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 Find/add wxThread sample - Arthur T-D?
   9
  10 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
  11
  12 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  13
  14 Revamp Dialog Editor for new controls and properties (e.g.
  15 window id).
  16
  17 Update manual.
  18     wxApp changes       DONE
  19     wxMenu changes      DONE
  20     wxModule            DONE
  21     wxRegion            DONE
  22     wxFile              DONE
  23     wxTempFile
  24     wxMask              DONE
  25     wxDC:Blit           DONE
  26     wxTaskBarIcon       DONE
  27     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  28     wxLog
  29     wxConfig            DONE
  30     wxRegKey
  31     wxTabCtrl           DONE
  32     wxNotebook          DONE (some more explanation required)
  33     wxWave              DONE
  34     wxJoystick          DONE
  35     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  36     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  37     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  38     wxHelpController classes DONE (except for Unix ones)
  39     wxString            PARTLY DONE
  40     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  41     wxCheckListBox      DONE
  42     wxAcceleratorTable  DONE
  43     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  44     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  45     Document the include file for each class
  46     Macros, e.g. wxASSERT
  47     Stream classes
  48     Functions
  49
  50 Write tutorial.
  51
  52 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges.
  53
  54 Makefiles for other compilers. Generic makefiles?
  55 Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  56 objects.
  57
  58 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  59
  60 Convert remaining utilities e.g. (GLCanvas; wxGraphLayout) and samples
  61
  62 Check TODO entries.
  63
  64 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  65
  66 Make use of Vadim's gettext implementation throughout wxWin code.
  67 Document it.
  68
  69 Retain callback functions; have semi-compatible callback function prototypes
  70 for all controls, at least in WXWIN_COMPATIBLE mode, but
  71 retain (Set)Callback for all compilations. This is following a
  72 panicky response to losing callbacks.
  73
  74 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  75
  76 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  77
  78 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  79 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  80
  81 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  82 in image list so we can get them later.
  83
  84 Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.
  85
  86 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  87 code to test them.
  88
  89 LOW PRIORITY
  90 ------------
  91
  92 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  93 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  94 a .res file as a custom resource.
  95
  96 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  97
  98 Angled text.
  99
 100 Eliminate Set/GetDefaultBackgroundColour? Just take background
 101 colour for child control instead.
 102
 103 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
 104 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
 105 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
 106 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
 107
 108 Better clipboard support.
 109
 110 wxWizard class?
 111
 112 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
 113
 114 wxClassWizard for generating files, chunks of code.
 115
 116 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
 117
 118 wxImage or replacement; further wxBitmap/wxIcon etc. functions
 119 (load animated icos).
 120
 121 Integrate existing multimedia classes.
 122
 123 Rich text class?
 124
 125 Look at WinCE stuff incl. database classes.
 126
 127 Improve conversion guide, compatibility classes, tools?
 128
 129 Bug database.
 130
 131 ActiveX support?
 132
 133 OpenGL integration.
 134
 135 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 136
 137 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 138 HTML help also.
 139
 140 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 141 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 142
 143 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 144 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 145
 146 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 147 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 148
 149 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 150
 151 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 152 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 153 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 154
 155 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 156
 157 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 158
 159 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 160 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 161 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 162 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 163 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 164 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 165 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 166
 167     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 168     wxBrush brush(...);
 169     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 170
 171 or even
 172
 173     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 174     wxBrush brush(...);
 175
 176 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 177 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 178 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 179 more efficient).
 180
 181 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 182 can work.
 183
 184 Find out how to set wxFileSelector position.