docs/msw/todo.txt

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   2 Todo on wxWin 2.0, Windows platform
   3 -----------------------------------
   4
   5 HIGH PRIORITY
   6 -------------
   7
   8 Integrate Robert's wxGrid enhancements.
   9
  10 Find/add wxThread sample - Arthur T-D?
  11
  12 wxControl dimensions should be optionally based on dialog font
  13 size for portability (dialog units as per Windows).
  14
  15 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
  16
  17 Remove transformation from device to logical coordinates from
  18 events e.g. mouse events.
  19
  20 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  21
  22 Revamp Dialog Editor for new controls and properties (e.g.
  23 window id).
  24
  25 Registry classes (check out wxConfig class - see issues.txt).
  26
  27 Change DnD classes to use global symbols, and wxString.
  28
  29 Update manual.
  30     wxApp changes       DONE
  31     wxMenu changes      DONE
  32     wxModule            DONE
  33     wxRegion            DONE
  34     wxFile              DONE
  35     wxTempFile
  36     wxMask              DONE
  37     wxDC:Blit           DONE
  38     wxTaskBarIcon       DONE
  39     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  40     wxLog
  41     wxConfig, wxRegKey
  42     wxTabCtrl           DONE
  43     wxNotebook
  44     wxWave              DONE
  45     wxJoystick          DONE
  46     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  47     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  48     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  49     wxHelpController classes DONE (except for Unix ones)
  50     wxString
  51     wxTString
  52     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  53     wxCheckListBox
  54     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  55     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  56     Document the include file for each class
  57     Macros, e.g. wxASSERT
  58
  59 Write tutorial.
  60
  61 Other static classes.
  62
  63 Makefiles for other compilers. Generic makefiles?
  64 Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  65 objects.
  66
  67 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  68
  69 wxSocket integration.
  70
  71 wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList integration with Robert
  72 Roebling's classes.
  73
  74 Convert OGL, other utilities and samples.
  75
  76 Check TODO entries.
  77
  78 Change #include "wx/xxx.h" to #include <wx/xxx.h>
  79
  80 Tidy code further, e.g. formatting from DevStudio, plus
  81 standard header.
  82
  83 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  84
  85 wxTextCtrl (and wxMultiText/wxTextWindow in wxWin 1.xx) - differences between Edit
  86 and RichEdit controls.
  87
  88 Make use of Vadim's gettext implementation throughout wxWin code.
  89 Document it.
  90
  91 Change wxUpdateIterator to use wxRegion; or scrap
  92 wxUpdateIterator? See wxGTK.
  93
  94 Check WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY mode, remove any unnecessary #ifdefs.
  95
  96 Retain callback functions; have semi-compatible callback function prototypes
  97 for all controls, at least in WXWIN_COMPATIBLE mode, but
  98 retain (Set)Callback for all compilations. This is following a
  99 panicky response to losing callbacks.
 100
 101 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp.
 102
 103 Simplify the toolbar samples.
 104
 105 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
 106
 107 EVT_ENTER/LEAVE_WINDOW: Perhaps one approach to reliable implementation of
 108 EVT_LEAVE_WINDOW is to set a flag when the mouse pointer is in a window,
 109 then in idle time, check this window.
 110 If the flag is set but the mouse pointer is outside the window, then
 111 it's time to generate an EVT_LEAVE_WINDOW. This would be necessary at
 112 least for the case when the mouse cursor goes off the application windows,
 113 and no motion event was generated (i.e. you moved the mouse quickly!).
 114 If it goes from one app window to another, you could generate the event sooner.
 115
 116 LOW PRIORITY
 117 ------------
 118
 119 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
 120 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
 121 a .res file as a custom resource.
 122
 123 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
 124
 125 Angled text.
 126
 127 Eliminate Set/GetDefaultBackgroundColour? Just take background
 128 colour for child control instead.
 129
 130 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
 131 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
 132 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
 133 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
 134
 135 Completion of drag and drop support (Vadim).
 136
 137 Better clipboard support.
 138
 139 Toolbars: use event tables not virtual functions.
 140
 141 wxWizard class?
 142
 143 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
 144
 145 wxClassWizard for generating files, chunks of code.
 146
 147 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
 148
 149 wxImage or replacement; further wxBitmap/wxIcon etc. functions
 150 (load animated icos).
 151
 152 Integrate existing multimedia classes.
 153
 154 Rich text class?
 155
 156 Optimize size further.
 157
 158 wxThread integration.
 159
 160 Look at WinCE stuff incl. database classes.
 161
 162 Improve conversion guide, compatibility classes, tools?
 163
 164 Bug database.
 165
 166 ActiveX support?
 167
 168 OpenGL integration.
 169
 170 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 171
 172 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 173 HTML help also.
 174
 175 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 176 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 177
 178 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 179 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 180
 181 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 182 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 183
 184 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 185
 186 Write more validators.
 187
 188 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 189
 190 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 191
 192 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 193 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 194 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 195 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 196 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 197 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 198 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 199
 200     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 201     wxBrush brush(...);
 202     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 203
 204 or even
 205
 206     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 207     wxBrush brush(...);
 208
 209 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 210 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 211 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 212 more efficient).
 213
 214 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 215 can work.