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 LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
  39 --------------------------
  40
  41 Convert remaining utilities e.g. wxGraphLayout.
  42
  43 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  44
  45 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  46 code to test them.
  47
  48 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  49
  50 Write tutorial.
  51
  52 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  53
  54 Generic makefiles? Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  55 objects.
  56
  57 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  58
  59 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  60 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  61
  62 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  63 in image list so we can get them later.
  64
  65 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  66
  67 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  68 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  69 a .res file as a custom resource.
  70
  71 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  72
  73 Angled text.
  74
  75 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
  76 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
  77 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
  78 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
  79
  80 Better clipboard support (as per Robert's class).
  81
  82 wxWizard class?
  83
  84 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
  85
  86 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
  87
  88 Bug database.
  89
  90 OpenGL integration: check that wxGLCanvas works cross-platform.
  91
  92 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
  93
  94 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
  95 use some kind of hash table scheme.
  96
  97 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
  98 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
  99
 100 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 101 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 102
 103 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 104 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 105 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 106
 107 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 108
 109 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 110
 111 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 112 can work.
 113
 114 Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.
 115
 116 Maybe bundle Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32 with wxWindows (it's only
 117 26KB), for viewing debug messages without a debugger.
 118
 119 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
 120
 121 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?
 122
 123 LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
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 125
 126 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 127
 128 ActiveX support
 129
 130 Look at porting to WinCE
 131
 132 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 133 HTML help also.
 134
 135 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 136 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 137 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 138 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 139 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 140 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 141 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 142
 143     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 144     wxBrush brush(...);
 145     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 146
 147 or even
 148
 149     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 150     wxBrush brush(...);
 151
 152 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 153 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 154 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 155 more efficient).
 156
 157 Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
 158 different platforms.
 159
 160 Rich text class.
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