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 Find/add wxThread sample - Arthur T-D?
   9
  10 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
  11
  12 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  13
  14 Revamp Dialog Editor for new controls and properties (e.g.
  15 window id).
  16
  17 Update manual.
  18     wxApp changes       DONE
  19     wxMenu changes      DONE
  20     wxModule            DONE
  21     wxRegion            DONE
  22     wxFile              DONE
  23     wxTempFile
  24     wxMask              DONE
  25     wxDC:Blit           DONE
  26     wxTaskBarIcon       DONE
  27     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  28     wxLog
  29     wxConfig            DONE
  30     wxRegKey
  31     wxTabCtrl           DONE
  32     wxNotebook          DONE (some more explanation required)
  33     wxWave              DONE
  34     wxJoystick          DONE
  35     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  36     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  37     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  38     wxHelpController classes DONE (except for Unix ones)
  39     wxString            PARTLY DONE
  40     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  41     wxCheckListBox      DONE
  42     wxAcceleratorTable  DONE
  43     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  44     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  45     Document the include file for each class
  46     Macros, e.g. wxASSERT
  47     Stream classes
  48     Functions
  49
  50 Write tutorial.
  51
  52 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges.
  53
  54 Makefiles for other compilers. Generic makefiles?
  55 Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  56 objects.
  57
  58 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  59
  60 Convert remaining utilities e.g. (GLCanvas; wxGraphLayout) and samples
  61
  62 Check TODO entries.
  63
  64 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  65
  66 Make use of Vadim's gettext implementation throughout wxWin code.
  67 Document it.
  68
  69 Retain callback functions; have semi-compatible callback function prototypes
  70 for all controls, at least in WXWIN_COMPATIBLE mode, but
  71 retain (Set)Callback for all compilations. This is following a
  72 panicky response to losing callbacks.
  73
  74 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  75
  76 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  77
  78 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  79 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  80
  81 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  82 in image list so we can get them later.
  83
  84 Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.
  85
  86 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  87 code to test them.
  88
  89 Extend wxSystemSettings to get symbols for current nationality,
  90 e.g. ',' instead of '.' for decimal points.
  91
  92 LOW PRIORITY
  93 ------------
  94
  95 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  96 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  97 a .res file as a custom resource.
  98
  99 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
 100
 101 Angled text.
 102
 103 Eliminate Set/GetDefaultBackgroundColour? Just take background
 104 colour for child control instead.
 105
 106 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
 107 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
 108 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
 109 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
 110
 111 Better clipboard support.
 112
 113 wxWizard class?
 114
 115 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
 116
 117 wxClassWizard for generating files, chunks of code.
 118
 119 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
 120
 121 wxImage or replacement; further wxBitmap/wxIcon etc. functions
 122 (load animated icos).
 123
 124 Integrate existing multimedia classes.
 125
 126 Rich text class?
 127
 128 Look at WinCE stuff incl. database classes.
 129
 130 Improve conversion guide, compatibility classes, tools?
 131
 132 Bug database.
 133
 134 ActiveX support?
 135
 136 OpenGL integration.
 137
 138 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 139
 140 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 141 HTML help also.
 142
 143 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 144 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 145
 146 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 147 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 148
 149 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 150 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 151
 152 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 153
 154 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 155 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 156 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 157
 158 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 159
 160 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 161
 162 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 163 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 164 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 165 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 166 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 167 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 168 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 169
 170     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 171     wxBrush brush(...);
 172     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 173
 174 or even
 175
 176     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 177     wxBrush brush(...);
 178
 179 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 180 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 181 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 182 more efficient).
 183
 184 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 185 can work.
 186
 187 Find out how to set wxFileSelector position.
 188
 189 Maybe bundle Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32 with wxWindows (it's only
 190 26KB), for viewing debug messages without a debugger.