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