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