docs/motif/todo.txt

   1 wxMotif TODO
   2 ------------
   3
   4 Updated: 9/11/98
   5
   6          -------------------------------o-------------------------
   7
   8 General comment: see the following site for useful Motif widgets.
   9 ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif
  10
  11 Also, grep for TODO comments in source.
  12
  13 High Priority
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  15
  16 - Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is
  17   currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak.
  18
  19 - Colour setting in widgets (almost done). Should scrollbars take
  20   on the background colour? Not right for e.g. wxScrolledWindows,
  21   so maybe have wxSystemSettings value for scrollbar colour, and/or
  22   ability to set scrollbar colour independently.
  23
  24 - Make wxDialog OnPaint work.
  25
  26 - Implementation of OnEraseBackground. How? Call OnEraseBackground
  27   just before OnPaint? Will duplicate Xlib's own erase of the background.
  28   However, this is usually OK, because the default wxWindow::OnEraseBackground
  29   can do nothing (SetBackgroundColour will make the background look OK).
  30   And if a custom OnEraseBackground uses the same colour as the window
  31   background, no flicker will be seen. If it does something else, such as
  32   painting a tiled bitmap, then a slight flicker might be seen unless
  33   X can be persuaded not to repaint the window background by default.
  34
  35 - wxSpinButton
  36
  37 - Tidy dialogs such as the colour and font selectors.
  38
  39 - Use generic wxTreeCtrl, wxListCtrl: debug and enhance these.
  40
  41 - Find out why modal dialogs give a grab warning.
  42
  43 - wxSystemSettings. Eventually, should have control panel-like utility
  44   to change colours/fonts but meanwhile should maybe read them
  45   from a file.
  46
  47 - wxThread (hopefully, similar to wxGTK)
  48
  49 - wxAcceleratorTable.
  50
  51 - Miscellaneous events.
  52
  53 - Write makefiles for all samples and utilities.
  54
  55 - Create some samples for testing.
  56
  57 Low Priority
  58 ------------
  59
  60 - Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs.
  61   Use wxGTK config system? It's really complex to debug and
  62   doesn't offer a way of compiling apps outside the wxWin
  63   hierarchy.
  64
  65 - Extra wxBitmap formats: PNG, BMP. Could use old wxWin 1.68
  66   wxImage code (derived from XV) for BMP/GIF but it's very bloated. However,
  67   when implemented as extra bitmap handlers, the code won't be linked
  68   unless needed.
  69
  70 - Print/preview framework in print.cpp (see wxGTK).
  71
  72 - Enhance event handling such that you override e.g. left-click
  73   and unless you call the base OnMouseEvent, the click won't be
  74   sent to the button. Required for Dialog Editor.
  75
  76 - Get Dialog Editor working under Motif.
  77
  78 - New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
  79   http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/.
  80
  81   We need to:
  82   - make a minimal distribution under wx/src/xmhtml, just enough
  83     to compile the source.
  84   - add XMHTML_C_SRC to src/motif/makefile.unx with the source files
  85     listed.
  86   - make sure we can compile the sources, passing the correct
  87     flags for zlib/png compilation.
  88   - make a wxHTMLWindow class from e.g. examples/example_2.c. Should
  89     probably make the cache and history facilities part of the class.
  90   - add the driver code to src/motif/helphtml.cpp (a frame, toolbar,
  91     history list).
  92
  93   Note that a quicker route to a help system may be to use the
  94   code in the contrib dir of XmHTML to control a Netscape session --
  95   but Netscape can be a colour resource hog.
  96
  97 - Optimize screen refresh for non-native widgets, e.g. wxWindow
  98   created with Create(), using technique in flicker patch for 1.68
  99   (see JACS for latest patch).
 100
 101 - Copy and paste, drag and drop. Use a standard X drag
 102   and drop standard - see http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
 103   or use Motif drag and drop as described here:
 104   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html
 105
 106 - Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
 107   Netscape is running. See:
 108   http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html
 109
 110 - wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply
 111   implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions.
 112
 113 - wxCheckBoxList
 114
 115 - wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton
 116
 117 - Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed
 118   widget currently used).
 119
 120 - Write generic wxDirDialog (directory selector)
 121
 122 - Use native Motif dialogs for wxMessageBox
 123
 124 - Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
 125   Linux)
 126
 127 - Blit scaling
 128
 129 - Could eventually alter the MDI widgets to be more Windows-like
 130   -- currently it's half-hearted (menus are on children, whereas
 131   they should replace the main parent frame menu).
 132
 133 - Get ODBC classes and sample working.
 134