docs/msw/todo.txt

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   2 Todo on wxWin 2.0, Windows platform
   3 -----------------------------------
   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 Change DnD classes to use global symbols, and wxString.
  28
  29 Update manual.
  30     wxApp changes       DONE
  31     wxMenu changes      DONE
  32     wxModule            DONE
  33     wxRegion            DONE
  34     wxFile              DONE
  35     wxTempFile
  36     wxMask              DONE
  37     wxDC:Blit           DONE
  38     wxTaskBarIcon       DONE
  39     wxMsgCatalog etc.
  40     wxLog
  41     wxConfig, wxRegKey
  42     wxTabCtrl           DONE
  43     wxNotebook
  44     wxWave              DONE
  45     wxJoystick          DONE
  46     wxStatusBar95 and wxFrame status bar functions
  47     wxListBox changes (for ownerdraw functionality)
  48     wxThread            DONE (except for topic overview)
  49     wxHelpController classes DONE (except for Unix ones)
  50     wxString
  51     wxTString
  52     Drag and drop (change API if required, e.g. const).
  53     wxCheckListBox
  54     wxBaseArray, other arrays
  55     (wxOwnerDrawn)
  56     Document the include file for each class
  57
  58 Write tutorial.
  59
  60 Other static classes.
  61
  62 Makefiles for other compilers. Generic makefiles?
  63 Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  64 objects.
  65
  66 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  67
  68 wxSocket integration.
  69
  70 wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList integration with Robert
  71 Roebling's classes.
  72
  73 Convert OGL, other utilities and samples.
  74
  75 Check TODO entries.
  76
  77 Change #include "wx/xxx.h" to #include <wx/xxx.h>
  78
  79 Tidy code further, e.g. formatting from DevStudio, plus
  80 standard header.
  81
  82 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  83
  84 wxTextCtrl (and wxMultiText/wxTextWindow in wxWin 1.xx) - differences between Edit
  85 and RichEdit controls.
  86
  87 Make use of Vadim's gettext implementation throughout wxWin code.
  88 Document it.
  89
  90 Change wxUpdateIterator to use wxRegion; or scrap
  91 wxUpdateIterator? See wxGTK.
  92
  93 Check WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY mode, remove any unnecessary #ifdefs.
  94
  95 Retain callback functions; have semi-compatible callback function prototypes
  96 for all controls, at least in WXWIN_COMPATIBLE mode, but
  97 retain (Set)Callback for all compilations. This is following a
  98 panicky response to losing callbacks.
  99
 100 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp.
 101
 102 Simplify the toolbar samples.
 103
 104 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
 105
 106 EVT_ENTER/LEAVE_WINDOW: Perhaps one approach to reliable implementation of
 107 EVT_LEAVE_WINDOW is to set a flag when the mouse pointer is in a window,
 108 then in idle time, check this window.
 109 If the flag is set but the mouse pointer is outside the window, then
 110 it's time to generate an EVT_LEAVE_WINDOW. This would be necessary at
 111 least for the case when the mouse cursor goes off the application windows,
 112 and no motion event was generated (i.e. you moved the mouse quickly!).
 113 If it goes from one app window to another, you could generate the event sooner.
 114
 115 LOW PRIORITY
 116 ------------
 117
 118 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
 119 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
 120 a .res file as a custom resource.
 121
 122 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
 123
 124 Angled text.
 125
 126 Eliminate Set/GetDefaultBackgroundColour? Just take background
 127 colour for child control instead.
 128
 129 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
 130 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
 131 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
 132 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
 133
 134 Completion of drag and drop support (Vadim).
 135
 136 Better clipboard support.
 137
 138 Toolbars: use event tables not virtual functions.
 139
 140 wxWizard class?
 141
 142 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
 143
 144 wxClassWizard for generating files, chunks of code.
 145
 146 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
 147
 148 wxImage or replacement; further wxBitmap/wxIcon etc. functions
 149 (load animated icos).
 150
 151 Integrate existing multimedia classes.
 152
 153 Rich text class?
 154
 155 Optimize size further.
 156
 157 wxThread integration.
 158
 159 Look at WinCE stuff incl. database classes.
 160
 161 Improve conversion guide, compatibility classes, tools?
 162
 163 Bug database.
 164
 165 ActiveX support?
 166
 167 OpenGL integration.
 168
 169 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
 170
 171 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 172 HTML help also.
 173
 174 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
 175 use some kind of hash table scheme.
 176
 177 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 178 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 179
 180 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 181 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 182
 183 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 184
 185 Write more validators.
 186
 187 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 188
 189 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 190
 191 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 192 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 193 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 194 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 195 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 196 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 197 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 198
 199     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 200     wxBrush brush(...);
 201     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 202
 203 or even
 204
 205     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 206     wxBrush brush(...);
 207
 208 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 209 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 210 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 211 more efficient).
 212
 213 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 214 can work.