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 Integrate Robert's wxGrid enhancements.
   9
  10 Find/add wxThread sample - Arthur T-D?
  11
  12 wxControl dimensions should be optionally based on dialog font
  13 size for portability (dialog units as per Windows).
  14
  15 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
  16
  17 Remove transformation from device to logical coordinates from
  18 events e.g. mouse events.
  19
  20 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  21
  22 Revamp Dialog Editor for new controls and properties (e.g.
  23 window id).
  24
  25 Registry classes (check out wxConfig class - see issues.txt).
  26
  27 Update manual.
  28     wxApp changes       DONE
  29     wxMenu changes      DONE
  30     wxModule            DONE
  31     wxRegion            DONE
  32     wxFile              DONE
  33     wxTempFile
  34     wxMask              DONE
  35     wxDC:Blit           DONE
  36     wxTaskBarIcon       DONE
  37     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  38     wxLog
  39     wxConfig, wxRegKey
  40     wxTabCtrl
  41     wxWave
  42     wxJoystick
  43     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  44     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  45     wxThread
  46     wxString
  47     wxTString
  48     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  49     wxCheckListBox
  50     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  51     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  52     Various events
  53     Document the include file for each class
  54
  55 Write tutorial.
  56
  57 Other static classes.
  58
  59 Makefiles for other compilers. Generic makefiles?
  60 Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  61 objects.
  62
  63 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  64
  65 wxSocket integration.
  66
  67 wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList integration with Robert
  68 Roebling's classes.
  69
  70 Convert OGL, other utilities and samples.
  71
  72 Check TODO entries.
  73
  74 Change #include "wx/xxx.h" to #include <wx/xxx.h>
  75
  76 Tidy code further, e.g. formatting from DevStudio, plus
  77 standard header.
  78
  79 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  80
  81 wxTextCtrl (and wxMultiText/wxTextWindow in wxWin 1.xx) - differences between Edit
  82 and RichEdit controls.
  83
  84 Make use of Vadim's gettext implementation throughout wxWin code.
  85 Document it.
  86
  87 Change wxUpdateIterator to use wxRegion; or scrap
  88 wxUpdateIterator? See wxGTK.
  89
  90 Check WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY mode, remove any unnecessary #ifdefs.
  91
  92 Retain callback functions; have semi-compatible callback function prototypes
  93 for all controls, at least in WXWIN_COMPATIBLE mode, but
  94 retain (Set)Callback for all compilations. This is following a
  95 panicky response to losing callbacks.
  96
  97 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp.
  98
  99 Simplify the toolbar samples.
 100
 101 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
 102
 103 EVT_ENTER/LEAVE_WINDOW: Perhaps one approach to reliable implementation of
 104 EVT_LEAVE_WINDOW is to set a flag when the mouse pointer is in a window,
 105 then in idle time, check this window.
 106 If the flag is set but the mouse pointer is outside the window, then
 107 it's time to generate an EVT_LEAVE_WINDOW. This would be necessary at
 108 least for the case when the mouse cursor goes off the application windows,
 109 and no motion event was generated (i.e. you moved the mouse quickly!).
 110 If it goes from one app window to another, you could generate the event sooner.
 111
 112 LOW PRIORITY
 113 ------------
 114
 115 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
 116 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
 117 a .res file as a custom resource.
 118
 119 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
 120
 121 Angled text.
 122
 123 Eliminate Set/GetDefaultBackgroundColour? Just take background
 124 colour for child control instead.
 125
 126 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
 127 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
 128 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
 129 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
 130
 131 Completion of drag and drop support (Vadim).
 132
 133 Better clipboard support.
 134
 135 Toolbars: use event tables not virtual functions.
 136
 137 wxWizard class?
 138
 139 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
 140
 141 wxClassWizard for generating files, chunks of code.
 142
 143 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
 144
 145 wxImage or replacement; further wxBitmap/wxIcon etc. functions
 146 (load animated icos).
 147
 148 Integrate existing multimedia classes.
 149
 150 Rich text class?
 151
 152 Optimize size further.
 153
 154 wxThread integration.
 155
 156 Look at WinCE stuff incl. database classes.
 157
 158 Improve conversion guide, compatibility classes, tools?
 159
 160 Bug database.
 161
 162 ActiveX support?
 163
 164 OpenGL integration.
 165
 166 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 167
 168 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 169 HTML help also.
 170
 171 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 172 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 173
 174 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 175 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 176
 177 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 178 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 179
 180 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 181
 182 Write more validators.
 183
 184 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 185
 186 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 187
 188 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 189 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 190 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 191 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 192 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 193 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 194 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 195
 196     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 197     wxBrush brush(...);
 198     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 199
 200 or even
 201
 202     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 203     wxBrush brush(...);
 204
 205 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 206 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 207 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 208 more efficient).
 209
 210 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 211 can work.