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     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  12     wxRegKey
  13     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  14     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  15     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  16     wxString            PARTLY DONE
  17     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  18     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  19     Document the include file for each class
  20     Stream classes
  21     wxSocket topic overview
  22     Functions
  23
  24 Makefiles and/or IDE files for other compilers: Symantec C++,
  25 Salford C++. IDE files for BC++.
  26
  27 Check TODO entries in source and manual.
  28
  29 Add centring, right justify styles to wxStaticText.
  30
  31 Extend wxSystemSettings to get symbols for current nationality,
  32 e.g. ',' instead of '.' for decimal points.
  33
  34 Supply correct ctl3d/odbc lib files for BC++, Watcom (corrupt?)
  35
  36 16-bit compilation: replace small icons in treectrl/listctrl
  37 samples that also have a 32x32 icon, with icons with only one
  38 image, using Borland Image Editor. WIN16 doesn't have a function
  39 for specifying which image to use, so the larger one gets used
  40 erroneously.
  41
  42 Add headers to VC++ project files.
  43
  44 Implement Robert's wxClipboard.
  45
  46 Distribution naming?
  47
  48 LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
  49 --------------------------
  50
  51 Convert remaining utilities e.g. wxGraphLayout.
  52
  53 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  54
  55 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  56 code to test them.
  57
  58 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  59
  60 Write tutorial.
  61
  62 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  63
  64 Generic makefiles? Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  65 objects.
  66
  67 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  68
  69 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  70 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  71
  72 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  73 in image list so we can get them later.
  74
  75 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  76
  77 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  78 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  79 a .res file as a custom resource.
  80
  81 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  82
  83 Angled text.
  84
  85 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
  86 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
  87 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
  88 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
  89
  90 wxWizard class?
  91
  92 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
  93
  94 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
  95
  96 Bug database.
  97
  98 OpenGL integration: check that wxGLCanvas works cross-platform.
  99
 100 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 101
 102 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 103 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 104
 105 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 106 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 107
 108 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 109 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 110
 111 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 112 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 113 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 114
 115 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 116
 117 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 118
 119 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 120 can work.
 121
 122 Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.
 123
 124 Maybe bundle Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32 with wxWindows (it's only
 125 26KB), for viewing debug messages without a debugger.
 126
 127 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
 128
 129 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?
 130
 131 LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
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 133
 134 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 135
 136 ActiveX support
 137
 138 Look at porting to WinCE
 139
 140 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 141 HTML help also.
 142
 143 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 144 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 145 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 146 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 147 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 148 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 149 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 150
 151     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 152     wxBrush brush(...);
 153     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 154
 155 or even
 156
 157     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 158     wxBrush brush(...);
 159
 160 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 161 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 162 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 163 more efficient).
 164
 165 Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
 166 different platforms.
 167
 168 Rich text class.
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