docs/msw/todo.txt

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