docs/motif/todo.txt

   1 wxMotif TODO
   2 ------------
   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 - Have a central/per app file for colour settings, with a wxWin
  17   app to allow changing settings interactively.
  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 - wxRadioBox doesn't show up in the controls sample, though it's
  39   OK on other dialogs (e.g. printing sample).
  40
  41 - wxSpinButton
  42
  43 - wxToolTip
  44
  45 - Miscellaneous events.
  46
  47 - Use wxImage to load other formats into wxBitmaps, such as PNG, BMP.
  48
  49 - Implement scaled Blit as per John Price's impementation for 1.68.
  50
  51 Low Priority
  52 ------------
  53
  54 - Visuals: how to select an appropriate one? See Thomas Runge's
  55   visual patch for 1.68 -- should be straightforward to port to 2.0.
  56
  57 - Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is
  58   currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak.
  59
  60 - Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs.
  61
  62 - Extra wxBitmap formats: PNG, BMP. Could use old wxWin 1.68
  63   wxImage code (derived from XV) for BMP/GIF but it's very bloated. However,
  64   when implemented as extra bitmap handlers, the code won't be linked
  65   unless needed. Update: see if wxImage can handle these formats.
  66
  67 - Enhance event handling such that you override e.g. left-click
  68   and unless you call the base OnMouseEvent, the click won't be
  69   sent to the button. Required for Dialog Editor.
  70
  71 - Get Dialog Editor working under Motif.
  72
  73 - New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
  74   http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/.
  75
  76   We need to:
  77   - make a minimal distribution under wx/src/xmhtml, just enough
  78     to compile the source.
  79   - add XMHTML_C_SRC to src/motif/makefile.unx with the source files
  80     listed.
  81   - make sure we can compile the sources, passing the correct
  82     flags for zlib/png compilation.
  83   - make a wxHTMLWindow class from e.g. examples/example_2.c. Should
  84     probably make the cache and history facilities part of the class.
  85   - add the driver code to src/motif/helphtml.cpp (a frame, toolbar,
  86     history list).
  87
  88 - Drag and drop. Use a standard X drag
  89   and drop standard - see http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
  90   or use Motif drag and drop as described here:
  91   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html
  92
  93 - Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
  94   Netscape is running. See:
  95   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html
  96
  97 - wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply
  98   implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions.
  99
 100 - wxCheckBoxList
 101
 102 - wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton
 103
 104 - Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed
 105   widget currently used).
 106
 107 - Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
 108   Linux)
 109
 110 - Blit scaling
 111
 112 - Get ODBC classes and sample working.
 113
 114 - Work out why wxTextCtrl doesn't work as a stream buffer under
 115   gcc