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 LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
  45 --------------------------
  46
  47 Convert remaining utilities e.g. wxGraphLayout.
  48
  49 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  50
  51 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  52 code to test them.
  53
  54 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  55
  56 Write tutorial.
  57
  58 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  59
  60 Generic makefiles? Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  61 objects.
  62
  63 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  64
  65 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  66 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  67
  68 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  69 in image list so we can get them later.
  70
  71 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  72
  73 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  74 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  75 a .res file as a custom resource.
  76
  77 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  78
  79 Angled text.
  80
  81 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
  82 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
  83 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
  84 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
  85
  86 Better clipboard support (as per Robert's class).
  87
  88 wxWizard class?
  89
  90 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
  91
  92 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
  93
  94 Bug database.
  95
  96 OpenGL integration: check that wxGLCanvas works cross-platform.
  97
  98 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
  99
 100 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 101 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 102
 103 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 104 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 105
 106 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 107 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 108
 109 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 110 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 111 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 112
 113 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 114
 115 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 116
 117 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 118 can work.
 119
 120 Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.
 121
 122 Maybe bundle Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32 with wxWindows (it's only
 123 26KB), for viewing debug messages without a debugger.
 124
 125 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
 126
 127 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?
 128
 129 LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
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 131
 132 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 133
 134 ActiveX support
 135
 136 Look at porting to WinCE
 137
 138 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 139 HTML help also.
 140
 141 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 142 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 143 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 144 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 145 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 146 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 147 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 148
 149     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 150     wxBrush brush(...);
 151     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 152
 153 or even
 154
 155     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 156     wxBrush brush(...);
 157
 158 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 159 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 160 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 161 more efficient).
 162
 163 Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
 164 different platforms.
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 166 Rich text class.
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