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