docs/motif/todo.txt

   1 wxMotif TODO
   2 ------------
   3
   4 Updated: 9/11/98
   5
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   7
   8 General comment: see the following site for useful Motif widgets.
   9 ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif
  10
  11 Also, grep for TODO comments in source.
  12
  13 High Priority
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  15
  16 - Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is
  17   currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak.
  18
  19 - Colour setting in widgets (almost done). Should scrollbars take
  20   on the background colour? Not right for e.g. wxScrolledWindows,
  21   so maybe have wxSystemSettings value for scrollbar colour, and/or
  22   ability to set scrollbar colour independently.
  23
  24 - Make wxDialog OnPaint work.
  25
  26 - Optimize wxWindow OnPaint, clipping the damaged
  27   region.
  28
  29 - Implementation of OnEraseBackground. How? Call OnEraseBackground
  30   just before OnPaint? Will duplicate Xlib's own erase of the background.
  31   However, this is usually OK, because the default wxWindow::OnEraseBackground
  32   can do nothing (SetBackgroundColour will make the background look OK).
  33   And if a custom OnEraseBackground uses the same colour as the window
  34   background, no flicker will be seen. If it does something else, such as
  35   painting a tiled bitmap, then a slight flicker might be seen unless
  36   X can be persuaded not to repaint the window background by default.
  37
  38 - wxSpinButton
  39
  40 - Tidy dialogs such as the colour and font selectors.
  41
  42 - Use generic wxTreeCtrl, wxListCtrl: debug and enhance these.
  43
  44 - Find out why modal dialogs give a grab warning.
  45
  46 - wxSystemSettings. Eventually, should have control panel-like utility
  47   to change colours/fonts but meanwhile should maybe read them
  48   from a file.
  49
  50 - wxThread (hopefully, similar to wxGTK)
  51
  52 - wxAcceleratorTable.
  53
  54 - Miscellaneous events.
  55
  56 - Write makefiles for all samples and utilities.
  57
  58 - Create some samples for testing.
  59
  60 Low Priority
  61 ------------
  62
  63 - Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs.
  64   Use wxGTK config system? It's really complex to debug and
  65   doesn't offer a way of compiling apps outside the wxWin
  66   hierarchy.
  67
  68 - Extra wxBitmap formats: PNG, BMP. Could use old wxWin 1.68
  69   wxImage code (derived from XV) for BMP/GIF but it's very bloated. However,
  70   when implemented as extra bitmap handlers, the code won't be linked
  71   unless needed.
  72
  73 - Print/preview framework in print.cpp (see wxGTK).
  74
  75 - Enhance event handling such that you override e.g. left-click
  76   and unless you call the base OnMouseEvent, the click won't be
  77   sent to the button. Required for Dialog Editor.
  78
  79 - Get Dialog Editor working under Motif.
  80
  81 - New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
  82   http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/.
  83
  84   We need to:
  85   - make a minimal distribution under wx/src/xmhtml, just enough
  86     to compile the source.
  87   - add XMHTML_C_SRC to src/motif/makefile.unx with the source files
  88     listed.
  89   - make sure we can compile the sources, passing the correct
  90     flags for zlib/png compilation.
  91   - make a wxHTMLWindow class from e.g. examples/example_2.c. Should
  92     probably make the cache and history facilities part of the class.
  93   - add the driver code to src/motif/helphtml.cpp (a frame, toolbar,
  94     history list).
  95
  96   Note that a quicker route to a help system may be to use the
  97   code in the contrib dir of XmHTML to control a Netscape session --
  98   but Netscape can be a colour resource hog.
  99
 100 - Optimize screen refresh for non-native widgets, e.g. wxWindow
 101   created with Create(), using technique in flicker patch for 1.68
 102   (see JACS for latest patch).
 103
 104 - Copy and paste, drag and drop. Use a standard X drag
 105   and drop standard - see http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
 106   or use Motif drag and drop as described here:
 107   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html
 108
 109 - Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
 110   Netscape is running. See:
 111   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html
 112
 113 - wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply
 114   implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions.
 115
 116 - wxCheckBoxList
 117
 118 - wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton
 119
 120 - Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed
 121   widget currently used).
 122
 123 - Write generic wxDirDialog (directory selector)
 124
 125 - Use native Motif dialogs for wxMessageBox
 126
 127 - Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
 128   Linux)
 129
 130 - Blit scaling
 131
 132 - Could eventually alter the MDI widgets to be more Windows-like
 133   -- currently it's half-hearted (menus are on children, whereas
 134   they should replace the main parent frame menu).
 135
 136 - Get ODBC classes and sample working.
 137