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 Add further controls and properties to Dialog Editor.
   9
  10 Update manual.
  11     wxTempFile
  12     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  13     wxRegKey
  14     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  15     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  16     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  17     wxString            PARTLY DONE
  18     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  19     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  20     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  21     Document the include file for each class
  22     Stream classes
  23     wxSocket topic overview
  24     Functions
  25
  26 Makefiles and/or IDE files for other compilers: Symantec C++,
  27 Salford C++. IDE files for BC++.
  28
  29 Check TODO entries in source and manual.
  30
  31 Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.
  32
  33 Extend wxSystemSettings to get symbols for current nationality,
  34 e.g. ',' instead of '.' for decimal points.
  35
  36 Supply correct ctl3d/odbc lib files for BC++, Watcom (corrupt?)
  37
  38 16-bit compilation: replace small icons in treectrl/listctrl
  39 samples that also have a 32x32 icon, with icons with only one
  40 image, using Borland Image Editor. WIN16 doesn't have a function
  41 for specifying which image to use, so the larger one gets used
  42 erroneously.
  43
  44 Add headers to VC++ project files.
  45
  46 Implement Robert's wxClipboard.
  47
  48 Distribution naming?
  49
  50 LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
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  52
  53 Convert remaining utilities e.g. wxGraphLayout.
  54
  55 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  56
  57 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  58 code to test them.
  59
  60 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  61
  62 Write tutorial.
  63
  64 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  65
  66 Generic makefiles? Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  67 objects.
  68
  69 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  70
  71 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  72 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  73
  74 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  75 in image list so we can get them later.
  76
  77 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  78
  79 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  80 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  81 a .res file as a custom resource.
  82
  83 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  84
  85 Angled text.
  86
  87 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
  88 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
  89 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
  90 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
  91
  92 wxWizard class?
  93
  94 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
  95
  96 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
  97
  98 Bug database.
  99
 100 OpenGL integration: check that wxGLCanvas works cross-platform.
 101
 102 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 103
 104 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 105 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 106
 107 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 108 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 109
 110 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 111 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 112
 113 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 114 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 115 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 116
 117 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 118
 119 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 120
 121 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 122 can work.
 123
 124 Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.
 125
 126 Maybe bundle Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32 with wxWindows (it's only
 127 26KB), for viewing debug messages without a debugger.
 128
 129 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
 130
 131 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?
 132
 133 LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
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 135
 136 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 137
 138 ActiveX support
 139
 140 Look at porting to WinCE
 141
 142 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 143 HTML help also.
 144
 145 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 146 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 147 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 148 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 149 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 150 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 151 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 152
 153     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 154     wxBrush brush(...);
 155     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 156
 157 or even
 158
 159     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 160     wxBrush brush(...);
 161
 162 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 163 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 164 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 165 more efficient).
 166
 167 Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
 168 different platforms.
 169
 170 Rich text class.
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