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     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  49     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  50     Document the include file for each class
  51     Macros, e.g. wxASSERT
  52     Stream classes
  53     Functions
  54
  55 Write tutorial.
  56
  57 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges.
  58
  59 Makefiles for other compilers. Generic makefiles?
  60 Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  61 objects.
  62
  63 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  64
  65 wxSocket integration.
  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.
  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 LOW PRIORITY
  89 ------------
  90
  91 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  92 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  93 a .res file as a custom resource.
  94
  95 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  96
  97 Angled text.
  98
  99 Eliminate Set/GetDefaultBackgroundColour? Just take background
 100 colour for child control instead.
 101
 102 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
 103 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
 104 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
 105 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
 106
 107 Better clipboard support.
 108
 109 wxWizard class?
 110
 111 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
 112
 113 wxClassWizard for generating files, chunks of code.
 114
 115 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
 116
 117 wxImage or replacement; further wxBitmap/wxIcon etc. functions
 118 (load animated icos).
 119
 120 Integrate existing multimedia classes.
 121
 122 Rich text class?
 123
 124 Look at WinCE stuff incl. database classes.
 125
 126 Improve conversion guide, compatibility classes, tools?
 127
 128 Bug database.
 129
 130 ActiveX support?
 131
 132 OpenGL integration.
 133
 134 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 135
 136 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 137 HTML help also.
 138
 139 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 140 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 141
 142 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 143 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 144
 145 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 146 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 147
 148 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 149
 150 Write more validators.
 151
 152 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 153
 154 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 155
 156 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 157 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 158 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 159 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 160 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 161 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 162 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 163
 164     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 165     wxBrush brush(...);
 166     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 167
 168 or even
 169
 170     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 171     wxBrush brush(...);
 172
 173 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 174 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 175 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 176 more efficient).
 177
 178 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 179 can work.