docs/msw/todo.txt

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   2 Todo on wxWin 2.0, Windows platform
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   4
   5 HIGH PRIORITY
   6 -------------
   7
   8 Add further controls and properties to Dialog Editor.
   9
  10 Update manual.
  11     wxTempFile
  12     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  13     wxRegKey
  14     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  15     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  16     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  17     wxString            PARTLY DONE
  18     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  19     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  20     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  21     Document the include file for each class
  22     Stream classes
  23     wxSocket topic overview
  24     Functions
  25
  26 Makefiles and/or IDE files for other compilers: Symantec C++,
  27 Salford C++. IDE files for BC++.
  28
  29 Check TODO entries in source and manual.
  30
  31 Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.
  32
  33 Extend wxSystemSettings to get symbols for current nationality,
  34 e.g. ',' instead of '.' for decimal points.
  35
  36 Supply correct ctl3d/odbc lib files for BC++, Watcom (corrupt?)
  37
  38 16-bit compilation: replace small icons in treectrl/listctrl
  39 samples that also have a 32x32 icon, with icons with only one
  40 image, using Borland Image Editor. WIN16 doesn't have a function
  41 for specifying which image to use, so the larger one gets used
  42 erroneously.
  43
  44 Add headers to VC++ project files.
  45
  46 Test GLCanvas.
  47
  48 Distribution naming?
  49
  50 LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
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  52
  53 Convert remaining utilities e.g. wxGraphLayout.
  54
  55 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  56
  57 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  58 code to test them.
  59
  60 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  61
  62 Write tutorial.
  63
  64 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  65
  66 Generic makefiles? Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  67 objects.
  68
  69 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  70
  71 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  72 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  73
  74 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  75 in image list so we can get them later.
  76
  77 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  78
  79 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  80 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  81 a .res file as a custom resource.
  82
  83 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  84
  85 Angled text.
  86
  87 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
  88 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
  89 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
  90 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
  91
  92 Better clipboard support (as per Robert's class).
  93
  94 wxWizard class?
  95
  96 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
  97
  98 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
  99
 100 Bug database.
 101
 102 OpenGL integration: check that wxGLCanvas works cross-platform.
 103
 104 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 105
 106 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 107 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 108
 109 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 110 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 111
 112 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 113 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 114
 115 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 116 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 117 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 118
 119 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 120
 121 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 122
 123 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 124 can work.
 125
 126 Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.
 127
 128 Maybe bundle Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32 with wxWindows (it's only
 129 26KB), for viewing debug messages without a debugger.
 130
 131 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
 132
 133 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?
 134
 135 LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
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 137
 138 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 139
 140 ActiveX support
 141
 142 Look at porting to WinCE
 143
 144 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 145 HTML help also.
 146
 147 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 148 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 149 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 150 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 151 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 152 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 153 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 154
 155     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 156     wxBrush brush(...);
 157     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 158
 159 or even
 160
 161     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 162     wxBrush brush(...);
 163
 164 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 165 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 166 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 167 more efficient).
 168
 169 Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
 170 different platforms.
 171
 172 Rich text class.
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