wxMotif TODO ------------ Updated: 11/02/99 -------------------------------o------------------------- General comment: see the following site for useful Motif widgets. ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif Also, grep for TODO comments in source. High Priority ------------- - Have a central/per app file for colour settings, with a wxWin app to allow changing settings interactively. - Implementation of default event processing (i.e. passing on an intercepted event such as OnChar to the system). Currently, such events are processed anyway, so for example intercepting left-click in a widget doesn't disable the default behaviour. See TODOs in window.cpp. - wxRadioBox doesn't show up in the controls sample, though it's OK on other dialogs (e.g. printing sample). - wxSpinButton - wxToolTip - Miscellaneous events. - Use wxImage to load other formats into wxBitmaps, such as PNG, BMP. - Allow wxFrame and other widgets to have mouse event handlers. Low Priority ------------ - Painting a retained window could be optimized further (see wxWindow::DoPaint). - Visuals: how to select an appropriate one? See Thomas Runge's visual patch for 1.68 -- should be straightforward to port to 2.0. - Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak. - Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs. - Extra wxBitmap formats: PNG, BMP. Could use old wxWin 1.68 wxImage code (derived from XV) for BMP/GIF but it's very bloated. However, when implemented as extra bitmap handlers, the code won't be linked unless needed. Update: see if wxImage can handle these formats. - Get Dialog Editor working (better) under Motif. - New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/. We need to: - make a minimal distribution under wx/src/xmhtml, just enough to compile the source. - add XMHTML_C_SRC to src/motif/makefile.unx with the source files listed. - make sure we can compile the sources, passing the correct flags for zlib/png compilation. - make a wxHTMLWindow class from e.g. examples/example_2.c. Should probably make the cache and history facilities part of the class. - add the driver code to src/motif/helphtml.cpp (a frame, toolbar, history list). - Drag and drop. Use a standard X drag and drop standard - see http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/ or use Motif drag and drop as described here: http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html - Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g. Netscape is running. See: http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html - wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions. - wxCheckBoxList - wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton - Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed widget currently used). - Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for Linux) - Get ODBC classes and sample working. - Work out why wxTextCtrl doesn't work as a stream buffer under gcc