .res file as a custom resource.
 102
 103 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
 104
 105 Angled text.
 106
 107 Eliminate Set/GetDefaultBackgroundColour? Just take background
 108 colour for child control instead.
 109
 110 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
 111 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
 112 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
 113 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
 114
 115 Better clipboard support.
 116
 117 wxWizard class?
 118
 119 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
 120
 121 wxClassWizard for generating files, chunks of code.
 122
 123 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
 124
 125 wxImage or replacement; further wxBitmap/wxIcon etc. functions
 126 (load animated icos).
 127
 128 Integrate existing multimedia classes.
 129
 130 Rich text class?
 131
 132 Look at WinCE stuff incl. database classes.
 133
 134 Improve conversion guide, compatibility classes, tools?
 135
 136 Bug database.
 137
 138 ActiveX support?
 139
 140 OpenGL integration.
 141
 142 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 143
 144 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 145 HTML help also.
 146
 147 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 148 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 149
 150 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 151 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 152
 153 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 154 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 155
 156 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 157
 158 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 159 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 160 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 161
 162 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 163
 164 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 165
 166 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 167 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 168 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 169 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 170 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 171 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 172 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 173
 174     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 175     wxBrush brush(...);
 176     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 177
 178 or even
 179
 180     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 181     wxBrush brush(...);
 182
 183 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 184 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 185 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 186 more efficient).
 187
 188 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 189 can work.