docs/motif/todo.txt

   1 wxMotif TODO
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   3
   4 Updated: 28/12/98
   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 - Optimize wxWindow OnPaint to avoid flicker, collapsing Expose events
  25   as per flicker fix in 1.68. It will be tricky to avoid
  26   interfering with non-wxScrolledWindow widgets except by
  27   explicitly testing for wxScrolledWindow.
  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 - wxNotebook bug: why doesn't the notebook sample appear until the
  39   user resizes the window again? But it's OK for MDI. Strange.
  40
  41 - wxSpinButton
  42
  43 - Miscellaneous events.
  44
  45 - Thread classes (copy wxGTK's).
  46
  47 - Write makefiles for all samples and utilities.
  48
  49 - Create some samples for testing.
  50
  51 Low Priority
  52 ------------
  53
  54 - Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs.
  55
  56 - Extra wxBitmap formats: PNG, BMP. Could use old wxWin 1.68
  57   wxImage code (derived from XV) for BMP/GIF but it's very bloated. However,
  58   when implemented as extra bitmap handlers, the code won't be linked
  59   unless needed. Update: see if wxImage can handle these formats.
  60
  61 - Print/preview framework in print.cpp (see wxGTK).
  62
  63 - Enhance event handling such that you override e.g. left-click
  64   and unless you call the base OnMouseEvent, the click won't be
  65   sent to the button. Required for Dialog Editor.
  66
  67 - Get Dialog Editor working under Motif.
  68
  69 - New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
  70   http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/.
  71
  72   We need to:
  73   - make a minimal distribution under wx/src/xmhtml, just enough
  74     to compile the source.
  75   - add XMHTML_C_SRC to src/motif/makefile.unx with the source files
  76     listed.
  77   - make sure we can compile the sources, passing the correct
  78     flags for zlib/png compilation.
  79   - make a wxHTMLWindow class from e.g. examples/example_2.c. Should
  80     probably make the cache and history facilities part of the class.
  81   - add the driver code to src/motif/helphtml.cpp (a frame, toolbar,
  82     history list).
  83
  84 - Copy and paste, drag and drop. Use a standard X drag
  85   and drop standard - see http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
  86   or use Motif drag and drop as described here:
  87   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html
  88
  89 - Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
  90   Netscape is running. See:
  91   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html
  92
  93 - wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply
  94   implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions.
  95
  96 - wxCheckBoxList
  97
  98 - wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton
  99
 100 - Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed
 101   widget currently used).
 102
 103 - Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
 104   Linux)
 105
 106 - Blit scaling
 107
 108 - Get ODBC classes and sample working.
 109
 110 - Work out why wxTextCtrl doesn't work as a stream buffer under
 111   gcc