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 Implement new wxClipboard and DnD (Vadim)
  37
  38 Implement wxToolTip
  39
  40 LOW PRIORITY (MEDIUM TERM)
  41 --------------------------
  42
  43 Get wxMSW's wxGLCanvas working with non-VC++ compilers.
  44
  45 Generate VC++ lib project files and supply VC++ project
  46 generator utility.
  47
  48 Convert remaining utilities e.g. wxGraphLayout.
  49
  50 More wxSystemSettings (see comment in settings.cpp).
  51
  52 Synchronize drawing functions on all platforms, using Chris's
  53 code to test them.
  54
  55 Shell function to invoke a document with open, print, whatever...
  56
  57 Write tutorial.
  58
  59 Add wxDC::DeviceToLogical -> wxPoint etc (convenience accessors).
  60
  61 Generic makefiles? Rewrite makefiles to maintain simultaneous debug/release
  62 objects.
  63
  64 Add a wxTabCtrl sample.
  65
  66 Improve printing. More API functions for printer DCs (to get
  67 printer characteristics) and more reliable printing framework.
  68
  69 Add GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. Perhaps store bitmaps
  70 in image list so we can get them later.
  71
  72 Merge dib.cpp, dibutils.cpp (see also some DIB code in bitmap.cpp).
  73
  74 Debug PNG support in wxBitmap (no 4-bit support), and possibly add a convertor from PNG
  75 to HICON. We could perhaps also support inclusion of PNGs into
  76 a .res file as a custom resource.
  77
  78 Fonts: ability to enumerate them.
  79
  80 Angled text.
  81
  82 Think about reimplementing wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap using
  83 BS_BITMAP, SS_BITMAP - but this may not allow wxBitmap
  84 argument, so instead just allow controls loaded from native
  85 resource to deal with this style and call default processing.
  86
  87 wxWizard class?
  88
  89 Doc/view - have some standard views/docs e.g. wxTextView.
  90
  91 Miscellaneous file/system function wrappers.
  92
  93 Bug database.
  94
  95 Menu bitmaps - document Vadim's enhancements.
  96
  97 wxCreateDynamicObject is apparently slow: ~ 2000 calls to strcmp. Need to
  98 use some kind of hash table scheme.
  99
 100 Write wxDisplay class for querying settings and passing
 101 to wxFrame to mirror the X situation (multiple displays).
 102
 103 Write translator between old and new .wxr formats (including
 104 substituting static text for obsolete labels).
 105
 106 Write more validators. Also, how do they work if loading the
 107 dialog from a .wxr? Could call SetValidator from within
 108 InitDialog for all controls, then call TransferDataToWindow.
 109
 110 Classes for file/OS utility functions.
 111
 112 Add support for more static controls e.g. wxStaticLine.
 113
 114 Perhaps rewrite wxFile to use FILE* descriptors, so Eof and Flush
 115 can work.
 116
 117 Find out how to set wxFileDialog position.
 118
 119 Maybe bundle Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32 with wxWindows (it's only
 120 26KB), for viewing debug messages without a debugger.
 121
 122 Implement wxDC floating point transformations.
 123
 124 A wxDC function (or two) for drawing 3D edges?
 125
 126 LOW PRIORITY (LONG TERM)
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 128
 129 Improve and expand wxSizer classes.
 130
 131 ActiveX support
 132
 133 Look at porting to WinCE
 134
 135 Enhance Tex2RTF to generate Microsoft HTML help, perhaps Netscape
 136 HTML help also.
 137
 138 GDI objects could be optimised further in constructors by
 139 searching for a matching, pre-existing object, and assigning from
 140 that, thus sharing the internal handle. A problem with this
 141 arises if you wish to change the data. But this can be handled by
 142 un-refing and creating a new handle. So we could reuse many
 143 Windows GDI objects without troubling the programmer. We might
 144 wish to switch this off in certain circumstances, e.g.
 145
 146     wxEnableGDIReuse(FALSE);
 147     wxBrush brush(...);
 148     wxEnableGDIReuse(TRUE);
 149
 150 or even
 151
 152     wxGDIReuse reuse(FALSE);
 153     wxBrush brush(...);
 154
 155 which lasts until its scope ends. This might be needed e.g. if we
 156 needed to ensure that the operation was maximally efficient
 157 (creating a new object rather than searching may or may not be
 158 more efficient).
 159
 160 Integrate Guilhem's multimedia classes: documentation, makefiles,
 161 different platforms.
 162
 163 Rich text class.
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